- 02:17 19/12/2011 TEL AVIV, December 19 (RIA Novosti)
Israel completed the deal to exchange Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for more than 1,000 Palestinians by releasing the remaining 550 prisoners
- 21:32 02/11/2011 MOSCOW, November 2 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Foreign Ministry urged Israel on Wednesday to refrain from more housing construction in the occupied West Bank pending a final agreement on the status of the Palestinian territories.
- 16:59 17/10/2011 MOSCOW, October 17 (RIA Novosti)
Israel should abandon housing construction plans in East Jerusalem and end settlement activities in the occupied territories, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday.
- 14:16 13/10/2011 GAZA, October 13 (RIA Novosti)
Rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas have agreed to hold a meeting to discuss how a reconciliation deal between them is being implemented, a senior Fatah member said on Thursday.
- 07:41 10/10/2011 GAZA, October 10 (RIA Novosti)
The Palestinians have reiterated that they will only resume peace talks with Israel if it stops all settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories, the official Palestinian WAFA news agency said.
- 06:34 29/09/2011 GAZA, September 29 (RIA Novosti)
The executive committee of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) will gather on Thursday to discuss an appeal of the Quartet of Middle East mediators to resume Palestinian-Israeli talks.
- 14:48 28/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti)
Russia expressed concern on Wednesday at Israeli plans to build 1,100 more homes in an East Jerusalem settlement.
- 22:16 23/09/2011 UN, September 23 (RIA Novosti)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly on Friday that his country desired peace with the Palestinians, but this could only be achieved through talks, not a UN resolution.
- 21:03 23/09/2011 UN, September 23 (RIA Novosti)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday asked the UN General Assembly to end the world’s “last occupation” and recognize a Palestinian state.
- 19:56 23/09/2011 MOSCOW, September 23 (RIA Novosti)
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas filed on Friday a request for a UN vote on Palestinian statehood recognition to UN chief Ban Ki-moon.
- 19:11 23/09/2011 UNITED NATIONS, September 23 (RIA Novosti)
Israel will pull out of talks with the Palestinians if they ask the United Nations to recognize their statehood, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Friday.
- 04:22 23/09/2011 UNITED NATIONS, September 23 (RIA Novosti)
Russia would like the Palestinian National Authority's UN bid to be resolved by means of consensus.
- 22:22 21/09/2011 UNITED NATIONS, September 21 (RIA Novosti)
U.S. President Barack Obama called on UN members on Wednesday to focus their efforts on encouraging direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians to achieve Middle East peace.
- 04:35 21/09/2011 TEL-AVIV, September 21 (RIA Novosti)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu departed on Wednesday to New York to address the UN General Assembly on the issue of the Palestinian independence, his aide Alex Selsky said.
- 15:26 16/09/2011 GAZA, September 16 (RIA Novosti)
Palestinians are set to push forward with a bid for full membership in the United Nations, with President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas due to deliver a key speech on Friday, local media said.
- 06:24 09/09/2011 WASHINGTON, September 9 (RIA Novosti)
The United States will use its veto right to block the Palestinian bid to win United Nations recognition of statehood should it come to a vote before the UN Security Council, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
- 12:06 04/09/2011 ANKARA, September 4 (RIA Novosti)
Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan plans to visit Palestine's city of Gaza in September 13 or 14 to put an end to an Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, country's Haberturk newspaper said on Sunday, quoting sources in the government.
- 08:02 21/08/2011 CAIRO, August 21 (RIA Novosti)
A demonstrator who replaced the Israeli flag with the Egyptian one on the roof of the Israeli embassy in Cairo early on Sunday was hailed as a hero by other protesters, eyewitnesses reported.
- 04:07 21/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 21 (RIA Novosti)
Israel's N&N Aman Gallery was forced to give up its plans to participate in Russia's largest contemporary art fair Art Moscow due to political reasons.
- 23:11 20/08/2011 TEL AVIV, August 20 (RIA Novosti)
At least nine people were injured during a rocket shelling on the Israeli cities of Beersheba and Ofakim from Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, police press secretary Alex Kagalsky said on Saturday.
- 13:59 20/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 20 (RIA Novosti)
Egypt on Saturday recalled its ambassador to Israel over the deaths of five of its policemen reportedly killed by Israeli forces.
- 05:45 20/08/2011 CAIRO, August 20 (RIA Novosti)
Thousands of Egyptian demonstrators surrounded and blocked a multi-storey building of the Israeli embassy in Cairo on early Saturday demanding that the diplomatic mission lowers its national flag.
- 22:16 18/08/2011 GAZA, August 18 (RIA Novosti)
At least six people, including a child, were killed on Thursday during an Israeli air strike on a residential house in western Rafah in the south of Gaza, a medical source said.
