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The nearly 1.9 million member Presbyterian Church USA voted Friday after a contentious debate to divest from three companies that provide supplies to Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel has invited bids for 1,500 new homes in Jewish settlements in retaliation for a new Palestinian government backed by Hamas, reports said on Thursday.

Israel has denied three future Palestinian ministers from the Gaza Strip entry to the West Bank ahead of the unveiling of a new unity government, a senior source said Sunday.

Israel's Prisons Service has hospitalised 40 Palestinian inmates who have been refusing food for over a month in protest against the terms of their imprisonment, spokeswoman Sivan Weizman said Wednesday.

The acclaimed Israeli writer Amos Oz said: 'Our neo-Nazi groups enjoy the support of numerous nationalist or even racist legislators

Ukraine's prime minister voiced outrage at reports that masked men in east Ukraine's main city handed out leaflets demanding Jews register or be expelled, NBC News reported Saturday.

Israeli police on Monday limited Muslim access to Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, fearing new violence after clashes at the weekend, a spokesman said.

Tehran, YJC. Poll has investigated into what people think was ayatollah Khamenei's most important statement in the past year.

A natural gas field has been discovered on the coast of the Gaza Strip, a senior Hamas movement official revealed Tuesday.

Tehran, YJC. The Speaker of Qatar's Consultative Assembly has condemned Israel for killing Palestinians.

Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas will meet US Secretary of State John Kerry in Paris Wednesday to discuss peace talks with Israel, US and Palestinian officials said Monday.

Thousands of undocumented African asylum seekers have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv in protest against Israel's policy toward refugees PressTV. reported.

The UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories Friday criticised Israel's demolition of 36 homes in the Jordan Valley and urged a halt to such actions in the West Bank.

Israel's defence minister has accused the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, of having an "incomprehensible obsession" with his push for Middle East peace, but later apologised for his remarks via a statement released by his ministry.

Israel's army says two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip just hours ahead of Ariel Sharon's funeral but they did not appear to have landed in Israel.

The head of the hospital treating Israel's iconic and controversial former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says only "a miracle" could prevent his condition from deteriorating further.

In the second part of his remarkable special report, Chris McGreal investigates the clandestine alliance between Israel and the apartheid regime, cemented with the ultimate gift of friendship - A-bomb technology.

Anti-Muslim insults were found on the walls of a mosque in northern Israel on Sunday, a police spokeswoman said.

A group of 36 NGOs urged Israel Wednesday to stop demolishing Palestinian homes, hours ahead of a Middle East visit by US Secretary of State John Kerry aimed at revitalising peace talks.