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Palestinian gunmen kill Israeli man, Fatah-linked faction claims responsibility
Gunmen killed a Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, Israeli authorities said, and a Palestinian armed group linked to President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction claimed responsibility.The ...
Israelis revive flashpoint West Bank settlement of Homesh
Israelis started reviving a flashpoint outpost settlement in the occupied West Bank on Monday, AFP journalists said, constructing a building at the site which has drawn international attention.Using a ...
Suspected Palestinian assailant shot dead in West Bank settlement
A suspected Palestinian assailant was shot dead Friday by an Israeli civilian after an attempted stabbing attack in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli army said.The Palestinian ...
Israeli army demolishes West Bank home of Palestinian militant
Israeli troops on Tuesday demolished the West Bank home of a Palestinian militant who was killed after carrying out a deadly shooting in the heart of Tel Aviv in March.“Forces of the army and the ...
Israel beefs up security, deploys police ahead of contentious Jerusalem march
Israel deployed over 2,000 police on Thursday for a march by flag-waving Jewish nationalists through the main Palestinian thoroughfare in Jerusalem’s Old City, a contentious event that comes as ...
US welcomes ceasefire between Israel, Islamic Jihad: White House
The White House welcomed the announced ceasefire between Israel and the Gaza-based militant Islamic Jihad group on Saturday night, thanking Egypt for helping to broker a halt to escalating ...
Israel rules out immediate truce in Gaza as it keeps up strikes in the enclave
Israel on Saturday ruled out an immediate truce in Gaza, saying the onus was on Palestinian militants to stop launching rockets from an arsenal it suggested could be depleted within days, while its ...
Palestinian Islamic Jihad has 6,000 rockets in its arsenal, Israeli official says
Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad has 6,000 rockets in its arsenal and Hamas has four times that, Israel’s National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said on Saturday.Hanegbi added that Israel ...
Rockets fired from Gaza as violence spills over into West Bank killing two
Palestinian militants fired rockets from Gaza toward Israel early on Saturday after Israeli aircraft bombed Islamic Jihad targets in the enclave overnight, as violence spilled over into the occupied ...
Senior Islamic Jihad leader, aide killed in latest Israeli airstrike on Gaza
A senior leader of the Islamic Jihad militant group was killed in the latest Israeli airstrike on an apartment in the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to an official from the group.The official ...
Palestinian rockets fired toward Jerusalem as Israel keeps up airstrikes on Gaza
Palestinian militants on Friday fired rockets toward Jerusalem for the first time since fighting across the Israel-Gaza border intensified this week while Israel kept up airstrikes on Gaza amid ...
Rocket fired from Gaza on Israel’s Rehovot near Tel Aviv kills one, wounds four
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip killed one person and injured at least two others in the city of Rehovot in central Israel on Thursday, Israeli police said.“One person has been pronounced dead” ...
Egypt, France, Germany, Jordan urge end to Israeli-Gaza fighting
The foreign ministers of Egypt, France, Germany and Jordan on Thursday called for an end to the violence between Israel and Gaza militants, who have been trading heavy fire for three days.“The ...
Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza kills Islamic Jihad senior commander
An Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip on Thursday killed Ahmed Abu Daqqa, a senior commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the faction said.Four people were also wounded in the strike near ...
Palestinians need a new political strategy, not ‘armed struggle’
On May 15, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) will, for the first time, hold a special event to mark the Palestinian “Nakba” or Catastrophe.This term refers to the estimated 760,000 ...
Israeli-Palestinian fighting continues, despite Egyptian ceasefire announcement
Palestinian militants fired hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel on Wednesday, while Israel pressed ahead with a series of airstrikes that have killed 21 Palestinians, including three ...
Israeli military renews strikes on Gaza Strip killing at least one
The Israeli military said it renewed strikes on Gaza Wednesday, killing one person according to the Palestinian territory’s health ministry.In a statement, the military said it was “currently striking ...
UAE condemns deadly Israeli air strikes on Gaza
The United Arab Emirates joined Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and the OIC in condemning Israel’s deadly operation in the Gaza Strip.On Tuesday, the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International ...
Two Palestinians accused of shooting at soldiers shot dead by Israeli forces
Israeli troops killed two Palestinians who opened fire on them in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, the army said, and the Islamic Jihad militant group claimed the slain men as members.The shooting ...
Israel kills three Islamic Jihad leaders, 10 civilians in Gaza
Israel killed three Islamic Jihad commanders in Gaza and at least 10 civilians including several children in surprise pre-dawn air strikes on Tuesday, drawing threats of reprisals and warnings of a ...
Two Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in occupied West Bank: Reports
Two Palestinians were killed in a Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Palestinian health ministry said.The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.For ...
Israeli forces shoot Palestinian woman dead after stabbing soldier: Army
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said, in what the army called a “stabbing attack.”Iman Odeh, 26, was “killed by a ...
Israel kills three Palestinians behind attack on British-Israeli mother, daughters
Israeli forces on Thursday killed two Palestinian gunmen who had shot dead a British-Israeli mother and her two daughters in April in the occupied West Bank, Israel’s domestic security service ...
Sirens warning of incoming rockets sound in Israeli areas near Gaza
Sirens warning of incoming rockets sounded in Israeli areas near Gaza, the Israeli military said on Tuesday, in the second salvo since the death of a Palestinian prisoner on hunger strike earlier.For ...
Israeli troops kill Palestinian man in latest spate of West Bank violence: Official
Israeli forces operating in a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian man on Monday, a Palestinian official said, the latest bloodshed in a yearlong wave of violence that ...