The United Nations (UN) has sent out warnings to Israel after it gave approval to building of new home in the East Jerusalem.

The Israeli committee has recently approved building of 2,610 new homes in a settlement in the occupied Palestinian territories. The UN has released a statement in which it has called on the officials of the country to cancel the plans.

It's been eight years when the Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat died in a hospital in France. An investigation is launched this year to find actual cause of his death.

As reported by a Swiss newspaper, 60 samples have been collected from his grave with a Palestinian pathologist only being allowed to touch his remains. It was opened on Tuesday in the West Bank City of Ramallah.

Israel is planning building 3,000 settler homes in east Jerusalem and West bank; the decision is quoted as "counterproductive" by us Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Israel has been successfully moving towards the development of its "multilayer missile defense" system. It has tested a novel missile defense system named as David's Sling on Sunday. As expected, the system turned out to be a complete success.

Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has expressed his wish to visit Gaza a number of times. It is now that his wish is finally going to get fulfilled. He has been travelling to Gaza on December 5 and will be accompanied by Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal.

France supports Palestinian bid for UN status, confirm officials from the country yesterday when they talked about their back support to the Palestinian bid for enhanced United Nations status at a General Assembly vote that is scheduled this week.

A lot of debate is going on with regard to provision of sovereign state to Palestine. Countries are divided on their take on the same. For some time, talks on the same matter were suspended but British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has asked that the issue should be reconsidered.

Hamas, which is a Gaza terror group, has successfully entered a ceasefire agreement with the State of Israel, as per revelations of a latest report. The compromise is being highly appreciated by Guido Westerwelle, who says that it is now far more important to keep a hold on this armistice.