The Egyptian foreign minister has called on the US to recognize Palestine as a state, as Palestinian factions are preparing to sign a unity deal.

Palestinian hackers have posted a picture featuring the Palestinian flag on the website of Yisrael Beiteinu, the party of Israel's far-right Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

Israel has confronted Palestinians with financial sanctions following the singing of unity deal between the rival Palestinian factions of Fatah and Hamas.

Israeli vice Prime Minister Silvan Shalom has voiced outrage at Egypt's decision to permanently reopen the Rafah border crossing into the Gaza Strip.

A senior member of Hamas political bureau says the reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas will hold despite pressure from the US and Israel.

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has expressed concern about a reconciliation deal between the Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas.

Despite Israeli efforts for denunciation of Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the unity deal.

Hamas' democratically-elected Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has called on the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to “rescind recognition of Israel.”

Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories and its aggressions against the Palestinians are aimed at plundering their natural wealth, says a Middle East expert.

The Palestinian movements of Hamas and Fatah will sign a deal to form a unity government next week in the Egyptian capital Cairo, a senior Fatah official says.

Israel has refused to hear a petition by Palestinians that demanded compensation for damages inflicted to them during Israel's offensive against the Gaza Strip.

US lawmakers have warned that Washington would halt its aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) should the Fatah party form a unity government with Hamas.

Israeli army has pounded an area east of the Al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, injuring several Palestinians, witnesses say.

Israel has slammed a deal between the Palestinian Hamas and Fatah factions to form an interim unity government and hold elections within a year.

Thousands of Israeli doctors and medical students have staged the largest protest so far in front of the Knesset in their fight for higher wages and better health care, reports say.

Israel's Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren says that Washington needs Tel Aviv 'now more than ever.'

Palestinian Hamas and Fatah factions have reportedly reached an understanding on forming a transitional Palestinian unity government and holding future elections.

International activists are planning to dispatch a new aid flotilla to the Gaza Strip in an attempt to break the years-long Israeli siege of the impoverished coastal enclave.

At least one Israeli has been killed and two others injured in a shooting attack at a shrine in the West Bank city of Nablus.

Palestinian Christians of various denominations celebrated Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday) in the 'Old City' of al-Quds (Jerusalem) amid tight Israeli security measures this year.

Turkey has expressed support for the unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence and has urged the international community to help Palestinians "live in peace and with dignity."

Israeli troops have attacked a group of Palestinian and international activists protesting Tel Aviv's separation barrier on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.

At least four Palestinians have been wounded in separate incidents after Israeli troops attacked the blockaded Gaza Strip, medical sources say.

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has called on Israel to abide by its responsibilities under international law after Tel Aviv ignored to stop illegal expansion of settlement activities.

A French envoy says that the country and its European partners are considering giving formal recognition to a Palestinian state.

Israeli tanks and bulldozers have destroyed factory buildings and storage facilities in an industrial zone in the Gaza Strip, a report says.

Turkey's president has warned Israel about the emergence of democracies in the Middle East, which will not tolerate Tel Aviv's oppression against Palestinians.

A new photo advertisement of a Japanese car in Israel has drawn considerable outrage for its implied promotion of running over Palestinian kids.

A senior Israeli official has rapped Palestinians' refusal to take part in talks because it could make Israel more isolated internationally and could aggravate the Israel-Palestine conflict.

A leading member of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) has dismissed Israeli "peace" proposals as the “reinvention of Israeli occupation.”

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says it has arrested three suspects in connection with the murder of an Italian pro-Palestine activist.

US State Department spokesman Mark Toner has reiterated Washington's rejection of Palestinian plans to seek UN recognition of an independent state.

Five Palestinians, including two photojournalists, have been injured in clashes with Israeli settlers in the northern West Bank.

The US administration of President Barack Obama has reportedly made efforts to block an independent UN investigation into Israel's war against the Gaza Strip.

A group of Lebanese people and officials have gathered in southern village of Qana to mark the 15th anniversary of Qana massacre by Israeli military forces.

Israel's ambassador to Cairo has reportedly left Egypt days after over a million Egyptian protesters called for his expulsion and an end to the plight of the Palestinians.

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have gone on a one-day hunger strike in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) to protest the inhumane treatment by the Israeli prison guards.

The acting Palestinian Authority (PA) chief says Israel's plan to deploy troops inside a future Palestinian state is no different than its current occupation of Palestinian territories.

More than two months after the Egyptian revolution that ousted former President Hosni Mubarak, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed fears that the new government in Egypt is becoming 'anti-Israel.'

A senior US congresswoman says the Palestinian Authority (PA) could face an aid cut if it pushes ahead with its unilateral statehood demand to the United Nations.

Israel's Channel 2 TV station has released video footage showing Palestinian detainees being tortured by Israeli troops in the regime's desert prison of Naqab (Negev) back in 2008.

Israeli warplanes have conducted two strikes against Palestinian targets in the besieged Gaza Strip amid escalating attacks on the coastal enclave.

Turkey has rejected a request by Israel to stop a new Gaza flotilla due to take activists and humanitarian aid to the impoverished coastal sliver, saying Ankara will not interfere, a report says.

The Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas has condemned the murder of an Italian activist in the Gaza Strip, describing the killing as a "heinous crime."

The US Senate has urged the UN to revoke a report on the Gaza War, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes during the 22-day offensive against the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says a kidnapped Italian peace activist has been found dead in a home in the blockaded Gaza Strip.

Three of the co-authors of a UN report, concluding that Israel committed war crimes during its war on Gaza, say they stand by their investigation.

Four people have been killed after a light aircraft crashed near an international airport in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.

Israel's military has committed an incursion into the Lebanese territory near the location where it carried out a deadly border violation last year.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has been charged with fraud, money laundering and breach of trust, which could force the rightist Israeli politician to step down.

The UN says Israel has kept a commercial crossing into the besieged Gaza Strip shut for the seventh straight day, raising serious concerns over shortage of essential supplies in the besieged coastal enclave.

Israel's military is on a daily basis raiding a Palestinian town in the north of the occupied West Bank, humiliating residents and damaging property in an attempt to expand nearby settlements.

A top Israeli official has said the Tel Aviv regime is troubled by the perception that the United States is an "empire of the past" and wants a resurgent America to lead a decisive role in the world.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says European states should stop the next humanitarian aid convoy bound for the Gaza Strip.

Hamas says it has captured informants who had helped Israel in the latest attacks on the Gaza Strip, which killed 19 Palestinians and injured over 70 others.

The Deputy Head of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziad Enkhaleh, has said that Palestinian resistance would never surrender to Israel.

Amid successive deadly attacks by Israel on the Gaza Strip, the Arab League plans to press the United Nations to impose a no-fly zone over the coastal sliver.

Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has vowed to continue firing missiles into Israel until Tel Aviv halts its attacks on the Gaza Strip.

Ukraine's Security Service has been criticized for the February abduction of a Palestinian engineer by Israeli agents in the European country and his subsequent transfer to Israel.

Hamas says Israel has stepped up aggression against Gaza due to the uprisings in the Arab world and is trying to undermine Palestinian resistance movements' reconciliation efforts.