Tag: Israel

Israel arrests 120 Hamas members in West Bank

Israeli troops on Sunday arrested 120 Hamas members in the southern West Bank just hours after the faction's Gaza branch fired rockets into Israel,...

Israel hits back at Gaza after desert attacks

Gazan rockets hit southern Israel on Friday after a long night of air strikes as Israel sought to smash the militants behind desert attacks...

Israel feeling US heat over Turkey crisis

Israel is coming under US pressure to apologise to Turkey over its 2010 commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine Turkish...

Israel okays 1,600 East Jerusalem settler homes

Israel's interior minister has given final approval for the construction of 1,600 new settler homes in east Jerusalem, his spokesman said Thursday, prompting a...

Israel frees Hamas leader in mass prisoner release

Israel is to free 770 Israeli and Palestinian prisoners, including a founder of the Islamist movement Hamas, due to overcrowding, a prison services spokeswoman...

Israel PM’s guards humiliate women reporters

Foreign journalists on Friday spoke of their distress after being asked to remove their bras for a security check before being allowed into the...

Israel minister rules out flotilla apology to Turkey

Israel will not "take responsibility" for the deaths of nine Turkish nationals by apologising to Ankara over its botched 2010 raid on a ferry...

Israel to vote on bill probing NGOs

Israeli MPs were on Tuesday to vote on a controversial law that would see parliament set up committees to investigate human rights groups accused...

Israel navy intercepts Gaza-bound French yacht

Israel on Tuesday intercepted a French yacht heading for the Gaza Strip in defiance of its naval blockade, and began towing it to shore...

Weapons smuggled from Israel recovered in Karachi: Malik

Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday said weapons recovered during raids by law enforcement agencies in parts of Karachi were being smuggled in from...

Israel aircraft raid Gaza for fourth day in row

Israeli aircraft struck Gaza overnight for the fourth time in as many days, wounding a militant who was about to fire a rocket, Palestinian...

Israel to expel 124 pro-Palestinian activists

Israel was preparing to expel 124 mostly European activists who had managed to arrive on flights to the country as part of a pro-Palestinian...

Israel warily eyes ‘flytilla’ as boats run aground

Israel battened down the hatches at its main airport on Thursday, awaiting hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters as Greece blocked the last boat in a...

Israel arrests four Hamas members

Israeli troops on Tuesday arrested four Hamas members, including an MP, in the northern West Bank, Palestinian security sources and officials from the Islamist...

Israel to cope with flotilla ‘hardcore activists’

Israel will be able to handle any violence from “hardcore activists” on board a new Gaza-bound flotilla, the foreign minister said Tuesday, amid claims...

Obama tells Jewish donors he strongly backs Israel

US President Barack Obama reassured Jewish donors on Monday he strongly supports Israel, stressing close ties between the United States and the Jewish state,...

Ups and downs, at Israel ‘longest yo-yo’ contest

There could only be one winner - one yo-yo to rule them all - but this was no ordinary yo-yo competition, with each one...