RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Most of the world's nations will announce recognition of a Palestinian state by September 2011, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki said on Sunday.
"The majority of the international community will recognise an independent Palestinian state" by September, Malki told a group of Palestinian journalists in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Malki sai [...]
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - A Palestinian resolution condemning Israel's settlement building could be voted on at the UN Security Council as early as next week, the Palestinian representative to the UN said Wednesday.
However Palestinians are not yet sure whether the United States will veto the resolution as part of its traditional support of Israel, the representative Riyad Mansour told AFP [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Israeli warplanes attacked two targets in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Tuesday without causing any casualties, Palestinian security sources said.
The targets were a tunnel linking Gaza with Egypt near the town of Rafah and a training facility for Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the sources said.
The Israeli army confir [...]
HEBRON, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Palestinian security forces said Friday they had arrested a man they said was a leading member of Islamic militant group Hamas, wanted by the Palestinian Authority and Israel.
A senior Palestinian security official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Ayub Qawasmeh, 46, a member of the movement's armed wing, was arrested in the area of [...]
Palestinians being interrogated by Israel's internal security agency Shin Bet are routinely denied access to a lawyer and are often ill treated, an Israeli rights group said on Tuesday.
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - The United States admitted it has failed to win a new Israeli settlement freeze, a Palestinian official said on Thursday, in a potential knockout blow to stalled peace talks.
"The US administration has informed us that the Israeli government did not agree to a new settlement freeze," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"The US admin [...]
BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - The Palestinians will explore alternative ways to gain international recognition if US efforts to advance peace talks with Israel fail, president Mahmud Abbas said on Tuesday.
"We will spare no effort in pursuing this process and we have no choice but the choice of peace, we will continue with the peace process and we hope that US efforts wil [...]
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JERUSALEM (AFP) - Palestinian and Syrian officials on Tuesday condemned a new Israeli law mandating a national referendum ahead of any withdrawal from annexed east Jerusalem or the Golan Heights.
Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat said the bill, passed by Israel's parliament late on Monday night, makes "a mockery of international law, which is not subject to the whims of Israeli pub [...]
SALEM, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Palestinians said that Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank burned about 200 of their olive trees on Sunday and also torched surrounding grazing land.
Settlers denied the allegations.
The alleged attackers were seen heading in the direction of the nearby Elon Moreh settlement after setting fire to the trees on land owned by the Palestinian vil [...]
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TANGIERS, Morocco (AFP) - Negotiator Saeb Erakat said Friday the Palestinians would be forced to demand that the United States recognise their 1967 borders if it fails to persuade Israel to end Jewish settlements.
"If the United States does not manage to impose on Israel an end to the settlements this month, the next step for us would be to demand from the United States recognition of the s [...]
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