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.”
Israeli soldiers shut down a protest in Hebron, declaring a “Closed Military Zone,” as Hillary Clinton denied Israeli claims of a secret deal with Israel allowing settlement expansion.
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.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed at a ceremony marking the annexation of East Jerusalem in the 1967 Six Day War that the city would “forever” remain Israel’s capital.
Settlers immediately began rebuilding a small Jewish outpost in the West Bank hours after Israeli forces “dismantled” it in an evident gesture to President Obama.
The village of Na’alin, which symbolizes struggle against Israel’s West Bank wall, has opened a Holocaust museum, which sponsors hope can help foster understanding and peace.
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.
Several hundred demonstrated in Tel Aviv to protest the killing of a Palestinian activist in the West Bank. Organizers warned, “The occupying forces have recently escalated their attacks.”
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.
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that former Israeli security chief Avraham Dichter cannot be sued in the US by survivors of a 2002 Israeli bombing that targeted a Hamas leader in Gaza.
Israel will not comply with a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) investigation into possible war crimes that were committed during recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, officials said.
The State of Palestine filed a complaint with the International Court of Justice (ICJ) challenging the relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as a breach of international diplomatic law. In support of its claim, Palestine directed the ICJ to multiple UN General Assembly and Security Council resolutions affirming the special international regime that applies to Jerusalem and calling on member states to refrain from recognizing Jerusalem as Israeli territory. Palestine also argued that establishment of an embassy to Israel in Jerusalem violates provisions of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations governing activities in the "receiving state." (Photo: Ma'an News Agency)
