JERUSALEM (AFP) - A lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians is only possible if Hamas is involved, a group of former top statesmen and diplomats said in a letter made public on Friday.
In the letter, which is addressed to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, 24 former international figures warned against the dangers of rejecti [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - The Arab League's outgoing chief and Egyptian presidential candidate Amr Mussa told French television on Thursday that he wants to work for peace between Israel and Palestinians but not at any price.
"Egypt's position will have to get back to a position of influence in the region and to follow the right policy, which is to establish peace, not at any price," he told Fr [...]
AL-MUGHAYYIR, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Vandals tried to set fire to a mosque in the northern West Bank, causing damage to the inside, Palestinian security sources said on Tuesday, blaming Jewish settlers.
The attackers lit tyres inside the mosque in Al-Mughayyir village, some 20 kilometres (12 miles) northeast of Ramallah, which damaged prayer mats inside the building.
They [...]
PARIS (AFP) - The parents of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, captured by Palestinian militants in Gaza in 2006, plan to file suit in a Paris court against his kidnapping and illegal confinement, his family told AFP.
The parents of Shalit, who has French citizenship, will file suit in Paris against his "kidnapping and illegal confinement", with the aggravating circumstances that he is [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has told France he is ready to attend a Paris peace conference if Israel accepts talks based on the 1967 borders, an aide told AFP Sunday.
Nimr Hammad, a political adviser to Abbas, said the president had told French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe that he agreed officially to a French proposal to host a peace [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Two Palestinians have been charged with the grisly murder of a young Israeli family stabbed to death in a West Bank settlement, the Israeli military said on Sunday.
Its website said military prosecutors charged Hakim Awad and a relative, Amjad Awad, both from the West Bank village of Awarta, with the murder of five members of the Fogel family: three-month-old Hadas [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Egyptian officials at the border with Gaza restricted Palestinian use of the Rafah crossing on Saturday, Hamas police told AFP.
A security source in Egypt initially said the crossing was closed for works which should have been completed on Friday and efforts were underway to allow through Palestinian buses.
Egyptian security and state tele [...]
VATICAN CITY (AFP) - Pope Benedict XVI and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas met in the Vatican on Friday and said there was an "urgent need" for a lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"Particular stress was laid on the urgent need to find a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the Vatican said in a statement after the talks -- the fourth [...]
ROME (AFP) - French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe urged Israel and the Palestinians to resume peace talks by September or face "consequences," after meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Rome on Wednesday.
"If nothing happens by September, France... has already said that there will be consequences," Juppe told reporters at the close of the talks.
"The deadline is Septe [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - New rules at the recently reopened Rafah crossing will cap the number of Palestinians entering Egypt at 400 a day, Palestinian and Egyptian officials said on Wednesday.
The travel cap is one of several new restrictions announced just days after Egypt reopened the crossing, the only way in and out of Gaza that is not controlled by Israel.
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