The State of Palestine is recognised as a sovereign nation by 147 countries, representing 75 percent of UN members.

In an interview last year, he went even further, saying that he doesn’t even believe in referring to the Arab descendants of people who lived in British-controlled Palestine as “Palestinians.” Israel ...

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Her focus is reporting on politics and society in the Middle East ... 2.39 million registered Palestine refugees live in the country. Jordan ruled the West Bank and East Jerusalem until the ...

The Israeli military has intensified strikes on parts of Gaza after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged that the ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday announced that Israel was setting up a new security corridor across the Gaza Strip named after a Jewish settlement that once stood between Rafah and ...

It has become a familiar refrain: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that he is “changing the face of the Middle East.” It is, he says, “a war of rebirth.” It is, in a sense ...