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After signing amended provisions of the Palestinian Basic Law relating to elections over the weekend, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas announced Monday that parliamentary elections delayed in July because of problems with the electoral law are now...

Palestinian Minister of Prisoners' Affairs Sufian Abu Zaydeh said Monday that the Palestinian Authority is demanding that the Israeli government release some 650 prisoners arrested during the Israeli settlement process of the Gaza Strip . Palestinian officials...

A three judge panel of Israel's High Court Sunday rejected a petition to prevent Israeli Defense Forces personnel from being employed to seal off areas of the Gaza Strip after the current Israeli settlers there have been...

Security in the Gaza Strip increased Sunday, on the eve of the implementation of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan to withdraw Israeli settlers . Police are expected to encounter pockets of...

Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said Friday that he was astonished at the unanimity of a call by the International Atomic Energy Agency for Iran to stop enrichment activities, warning Western opposition that the...

Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told reporters Saturday that he would consider invoking administrative detention - traditionally used against Palestinians, allowing them to be held without charge or trial - against all extremists, including Jews, who...

AP is reporting that Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu resigned unexpectedly Sunday to protest next week's Gaza pullout . Netanyahu cited the danger of terror operations that could be launched against Israel from the ceded territory if the...

U.S. v. Franklin, et al., United States District Court of the Eastern District of Virginia, August 4, 2005 [indictment of former employees of pro-Israel lobby group for allegedly conspiring to receive and disclose classified US defense information over a five-year...

Two former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) were indicted Thursday for allegedly conspiring to receive and disclose classified US defense information over a five-year period dating back to 1999. The indictment indicates...

Eight members of the UN Commission on Human Rights Thursday called on Israel to stop building a barrier to close off the West Bank. The group, marking the first anniversary this summer of an International...