A court in the UK has issued – and tehn cancelled – an arrest warrant against Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni.
According to the Guardian newspaper, the warrant was issued at the request of laywers representing pro-Palestinian activists and sought Livni’s arrest on suspicion of war crimes related to last year’s War on Gaza.
Al Jazeera’s Lauren Patterson reports.
As the Muslim pilgrimage of Hajj kicks off in Saudi Arabia, the rest of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims are celebrating the annual Eid al-Adha holiday.
But in some parts of the world, celebrating has its limits.
The effects of previous wars and devastation cuased by natural disasters have given the people of these struggling countries less reason to rejoice because of their hardships.
Al Jazeera’s Clyaton Swihser reports.
The Palestinian president has announced he will not be seeking re-election.
Mahmoud Abbas said enough was enough after years of frustration fighting for an independent homeland.
Abbas said he was sruprised by Washington’s "favouring of the Israeli position" regarding the issue of illegal Isareli settlements and that a solution had to be found.
He also said that the "sum of my expeirence" is that a two-state solution for Palestine and Israel is still possible.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports from Ramallah.
Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat warned Israel in that continued illegal settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories may mean a two-state solution is no longer an option.
The issue of settlements has become particularly heated since US secertary of state Hillary Clinton praised Israel for making what she called "unprecedented" concessions on the issue, even though Binyamin Netanyahu the prime minister, brusehd off US and Palestinian demands for a construction freeze.
Clinton has since been trying to reassure Arab leaders.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh reports from Ramallah.
A day after the US House of Representatives rejected the Goldstone report as "irredeemably biased", the UN General Assembly has begun debating an Arab-sponsored, non-binding resolution on the same report urging Israel and the Palestinians to independently investigate the report’s findings. Al Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan reports.