Amir Khalil puts his life on the line to rescue animals in need as director of Four Paws.

Palestinian killed as diplomatic fallout over Trump's Jerusalem decision continues.

Most Palestinians have never known anything but the Israeli occupation.

COMMENT: I see the Palestinian Authority as bearing the blame for the perceived hardships suffered by Palestinian citizens.

The major obstacle to a Palestinian state is not settlements.

Green MP Marama Davidson has been released by Israeli authorities in Tel Aviv and is on her way back to New Zealand.

Green MP Marama Davidson is among a group of 13 women detained by Israeli authorities while in a flotilla trying to get to Gaza.

A Kiwi journalist has arrived home safely after being detained by Israeli military on an activist ship seeking to break a blockade of Gaza.

Two Maori Television journalists are expected to arrive in New Zealand from Israel tomorrow, after the activist ship they were on board was detained by the Israeli navy.

Clean water has become a precious commodity in a city devasted by war.

The Government is doubtless pleased with what it will see as an elegant solution to a problem triggered last year by the appointment of New Zealand's ambassador to Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

An Israeli air strike hit a house in central Gaza before dawn yesterday, fatally injuring five family members, including two women and two preschoolers.

Israel said it would call up 10,000 reservists as Palestinians vowed to avenge Israel's killing of three Hamas commanders in Gaza.

One young couple in Israel got more than they bargained for on their wedding day this week when their celebration became a platform for protest against intermarriage of Israel's Jewish and Arab populations.

The 8-year-old boy's question seemed simple enough but was all the more tragically poignant for that.

Tens of thousands of members of Iraqi religious minority groups driven from their homes for fear of the jihadist group Islamic State are dying of thirst and heat on a desert mountainside.

On the morning of July 15, Moscow was as hot as an oven.

Google is facing criticism for continuing to allow Android mobile users to download a game called "Bomb Gaza".

An Israeli airstrike killed a militant leader in the Gaza Strip last night, as other flashpoints in the wider Middle East flared up in worrying signs of regional instability.

Memories of his service along the Gaza border two years ago have been streaming through the mind of Shai Davidovich this week.

Prime Minister John Key is rejecting claims the Government is too soft on Israel and should expel the Israeli Ambassador.

The entrance is a deep vertical shaft, usually hidden in a house. It drops down a dozen metres or so before reaching a horizontal passage.

The birth of Palestinian quadruplets has brought some optimism to the horrific and ongoing bloodshed in conflict-stricken Gaza.

Wearing a bright hijab, black blazer and long denim skirt, Mariam Abultewi sat in a taxi she had just ordered using Wasselni, a taxi-ordering and carpooling app she launched in Gaza four months ago.

It was as the children played and the old men watched that the weapon fell from the sky and exploded in their midst.

Anti-Semitic attacks are on the rise in Europe amid a growing chorus of criticism at Israel's assault on Gaza.

Israel is approaching a fateful decision on what to do when it completes the stated initial goal of its ground offensive: locating and destroying Hamas cross-border tunnels.