Israeli Defence Forces

Israel's channel 10 has quoted a senior Israeli officer of the Southern Command as saying that "the Israeli army has failed miserably against the Hamas tunnels which the movement...

On Tuesday, a prominent member of Hamas' political bureau, Moussa Abu-Marzouk, downplayed the effectiveness of Israel's detention of Palestinians in its attempt to stifle the resistance. "This is the...

The former head of Israeli Military Intelligence Amos Yadlin said that reaching a "reasonable agreement" with Iran during the Geneva meeting is better than the military option, even if...

Israel has completed a new "security fence" along its frontier with Syria on the occupied Golan Heights. The old fence has been replaced by a hi-tech version, the construction...

Senior member of Hamas political bureau Mousa Abu-Marzouk warned on Friday "any new Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip will not be similar to previous attacks." Posting on his...

Several Palestinian human rights sources have reported that the Israel Prison Service has been organising military training for its Masada unit, the elite unit that is specialised in suppressing...

The Foreign Press Association (FPA) has charged the Israeli military of "deliberately targeting" journalists following clashes Friday at Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank....

Israeli occupation forces carried out detention campaigns on Monday morning in the villages of Al-Sayed and Hora in the Al-Naqab, or Negev, the 48 Arabs news website reported. The...

Israel's former Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg openly recognised that Israel possesses nuclear weapons during a conference in Haifa on Thursday that convened to discuss a Middle East free of...

Israeli occupation authorities uprooted 40 olive trees from Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank on Monday morning. Witnesses reported that Israeli bulldozers razed the trees to clear the...

An Israel Defence Forces commander has admitted that his soldiers in the occupied West Bank are facing a "new operational reality". It can be described as a threat to...

A senior Saudi military delegation has secretly visited Israel and discussed issues related to Iran's nuclear programme, Israeli sources revealed on Monday. According to Israeli radio, Deputy Defence Minister...

Member of Fatah Executive Committee Mohammad Shtayyeh has said that Israel has killed 31 Palestinians, arrested 500 and destroyed 208 Palestinian houses since July when the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks...

Israeli occupation forces raided on Wednesday the occupied West Bank city of Qalqilya, firing massive amounts of tear gas that killed an 85-year-old Palestinian man, medical sources said. The...

Israeli occupation forces have arrested 15 Palestinians, including eight children, in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian sources reported on Thursday. Soldiers swept through Dora neighbourhood in...

The annual report from the Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem has revealed that twenty-seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank during 2013; nine people...

At a time when most Arab Christians look at themselves as part of the Palestinian people and consider any service in the Israeli army as taboo, the Israeli government's...

VIDEO The Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, known as B'Tselem, has released a videotape of Israeli occupation soldiers providing support and protection to settlers...

Lebanon fired anti-aircraft missiles at Israeli aircraft which violated Lebanese airspace near the capital Beirut on Sunday evening. No damage or casualties were reported. Israel's Channel 10 reported that...

Israeli occupation authorities fear that Palestinian fighters in Gaza now own ground to air missiles that are a threat to Israel's air forces, Israeli radio reported on Wednesday morning....

The Israeli army has announced that 50 Jewish Iranians join the army annually, with some joining the intelligence services. Data reported by the Israeli defence magazine Bemahanea confirmed that...

The Israeli media revealed on Thursday that a major corruption scandal is under investigation involving senior police officers suspected of receiving bribes from renowned Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto. Among...

Israeli F16 warplanes launched overnight four airstrikes along the Gaza Strip that wounded four children and one woman. Dozens were reportedly traumatised. A spokesperson of the Palestinian Ministry of...

The spokesman of the Egyptian Army, Staff Colonel Ahmed Mohamed Ali, on Wednesday denied that his country had bought military wares from Israel. An Israeli newspaper reported early this...

Photos Israeli security officers have humiliated Palestinian prisoners and worshippers in separate incidents. Prison officials entered cells in the Negev Prison at dawn on Friday and smashed prisoners' personal...

Following the Israeli attack on the Egyptian Sinai the Council of Trustees for the Revolution has called for the prosecution of the military coup leaders on charges of treason...

A report by the Arab Organisation for Human Rights has revealed that an Israeli company, Seagull Maritime Security, provides maritime security services for cruises and cargo ships passing through...

Amos Yadlin, the former head of Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate, also known as Aman, is expecting for Egyptians to thwart the military dictatorship of Egypt's Defence Minister Abdel Fattah...

Israeli media outlets have reported that a US Democratic Party senator is working toward proposing a bill to suspend US aid to elite Israeli Defence Forces units on the...

US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel said that any solution to problems in the Middle East, especially the Syrian conflict or Iran's nuclear programme should be "political, not military." In...

The US will cut five per cent from its annual military aid package to Israel as part of budgetary spending cuts, the Israeli daily Maariv reported on Friday. Prime...

The US House of Representatives Armed Services Committee approved on Monday to grant Israel a $488 million increase in military aid. The additional amount is for the development of...