Yair Lapid is poised to become Israel's caretaker prime minister, as Israeli lawmakers dissolved parliament on Thursday, forcing the country's fifth election in less than four years.
Lapid, leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, will take over at (...)
"High level" violence has resulted in "scores of Palestinian and Israeli casualties", the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process told the Security Council on Monday.
Speaking via video conference from Jerusalem, Tor Wennesland, (...)
Investing in the UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, is also "investing in stability" for the entire Middle East region, the UN chief told a pledging conference on Thursday.
"It means investing in the economic and social wellbeing (...)
The UN says information shows Israeli gunfire killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and wounded her colleague last month, despite Israel's claim that it is unclear which side killed her.
Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old Palestinian American, was (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has effectively called time on his premiership after just a year in the job.
Along with his key coalition ally Foreign Minister Yair Lapid -- who now looks set to replace him as leader as early as next week -- (...)
The European Union (EU) and Egypt Monday underlined comprehensive resolution to the Palestine question is the two state solution that ends Israel occupation and leads to the establishment of an independent, contiguous, sovereign and viable (...)
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has called on the international community to bear its responsibility towards the Palestinian issue, stressing its continuous support to the Palestinian people and efforts seeking to establish an independent Palestinian (...)
Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH — For Muhammad Fauzan, the lifetime spiritual journey of Hajj was an arduous travel on bicycle for nearly 5,000 kilometers on his way from Indonesia to Saudi Arabia, taking more than seven and a half months.
The young Indonesian (...)
Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hussein Ibrahim Taha held here today talks with Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Dr. Ahmed Nasser Al-Mohammed Al-Sabah.
During the meeting, the two sides valued the (...)
Palestinian factions on Tuesday rallied in Gaza's center marking the somber 55th anniversary of the Israelis' occupation of more Palestinian territories in 1967.
Many Palestinians gathered at the "unknown martyr's square" with billboards reading, (...)
Ending the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, and discrimination against Palestinians, is essential to stopping the decades-long conflict between the two sides, a new UN independent human rights body said on Tuesday.
The finding comes in (...)
Hundreds of Israeli settlers on Sunday raided the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque from "Bab Al Magharbeh," on the occasion of the "Feast of the Revelation of the Torah", to be celebrated on Monday.
The Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf and Religious (...)
The Palestinian presidency says Israel is "playing with fire" as thousands of Israeli Jews prepare to march through Muslim areas in Jerusalem's Old City.
The annual event comes at a time of particularly high tensions following months of deadly (...)
An Israeli Arab MP who quit its ruling coalition, plunging the government into a political crisis, has reversed her decision and rejoined.
Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi resigned on Thursday, leaving the government as a minority for the first time.
However, (...)
The 33rd extraordinary emergency conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union (AIPU) kicked off today in Cairo under the theme "Al-Aqsa Mosque and all Islamic and Christian holy sites, our top priority", chaired by the Bahraini Parliament (...)
The Speaker of the Shura Council, Sheikh Dr. Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim Al Al-Sheikh, will head the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's delegation to 33rd Extraordinary Emergency Conference of the Arab Inter-Parliamentary Union to be hosted by the Arab (...)
The Vatican's representative in Jerusalem has accused Israel of "brutally violating" a decades-old agreement to uphold religious freedom.
It follows Friday's attack by Israeli police on the funeral of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu (...)
Investigations must be held into the actions of the Israeli security forces, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said on Saturday, calling for accountability and an end to impunity.
Her appeal comes in the wake of the killing of (...)
Violence broke out at the funeral in East Jerusalem of reporter Shireen Abu Aqla, killed during an Israeli military operation in the occupied West Bank.
Her coffin was jostled as Israeli police and Palestinians clashed as it left a hospital in East (...)
Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was fatally shot while on assignment in the West Bank Wednesday, the network said.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said she was shot in the head by a live bullet in Jenin, and confirmed her death shortly (...)
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) voiced its rejection and denouncement of the Israeli allegations on the alleged sovereignty on the occupied Jerusalem city, and the demolition of a building of Al-Rajabi family in Silwan, which forms a (...)
His father was a ruthless dictator. His mother gained international notoriety for her massive collection of shoes.
So how is 64-year-old Ferdinand Marcos Jr, more commonly known by his nickname Bongbong, the frontrunner to be the next president of (...)
The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretary-General Dr. Nayef Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf condemned in the strongest terms the Israeli occupation authority's permission for extremists to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the occupation (...)
A manhunt is underway for two Palestinians suspected of killing three Israelis in an ax and knife attack in central Israel.
It happened in the predominantly ultra-Orthodox Jewish town of Elad on Thursday night. Seven others were wounded, two (...)
Scores of Jewish extremist settlers, on Thursday, stormed Al Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem, Jordan News Agency (Petra) reported.
The Islamic Awqaf Department in Jerusalem, in a statement, said that the settlers entered the compound (...)
