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Egyptian-mediated negotiations to free an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian Hamas militants are ongoing, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told a Cairo newspaper Saturday. The capture of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit by...

The Israeli military court trying Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik and 18 Hamas cabinet ministers on charges of membership in a terrorist organization adjourned Thursday after granting defense lawyers two days...

An Israeli military court on Tuesday charged Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik with membership and activity in a terrorist organization, over Dweik's complaints that the Israel Defense Forces court has no...

An Israeli military court has authorized the continued detention of Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik until August 22. Dweik was arrested at his home in Ramallah on August 5 for being...

A plan devised by Egyptian mediators calls for Israel to release Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of an Israeli soldier held by Hamas , Reuters reported Tuesday, citing an anonymous...

The Israel Defense Forces detained Fadl Hamdan, a member of the Palestinian parliament , during an overnight raid early Monday morning in the West Bank. Israeli authorities did not explain their reason for the...

Israeli security forces late Saturday detained the speaker of the Palestinian parliament after surrounding his home in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Aziz Dweik is a senior member...

Paul Hunt, the UN Human Rights Council's Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of health, has called for an independent inquiry into war crimes in Gaza, saying that some Israeli attacks on Gaza are a...

Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shimon Peres said Sunday that some two dozen members of the Palestinian cabinet and legislature from the governing Hamas faction detained by Israeli forces in West Bank raids last week will...

The Israeli military arrested seven Palestinian Cabinet ministers and some 20 lawmakers Thursday as tensions mounted between Israel and Palestinians sparked by the Sunday abduction of Israeli soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit in Gaza. Israel...