A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank, witnesses and activists said.
The settler opened fire after Palestinian youths threw stones at his car travelling along Route 60 in Mazra’a al-Sharqia, east of Ramallah.
The Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee activist group said that Aysar al-Zaben was not involved in [...]
The US secretary of state has said that the Mideast peace process will get back on track next week, with indirect Israeli-Palestinian talks.
Hillary Clinton said on Friday the US special Mideast envoy George Mitchell, who will mediate the talks, will travel to the region next week.
Saeb Erekat, Palestinian chief negotiator, hinted that the beginning of [...]
Three children have been reported injured in eastern Gaza City after Israeli aircraft carried out a series of missile attacks across the Palestinian territory.
Palestinian hospital officials said the children were injured by flying debris after the air raids that came in the early hours of Friday.
Al Jazeera’s Casey Kauffman, reporting from Gaza, said there were [...]
Two Israeli soldiers and at least one Palestinian have been killed in a clash east of the Gaza Strip town of Khan Younis.
The Israeli military said on Friday that there was an exchange of fire on the border after soldiers challenged Palestinians planting bombs near the separation barrier.
The military said an officer and a soldier [...]
Israeli fighter jets have struck southern part of the Gaza Strip in an overnight raid, targeting what the Israeli military said was an arms smuggling tunnel.
The aircraft attacked a tunnel on the Rafah sector on the border with Egypt, but no one was injured, witnesses said on Monday.
A military spokesman confirmed the raid, saying it [...]
Palestinians have seen a flurry of diplomatic activity as major international powers struggle to get Middle East peace talks back on track.
George Mitchell, the US envoy to the Middle East, is set to arrive in Israel on Sunday, while Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, continued his regional tour with a visit to Gaza.
“What we’re witnessing [...]
At least 11 people have been injured in an Israeli air strike at an airport in southern Gaza, Palestinian medical officials and witnesses said.
The strike targeted Gaza’s defunct international airport, located near the town of Rafah, late on Friday, witnesses said.
The Israeli army told Al Jazeera that the attack targeted “a terror site” and said [...]
The so-called Quartet of Middle East negotiators has demanded that Israel halt all settlement activity and denounced Israel’s plan to build new housing in East Jerusalem.
The Quartet’s comments came at a news conference in Moscow on Friday, following a meeting by the group, which brings together the United Nations, the US, the EU and Russia.
Ban [...]
Israeli aircraft have launched a series of strikes on Gaza, striking multiple targets in the strip.
The raids came after Israel threatened a “strong” response following the firing of a rocket from Gaza earlier on Thursday.
The rocket attack killed a Thai man working on a farm near Ashkhelon.
It was the first death caused by a missile [...]
Israeli plans to build more homes near East Jerusalem are not helpful for the Middle East peace process, but the recent row over the issue does not amount to a crisis in US-Israeli relations, Barack Obama has said.
In his first public comments on the issue, the US president told the Fox News network on Wednesday [...]