Russia calls for cease-fire between Isra...

MOSCOW, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Russia on Tuesday urged Israel and Palestinians to show restraint and immediately return to a sustainable cease-fire to ward off a new round of the escalation of violence

Israeli air-to-ground missile wounds 3 P...

GAZA, March 23 (Xinhua) -- At least three Palestinians were injured on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike targeting the area east of the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, close to the border w

Israeli lawyer fights legal battles on b...

Almost six thousand Palestinians are currently detained in Israeli prisons, most are charged with "security-related offenses," and conviction rates hover around 95 percent. Lawyers who take on Palest

7 Palestinians wounded by Israeli artill...

GAZA, March 21 (Xinhua) -- At least seven Palestinians were injured on Thursday night by Israeli artillery shelling on Rafah town in southern Gaza Strip, medics said.Ashraf al-Qedra, spokesman of the

Palestinian gov't calls for int'l protec...

RAMALLAH, March 20 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinian government on Wednesday called for international protection for the Palestinian people, after the killing of three Palestinians in the West Bank overnig

Jordan says realizing Palestinians' legi...

AMMAN, March 18 (Xinhua) -- Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on Monday said the sole way to achieve just and lasting peace is realizing the legitimate rights of the Palestinians including their

Roundup: Palestinians in Hamas-run Gaza ...

GAZA, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated on Friday in the Gaza Strip for the second day in a row against the worsening economic situation in the coastal enclave that Hamas has

2 Palestinians injured, 11 detained in I...

RAMALLAH, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Two Palestinians were wounded on Wednesday by Israeli gunfire during Israeli raids in the town of Halhoul north of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, security source

Update: Palestinians demand int'l invest...

RAMALLAH, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The Palestinians slammed Israeli army after two Palestinians were killed and one injured earlier Monday morning by Israeli soldiers' gunfire, demanding holding Israel ac

Israeli soldiers kill 2 Palestinians nea...

RAMALLAH, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Two Palestinians were killed and one was injured on Monday morning by Israeli soldiers' gunfire in the village of Kofr Ni'ma in the suburb of the West Bank city of Ramal