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Israel’s lurch to the right dims two-state peace prospects
Israel’s prime minister says he will work to revoke residency rights and social benefits of people who commit politically motivated violence and...
Netanyahu Tests Coalition Allies With ‘Jewish State’ Bill
Israel’s cabinet approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘s request to enshrine the country’s status as a Jewish nation-state in law,...
Punitive Israeli house demolitions a ‘war crime’, says Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch called on Israel Saturday to stop razing the homes of Palestinians accused of attacking Israelis, saying the practice can constitute...
Rocket fired from Gaza hits southern Israel
A rocket fired from Gaza hit southern Israel on Friday, the Israeli army said, although there were no reports of casualties or damage.
Netanyahu’ plans for 1,000 new settler homes in East Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will expedite planning for some 1,000 settler homes in East Jerusalem, a government official said on Monday,...
Israel, the promised land for vegans
Israelis are flocking to veganism, to the point where even the army now has options for vegan soldiers and vegan militants woo converts by comparing meat...
Ancient cult complex found in Israel
A massive cult complex, dating back about 3,300 years, has been discovered at the site of Tel Burna in Israel.
Teenagers’ ‘murderers’ killed by Israeli special forces in West Bank
Israeli forces stormed a West Bank hideout early on Tuesday and killed two Palestinians claimed to be members of Hamas.
Future uncertain, Gazans rush to enjoy life after ruinous war
After a ruinous war, Gaza is rushing back to a veneer of normalcy at astonishing speed.
43 Israeli soldiers protest ‘abuses’ of Palestinians
Forty-three reservists and former members of an elite Israeli army intelligence unit condemned alleged “abuses” of Palestinians in the occupied...
Israel opens investigations into Gaza war as EU warns violence could return
Israel’s military said on Wednesday that it had opened five criminal investigations into its Gaza war operations, including attacks that killed four...
Rocket attacks, tunnels near Gaza border trigger Israeli exodus
Tens of thousands of Israelis have fled their homes in communities along the border with the Gaza Strip, reflecting growing fear and frustration as the...
Hamas admits kidnapping Israeli teens, the spark behind current clash
A senior Hamas leader has said the group carried out the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teens in the West Bank in June—the first time anyone...
Israel must accept Palestinian demands or face long war: Hamas
Hamas rejected on Saturday as insufficient offers made in Cairo to Palestinian negotiators seeking to end Israel’s offensive in the Gaza Strip, and...
Fresh strikes follow five-day Gaza truce extension
Israel has launched air strikes on Gaza after being targeted by rocket fire, just as agreement had been reached on extending a truce by five days.
Israel accepts new 72-hour, Egypt-brokered Gaza cease-fire
Israel and the Palestinians agreed on Sunday to an Egyptian proposal for a new 72-hour cease-fire in Gaza, officials from the warring sides said.
At least 10 killed in Gaza as shells fly in both directions
Israel launched more than 20 aerial attacks in Gaza on Saturday, killing five Palestinians, and militants fired rockets at Israel as the conflict entered...
Egypt-brokered Gaza truce holds as peace talks set to begin
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that ended a month of fighting is holding for a second day, ahead of negotiations in Cairo on a long-term truce and...
German magazine reports Israel listened in on John Kerry’s calls in 2013
German magazine Der Spiegel reported on Sunday that Israel and at least one other intelligence agency were listening in on U.S.
Israel’s seven-hour truce ends as more violence hits Gaza and Jerusalem
A brief Israeli truce to allow aid to reach Palestinians ended on Monday amid accusations of strikes by both sides, while Jerusalem was rocked by two attacks...
Netanyahu vows to press on in Gaza, warns Hamas of heavy price for attacks
Israel will keep up its military campaign against Hamas in Gaza for as long and as forcefully as needed, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday...
Israel says truce over after fresh violence sees soldier ‘captured’ in Gaza
Israel declared a Gaza ceasefire over on Friday, saying Hamas militants breached the truce soon after it came in effect and apparently captured an Israeli...
US admits to restocking Israel’s ammo, hours after slamming Gaza bloodshed
Hours after issuing a strong condemnation of an attack on a United Nations school in Gaza, the United States confirms it’s helping restock Israel’s...
Deadly Israeli shelling hits UN school, kills 20 as Hamas mulls truce
Israeli shelling on a UN school in Gaza killed 20 people early Wednesday, just as Palestinian factions head to Cairo to discuss a temporary humanitarian...
Documenting death: The man who counts the bodies in Gaza
Inside Ashraf al-Qudra’s cramped office in Shifa hospital, the phone never stops ringing.
UN: Israel assault in Gaza may be war crime
Israel’s military actions in the Gaza Strip could amount to war crimes, UN rights chief Navi Pillay said, as Israel continued pounding Gaza for a...
UN human rights chief: Israel ‘could be guilty of Gaza war crimes’
There is a “strong possibility” Israel is violating international law in Gaza, the U.N.’s high commissioner for human rights has said.
Pregnant woman and girl, 4, among latest Gaza victims from Israeli airstrikes
A four-year-old girl and three women, one of them pregnant, were among those killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, according to medics.
Israeli-Palestinian conflict echoes loudly in tense France
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict stirs up passions the world over and France—where large Muslim and Jewish communities, a colonial past and divisions...
'Smell of death': Israeli attack leads to deadliest day of conflict
At least 50 Palestinians were killed on Sunday by Israeli shelling in a Gaza neighbourhood ahead of a meeting aimed at ending the nearly two-week conflict.
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