Palestine

Days ahead of Israel's second election in six months, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fighting for his political life. The long-serving leader faces potential indictments in three corruption cases, while his right-wing Likud party has failed to open up …

When the Romans weren't busy conquering their enemies, they loved to waste massive quantities of water, which gurgled and bubbled throughout their cities. The engineers of the empire invented standardized lead pipes, aqueducts as high as fortresses, and water…

Three people, all relatives, are being charged in the death of a 21-year-old woman in a suspected "honour killing" in a village near the Palestinian town of Bethlehem.  Make-up artist Israa Ghrayeb died last month after being taken to hospital with severe wo…

(SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) HASSAN AL ABEDI, 55 YEAR-OLD PALESTINIAN, SAYING: "We tell Netanyahu, and whoever follows him, you will not break the Palestinians' will, you will never break our will, never, never." Palestinians tilling the land of the fertile Jordan …

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to annex the Jordan Valley and his frequent accusations against Tehran were ploys to win re-election, the semi-official news agency Tasnim repor…

CAIRO (Reuters) - Middle Eastern nations have expressed alarm at a plan by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to annex parts of the occupied West Bank if he wins a closely contested election less than a week away. Netanyahu said on Tuesday he would a…

Tarek Loubani is a Palestinian-Canadian doctor who works with the Glia Project, a group that creates open-source designs for 3D-printable medical hardware. Their goal is to let local populations manufacture their own medical wares at prices considerably lower…

Palestinian and regional leaders have sharply denounced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pledge to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank if he wins this week's snap election. Netanyahu, who is fighting for his political life after an inconcl…

JERUSALEM, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his intention on Tuesday to annex the Jordan Valley, a large swathe of the occupied West Bank, if he wins a closely contested election just a week away. Palestinian chief peac…

That does not mean that the Arab public does not care, he said. Support for the idea of a Palestinian state is a rare issue that still generates broad consensus across the Arab world, even if peoples ability to campaign for it is limited. The issue is partic…