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Israel a step closer to becoming a "Jewish state"

Israel's cabinet has breathed fresh life into attempts to codify the country's status as a Jewish state. A ministerial committee has approved a revised version of a bill first proposed in 2011.

Israel

Hamas elects Ismail Haniyeh to lead political office

The Palestinian movement Hamas has elected Ismail Haniyeh to lead its political office.

Israel

UNESCO: Israel is "occupying power" of Jerusalem

UNESCO member states have endorsed a contentious resolution referring to Israel as the "occupying power" of Jerusalem.

USA

Trump reassures Abbas at the White House

The US president has vowed to work on brokering peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.

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Gaza

Palestinians react after Hamas unveils new charter

There has been reaction in Gaza and the West Bank after Hamas unveiled its new charter.

Israel

Israel-Germany spat over minister's meeting with NGOs

A diplomatic row has broken out between Israel and Germany.

Israel

Inmates begin hunger strike on Palestinian Prisoners' Day

Palestinians march on Prisoners' Day in solidarity with an open-ended hunger strike by inmates in Israel.

Israel

'Peace Through the Eye of a Needle'

Two Neighbors fashion peace between Israel and the Palestinians

Israel

Outrage as Israel approves first new West Bank settlement in 20 years

The Israeli government backed the construction despite talks with Washington on possibly curbing settlement activity.

West Bank

Police evacuate Israeli houses judged to be on Palestinian land

Nine houses in a Jewish town in the West Bank are evacuated after Israel's Supreme Court rules they were illegally built on Palestinian land.

World News

Palestinians horrified to see state slipping away

President Donald Trump's lack of commitment to a 2-state peace solution between Israel and the Palestinians has dismayed the latter, and raises doubts about their future as a people.

Gaza

Residents evacuated from flooded Gaza camp

Rescue workers have evacuated the elderly from theır homes flooded wıth sewage and raın water ın a refugee camp ın the northern Gaza Strıp.

USA

Grobe: Netanyahu's visit comes at a time of turmoil

The Euronews correspondent in Washington gives us his take on today's much-anticipated meeting between the leaders of the US and Israel.

USA

US-Israel: is Trump backing away from a two-state deal?

US President Donald Trump has welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Washington for a much-anticipated meeting that observers say could shape the contours of future policy in the Middle

Gaza

Hamas elects Yahya Sinwar as Gaza leader

The Palestinian group Hamas has elected a commander of its armed wing as overall leader in Gaza.

Israel

Palestinian wounds four in attack at Israeli market, police

At least four people have been injured after a Palestinian man opened fire at an Israeli market, authorities said.

Israel

Rights groups challenge controversial new Israeli settler law

Rights groups in Israel have petitioned the country’s Supreme Court against a new law which legalises settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West…

Israel

Abbas says Israel is building a single, apartheid state

Abbas pours scorn on Israeli settlement vote

West Bank

The West Bank reacts to Israel's settlement legislation

Israel’s move to retroactively legalise thousands of settler homes in the West Bank has proved contentious.

Israel

Israeli Knesset votes in favour of legalising 4,000 settler homes

The Israeli parliament has approved a controversial bill to “legalise” some 4,000 settler homes built on privately owned Palestinian land in the occupied West…