Palestinians

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On September 13th, 1993, US president Bill Clinton stands between PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Yitzahk Rabin as they shake hands. Photograph: J David Ake/AFP/Getty Images
Fierce optimism of Oslo Accords has vanished 25 years on

Twenty-five years ago on Thursday, a portly Palestinian boy scout raised the Palestinian red, white, black and green flag from the balcony of Orient H(...)

Worldview: Ireland should recognise Palestine if peace talks fail

Amid the turbulence currently afflicting the Middle East and north Africa it is all too easy to overlook the continuing conflict between Israel and th(...)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (right) shakes hands with France’s foreign minister Laurent Fabius following their meeting in Ramallah at the weekend. The latest violence came as Israel and the Palestinians are holding rounds of peace talks in the first such meetings in five years since serious negotiations collapsed. Photograph: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters
Israeli soldiers kill three Palestinians near Ramallah

Israeli soldiers have killed three Palestinians in clashes during a raid in the West Bank in the deadliest incident in the area in years.The violence(...)