Two ministers in Israel’s new governing coalition declared yesterday that settlement expansion in the Palestinian Territories will continue under the new government.
US President Barack Obama is scheduled to make his first presidential visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories this week, during which he will visit Jerusalem and Ramallah.
The Palestinian village of Battir sits between Bethlehem and Jerusalem on the 1949 Armistice Line and includes ancient agricultural features and aqueducts built into the surrounding hillside.
The cardinals are still in their conclave. Shimon Peres is at the European parliament. What's cooking in French abattoirs? Is François Hollande engaged in class war?
Residents of a historic Palestinian village are fighting Israel's plan to extend its separation wall across its land, threatening ancient agricultural remains.
A leading member of President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement says Hamas is deliberately stalling the implementation of a unity agreement between the two Palestinian factions.
