Jordan, the custodian of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem, demanded on Tuesday that Israel remove surveillance cameras at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound on the Temple Mount, the AFP news agency reports. "Jordan rejects Israel's installation of surveillance cameras on December 8 to monitor waqf officials and worshippers, particularly women," Information Minister Mohammad Momani told
Hamas's leader-in-exile Khaled Mashaal telephoned Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah head Mahmoud Abbas this past weekend, in a rare telephone call between leaders of the rival parties, the official news agency Wafa said. "Mashaal telephoned president Abbas to thank him for his efforts at different levels, particularly sending aid to the Gaza Strip," Wafa
The Islamist supporters of deposed Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi will boycott a referendum on a new constitution next month and organize a campaign against the vote, a spokesman said Monday, according to AFP. The Anti-Coup Alliance led by Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement had initially considered calling on its supporters to vote against the constitution,
A report released Wednesday by Tiny Kox, a Dutch member of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, claims that Palestinians are not "democratic partners" according to the Council of Europe's standards, and further blames Israel for the phenomenon. In the report Kox, a member of Holland's Socialist Party, attributed the prevention of weapons smuggling
Anwar Abd al-Hadi, director of the PLO Political Department, met with Dr. Faisal Miqdad, deputy Syrian Foreign Minister Foreign Ministry headquarters in Damascus, and briefed him on developments in the negotiations with Israel. According to the Palestinian news agency Maan, Abd al-Hadi stated that negotiations are stalling due to "Israeli intransigence" and Israel's emphasis
The Turkish government has supplied Syrian rebel forces with more than 47 tons of weapons in the past few months it has been revealed - this despite the Islamist government strenuously denying such charges in the past. According to official documents filed under UN Comtrade (the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database), Turkish arms
Israel will allow the import of 450,000 liters of industrial diesel to Gaza on Sunday morning in order to allow the region’s sole power plant to begin working again, an official told the Ma'an news agency on Saturday evening. The president of the committee for the import of goods, Raed Fattouh, confirmed the planned
A Palestinian Authority (PA) source on Friday told AFP that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas formally rejected US proposals for Israel to keep troops in a future Palestinian state along the Jordan border. The source further formally stated Abbas' position of refusing to recognize Israel as the Jewish state. Abbas' rejection of US Secretary of
United States Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Thursday that his country would continue to support "moderate" rebel forces in Syria, but will withhold non-lethal assistance to the rebels until it can assess who is in control of arms depots and border crossings. According to AFP, Hagel told reporters that setbacks for Syria's Western-backed opposition
On December 21, Arab foreign ministers are slated to meet in Cairo to discuss the faltering peace talks between Israel and Palestinian Authority (PA), according to a statement released by the Arab League on Thursday. The announcement comes as US Secretary of State John Kerry returned to Israel yet again on Wednesday to try
