The U.S. and Israel stopped financing UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member state in 2011. The Trump administration decided in 2017 to withdraw from the agency altogether the following year
The Cuban artist visited Palestine after almost three years of recreating, from a distance, places like Zaatari or Dadaab in watercolor
America will not leave a void in the Middle East to be filled by others, a high ranking official has asserted
European diplomats are asking union officials to ‘unequivocally’ show opposition to the Israeli government’s plans to alter the status and borders of the disputed city
Palestinian identity continues to be marked by exodus and dispossession, with today’s youth longing for the right to return to the hometowns of their grandparents
The U.S. historian of Palestinian descent, who is an expert on the Middle East, believes the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have lost ‘credibility’ in the occupied territories and are no longer ‘engaged’ in the resistance movement
‘My father used to tell us: ‘I can die at any moment.’ What I could not imagine is that they would also take my mother and my sister,’ says the son of one of the leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad killed by a missile
In a speech, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas urged the UN to suspend Israel’s membership unless it implements resolutions establishing separate Jewish and Arab states and the return of Palestinian refugees
The latest round of fighting was sparked Tuesday when Israeli jets killed three top commanders from the Islamic Jihad militant group in response to earlier rocket launches
The tenuous cease-fire appeared to take effect just after 10 p.m., with a last-minute burst of rocket fire and Israeli airstrikes stretching several minutes past the deadline announced by Egypt
The most violent conflagration in months between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza has pitted the Israeli military against Islamic Jihad, Gaza’s second-largest militant group after Hamas
Palestinian militants fired hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, while Israel has pressed with a series of airstrikes which have already killed 21 Palestinians
The motive of the gunman, a National Guard member, remained unclear. Security officers killed him before he could enter the historic Ghriba synagogue building on the island of Djerba
Such targeted killings are rare, and in the past, Palestinian militant groups have retaliated with heavy barrages of rocket fire
Demonstrations target military and economic ‘burden-sharing,’ consumer price hikes and the separation of religion and state
A 58-year-old man was killed, and five others were wounded. The strikes came after a prominent Palestinian detainee died in Israeli custody following an 87-day hunger strike
The death on Tuesday of 45-year-old Khader Adnan, a leader of the militant Islamic Jihad group, has outraged Palestinian militants and leaders, and raised fears of an escalation
The anniversary takes place against a backdrop of protests over Netanyahu’s judicial reform, which has exposed many underlying differences going back decades
The nation that arose on the ashes of the Holocaust faces perhaps its gravest existential threat yet — not from foreign enemies but from divisions within
The expulsion of the Jews in 1492 buried homes and synagogues standing for more than a thousand years in the Iberian Peninsula
Rabat was quick to condemn Israeli security forces’ storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, but rejects local demands to sever a relationship that was brokered by the US and provides access to state-of-the-art military equipment
In a televised speech Monday, the Israeli prime minister said that Yoav Gallant is staying in his post: ‘I decided to put the differences we had behind us’
The march was a defiant signal that Israel’s most right-wing government in history is determined to accelerate settlement building on occupied lands despite international opposition
The violence at the shrine triggered rocket fire by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon, starting Wednesday, and Israeli airstrikes targeted both areas
The military says six missiles were fired within hours in a rare attack from Israel’s northeastern neighbor
The exact nature of the attack Friday was not immediately clear, but the Israeli Foreign Ministry referred to it as a “terror attack,” a term Israeli officials use for assaults perpetuated by Palestinians
Israeli police fire tear gas and rubber bullets at Palestinians stockpiling rocks and fireworks inside one of the most bitterly disputed holy sites on Earth. The violence ripples across Israel and the occupied West Bank
