A senior Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri has held Egypt responsible for the death of four Palestinians killed in a border tunnel and has demanded for an impartial investigation. Read the full story

The leader of the Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah has strongly criticised the Egyptian courts for jailing men accused of working for the group. Read the full story

The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed three resolutions in condemnation of Israel’s “grave human rights violations” in the occupied Palestinian territories. Read the full story

Israeli settlement building anywhere on occupied land is illegal and must be stopped, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Saturday, after getting a closer look at some of the Israeli enclaves scattered across Palestinian-claimed territories. Read the full story

The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights says Israel has failed to properly probe complaints of war crimes during the regime’s massive offensive against the Gaza Strip in December 2008. Read the full story

Israel announced the construction of 1,600 homes in east Jerusalem yesterday, drawing criticism from Joe Biden, the US Vice-President, who is in the country trying to kick-start the peace process. Read the full story

Universities in over 40 cities across the world have begun to observe Israeli Apartheid Week in condemnation of the Zionist regime’s suppression of the Palestinians. Read the full story

The European Court of Justice has ruled that Israeli goods made in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank cannot be considered Israeli. Read the full story

The official explained to Bibi Netanyahu that if there was a peace settlement, extra investment would push Israel’s long-term growth rate from 5% a year to 7%. The Israeli prime minister responded that if the country had 5% growth, it did not need peace. Read the full story

An 11-member hit squad carrying European passports was responsible for killing a Hamas commander in his hotel room last month in a slaying that has brought vows of revenge from the Palestinian militant group, Dubai’s police chief said Monday. Read the full story

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday that he will press the case for “crippling sanctions” against Iran when he visits Russia this week. Read the full story

Saudi Arabia has called on the international community to take a ‘rigorous position’ against Israel’s saber-rattling against Lebanon, Syria and the Palestinians. Read the full story

Syria’s official newspaper Tishreen said Saturday that while Damascus is ready to make peace with Israel, it is also prepared for war. Read the full story

Barak calls for talks with Damascus as soon as possible, says new Iran sanctions won’t work. In the absence of a peace deal with Syria, Israel could find itself at war with its neighbor to the north, Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned on Monday. Read the full story

Getting the Israelis and Palestinians to agree to negotiate, or even to agree to the framework in which negotiations will take place, “is just really hard,” US President Barack Obama said in an interview with Time magazine published Thursday, as the president was completing his first year in office. Read the full story

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged Israel to stop violating Lebanon’s airspace and territorial waters. He also called on the UN Security Council to put same pressure on Israel regarding nuclear arms as it does on Iran. Read the full story