Tag: Israel

At least 58 Palestinians dead, 2,700 injured as clashes continue

JERUSALEM: Violent clashes erupted along the Gaza Strip’s border ahead of the controversial opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, leaving 58 Palestinians...

Israeli military says destroys Gaza attack tunnel

GAZA: Israel's military struck and demolished an underground attack tunnel in northern Gaza that was meant to cross into Israel, a military spokesman said. Gaza...

Israel closes Gaza border crossing

GAZA: Israel closed the Kerem Shalom border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Saturday, a day after the terminal was damaged during protests by...

EU calls Iranian strikes against Israel ‘extremely worrying’

BRUSSELS: The European Union called reports about Iranian strikes against Israeli army posts from inside Syria “extremely worrying” and said Israel had the right...

Israeli defence minister tells Assad to ‘throw Iranians out’ of Syria

TEL AVIV: Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Friday urged Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to expel Iranian forces from his country, after Israeli air...

Iran says Syria has every right to defend itself against Israel

ANKARA:  Iran on Friday supported Syria’s right to defend itself against aggression from Israel, state TV reported, accusing others of remaining silent over the...

Iran targets Israeli positions across Syrian frontier, Israel pounds Syria

JERUSALEM/BEIRUT: Iranian forces in Syria shelled Israeli army outposts across the Syrian frontier overnight, Israel said, prompting one of the heaviest Israeli strikes in...

Syrian state media says Israel attacked just after US quit Iran...

JERUSALEM: Syrian state media accused Israel of launching missiles at a target near Damascus on Tuesday, shortly after US President Donald Trump announced he...

Israeli minister threatens Assad over any Iranian attacks from Syria

JERUSALEM: Israel could respond to any Iranian attack on it from Syria by toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government, an Israeli security cabinet minister...

Palestinian leader Abbas offers apology for remarks on Jews

JERUSALEM: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday offered an apology after he was accused of anti-Semitism for suggesting that historic persecution of European Jews...

France calls for more IAEA inspections after Israel’s information on Iran...

  PARIS: France on Tuesday called for further independent inspections on Iran to ensure full implementation of 2015 nuclear deal. A spokesperson with the country's Foreign...

Israel says Iran lied on nuclear arms, pressures US to scrap...

TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled on Monday what he said was evidence of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program that could...

US concerned by ‘destabilising and malign activities’ of Iran, says Pompeo

TEL AVIV: The United States is deeply concerned by Iran’s “destabilising and malign activities”, new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said after meeting Israeli...

Israeli forces kill three Gaza border protesters, wound 600

GAZA: Israeli troops shot dead three protesters along the Gaza border on Friday, Gaza medics said, hours after the United Nations human rights chief...

Israeli ex-policeman jailed for nine months for killing Palestinian teen

JERUSALEM: An Israeli former paramilitary policeman was jailed for nine months on Wednesday for killing a teenage Palestinian protester in 2014, prompting protests from...

Natalie Portman explains why she is not attending the ‘Jewish Nobel’...

LOS ANGELES: Hollywood actress Natalie Portman has snubbed a prestigious prize known as the “Jewish Nobel,” saying she did not want her attendance to...

Israel hints it could hit Iran’s ‘air force’ in Syria

JERUSALEM: Israel released details on Tuesday about what it described as an Iranian “air force” deployed in neighbouring Syria, including civilian planes suspected of...