Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has announced that Moscow will supply Palestinians with fifty Russian-made armored vehicles within days. “We have sent the Palestinians 50 armored vehicles, they have arrived in Jordan, and we hope that they will arrive here in the next few days,” Lavrov told reporters in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. The... 

Israel has halted the flow of government sector mail between Gaza and the West Bank, causing a delay in the receipt of official documents, officials said on Thursday. Maher Abu Ouf, Palestinian director for the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel, said Israel shut-down all mail services last Wednesday after forces detained Gaza-based postal service official Sufian Abu Zubda. “We do not know... 

Two Palestinian children have been killed in a collision between an Israeli army jeep and a tractor. In the incident, an Israeli army jeep hit the trailer of a tractor in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank. The children, aged four and five, were on the tractor with two other Palestinians who were seriously injured, AFP reported on Wednesday. Two Israeli soldiers in the jeep were slightly... 

Salam Fayyad The Palestinian leadership on Monday protested against Israeli military orders that could see tens of thousands of Palestinians deported from the West Bank. On Sunday Haaretz revealed that a new military order aimed at preventing infiltration will come into force this week, enabling the deportation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank, or their indictment on charges... 

Ultra-Orthodox Jews last month in Ramat Shlomo, a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. It was just a phrase at the end of President Obama’s news conference on Tuesday, but it was a stark reminder of a far-reaching shift in how the United States views the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how aggressively it might push for a peace agreement. When Mr. Obama declared that resolving the long-running Middle... 

Nancy Anderson, left, is comforted by her husband Michael during a press conference about their son, injured American activist Tristan Anderson, in Jerusalem, Monday, March 23, 2009. Anderson, 38, of Oakland, Calif., was hit in the head with a tear gas canister during a protest against Israel's separation barrier March 13, 2009 and has undergone three brain surgeries at a hospital near Tel Aviv... 

Jared Malsin Israeli authorities today deported an American journalist who was working as an editor for a Palestinian news agency. Jared Malsin, who is Jewish and in his late 20s, was detained at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport eight days ago as he returned from a holiday in Prague. His girlfriend, a Lutheran church volunteer who flew back with him, was deported two days later., but Malsin was... 

Israeli security forces arrested residents of a West Bank settlement in connection with last month’s torching of a Palestinian mosque. Ten settlers were arrested at two yeshivas in the northern West Bank community of Yitzhar in a late Sunday night raid. Five are accused of burning down a mosque in the nearby village of Yasuf, allegedly in retaliation for an Israeli government-imposed freeze... 

Ehud Barak Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has received dozens of death threats from people who fear Jewish settlements in the West Bank will be disbanded as part of peacemaking with the Palestinians, officials said on Wednesday. In November, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu infuriated settlers by partially freezing new housing in the enclaves for 10 months. He called the moratorium a bid to coax... 

Hateful message left for Arabs Before I start writing, let me inform you up front that I love you dearly. I would like to warmly embrace the inhabitants of the south – Arabs not included – and dedicate this festive column to them. The spectacular demonstrations in Gaza have only contributed to our feelings of a shared fate, Arabs living in the Land of Israel and the Jewish people. Let those... 

Wondering what’s with this awful Financial Crisis and where’s your money? Here they are. Bailouts and Handouts! US President Barack Obama has signed the foreign aid budget law for 2010 which includes the granting of $2.775 billion in security aid to Israel. The Israeli Ynet news website reported that the budget signed by Obama, for the first time, also grants $500 million to the Palestinian... 

Catherine Ashton Government officials in Jerusalem harshly criticized the new European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, for her scathing remarks about the “Israeli occupation” in her maiden speech. Ashton on Tuesday leveled scathing criticism at Israeli policy in her first speech as the European Union’s first high representative... 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the cabinet’s approval of a plan to change Israel’s map of national priority areas to include more West Bank settlements did not signify a permanent stance on the future of these areas. “We will determine the future of settlements only within the framework of a permanent agreement [with Palestinians],” Netanyahu said, according... 

The European Union’s foreign ministers on Tuesday softened their call for a division of Jerusalem between Israel and the Palestinians, saying that the city should be shared but that the two sides should negotiate the details. The statement, issued in Brussels, marks a diplomatic victory for Israel in a contest with the Palestinians for international support. In the absence of direct, U.S.-mediated... 

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