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Palestine president calls for UN-led peace conference early next year

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas speaks virtually during the 75th annual UN General Assembly, which is being held mostly virtually due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, US, on 25 September 2020

Israeli aircraft strike in Gaza

Israeli aircraft attacked in Gaza on Wednesday, witnesses said, and sirens warning of rocket fire from the Palestinian territory sounded in southern Israel

Smoke and flame are seen following an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip on 16 September.

Israel keeps up Gaza strikes in response to fire balloons

Israeli tanks and aircraft carried out new strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza overnight in response to the launch of so-called fire balloons across the border, the army said on Tuesday

Israel keeps up Gaza strikes in response to fire balloons

Israeli planes bomb Gaza as Egyptians seek to restore calm

Israeli warplanes pounded Hamas-ruled Gaza early Tuesday in response to Palestinian fire balloon attacks across the border, the Israeli army said

Israeli soldiers walk by a tank near the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip on 16 August.

Israel, UAE to normalise relations in shift in Mideast politics

Israel and the United Arab Emirates announced on Thursday that they will normalise diplomatic ties and forge a broad new relationship, a move that reshapes the order of Middle East politics from the ...

A Palestinian woman walks past a mural against Israel's plan to annex parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on 4 July.

Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan warn Israel on annexation

Egypt, France, Germany and Jordan warned Israel on Tuesday against annexing parts of the Palestinian territories, saying that doing so could have consequences for bilateral relations

Hanged effigies depicting US president Donald Trump and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu are burnt by Palestinian demonstrators during a protest against Israel's plan to annex parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in Gaza City on 7 July 2020

Israeli foreign minister says annexation move unlikely Wednesday

Israel’s foreign minister said an announcement on the proposed annexation of occupied West Bank land was unlikely on Wednesday, the start-date set by prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition ...

A Palestinian man argues with an Israeli border policewoman during a protest marking the 72nd anniversary of Nakba and against Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, in the village of Sawiya near Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank 15 May, 2020.

Dressmakers keep Palestinian tradition alive in Jordan refugee camp

Palestinian refugee Um Zeid spends her days at home in the sprawling Baqaa camp in Jordan sewing colourful dresses which gives her an income and keeps tradition alive.

Um Zeid, 47 year-old Palestinian refugee woman living in Jordan embroiders a traditional Palestinian dress for customers at Al-Baqaa Palestinian refugee camp, near Amman, Jordan, 16 June 2020.

Germany voices serious concern over Israeli annexation plan

Germany's foreign minister on Wednesday expressed serious concern to Israel about its plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, but he stopped short of threatening sanctions

Israeli foreign minister Gabi Ashkenazi and his German counterpart Heiko Maas greet each other during their meeting in Jerusalem on 10 June 2020

Pompeo in Israel for talks on West Bank annexations

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Israel Wednesday for talks on regional security and the country's plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank

A view shows the Israeli settlement of Ramat Givat Zeev in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on 19 March 2020
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