- 21:42 14/08/2011 TEL AVIV, August 14 (RIA Novosti)
Israel's army is planting new land mines along the armistice line with Syria in a bid to dissuade protesters from attempting to rush into the Golan Heights, Israeli media said on Sunday.
- 22:01 09/08/2011 WASHINGTON, August 9 (RIA Novosti)
The United States reiterated its concerns over the ongoing Israeli housing construction in the West Bank, the U.S. Department of State said in a statement on Tuesday.
- 00:56 07/08/2011 MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti)
The Russian Foreign Ministry has urged Israel to cancel its new plans to build 900 homes for Jewish settlers in occupied East Jerusalem.
- 18:37 04/08/2011 GAZA, August 4 (RIA Novosti)
Sheikh Hassan Yousef, one of the founders of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, was released on Thursday after almost six years in Israeli prisons, local media reported.
- 03:00 22/07/2011 GAZA, July 22 (RIA Novosti)
A UN agency which provides assistance to Palestinian refugees has threatened to suspend its activities in the Gaza Strip if protesters did not stop interfering with its work.
- 23:30 18/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 18 (RIA Novosti)
At least 835 Palestinian teens were arrested from 2005 to 2010 for throwing stones at Israeli soldiers, a report by the Israeli Human Rights organization B'Tselem said on Monday.
- 12:36 17/07/2011 GAZA, July 17 (RIA Novosti)
More than seven Palestinians, including children, were injured in an Israeli airstrike on the Gaza Strip, local health officials said on Sunday.
- 22:16 08/07/2011 GAZA, July 8 (RIA Novosti)
The Palestinian National Authority on Friday expressed its regret that U.S. lawmakers accepted a resolution cutting off all aid to the Palestinians if they turn to the United Nations in September to request the Palestinian Territories be recognized as an independent country.
- 20:39 05/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 5 (RIA Novosti)
Inter-Palestinian reconciliation will help to speed up the exchange of political prisoners between rival political movements Hamas and Fatah, a member of a Palestinian delegation in Moscow said on Tuesday.
- 14:06 05/07/2011 TEL AVIV, July 5 (RIA Novosti)
Israel froze on Tuesday its decision to hand over bodies of dozens of militants to the Palestinian Authority, which was announced on Monday, local media reported.
- 00:46 05/07/2011 MOSCOW, July 5 (RIA Novosti)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks in Moscow on Tuesday with a group of Palestinian officials prior to an upcoming meeting of international mediators of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
- 22:49 02/07/2011 ATHENS, July 2 (RIA Novosti)
Greek authorities have arrested the captain of one of the ships from the Freedom Flotilla II for illegally setting sail for the Gaza Strip, the Greek Coast Guard said on Saturday.
- 13:23 28/06/2011 CAIRO, June 28 (RIA Novosti)
The Fatah and Hamas movements have reached an agreement on the candidacy of the reconciliation government's prime minister, Egyptian Al Ahram daily reported on Tuesday.
- 17:47 19/06/2011 CAIRO, June 19 (RIA Novosti)
The final round of talks between leaders of the recently reconciled Fatah and Hamas movements, Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Mashaal, scheduled for June 21 in the Egyptian capital of Cairo, was postponed for unidentified period of time, Egypt's news agency MENA said.
- 21:21 18/06/2011 GAZA , June 18 (RIA Novosti)
The Palestinian National Authority will be unable to meet its budgetary obligations if Israel again stops the transfer or tax payments from Palestinians, which make up two thirds of the monthly earnings of the Authority, the PNA said on Saturday.
- 12:28 18/06/2011 GAZA, June 18 (RIA Novosti)
Acting Palestinian Authority (PA) Chief Mahmoud Abbas has urged EU nations to separately or collectively recognize the state of Palestine, local media said.
- 11:17 15/06/2011 MOSCOW, June 15 (RIA Novosti)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on EU Parliament President Jerzy Buzek to oppose a unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood.
- 22:50 14/06/2011
While NATO countries become more and more embroiled in the fight against brutal leaders in the Middle East, Russia is moving ever closer to the role of the middleman. How Russia reacts to an expected UN referendum condemning Syria for violence against protestors will determine Russia's future role in the region. Alexey Malashenko, an expert on Russian and Eurasian politics at the Carnegie Moscow Center explains why Russia can successfully act as a mediator in the region.
- 21:49 14/06/2011 CAIRO, June 14 (RIA Novosti)
The leaders of the recently reconciled Palestinian movements Hamas and Fatah will hold a final round of talks on the creation of a new unity government in Cairo next week, Fatah representative Azzam al-Ahmad said on Tuesday.
- 04:13 07/06/2011
A peace conference aimed at bringing the Israelis and Palestinians back to negotiating table, which has been proposed by France, is unlikely to be "productive," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said.
