Tag: Israel
Egypt, Israel add ‘final touches’ to prisoner swap
Egypt and Israel are adding the “final touches” to a deal to swap an Israel-American detained in Cairo for a group of Egyptian prisoners...
Poll boost for Israel PM after Shalit swap
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu improved his standing among the Israeli public by approving a deal to secure the release of captive soldier Gilad Shalit,...
Israel, Palestinians mull gains after landmark swap deal
Freed Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit and 477 Palestinians on Wednesday tasted their first full days of freedom, with both sides mulling their gains —...
Jubilation as Shalit arrives in Israel, Palestinians freed
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was reunited with his family on Tuesday after emerging frail but cheerful from 1,941 days of Hamas captivity, in a...
Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap deal gets under way
Buses of Palestinian prisoners were on Tuesday headed for drop off points near Gaza and the West Bank in the first stage of a...
Israel names 477 prisoners to be freed
Israel on Sunday published the official list of 477 Palestinian prisoners to be released on Tuesday in the first stage of a deal for...
Israel restricts access to Al-Aqsa mosque
Israel limited access to Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound on Friday for fear of violence on the Muslim Sabbath, which leads directly into Yom Kippur,...
Israel a ‘threat’ to region because of atomic bomb: Erdogan
Israel is a “threat” to its region because it owns nuclear weapons, Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday. “I right now see...
Panetta in bid to defuse Egypt-Israel tensions
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta was headed to Cairo from Tel Aviv on Tuesday in an effort to defuse tensions between Egypt and Israel...
Pentagon chief in bid to defuse Egypt-Israel tensions
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta was headed to Cairo from Tel Aviv on Tuesday in an effort to defuse tensions between Egypt and Israel...
Israel ‘increasingly isolated’ in Middle East: US
The Arab Spring has left Israel "increasingly isolated," the US defence secretary said as he arrived in Tel Aviv on Monday, warning military might...
Israel accepts Quartet call for peace talks
Israel accepted on Sunday a call by international mediators to resume peace talks with the Palestinians and urged President Mahmoud Abbas to do the...
Palestinian fate in trio’s hands
Bosnia, Gabon and Nigeria are the unwitting kingmakers in the desperate Palestinian battle for UN Security Council votes to back their campaign for membership...
Iran ‘totally rejects’ Palestine’s UN statehood bid
Iran’s supreme leader rejected the Palestinians’ UN statehood bid on Saturday, saying any deal that accepted the existence of Israel would leave a “cancerous...
Int’l community condemns Israeli settler homes
International pressure was mounting on Israeli Thursday over its plans for another 1,100 homes in an east Jerusalem settlement.
The Palestinian leadership has said the...
US sold bunker-busting bombs to Israel
US President Barack Obama secretly authorized the sale of 55 powerful bunker-busting bombs to Israel, Newsweek magazine reported on Friday.
Israel first asked to buy...
Israel sees ‘positive’ Arab move at IAEA meeting
Israel welcomed as a "positive move" on Friday a decision by Arab states not to single out the Jewish state with a resolution condemning...
