West Asia

The Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza said they do not have high expectations for the visit and don't think it will end their suffering or find a solution to their cause.

The Palestinian Authority on Saturday said it has given the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to American forensic experts, taking a step toward resolving a standoff with Israel over the investigation into her death.

Gaza's Hamas rulers on Tuesday released a video of a captive Israeli citizen it has held incommunicado since 2015, showing the man lying in a hospital bed while wearing an oxygen mask.

At least one Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces during storming the eastern neighborhood of Jenin camp at dawn, Al-Jazeera reported on Wednesday, citing the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

In a significant development for Hastings, Amnesty International and the Hastings’ Palestine solidarity group are to hold their first ever joint meeting on the subject of Israeli Apartheid. Katy Colley writes.

On Monday morning, Israeli soldiers invaded the al-Arakib Bedouin village in the Negev and demolished it for the 203rd time.

Explosions heard after several buildings caught fire overnight.

The deputy chief of Lebanon’s Hezbollah underlined that there is no doubt about victory of the axis of resistance in the region.

The Shabab Rafah Football Club succeeded in retaining the Gaza Strip Premier League title, winning by a narrow margin (1-0) against Al-Hilal team.

In separate meetings, head of Hamas Political Bureau Ismail talked with with Ziad al-Nakhala, secretary general of Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Jamil Mizher, deputy secretary general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

The UN human rights office said it was 'deeply disturbing' that Israeli authorities had not conducted a criminal investigation into the Al Jazeera journalist's killing.

Some 600 Palestinians are held in Israeli jails without charges. Since January, they have been boycotting Israeli court hearings, demanding an end to the Israeli administrative detention policy.

A bill seeking to ban Benjamin Netanyahu from running again to be prime minister reportedly was dropped Tuesday by the Israel Knesset.

Israel suspects an Iranian cyberattack was behind false siren alerts Sunday in several neighborhoods in West Jerusalem and Eilat, according to local media on Monday.

Norway has angered Israel after introducing a new labelling system identifying products that come from illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories and Golan Heights.

Several figures loyal to the Assad government criticized the Israeli raids on Damascus International Airport, according to Shaam Network.

Israel's police confirm buses were set ablaze intentionally, open investigation.

Hundreds of Israeli settlers roamed the Al-Aqsa compound in separate groups on Sunday and Monday, as Israeli police arrested six Palestinians and tightened police control over the occupied city.

Syrian air defenses intercepted and downed some missiles, says state news agency.

The latest military drill between the Greek Cypriot administration and Israel comes at the cost of disturbing the region’s stability, the Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

President Michel Aoun said any activity in the disputed area would amount to an act of aggression and a provocation.

On the eve of the anniversary of the demise of Imam Khomeini, the ceremony of renewing allegiance to Imam Khomeini's cause of the liberation of Palestine will be held on Wednesday at Imam Khomeini's shrine.

On Friday afternoon, Israeli troops attacked non-violent Palestinian-led peace marches in 4 separate villages in the Nablus area, in the northern West bank, wounding 28 civilians with both live and rubber-coated steel bullets.

“Permanent Secretariat of the International Conference on Palestinian Intifada of the Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran strongly condemns the heinous act of killing Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, the brave soldier of Islam and a member of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which was carried out by the coward and terrorist Zionists and their mercenaries inside the country,” the statement read.