Israel said on Thursday it had put the ball in the Palestinian court with temporary controls on settlement building aimed at reviving US-backed ...
Israel said on Thursday that a temporary settlement ease put "the ball in the Palestinian court" with regard to US efforts to revive ...
GAZA (Reuters) - Israel has rejected a demand for the release of two Hamas commanders as part of any exchange for a captured Israeli soldier, a source close to negotiations said Wednesday, signaling talks had hit a snag. "Hamas still insists on ...
The Hamas-run government in Gaza said on Wednesday it would begin requiring all Palestinians wishing to enter Israel from the besieged territory to obtain permits three days in advance. "Those wishing to travel through the Beit Hanun (Erez) crossing must obtain permission ...
Argentine President Cristina Kirchner on Monday urged the United States to "do more" to restart Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as she held talks with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas. "The United States could do more than it is doing" to relaunch negotiations between the two ...
Israeli settlement expansion on Palestinian territory must stop immediately, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Friday as he seeks to position Brazil as a player in the Middle East. "The expansion of West Bank settlements must be frozen," Lula said after ...
Opposition chief Tzipi Livni reiterated her support Friday for a Palestinian state and the resumption of peace talks as she made a rare foray by an Israeli leader into the Arab world. However, speaking at a forum in the coastal city of ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, speaks as Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, looks on at the Virgin of Charity church in Salvador in Brazil's Bahia state, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. Abbas is on three-day official visit to Brazil. (AP ...
Brazil's leader urges freeze on Israeli settlements in east Jerusalem Brazil's President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is joining his Palestinian counterpart in calling on Israel to stop building new settlements in areas claimed by Palestinians. Silva says that his country "understands ...
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said presidential and legislative elections scheduled for January will be postponed, confirming that he has accepted advice not to hold the vote. Abbas, speaking to BBC Arabic, said the Palestinian leadership would ...
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes bombed two smuggling tunnels and a military training compound in the Gaza Strip Thursday, wounding three people, said officials in the Palestinian territory ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement. An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed the air strikes ...
The Obama administration is hardening its tone against Israel, but analysts warned Wednesday the tough talk was mere bluster hiding the lack of a viable plan to revive the Middle East peace process. "You've had three 'no's' to an American president in ...
