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The new Human Rights Council of the United Nations voted Friday to review alleged human rights abuses by Israel in all future council sessions, a move which was protested by both...

The Hamas party , which controls the Palestinian Legislative Council , launched a challenge to a referendum proposed by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas , calling an emergency debate Monday on whether a referendum is...

The Supreme Court of Israel on Sunday issued a 6-5 decision upholding the legality the Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law , which limits the rights of Palestinians to live in Israel. The law, passed by the...

Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Wednesday that Israel plans to put a group of Palestinian prisoners on trial for the 2001 killing of an Israeli tourism minister. The men were seized after Israeli forces...

Israeli forces stormed a Palestinian prison in the West Bank Tuesday in an attempt to seize a Palestinian militant linked to the 2001 killing of an Israeli minister. The raid in Jericho came shortly after the...

A senior Hamas leader said Sunday that the party plans to use Islamic sharia as a guide for lawmaking as Hamas members take their seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council , but that Hamas will convince...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei and members of his Fatah party Cabinet submitted their resignations Thursday after initial results from Wednesday's Palestinian parliamentary elections - the first in ten years - appeared to give the militant...

Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday asked his defense minister to create a plan for removing 24 Jewish settler outposts, deemed illegal by the International Court of Justice , from the Palestinian West Bank....

Spain's National Court Friday upheld arrest warrants for three US soldiers charged with the 2003 killing of Spanish journalist Jose Couso in Iraq. Couso was killed while filming for Spain's Telecinco network from...

A German court on Wednesday found four Middle Eastern men guilty of links to al Qaeda and of plotting to attack Jewish targets in Germany, and the four were sentenced to between five and eight years in prison. The...