Palestinian Arena
March 22, 2013
While meeting President Abbas, Barack Obama says he is committed to peace but acknowledged the problems of talks with Israel's current policies.
March 21, 2013
The Palestinian Authority president lays out his plans in a set of draft talking points for visiting U.S. President Barack Obama.
As the U.S. president tours Israel, militants in the tiny Gaza Strip decide to hit one of the Jewish state's southern towns.
March 20, 2013
US President Barack Obama has arrived in the holy land and announced the unbreakable bond between Israel and the US.
March 18, 2013
Ayman Sharawneh's brother Jihad was arrested just hours after the hunger-striker signed a deal with the Israelis to deport him to Gaza.
March 13, 2013
Israeli forces shoot dead a young Palestinian protester using bullets prohibited by international law.
February 27, 2013
Israel’s settlement construction in annexed east Jerusalem is part of a strategy aimed at preventing the Holy City from becoming the capital of two states, an internal EU report found on Wednesday.
February 26, 2013
![A rocket fired from Gaza hot southern Israel early on Tuesday. [File photo]](http://albawabacdn.albawabamiddleea.netdna-cdn.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/slideshow_thumb/im/gazarocketsonist.jpg "A rocket fired from Gaza hot southern Israel early on Tuesday. [File photo]")
As unrest continues in the West Bank, a rocket from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel early Tuesday morning, Israeli and Palestinian media report. The Grad rocket landed in south of Ashekelon and inflicted no injuries.
Israel on Monday demanded that the Palestinian Authority act "responsibly" and rein in unrest, as Palestinian protesters vowed revenge over the death of a Palestinian prisoner allegedly under Israeli torture.
February 25, 2013
After Arafat Jaradat dies while in Israeli custody, thousands of Palestinians in Israeli prisons go on hunger strike in solidarity.
February 14, 2013
Israel acknowledged it had detained Ben Zygier on Wednesday. Zygier was found dead in his cell a month after his arrest and detention at a maximum security prison.
February 13, 2013
According to an ABC report, Ben Zygier was held in a maximum-security solitary confinement wing of the prison, which was built to house Yigal Amir, the assassin of former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
February 12, 2013
The Turkel Committee found that the state security services ought to make audio and visual recordings of interrogations.
January 31, 2013
A new United Nations report claims Israeli settlements threaten Palestinian lands and subject locals to violence.
During their most recent meeting, Khaled Meshaal reportedly told King Abdullah that he would accept a two-state solution and to convey his message to the U.S.
