Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner opened the international workshop in Bahrain by urging Palestinians to think outside the "traditional box" for an economic pathway that he said was a precondition for peace.
The US president’s senior advisor Jared Kushner unveils new economic plan for the Middle East that talks of Palestinians but not the Palestinian Authority or the occupied territories.
The Trump administration is expected to unveil its 'Deal of the Century', a deal that most in the region view as a normalisation of Israeli occupation and nothing else.
A two-day international conference will be held in Bahrain, where the first part of Washington's long-delayed broader political blueprint to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be unveiled.
Palestinian PM Mohammad Shtayyeh says economic workshop in Bahrain focusing on aid for Palestine "is really going to be nonsense." Meanwhile, hundreds protest in occupied West Bank against US "deal of the century" on Mideast conflict.
Both Hamas and Palestine Liberation Organization say there can be no prosperity "under Israeli occupation" while charging pro-Israel Trump of seeking to buy off Palestinians and deprive them of an independent state.
Gaza officials call on Palestinians to demonstrate against Israel's occupation and that "land is not for sale," an apparent reference to leaked details of US' controversial "deal of the century."
As a tribute to June 20 World Refugee Day, TRT World speaks to three artists from three countries that have been torn by war and displacement.
There was no immediate retaliatory rocket fire from Gaza, or reports of injuries from either side.
Warplanes bombed "underground infrastructure" at a Hamas base in Gaza, following the first rocket fire from the territory since early May, the Israeli military said.
Qatari FM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani urges both sides to find a compromise and begin negotiations, warns against imposing US-led "deal of the century" on the Palestinians.
The Naksa or "the day of the setback" refers to the annual commemoration of the 1967 war in which Israel invaded Gaza, the West Bank and east Jerusalem.
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