JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Israeli police deployed in large numbers in Jerusalem's Old City Friday in a bid to head off incidents on the last weekly day of prayer before the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
"Policemen and border guards have been deployed in Jerusalem, and a state of alert has been maintained throughout the country," following recent rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, a pol [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - A days-old truce announced by Gaza militants appeared to be fast unravelling on Thursday after nine Gazans were killed and 30 wounded in 24 hours of Israeli air strikes.
Rising tensions in and around Gaza kicked off early on Wednesday, just days after militant groups said they would stop cross-border rocket fire, with Israel quietly agreeing to [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - An Israeli rights group criticised on Tuesday a court decision upholding the route of Israel's West Bank barrier, which cuts off a Palestinian village from its land in an area between Jerusalem and Bethlehem.
Residents of Al-Walaja had appealed to Israel's Supreme Court to reroute a portion of the barrier which they say cuts off the village of 2,500 from farming land, [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - An Egyptian-brokered halt to Palestinian rocket fire from the Gaza Strip appeared to be holding on Tuesday, with the Israeli military saying that calm had prevailed along the border overnight.
The truce was announced Sunday evening following four days of violence sparked by a series of shooting ambushes near Eilat in southern Israel on Thursday in which eight Israelis [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - The justice ministry said on Monday that it has given the go-ahead for Google Street View to start photographing streets in Israel to put on its 3D-mapping website.
The decision was taken last week by Israel's data protection watchdog, ILITA, which gave Google Street View the green light to send its cars to begin the process of collecting images, the ministry said.
St [...]
UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - (AFP) - The United Nations on Monday again delayed the release of a report on Israel's raid on a Turkish-led aid flotilla to Gaza because the two sides had not agreed on the document, a UN spokesman said.
The report into the May 31, 2010 raid in which nine Turkish activists were killed was to have been handed over to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday.
But UN dep [...]
HEBRON, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - Israeli troops on Sunday arrested 120 Hamas members in the southern West Bank just hours after the faction's Gaza branch fired rockets into Israel, Palestinian police said.
Police sources said troops fanned out across the area in an overnight operation which kicked off just hours after Hamas's armed wing in Gaza fired rockets into southern Israel, [...]
BEERSHEVA, Israel (AFP) - (AFP) - Violence in and around Gaza entered its fourth day on Sunday as militants fired over 20 rockets into Israel and the air force hit targets near Gaza City, a day after a rocket killed an Israel.
In what was the first air strike since Saturday afternoon, the Israeli air force fired at a target near Beit Lahiya, just north of Gaza City, seriously wounding a 12-year [...]
CAIRO (AFP) - (AFP) - Egypt has decided to withdraw its ambassador from Israel to protest the deaths of five policemen killed on the border during retaliatory attacks on Palestinian militants, state television said Saturday.
"Egypt has decided to withdraw its ambassador to Israel until there is an official apology," it said.
The Egyptian government had asked "for an official apology from Israe [...]
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - (AFP) - Israeli warplanes pounded the Gaza Strip and raided the Egyptian border, killing militants blamed for coordinated gun, grenade and bomb attacks that left eight Israelis dead.
Six Israeli civilians -- including two women -- as well as a soldier and a police officer died after the attacks Thursday in the desert near the Red Sea resort of Eilat. A [...]
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