Palestine

Hamas to accept Israeli state?

Meeting with ex-President Jimmy Carter in Gaza City, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said his organization would be “prepared to accept a state in the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.”

Palestine

Israeli cabinet rejects loyalty oath proposal

The legislative committee of the Israeli cabinet rejected a bill that would make a loyalty oath to a “Jewish, Zionist and democratic” Israel a prerequisite to the issuance of a national ID card.

Palestine

HRW calls on Hamas to end internal violence in Gaza

Hamas authorities should end the systematic detention, torture, and execution of political opponents and suspected Israeli collaborators in the Gaza Strip, Human Rights Watch says in a new report.

Palestine

Palestinian killed in West Bank protest

A local protester, Bassem Ibrahim Abu-Rahma, was killed after being hit by a tear gas canister during a demonstration against the separation wall in the West Bank village of Bilin.