Palestine

This week the much-awaited Bahrain workshop is to take place in Manama, with various Arab and Western officials in attendance. The event is supposed to present the new economic plan for the occupied Palestinian territories, besieged Gaza and the wider region,…

Bahraini anti-government protesters hold up images of jailed human rights activist Nabeel Rajab during a solidarity protest on May 14, 2015. © AP Photo/Hasan Jamali (Beirut) Participants in the Peace to Prosperity workshop on June 25 and 26 in Manama, and jo…

White House senior adviser Jared Kushner has said it will not be possible to solve the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict with a deal "along the lines of the Arab Peace Initiative". Kushner made the comments during an exclusive interview to Al Jazeera…

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) stands next to Republican U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump during their meeting in New York, September 25, 2016.  © 2016 Kobi Gideon/Government Press Office (GPO)/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo The Trum…

Bahrain is set to host the so-called "Peace to Prosperity workshop", to discuss what the US described as the economic part of President Donald Trump's "Deal of the century", his proposal for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The meeting on June 25 an…

LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday the U.S. Middle East peace plan that is set to be presented at an international conference in Bahrain this week is “shameful” and “doomed to failure”. “This conference and the sale of Pale…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - More than two years after U.S. President Donald Trump first proposed a plan to revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, its first phase will be formally unveiled on Tuesday at an economic workshop in Bahrain. The ‘Peace to Prosper…

Palestine's economy does need investment but "before anything, there must be a political solution," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Sunday, dismissing the White House's plan to entice more than $50 billion into Palestine. The White House u…

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates said on Monday it’s delegation to a U.S.-led Bahrain meeting on Palestine would be led by its minister of state for financial affairs. In a statement to Reuters, the country’s foreign ministry said Obeid al-Tayer w…

Analysts have rebuked the economic part of the United States' Middle East peace plan for failing to address the main problem that has heavily curbed the Palestinian economy - the 52-year-old Israeli military occupation over the Palestinian territories. The e…