Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Shanghai’s mayor Yang Xiong in Shanghai yesterday. Photograph: Reuters/Aly Song

Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu insisted on his country’s right to defend itself during a visit to China yesterday, after Beijing exp(...)

Palestinians have hailed Google’s move as a virtual victory on the long path to the state they seek in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip, which Israel seized in the 1967 war. Image: Screengrab of Google.ps

A senior Israeli official accused Google today of setting back Middle East peace hopes by putting the name Palestine under the banner of its se(...)

Salam Fayyad (left) with Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who accepted his resignation this month as prime minister of the Palestinian Authority. Photograph: David Silverman/Getty Images

On April 13th, Palestinian Authority prime minister Salam Fayyad resigned. It was an easy development to miss, but not one to be ignored. It wa(...)

Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad’s resignation was accepted by President Mahmoud Abbas  despite intense pressure from Washington and European Union donor states. Photograph: Reuters/Mohamad Torokman

The resignation of Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad has cast uncertainty over the future of the Palestinian Authority and made efforts t(...)

Outgoing Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad (left) has tendered his resignation to president Mahmoud Abbas. Photograph: Getty

The internationally respected prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Salam Fayyad, has resigned, raising concerns about political stabili(...)

US secretary of state John Kerry (L) speaks during his meeting with Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem today. Photograph: Paul J Richards/Reuters

US s ecretary of state John Kerry said today he had agreed to work with Israeli and Palestinian leaders to boost economic growth in the occupie(...)

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a news conference  in Istanbul. Photograph: Murad Sezer

US secretary of state John Kerry will hold talks with Israeli leaders in Jerusalem today, but efforts to revive the Middle Eas(...)

A Palestinian woman takes part in a symbolic military funeral for Maysara Abu Hamdeya in Gaza City  yesterday.  Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters

The main United Nations humanitarian agency for Palestinians has suspended operations in the Gaza Strip after demonstrators angered by aid cutbacks(...)

A Hamas militant holds a poster of Maysara Abu Hamdiya before a protest in the northern Gaza Strip yesterday. Photograph: Suhaib Salem/Reuters

Israeli warplanes struck targets early today in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire toward southern Israel, the first air strikes launche(...)

A prelude to talks?

There had never been expectations that President Obama ’s first visit to Israel and Palestine would produce a breakthrough in their stalled pea(...)

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