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On Wednesday, the Vatican’s Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin defended the right of Palestinians to a “sovereign and independent” homeland, saying that he hoped that the Pope’s upcoming visit will lead to a “courageous decision” for peace. Cardinal Parolin’s role in the Vatican is equivalent to that of a country’s Prime Minister. “We know that the pope is going …

The fourth round of nuclear talks between six world powers and Iran came to an end on Friday, with both sides arguing that major hurdles remained ahead of the July 20th deadline for an accord. Abbas Araqchi, the chief nuclear negotiator for Iran, said on state television that “no tangible progress” was made at the negotiations in Vienna as the …

US Secretary of State John Kerry is reportedly set to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during his scheduled trip to London on Wednesday, a few weeks after peace talks between Palestine and Israel, brokered by the US, collapsed. According to sources, the two will talk about the resumption of the peace talks with Israel. However, John Kerry’s spokeswoman Jen …

10,000 Arab Israelis on Tuesday rallied in northern Israel to demand the right to return for all Palestinian refugees. The rally took place in the village Lavi, built on the wreckage of the Palestinian village Lubya, which was, until 1948, home to 2,726 Palestinians. During the Arab Israeli conflict in 1948  about 400-500 Palestinian villages were depopulated, destroyed, occupied and …

May 6, New York- On Monday NBC refused to accept a petition signed by more than 5,000 people calling on the network to end its involvement in the action series DIG, which will be set and shot in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian city of East Jerusalem. Representatives from Adalah-NY: The New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, Jewish Voice for …

Israeli organization Zochrot will release the I-Nakba phone app on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day, on 5th May at 20:00. Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe”, will let users of the app locate any Arab village abandoned in the 1948 war on an interactive map, add comments, photos, and data and learn about the history of the village, including …

Palestine and Israel on Monday appeared to have accepted that their peace talks are on the verge of collapsing as the deadline for the negotiation expires soon, with a breakthrough nowhere in sight. After a year’s worth of intensive diplomacy by US Secretary of State John Kerry, with the aim of brokering an agreement by April 29, the United States’ …

The peace talks between Palestine and Israel are back to square one again as Israel torpedoed the US brokered talks as a response to the Fatah-Hamas reconciliation deal on Thursday. In an interview with the BBC, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summed up their stance in the situation, saying that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas can “have peace with Israel or …

Palestine has re-launched its efforts to reconcile with Israeli leaders as the US brokered talks between Israel and Palestine seem to be on the verge of collapsing. A week before the nine-month target initially set for the deal, a Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) delegation will on Tuesday try and revive the talks in Gaza City. The team is led by …

On Friday, Switzerland confirmed that that the Palestinian authority has formally signed up to the Geneva Conventions. Switzerland is the international guardian of the treaty, which sets down all regulations on humanitarian operation and warfare in conflict zones in the world. Spokesman for the Swiss Foreign Ministry Pierre-Alain Eltschinger has said that the Palestinian Authority had declared itself a part …