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Meretz leader Tamar Zandberg and MK Esawi Frej met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Twitter)

March 11th, 2019 - 12:03 GMT

Abbas Tells Meretz Leader 'We Have no Other Option' But Peace

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told a delegation from the Israeli left-wing Meretz party that he would extend his hand to any Israeli government that “believes in a two-state solution.”

Jewish settlers set tyres ablaze at the Amona outpost, northeast of Ramallah, on February 1, 2017 as Israeli security forces are preparing to evict the hardline occupants of the wildcat settlement outpost. (AFP/Jack Guez)

February 2nd, 2017 - 08:00 GMT

Israel to build new illegal settlement in occupied West Bank to rehouse Amona settlers

Israeli settlers gather around a fire in the settlement outpost of Amona. (AFP/File)

February 1st, 2017 - 08:58 GMT

Israeli forces prepare for forced evacuation of Amona settlement

Israel plans to decriminalize marijuana. (File photo)

January 26th, 2017 - 12:45 GMT

Bring on a chilled-out IDF! Israel legalises marijuana

Israeli settlements in the West Bank are in violation of international law. (AFP/File)

January 25th, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Israel green lights 2,500 new illegal West Bank settlements

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Donald Trump is a "true friend" of Israel. (AFP/File)

January 23rd, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

As the rise of Trump disquiets the Middle East, Netanyahu pledges to ramp up settlement construction

Jordan's King Abdullah II (R) talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas before a meeting at the Royal Palace in Amman on November 12, 2014. (AFP/File)

January 23rd, 2017 - 12:00 GMT

Abbas and King Abdullah meet to discuss possible US embassy move to Jerusalem

Palestinian protesters hold placards during a demonstration east of Jerusalem against US President-elect Donald Trump. (AFP/File)

January 23rd, 2017 - 06:00 GMT

Palestinian Authority calls on Trump to put a stop to Israel’s illegal annexation in the West Bank

Bennett has repeatedly asked Netanyahu to rescind his support for the two-state solution and the creation of a Palestinian state, which Bennett perceives to be a security threat to the state of Israel. (Twitter)

January 22nd, 2017 - 02:00 GMT

As Trump takes office, hundreds of illegal Israeli settlements get the green light in East Jerusalem

Israelis march from the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim to the controversial West Bank area known as E1 on February 13, 2014. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

January 22nd, 2017 - 10:00 GMT

President Trump pressures Israel to postpone vote on settlement annexation bill

The activity included hanging up pictures of Trump with slogans rejecting his views which many have called divisive and racist. As activists began burning images of Trump, Israeli forces quickly arrived and attempted to expel them from the area, while threatening to use force on the activists. (AFP/File)

January 21st, 2017 - 10:00 GMT

As the new US president is sworn in, Palestinian activists set pictures of Trump on fire

A Bedouin woman cries following the destruction of houses on January 18, 2017 in Umm al-Hiran (Menahem Kahana/AFP)

January 19th, 2017 - 10:18 GMT

‘Umm al-Hiran’ trends following deadly demolition raid on Palestinian Bedouin village

Israeli policemen stand guard as bulldozers demolish homes in Bedouin villages. (AFP/File)

January 18th, 2017 - 03:00 GMT

More clashes erupt in the Negev desert as Israeli forces demolish Bedouin homes