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Palestinians want peace deal but don't reject Hamas
Sep 25, 2009 04:16 EDT
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Most Palestinians who want a state of their own would like to achieve it through a peace deal with Israel but there is still substantial support for the Islamist Hamas group which favors resistance, according to a new opinion poll.
All-round pessimism after dud Middle East "summit"
Sep 24, 2009 11:40 EDT
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A cloud of pessimism is suffocating hopes that U.S. President Barack Obama can pull off a miracle in the Middle East by setting negotiations on course for rapid progress toward a comprehensive peace agreement.
Olmert goes on trial for corruption Friday
Sep 24, 2009 07:49 EDT
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert goes on trial in Jerusalem on Friday, battling the corruption allegations that forced him to resign last year .
Suicidal planet seems on death spiral into star
Aug 26, 2009 13:00 EDT
Doomed planet: Astronomers find planet so big and close to star it may be killing itself. Astronomers have found what appears to be a gigantic suicidal planet.
Dead Sea among 7 Natural Wonders finalists
Aug 25, 2009 07:59 EDT
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Dead Sea is among 14 finalists in a global internet vote next year to choose the 7 wonders of the natural world, organizers said on Tuesday.
Evicted Palestinians camp by home taken by settlers
Aug 25, 2009 04:40 EDT
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Fresh dates and chicken soup were served up at dusk on the sidewalk in the well-heeled suburb of Sheik Jarrah this week, as the evicted Palestinian al-Ghawi family spent another night camped outside their former home.
Palestinian women knit Jewish skullcaps
Aug 23, 2009 07:07 EDT
DEIR ABU MESHAL, West Bank (Reuters) - Of all the cottage industries you might expect to find in the Israeli- occupied West Bank, the crocheting of Jewish skullcaps by Palestinian hands seems one of the oddest.
Makeshift repairs not enough for battered Gaza
Aug 21, 2009 10:23 EDT
KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza (Reuters) - Frustrated by the lack of outside help, the Islamist group Hamas has begun repairing roads in Gaza using cement and tar smuggled through a network of tunnels under the border with Egypt.
West Bank youth see Israel with "Birthright" tour
Aug 21, 2009 09:21 EDT
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Fourteen-year-old Jum'a Ismail lives 50 km (30 miles) from the Mediterranean but had never seen the sea. The Palestinian youth had never set eyes on an Israeli civilian or an airport.
"Terrorist" targets popular at West Bank gun range
Aug 21, 2009 05:48 EDT
EFRAT, West Bank (Reuters) - Sharon Gat, owner of the "Caliber 3 Company," steadies a little girl who comes up to his gunbelt. They're holding a rifle almost as big as she is.
Israel, Palestinians trade blame for peace deadlock
Aug 21, 2009 05:11 EDT
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel and the Palestinians on Friday traded blame for failure to resume stalled peace talks after President Barack Obama renewed his call on both sides to resume negotiations as soon as possible.
Hamas, pro-al Qaeda group clash in Gaza
Aug 14, 2009 18:04 EDT
GAZA (Reuters) - Islamist radicals from a pan-Arab group defied the Hamas rulers of Gaza Friday by declaring an "Islamic emirate," prompting clashes that killed 16 gunmen.
Palestinian Fatah elects new party assembly
Aug 14, 2009 09:02 EDT
BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Aug 14 - (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction elected a new party assembly on Friday, in a further move to rejuvenate the movement after overhauling its main executive body this week.
Abbas says nothing "unsound" about Fatah election
Aug 13, 2009 08:08 EDT
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday rejected a complaint by former prime minister Ahmed Qurie that he had lost his seat on the executive of Fatah in an "unsound" party election.
Israel bombs Gaza tunnel in retaliatory strike
Aug 10, 2009 09:37 EDT
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes bombed a tunnel under the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt Monday, the first such attack in almost two months, the Israeli military said.
Palestinian Fatah seeks renewal, rejuvenation
Aug 09, 2009 10:10 EDT
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - The congress of the leading Palestinian party, Fatah, voted on Sunday for a new executive body and assembly filled with fresh faces to regain the lost trust of the Palestinian people.
Palestinian Fatah seeks renewal, rejuvenation
Aug 09, 2009 10:10 EDT
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - The congress of the leading Palestinian party, Fatah, voted on Sunday for a new executive body and assembly filled with fresh faces to regain the lost trust of the Palestinian people.
Squabbling Palestinian movement gets Saudi scolding
Aug 06, 2009 09:52 EDT
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - Reformists kept up pressure for leadership change in the dominant Palestinian party Fatah on Thursday and Saudi Arabia said no Palestinian state could emerge unless internal divisions are healed.
Old guard "hijacks" Fatah congress, say reformers
Aug 05, 2009 14:07 EDT
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - The first congress in 20 years of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah has been "hijacked" by an older generation, reformers said, threatening to blunt their efforts to rejuvenate the movement.
Palestinians to keep resistance an option: Abbas
Aug 04, 2009 10:39 EDT
BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Abbas told his Fatah movement's first congress in 20 years on Tuesday that Palestinians sought peace with Israel but "resistance" would remain an option.
