JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Seven people were wounded early Monday when a Palestinian crashed a stolen taxi into a group of border guards outside a Tel Aviv nightclub, then attacked them with a knife, police said.
Four border guards and two would-be club goers were hurt in the attack which took place outside HaOman 17 nightclub in south Tel Aviv, police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP, saying one [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - (AFP) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that the potential recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations should only be a "step forward" for the "full liberation" of Palestine.
His strong remarks calling for Israel's "disappearance" came as tens of thousands marched in the capital at a "Quds Day" rally, an annual regime-sanctioned demonstration in sol [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - A senior Palestinian official said on Wednesday that he hoped the great majority of countries would back a Palestinian membership application to the UN next month.
"We hope for the vote of more than 150 countries for recognition of the state of Palestine on the 1967 borders with its capital in east Jerusalem as a full member at the United Nation [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - An Israeli rights group criticised on Tuesday a court decision upholding the route of Israel's West Bank barrier, which cuts off a Palestinian village from its land in an area between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
Residents of Al-Walaja had appealed to Israel's Supreme Court to reroute a portion of the barrier which they say cuts off the village of 2,500 from farming land, [...]
DOHA (AFP) - (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will on Tuesday meet the US Assistant Secretary for Near East Affairs, Jeffrey Feltman, in Doha as Washington presses the Palestinians to abandon plans to bid from UN membership next month, an Arab diplomat says.
The meeting will take place as several Arab foreign ministers convene after a request by the Palestinian Authority "to maintain [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - An Egyptian-brokered halt to Palestinian rocket fire from the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding on Tuesday, with the Israeli military saying that calm had prevailed along the border overnight.
The truce was announced Sunday evening following four days of violence sparked by a series of shooting ambushes near Eilat in southern Israel on Thursday in which eight Israelis [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - The Palestinian Authority has indefinitely postponed local elections which had been expected to take place in October in the West Bank, a minister told AFP on Monday.
"President (Mahmud) Abbas issued a decree postponing the local elections indefinitely to pave the way for internal Palestinian reconciliation," local government minister Khaled al- [...]
HEBRON, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - Israeli troops on Sunday arrested 120 Hamas members in the southern West Bank just hours after the faction's Gaza branch fired rockets into Israel, Palestinian police said.
Police sources said troops fanned out across the area in an overnight operation which kicked off just hours after Hamas's armed wing in Gaza fired rockets into southern Israel, [...]
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghuti has warned that a US veto of a Palestinian bid to join the UN would be tantamount to "terrorism" and would wreck ties with Washington.
In an interview conducted through several of his lawyers, Barghuti, an influential leader with widespread support among the Palestinian public, told AFP he was fully supp [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - (AFP) - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas hoisted the flag of "the state of Palestine" in Beirut on Wednesday as he inaugurated the Palestinian embassy in Beirut.
The ceremony, which saw the Palestinian delegation upgraded to an embassy, was attended by Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati and top Palestinian officials, including chief negotiator Saeb Erekat and intelligence chi [...]
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