Israel

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon articulated publicly what Israeli leaders say privately: Give us your tax money, weapons and your veto power but "leave us alone." He called the...

States are increasingly employing the hegemonic discourse of "terror" to justify collective punishment, the dehumanisation of perceived enemies and the discrimination against communities based on their race or religion,...

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has announced that Turkey and Israel are very close to resuming normal ties, Turkish and Israeli media reported on Sunday. According to the Turkish...

Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu convened senior ministers Sunday to discuss ways of fighting boycott and divestment initiatives proliferating in Europe and worldwide. Present at the meeting were Netanyahu, Foreign...

Early this morning, settlers uprooted and destroyed over 400 olive saplings in the village of Sinjil, located north of Ramallah. According to the mayor of Sinjil, Ayoub Sweed, a...

An Israeli journalist specialising in intelligence affairs has revealed that Tel Aviv has allowed the US National Security Agency (NSA) to establish a large intelligence facility in occupied Jerusalem,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that the easing of international sanctions on Iran has led to the recent escalation of its international aggression. He also threatened to...

Israel's Jerusalem Post published a poll conducted by the Israeli Geocartography Institute, the results of which indicate that 70 per cent of Israeli Jews do not believe the Obama...

Twenty-five aid organisations working in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem warned on Friday that Israel's demolition of Palestinian properties has increased sharply since the resumption of the peace...

Fewer than 70 per cent of Jews in Israel are confident that US President Barack Obama is able to protect their national interests, US Time magazine revealed on Friday....

The Jordanian government has condemned Friday's violence when Israeli security forces entered Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and attacked worshippers gathered for the main prayer of the week. Severe clashes...

Representatives from Israel's Leviathan Gas Company met with members of the British Gas Group in Cyprus last week to discuss exporting gas to Egypt, Israel's Calcalist business newspaper said....

Israeli army forces have injured and arrested tens of Palestinian activists on Friday following a raid on the Ein Hejleh village in the southern Jordan Valley. The Palestinian and...

Israeli policies have been severely criticised this week by human rights NGOs, with a particular focus on the exclusion of Palestinians from their land in both the West Bank...

Israel is angered that the head of the Danish parliament, Mogens Lykketoft, has scheduled a visit this weekend to Ramallah and the Gaza Strip, an itinerary that does not...

Plans to build 558 new housing units in three settlements in East Jerusalem have been approved by Israel's Planning and Building Committee. These include 386 units in Jabal Abu...

The Assistant Secretary General of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Salman Fahd Al-Awdah, has denounced the incitement campaign being waged by some Arab mass media against the...

Arab and Muslim states should take a firm stand towards any entity that deals with the Israeli occupation as Europe has, Hamas said. In a statement issued by the...

Some $500 million worth of projects in Gaza have been stalled due to the Israeli siege imposed on the area, the head of the Popular Committee Against the Siege...

Israeli special police units arrested on Thursday morning a young Palestinian resident of Jerusalem inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque and took him to an interrogation centre in the old city....

The Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on Thursday that Israel is maintaining contact with former Fatah leader Mohamed Dahlan, claiming that he is a better partner for peace than Palestinian...

The Israeli authorities have demolished several houses in Jerusalem under the pretext of their being built without a permit. A researcher at the Wadi Halaweh Information Centre, Maysa Abu...

Israeli Knesset Member Miri Regev of the Likud Party is planning to thwart peace negotiations with the Palestinians and embarrass Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by submitting a new controversial...

The delivery of shelter material to the Jordan Valley has been halted as Israel blocks and confiscates the goods sent, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told...

The official website of the Israeli army released an unprecedented report on Tuesday claiming that Israel's Mossad intelligence agency has been cooperating closely with a number of Arab and...

Israeli Minister of Housing and Construction Uri Ariel vowed on Tuesday afternoon that there would never be any other state between the Jordan River and the sea except for...

Turkey and Israel are close to reaching a deal for compensation on the killing, in 2010, of Turks on-board of Mavi Marmara by Israeli commandoes, when the ship was...

The EU's ambassador to Israel, Lars Faaborg-Andersen, warned on Monday that Israel would find itself in complete isolation should the peace talks with the Palestinians collapse. In an interview...

Fatah's Central Committee denied on Monday any solution for the Palestinian-Israeli conflict without East Jerusalem as a capital for the Palestinian state. The Central Committee, convened in Ramallah and...

The Israeli army has destroyed a nature reserve and uprooted agricultural seedlings near the city of Hebron, in the south of the occupied West Bank. The 1,200 acre reserve...

Israel's Defence Minister said on Sunday that Egypt's coup last year has alleviated the fears of Israel and several other countries about what he described as an "Islamist winter"....

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) has reaffirmed its pledge to help alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza. UNRWA's director of...