UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will withdraw from the top U.N. human ...

In the first major Israeli-Arab war in 1948, many Palestinians were driven from their homes and sought shelter in Gaza. The descendants of those refugees make up most of Gaza's population today.

Palestinians refer to their 1948 expulsion as the Nakba, Arabic for catastrophe. Some 700,000 Palestinians — a majority of ...

The ideal of remaining on one’s land despite threats of expulsion is at the heart of the Palestinians’ struggle and ...

President Trump is calling for the US to take “ownership” of the Palestinian enclave so that it can be rebuilt more quickly ...

An overwhelming majority of members at the United Nations have been calling for peace and a two-state solution that allows ...

Fantasies of swift solutions are so much simpler than the hard work of temporarily housing Gazans while reconstruction commences, and negotiations proceed towards some form of Palestinian homeland.

Facing a wave of criticism from Palestinians, Arab governments and world leaders, Trump administration officials appeared to ...

Trump’s proposal to take "ownership" of Gaza is a reckless move that emboldens Israel and threatens regional stability.

In the lead-up to Netanyahu’s visit, Trump had suggested he wanted roughly two million Gazans forcibly removed from their ...

The idea is not just a head scratcher. It’s entirely divorced from all aspects of Middle Eastern reality.

While "owning" land is a term that appears to be more applicable to real estate than to territories, the Palestinians see the Gaza Strip as an integral part of their future state, even if the rulers ...