BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip — Raghed Hilless was 6 months old when Israel arrested her father, Ahmed, for being involved with Hamas, the militant Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip. Now 5 ½, ... Read more
BERLIN — After President Barack Obama’s visit to Jerusalem last month, there were high hopes in Washington and NATO for a turning point in relations between Israel and Turkey. Mr. Obama ... Read more
GAZA CITY — About two dozen international aid agencies that operate in Gaza have suspended travel by their local employees to Israel and the West Bank to protest new exit permit requirements imposed by ... Read more
JERUSALEM — Salam Fayyad, the internationally respected Palestinian politician and economist, is widely credited for ending the chaos in the West Bank and putting things in order in his six years as prime ... Read more
GAZA — Hamas, the Islamic group that rules this Palestinian territory, has issued a new education law enforcing a more rigid separation of sexes in schools and prohibiting any relations with Israelis, in ... Read more
GAZA — Nader Abu Turki first gained a reputation as a confectioner while serving time as a prisoner in Israel. Having worked in a dessert shop in the West Bank before his arrest in 2002, he ... Read more
RAMALLAH, West Bank — President Obama, visiting the Israeli-occupied West Bank, appeared to move closer to the Israeli position on Thursday regarding resumption of long-stalled peace talks with the ... Read more
RAMALLAH, West Bank – President Obama, visiting the Israeli-occupied West Bank, appeared to move closer to the Israeli position on Thursday regarding resumption of long-stalled peace talks with the ... Read more
JERUSALEM – On the second day of President Obama’s visit to Israel, Palestinian militants fired at least two rockets from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip that crashed into the Israeli border city of ... Read more
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian security official says the military is investigating whether the Palestinian group Hamas is linked to a batch of confiscated fabric that could have been used to make counterfeit ... Read more