Tag: Israel

Naib Amir of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan Senator Prof. Khurshid Ahmad has asked the Government to take immediate precautionary steps to protect fully Pakistan’s nuclear assets...

Israeli troops opened fire on Sunday as protesters from Syria stormed a ceasefire line in the occupied Golan Heights, with Damascus saying six demonstrators...

Top Republican contenders for the White House in 2012 accused President Barack Obama on Thursday of betraying staunch US ally Israel in his new...

Israeli troops killed four people and wounded 209 when they fired live rounds and tear gas on thousands of protesters along the armistice line...

At least 14 people were killed on Sunday after Israeli forces fired at Palestinian demonstrators on its frontiers with Syria, Lebanon and Gaza on...

Israel's army accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime of "organising" Sunday's violence on the Golan Heights as a way to divert attention from pro-democracy...

Israel quietly revoked the residency of 140,000 Palestinians living in the West Bank when they left to travel abroad in the years after the...

Israel on Sunday accused the European Union of a "certain incoherence" over its decision to boost aid to the Palestinians after Israel halted the...

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Friday called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to give the new Palestinian unity deal a chance to lead...

France was to push Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu for a breakthrough in Middle East peace talks Thursday, after warning it may go ahead and...

JERUSALEM - Israeli police have arrested two Palestinian teenagers on suspicion of stabbing to death a Jewish couple and three of their children while they slept in a West Bank settlement, a police spokesman said on Sunday.
The killings on the night of March 11 in Itamar in the occupied West Bank caused shock in Israel and drew condemnation from the Palestinian Authority that exercises limited self-rule in the area. Police said Amjad Awwad, 19, and Hakim Awwad, 18, from Awarta, a

JERUSALEM - Israeli and Palestinian officials floated a ceasefire on Sunday to end an upsurge of violence in Gaza, as Israel warned of a still stronger response if rocket fire from the coastal strip continues.
Speaking shortly after a rocket fired from Gaza struck near the southern city of Ashkelon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that any further attacks would be dealt with harshly. "If the criminal attacks against the Israeli military and civilians continue, Israel

GAZA - Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers signalled on Sunday they were looking to end a flare-up in violence that began this week with a missile attack on an Israeli school bus and has claimed the lives of 19 Palestinians.
The fighting stoked fears of a larger escalation that could include an Israeli ground incursion into the coastal territory, reminiscent of a Gaza war that erupted in late 2008.
But Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said Hamas had already been

GAZA CITY - An Israeli air strike killed two people in the Gaza Strip, medics said, a day after Palestinian militants said they were committed to calming tensions if Israel reciprocated.
"Two Palestinians were killed and another wounded Sunday morning in an Israeli air raid on targets east of Jabaliya," said Adham Abu Senmya, spokesman for the Gaza emergency services.
An army spokeswoman confirmed the raid, saying "an air force plane attacked on Sunday morning a terrorist

GAZA CITY - Palestinian factions met in the Gaza Strip on Saturday to discuss renewing a de facto truce with Israel after a week of bloody clashes, militants attending the talks said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had said on Friday that Israel was ready to act with "great force" in response to the week's rocket and mortar attacks, which led to retaliatory Israeli strikes that killed eight Palestinians. One Palestinian faction member said the Gaza meeting would probably "stress

JERUSALEM - Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Israel on Saturday after a brief lull in violence along a frontier where tension has risen this week.
An Israeli general responded with a warning that Israel would not allow its citizens to remain under repeated fire and Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers should "come to their senses" to prevent an escalation of hostilities.
Witnesses and a military spokeswoman said one rocket damaged an Israeli home before dawn while the

GENEVA - Both Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas have failed to make credible progress in investigating claims of war crimes committed during the 2008 conflict in Gaza, a UN committee said on Monday.
In a report presented to the UN Human Rights Council, Mary McGowan Davis, who heads the committee, acknowledged that Israel has dedicated "significant resources to investigate over 400 allegations of operational misconduct in Gaza." However, only a fraction of these