Tag: Israel

Israeli minister says Egypt bears equal responsibility for Gaza

JERUSALEM (Reuters): Egypt bears as much responsibility for the Gaza Strip as Israel does, an Israeli cabinet minister said on Monday, in remarks that...

Israel seizes Swedish activist ship en route to Gaza

JERUSALEM: The Israeli navy seized a Swedish-flagged sailboat attempting to breach a blockade of the Palestinian Gaza Strip on Saturday, the military said. The 12...

Exiled Hamas leaders enter Gaza to discuss truce with Israel

GAZA CITY: Gaza's ruling Hamas says exiled members of its decision-making political bureau have entered the territory for high-level discussions about an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire...

Israel says it killed seven insurgents on Syria frontier, talks up...

JERUSALEM: Israel said on Thursday it saw potentially stabilizing benefits to President Bashar al-Assad winning the Syrian civil war, after the Israeli military said...

Fresh tension as Israel reimposes Gaza fuel blockade

JERUSALEM: Israel reimposed a blockade on fuel deliveries to Gaza on Thursday citing a resurgence in kites carrying firebombs over the border and signalling...

Israeli court jails Arab poet for online incitement to terrorism

JERUSALEM: An Israeli court jailed an Israeli Arab poet for five months on Tuesday after convicting her of incitement to terrorism for a poem...

‘Resistance continues’, says Palestinian teen released from Israel jail

NABI SALEH, West Bank: A Palestinian teenager released from prison by Israel on Sunday after completing a sentence for kicking and slapping an Israeli...

Israel police close gates to Al-Aqsa mosque after clashes

    JERUSALEM: Israeli police closed the gates to Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound Friday, an AFP photographer said, after clashes erupted with Palestinian worshippers following...

Israel to build new settler homes after deadly knife attack

  JERUSALEM: Israel is to build hundreds of new homes in a settlement in the occupied West Bank where a Palestinian stabbed three Israelis, one...

Israel says Trump sought Turkish detainee’s release, Ankara denies deal

JERUSALEM/ANKARA: Israel confirmed on Friday a US newspaper report that President Donald Trump had requested its release of a Turkish woman accused of Hamas...

Israel freed Turkish detainee at Trump’s request, official says

JERUSALEM: Israel freed a Turkish woman accused of ties to Hamas following a request by US President Donald Trump, an Israeli official said on...

Israel shoots down Syrian warplane as Golan frontier heats up

  JERUSALEM/BEIRUT: Israel said it shot down a Syrian warplane that crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday, but Damascus said the jet was...

Erdogan says new Israeli law fascist, Hitler’s spirit re-emerging

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday an Israeli law declaring that only Jews have the right of self determination legitimises oppression and...

Israel launches US-backed missile shield on Syria frontier, Russia sends envoys

JERUSALEM: Israel launched its newest air defense system on Monday on the Syrian frontier, where Damascus’s Russian-backed forces have been routing rebels, as Moscow...

Jordan takes in Syrian ‘White Helmets’ evacuated with Israeli help

JERUSALEM: Jordan said on Sunday 800 people including members of Syria’s “White Helmets” civil defence group had been evacuated from southwest Syria where Damascus’...

Israel to reopen Gaza terminal, extend fishing on Tuesday if quiet...

JERUSALEM: Israel will reopen Gaza’s main commercial crossing and expand its fishing zone on Tuesday if a lull in cross-border tensions holds after a...

Israel, Hamas agree to restore calm in Gaza

GAZA: Hamas said on Saturday it had agreed a truce with Israel in the Gaza Strip, a day after clashes killed an Israeli soldier...