Eighty percent of Gazans receive food aid from the World Food Program or from UNRWA, WFP spokesperson Kirstie Campbell says, "and without it they are liable to starve." The dozens of laborers who used to cross into Israel every day to work also found...

United States investigators have uncovered evidence that the Arab Bank, one of the largest in the Middle East, has channeled tens of millions of dollars from wealthy Saudi Arabians to Palestinian groups that finance suicide bombers and their families....

Israel has harshly criticized Russia's reported plans to supply Syria with advanced anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. Former IDF intelligence chief Aharon Zeevi Farkash said the advanced missiles, which have greater accuracy and penetrating power,...

Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told the Palestinian daily Al Ayamm in an interview published today morning that "Israel could not accept the Arab peace initiative in its current format." The Saudi initiative agreed upon at an Arab summit in Beirut in 2002,...