Cameron's tone will be friendly, say analysts, gently reminding Netanyahu that chance of two-state solution is disappearing When the prime minister's chartered plane lands at Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv on Wednesday afternoon, the reception for David Cameron and his entourage of around some 70 aides and delegates may be a little rough around the edges. Cameron's first visit to the Holy Land since...
Israel says Raed Zeiter was shot at border between West Bank and Jordan after he tried to snatch weapon from soldier A Jordanian-Palestinian judge who was shot dead by Israeli troops at the Jordan border tried to snatch a weapon and strangle a soldier, the Israeli army said on Tuesday. The incident occurred on Monday when troops opened fire at the Allenby Bridge border crossing between the West Bank...
Palestinian Authority and Amman demand investigation over incident at crossing between West Bank and Jordan Israeli troops at a border crossing shot dead a Palestinian-Jordanian judge who allegedly tried to snatch a soldier's weapon, prompting Amman and the Palestinian Authority to demand an investigation. The shooting took place on Monday at the Allenby Bridge crossing between the West Bank and Jordan,...
Rafael Epstein: Australia has many secrets which are kept hidden for good reasons. But our security and military agencies would be strengthened – not weakened – if we knew more Rafael Epstein ...
s prime minister backs reforms Israel: discrimination against women in the workplace continues, report finds Not enough women are progressing to the top levels of the civil service and private sectors, according to a report by the state comptroller, Justice Yosef Shapira , released to coincide with International Women's Day. Shapira, whose job it is to supervise and review government policies and operations,...
s armed forces denied the Israeli claims as baseless, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated to the revolutionary guards. The Panamanian registered vessel, KLOS-C, was boarded by naval special forces on Tuesday night, shortly before it entered Sudanese waters. Lerner said "scores" of Syrian-made M320 surface-to-surface rockets had been seized. With a range of over 100...
The Israeli navy seizes a ship in the Red Sea on Wednesday, allegedly carrying advanced rockets supplied by Iran and intended for delivery on the Gaza Strip ...
Israeli prime minister’s remarks to Aipac’s annual conference in Washington contrasted with chilly White House meeting Dan Roberts ...
Raid which Israel claims was targeting rocket-launching squad leaves two Palestinian men dead and two more injured An Israeli air strike on the northern Gaza Strip killed two Palestinians and wounded two others last night, the emergency services in the Hamas-run enclave said. Emergency services chief Ashraf al-Qudra said that Musaad Alzaneen, a man in his early 20s, was killed in the raid near the...
Binyamin Netanyahu strikes defiant tone in White House meeting with Obama over US calls for a Palestinian peace deal Dan Roberts ...
s military exemptions and end a tradition upheld since Israel's foundation. Ultra-Orthodox leaders had called on men, women and children to attend the protest against legislation ending the wholesale army exemptions granted to seminary students, which is expected to be passed in the coming weeks, The issue is at the heart of an emotional national debate. Israeli Jewish men and women are called up for...
Tensions over Iran and peace process with Palestinians have led some to suggest waning of Israeli influence in Washington Dan Roberts Harriet Sherwood ...
White House remains tight-lipped on whether it might strike deal in return for concessions from Israelis in Palestinian peace talks The United States is reportedly talking with Israel about releasing the convicted spy Jonathan Pollard early from his life sentence as an incentive to the Israelis in the troubled Middle East peace negotiations. Releasing Pollard, a thorn in US-Israeli relations for three...
s a busy morning at the mobile eye clinic for Dr Islam al-Hashash. There's an elderly Palestinian woman with signs of a tumour in the optic nerve. Then a teenage girl with conjunctivitis and a refractive error. Next, a student with itching and burning in her eyes. For Hashash and his colleagues, this is a regular morning on their rounds as a mobile eye unit sent out by the St John of Jerusalem eye...
Secretary of State returns from Ukraine talks American mediators seek to salvage negotiations US Secretary of State John Kerry is heading back to the Middle East for talks with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, as peace talks hit a critical point. The State Department said Kerry will travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Monday amid a flurry of diplomatic activity by American mediators...
s armed forces suspected of terror activity A Palestinian killed during an Israeli army raid on his home in the West Bank town of Birzeit has been buried. Motazz Washaha was found dead after the raid on Thursday morning. The army said he was "suspected of terror activity". About 4,000 mourners attended the funeral on Friday at Birzeit, north of Ramallah. Many called on Palestinian factions to unite...
Human rights group says soldiers have killed dozens of Palestinians with virtual impunity in West Bank Israeli forces are using excessive, reckless violence in the occupied West Bank, killing dozens of Palestinians over the past three years in what might constitute a war crime, Amnesty International said. In a report entitled Trigger Happy , the human rights group accused Israel of allowing its soldiers...
s framework proposals do not boost already low expectations that a deal can be done Unlike other US secretaries of state who have tried their hand at solving the Israel-Palestine conflict, John Kerry has managed to keep people guessing about his plans. It was inevitable as the deadline approached for reaching a " framework agreement " that details would start to leak. Washington is unlikely to confirm...
s authors call on governments and international tribunals to give greater protection to education, and say the UN, regional peacekeepers and all sides in conflicts should refrain from using schools or universities for military purposes. In 24 countries, researchers found that armed forces – both state and non-state – used school buildings as bases, weapons caches, prisons and even torture chambers,...
s annual National Policy Conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) is shaping up to be another truly dramatic moment of US political theater. US Secretary of State John Kerry, who has impressed Israelis and Palestinians alike with his tireless and determined efforts to broker a Mideast peace agreement, will come face-to-face with Aipac, whose leaders and supporters have passionately...