Palestine

Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee has expressed regret over describing a United Nations resolution on Israel as 'premature' last week.

Within 48 hours of becoming Foreign Minister, Gerry Brownlee has called the New Zealand co-sponsored UN resolution on Israel 'premature'.

More than 1000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails have begun a mass hunger strike against detention conditions.

Analysis - US President Donald Trump is not insisting on a 'two-state solution' to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but his motives are still unclear writes Graeme Acton.

Indonesia has called on Pacific island countries to immediately recognise Palestine.

"Now we can build," a Jerusalem official says, as Donald Trump - a staunch Israel supporter - takes office in the White House.

Outspoken - A long-standing foreign policy expert has cast doubt on the real worth of New Zealand's initiative for peace in the Middle East.

Countries at the Paris peace talks agreed only a two-state solution can resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but shied away from explicitly criticising Donald Trump's plans to move the US embassy…

A major international conference to try to kick-start peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians is being held in Paris.

A New Zealand woman who lives in the Gaza Strip refuses to leave, despite strongly-worded advice from the government to do so. Audio

Four Israelis have been killed in Jerusalem by a Palestinian man who rammed a lorry into them, in what police say was a terrorist attack.

Analysis: The New Zealand-sponsored resolution to ban Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories had the makings of an episode of The Real Housewives of the UN, says Mohamed Hassan.

About 100 pro-Israeli protesters gathered in the grounds of Parliament today to express their support for the Jewish state.

A diplomatic division has developed after Canberra said it would not have supported last week's initiative from New Zealand on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel will re-assess its ties with the United Nations.

New Zealand's role in promoting a UN Security Council resolution against Israel may have some economic payoff, a foreign policy analyst says.

Egypt has suddenly delayed a vote on its UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank as Donald Trump made his opposition clear.

Palestinian militant group Hamas is blaming Israel for the death of a Tunisian man it describes as one of its drone experts.