Jack Khoury

While Hezbollah denies it is responsible for the drone that entered Israeli air space, an opposing group warns that this is a continuation of operations that could prove dangerous for Lebanon.

Announcement based on agreements between Fatah and Hamas reached in Cairo and Doha. However, Hamas says it was not consulted, demands talks include wide-reaching reform in all aspect of government and institutions.

Ahmed Qatamesh's administrative detention was recently extended by four months; Shin Bet says he is a senior activist in a terrorist organization, despite his claims that he has not been involved with the PLO for over ten years.

Two motorized processions will pass through Arab towns and villages in southern and northern Israel, and meet for a joint demonstration to protest violence; organizers: We refuse to legitimize murder of women.

Unmanned aircraft was shot down by Israel Air Force fighter jets over sea opposite the northern Israeli city; Hezbollah denies involvement.

Meanwhile, an Israeli Bedouin imprisoned in Cairo contacts the union to try to get him freed.

Samer Issawi's successful hunger strike has not only gained him an early release but has put the plight of Palestinians in Israeli prisons back in the headlines.

Samer Issawi, a prisoner released in the Shalit deal only to be arrested again, agreed to serve eight months in exchange for ending his 8-month hunger strike.

Security prisoner Samer Issawi, released from Israeli prison in Gilad Shalit prisoner swap deal and re-arrested last August, is in eighth month of hunger strike.

Deeply indebted Israeli Arab town Taibeh hasn't had an election since 2005. If the panel says no, it will clash with the interior minister.

Shift from Egypt to Turkey reflects increasingly distant relations between Cairo and Ramallah, Palestinian sources tell Al-Aharam.

Cell had both Egyptian and Palestinian members, says Egypt's Akbar al-Yom; Netanyahu vows retaliation for rockets fired at Eilat.

Mahmoud Abbas wants to assess whether a cabinet of technocrats could be created that he would head, and which would lead to elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip within 90 days. Proponents of Palestinian reconciliation are in favor of elections.

Reports of new equipment come after many senior Egyptian officers in northern Sinai protested drastic deterioration of peninsula's security situation.

Neither Hamas nor Fatah, however, are optimistic that progress can be made that would lead to new elections.

In a rare interview, Syria's President Bashar Assad threatens that the war supported by Arab states who are allies of the U.S. and Israel will spread to neighboring Jordan. If he steps down, he argues, al-Qaida will step up.

In his last address as prime minister, Salam Fayyad called for general elections in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and pledged to remain involved in Palestinian politics.

In the West Bank and Gaza, as well as in Palestinian refugee camps elsewhere, the Nakba - 'catastrophe' is marked on May 15, the civil anniversary of the State of Israel’s founding.

Former foreign minister, who has advocated to population transfer and denying citizenship to 'disloyal' Israeli Arabs, says sector must not be allowed to 'exploit Israeli democracy' and then enjoy its benefits.

Salam Fayyad has reportedly quit after rift with Mahmoud Abbas over policy; Abbas asks him to stay on as caretaker until new government is formed, says he will name a new PM within days.

110 of the 120 members of House of Representatives call for release of Ahmed Daqamseh, who killed seven teenage girls at the Island of Peace, a park on the Israel-Jordan border, in 1997; MPs say pardon unlikely, however.

Palestinian officials say the U.S. is unwilling to discuss the option of Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's resignation, in spite of his long-standing differences with President Mahmoud Abbas.

Thousands attend funerals held for Riad Omar, 40, Dahash Amon, 17, Karim Dabbah, 18 and Abed al-Karim Dabbah, 18, who were buried in Dir al-Assad. The remaining two, Riad Darawshe, 40, and his nephew Ahmed Darawshe, 19, were buried in Iksal.

Some 38% of Palestinians questioned say they back rocket fire, armed struggle, compared with 74% in December - a number last seen before Operation Cast Lead; support for popular struggle has jumped by 8%.

The northern villages of Dir al Assad and Iksal are mourning members killed in Wednesday's deadly accident near Haifa, in which six people died, and 15 were injured. Experts weigh in on what may have caused the tragedy.