Israeli Police Minister Moshe Shahal gave the Palestinians two

weeks to close their offices in Jerusalem. He vowed on Tu
esday
(15/8) to close the offices of the Palestinian Author
ity in the
"Orient...

Nablus, West Bank Engcomm/Natsot Duration: 1.15"

Two Jordanian children born with both male and female s
exual
organs have undergone a series of sex operations chan
ging their
lives forever. The...

Luxembourg Minister of Foreign Affairs and President of the Council of the European Union Jacques Poos on Wednesday (12/11) met Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat in Gaza. The two discussed possible involvement of...

PLO chairman Yasser Arafat said on Saturday (21/5) that autonomy in Jericho and Gaza represented the first step towards a Palestinian state with its capital Jerusalem. Arafat remembered assassinated PLO leaders by visiting a...

In an apparent attempt to reconcile his differences with the

Islamic resistance movement in Gaza, PLO chairman Yasser A
rafat
has allowed the publication of a newspaper which has pr
inted, for
the first...

Some 1,500 disabled Palestinians assembled in Gaza calling for recognition of their situation on International Disabled Day on Wednesday (3/12).

The assembly was preceded by an early morning demonstration of about 200...

HEADLINE: Documents show Palestinian Jerusalem offer

CAPTION: Palestinians were prepared to compromise over two of the toughest issues, Jerusalem and refugees, during peace...

Israeli-Palestinian negotiations resumed at the Dead Sea resort

hotel on Sunday (23/7) with the aim of reaching an acco
rd on
expanding Palestinian self-rule in the West Ban
k. Outside
the Dead Sea hotel, Sunday...

The Palestinian Cabinet convened on Thursday night (23/4) to discuss the deadlocked peace process and the chances of progress following British Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit.

The Palestinians were not sanguine about the...

Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres on Tuesday (12/3) addressed the Knesset in Jerusalem, on the eve of an anti-terrorism summit in Egypt, aimed partly at the future of the Middle East peace process. Opposition leader...

The Fourth UN World Conference on Women was formally opened in

Beijing on Monday (4/9) with a ceremony at the Great Hall o
f the
People. During the ceremony, Chinese President J
iang...

English

The US Secretary of State Warren Christopher is back in the Middle East, attempting to underpin the Israeli-Palestinian accord and give and give fresh impetus to peace talks between the...

Leaders from Israel and the PLO emerged from marathon negotiations

Monday (18/9) pessimistic about the possibility of signing a
peace
accord in Washington by the scheduled date this Thursd
ay...

Various dates and locations

1. Israeli President Ezer Weizman and his wife Reuma during ceremony for Italian president, 11 October,
1999
2. Weizman...

The Palestinian legislative council on Wednesday (15/1) held a special meeting

in the West Bank city of Ramallah to discuss the Hebron agreement, s
igned

overnight.
After the meeting...

PLO leader Yasser Arafat's long awaited return to Jericho will be

preceded by a major PLO tax-gathering effort, it emerged
today
(Saturday). After meeting with some 30 departmental head
s in Tunis
Arafat announced he...

Mobile homes arrived in the West Bank in Israel on Sunday (25/8) in the first expansion of Jewish settlements in four years.

Six of the mobile trailers were set up near Ramallah in the West Bank while another...

Israeli government spokesman Uri Dromi on Thursday (20/4)

expressed his sorrow over the bomb explosion that rocked Okl
ahoma
City, killing at least 31 people and wounding many others. Israeli Foreign...

Debate rages over US detention of Abu Marzuk

Hamas followers in Gaza on Friday (28/7) denounced the U
nited
States for detaining Mousa Abu Marzuk, one of its
political
leaders, and demanded his...

Uri Dromi, speaking on behalf of the Israeli government, on

Thursday (20/4) expressed his sorrow over the bomb explosion
that
rocked Oklahoma City, killing at least 31 Americans an
d wounding
many...

Gaza Natural Sound Duration: 1.10"

About 500 Palestinians left the Gaza Strip recently on their way to Mecca in Saudi Arabia for the Muslim Haj pilgrimage. Their departure was special -- they were...

Almost two hundred Palestinian prisoners were released from an

Israeli jail in Ashkelon on Thursday (9/6) afternoon. The rel
eased
prisoners were warmly welcomed by family and friends. Is
raeli...

Ramallah, West Bank - 24 January 2011

1. Zoom out from Al-Jazeera bureau in Ramallah to protes
ters
2. Protesters burning Israeli flag with "Al-Jazeera"...

Eng/French/Arabic

Yasser Arafat, the 65-year-old leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, has became the proud father of a baby
girl.
His wife Soha, who's thirty years younger than him,...