- 21:38 06/06/2011
The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed concern on Monday in regard to the recent developments in the West Bank involving casualties among peaceful Palestinian demonstrators.
- 18:10 06/06/2011
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has dispatched two aides to Washington in an effort to restart deadlocked peace negotiations with Israel, the Alayam daily reported on Monday.
- 16:55 06/06/2011
France has slammed Sunday's Israeli attack on Syrians in the Golan Heights and urged to carry out an investigation into the incident, the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
- 15:14 06/06/2011
Israeli troops on Sunday battled hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters who tried to burst across Syria's frontier in the Golan Heights near Majdal Shams, killing a reported 20 people and wounding scores more in the second outbreak of deadly violence in the border area in less than a month.
- 19:02 05/06/2011
Israeli military killed 12 Arabs, including a child, and wounded at least 220 when they tried to storm a ceasefire line on Sunday marking 44 years of the Six-Day Arab-Israeli War, the Syrian state television said.
- 18:10 05/06/2011
Police in Gaza had to set up checkpoints on the border with Israel on Sunday to prevent Palestinian demonstrators marking the 1967 Six-Day War anniversary from clashing with Israeli military, Palestinian media said.
- 13:59 05/06/2011
The status of Jerusalem can be defined only after the borders between Israel and Palestine are demarcated and the refugee issue is resolved, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday.
- 18:59 04/06/2011
Some 200 Palestinians traveling from the Gaza Strip to Egypt on Saturday stormed the iron gate at the Rafah border crossing, shut for the first time since it reopened last month, local media said.
- 12:19 02/06/2011 Yelena Suponina for RIA Novosti
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is wrapping up his visit to Egypt, and will visit Italy and Morocco before the end of this week.
- 06:34 29/05/2011
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is heading to Egypt to discuss his plan to seek international recognition of an independent Palestinian state with the Egyptian leadership.
- 19:57 27/05/2011
Russia "absolutely" supports US President Barack Obama's assertion that Israel's 1967 borders must be the basis for negotiations on establishment of a Palestinian state, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Friday.
- 14:57 25/05/2011 Yelena Suponina, Moscow News political commentator and Middle East expert, for RIA Novosti
Palestinian and Libyan delegations left Moscow yesterday after causing quite a stir.
- 16:08 24/05/2011
U.S. President Barack Obama's recent assertion that the United Nations will never vote for an independent Palestinian state represented a "complete turnabout" by the White House, a Palestinian group said in Moscow on Tuesday.
- 02:20 24/05/2011
Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas said they appreciated the support of Russia in their efforts to reach national reconciliation and establish a sovereign Palestinian state.
- 22:53 23/05/2011 Grigory Melamedov for RIA Novosti
U.S. President Barack Obama's call for a two-state solution with the 1967 borders as the basis has unleashed a diplomatic frenzy, including in Russia.
- 18:00 23/05/2011
Russia has promised to support the Palestinian bid for statehood at the UN in September, Hamas deputy political bureau chief Moussa Abu Marzouq said on Monday.
- 17:09 23/05/2011
Representatives of the Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas on Monday agreed a joint statement with Russia, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
- 02:01 23/05/2011
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will meet on Monday with the leaders of the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas movements to discuss plans for the recognition of a Palestinian state.
- 23:58 22/05/2011
U.S. President Barack Obama has reiterated to Washington's biggest pro-Israeli lobby that peace between Israel and the Palestinians should be based on the country's pre-1967 borders.
- 14:02 22/05/2011
Palestinian leaders have asked the Arab League to hold a special meeting to discuss U.S. President Barack Obama's latest speech on peace talks with Israel, local media reported on Sunday, referring to Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa.
- 09:37 21/05/2011
Israeli Prime Minister has rejected U.S. President Barack Obama's call for an Israeli-Palestinian deal based on the 1967 borders.
- 02:12 21/05/2011
The Middle East Quartet mediators support recent proposals by U.S. President Barack Obama on the peaceful resolution of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
- 21:27 20/05/2011 RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin
In a major policy address on events in the Middle East at the State Department, President Barack Obama said the United States supports a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine based on the pre-war 1967 borders.
- 17:05 20/05/2011
The leaders of the Palestinian Fatah and Hamas movements will arrive in Moscow on Friday to discuss plans for the recognition of a Palestinian state, a member of the Palestinian Al-Shaab party said.
- 12:51 20/05/2011
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected U.S. President Barack Obama's call for Israel's 1967 borders to be taken as the starting point for talks on a future Palestinian state.
- 22:08 16/05/2011
Israel blamed Syria and Lebanon on Monday for clashes on its borders in a complaint filed to the United Nations, the Israeli prime minister's spokesman said.
- 16:19 04/05/2011
A ceremony of the signing of the Fatah-Hamas peace deal scheduled for Wednesday in Cairo is currently underway, Ha'aretz newspaper reported.
- 23:39 01/05/2011
The Israeli government announced on Sunday that it would hold up an $89 million cash transfer to the Palestinian Authority because of a reconciliation deal between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, regional media reported.
- 01:13 22/04/2011
Russia has reiterated its call for the United Nations to send an international mission to the Middle East to try to bring the Israelis and Palestinians back to the negotiating table.
- 05:53 15/04/2011
An Italian activist, who was abducted by an extremist group in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, was found dead on Friday.
- 12:13 13/04/2011
Israeli authorities have opened the Kerem Shalom crossing with Gaza to enable the entry of aid and the pumping of fuel and cooking gas, Palestinian Deputy Economy Minister Nasser As-Saraj said on Wednesday.
- 17:43 09/04/2011
Islamic Hamas movement on Saturday said it would step up its attacks against Israel if aerial assaults on the Gaza Strip are not halted, the Xinhua reported.
- 03:50 28/03/2011
Palestinian National Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas said he hopes an independent Palestinian state will be proclaimed and recognized in September.
- 22:28 26/03/2011
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas met with a delegation of the rival Palestinian movement Hamas on Saturday in Ramallah to discuss reconciliation attempts, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.
- 10:57 25/03/2011 RIA Novosti commentator Dmitry Babich
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went ahead with a scheduled visit to Moscow despite a terrorist attack Wednesday at a bus stop in central Jerusalem.
- 21:10 23/03/2011
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to discuss Palestinian-Israeli settlement issues and the ongoing campaign in Libya, the Kremlin press service said in a statement on Wednesday.
- 17:04 18/03/2011
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu has criticized the latest attempts at reconciliation between rival Palestinian movements Hamas and Fatah, saying that they may become an obstacle to Israeli-Palestinian settlement.
- 20:39 14/03/2011
Russia has expressed its "deep concern" over Israel's new plans for settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
- 11:27 09/03/2011
The Palestinian Authority will not accept a Palestinian state that does not include the Jordan Valley, Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Wednesday.
- 02:32 06/03/2011
The Israeli Air Force launched late Saturday a series of airstrikes on several Hamas facilities in Gaza.
- 14:10 19/02/2011
The Palestinian leadership will "reevaluate" the peace process with Israel following the U.S. veto on the draft UN resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlements as illegal, the Jerusalem Post has reported.
- 11:45 17/02/2011
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Hezbollah against any attempt "to take Galilee."
- 13:19 13/02/2011
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in the West Bank on Saturday promised to hold fair presidential and legislative elections by September, however the announcement immediately faced opposition from the Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza.
- 13:44 10/02/2011
NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the alliance could send peacekeeping forces to Israelis and Palestinians if both parties agree on a peace deal.
- 03:44 09/02/2011
Russia has proposed sending a UN Security Council mission to the Middle East to promote the resumption of negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.
- 17:52 06/02/2011
Palestinians on Sunday said they were disappointed that the Middle East Quartet refused to heed their call for unilateral statehood and failed to take a strong stance on Israel's settlement construction, when it met on February 5 in Germany.
- 19:47 05/02/2011
The next meeting of the Middle East Quartet will be held in mid-March, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Saturday.
- 15:53 24/01/2011
The Palestinian National Authority will publish documents related to its negotiations with Israel over peace settlement in order to clarify its position in the talks, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told Al Jazeera on Monday.
- 17:33 23/01/2011
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat has rejected a plan for a Palestinian state in provisional borders drafted by the Israeli foreign minister.
- 21:49 17/01/2011
Russia will continue to provide the Palestinians with humanitarian aid, presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said ahead of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to the Palestinian territories on Tuesday.
- 20:33 17/01/2011
The Middle East peace process will be a key topic on the agenda of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to the Palestinian territories on Tuesday, presidential aide Sergei Prikhodko said.
- 13:06 13/01/2011
Russia has put forward an initiative to hold a Middle East Quartet meeting on the sidelines of the security conference to be held in Munich in early February, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday.
- 15:08 11/01/2011
Russia's Foreign Ministry urged Israel on Tuesday to stop aggravating relations with Palestinian authorities and halt the construction at a recently demolished hotel in East Jerusalem.
- 10:11 03/01/2011
The Asia 1 convoy carrying humanitarian and medical aid to Gaza has crossed the Palestinian enclave's border with Egypt, the Al Quds radio station reported on Monday.
- 09:42 26/12/2010
Two Palestinian militants were killed in a clash with Israeli troops on Sunday in southern Gaza, a spokesman for local medical services said.
- 17:50 25/12/2010
The radical Islamic group Hamas said on Saturday the group was observing a truce with Israel in Gaza but was ready to resume hostilities in response of Israeli attacks.
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