JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Israeli jets bombed two sites in Gaza early on Wednesday, wounding one woman, after Palestinians fired three rockets into southern Israel, Israeli and Palestinian sources said.
The Israeli military said its aircraft "targeted two weapons manufacturing sites in the northern Gaza Strip."
"Direct hits were confirmed and secondary explosions were identified," [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - The fifth anniversary of Israel's war in Lebanon passed largely unmarked in the Jewish state on Tuesday, with no official events planned and the border between the neighbours mostly quiet.
The conflict that began on July 12, 2006, ending 34 days later with the deaths of 1,200 people in Lebanon, mainly civilians, and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers, has faded [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Despite a firestorm of criticism and the advice of the parliament's legal adviser, Israeli lawmakers have passed a bill effectively outlawing calls to boycott settlements in the West Bank.
The legislation, dubbed "fascism" by one Israeli commentator, targets the efforts of artists, intellectuals and activists who have sought to protest Jewish settlements by [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Israel on Tuesday expelled 42 foreign pro-Palestinian activists detained after flying into Israel for protests at the weekend, an official said.
"In total, 44 people were exelled on Tuesday, bound for Italy, France, Austria and Britain," immigration service spokeswoman Sabine Hadad told AFP.
"There are currently 14 detainees, mostly French nationals, who s [...]
BEIRUT (AFP) - (AFP) - Israel's proposed maritime border with Lebanon threatens regional security, Lebanon's foreign minister said on Monday, as a feud over offshore gas fields between the two enemy states deepens.
"Israel's measures have created a new point of tension in the region and threaten peace and security across this region," Foreign Minister Adnan Mansur told reporters in [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Visiting Greek President Karolos Papoulias met with Israeli leaders on Monday, as long-frosty relations between the two Mediterranean nations reach new heights of cooperation.
Papoulias's three-day trip, which will also take him briefly to the Palestinian territories, comes a week after Athens effectively prevented a flotilla of pro-Palestinian activists fr [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Israel's parliament was poised on Monday to vote on a law that would effectively ban Israelis from calling for boycotts of any part of the Jewish state or its settlements on occupied Palestinian land.
Activists and intellectuals have criticised the controversial bill, accusing the lawmakers behind it of stifling free speech and compromising Israel's democra [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Israel on Monday deported 23 foreign pro-Palestinian activists who were taken into custody after flying into Israel for protests at the weekend, an official told AFP.
"There are 58 remaining (in Israeli custody)," immigration service spokeswoman Sabine Hadad told AFP, adding they would be flown out as soon as there was space available on departing aircraft. [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - (AFP) - Envoys from the Middle East Quartet gathered here Monday to urge Israelis and the Palestinians to resume peace talks aiming to avoid a major showdown at the United Nations in September.
"We thought it was a good idea for them all to touch base... to compare notes on what it's going to take to get the parties back to the table," State Department spokeswoman [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - (AFP) - Israel's cabinet approved on Sunday a map of the Jewish state's proposed maritime borders with Lebanon to be submitted for a UN opinion, in a brewing dispute between the neighbours over offshore gas fields.
Lebanon's Energy Minister Gebran Bassil countered that Beirut will not give up its maritime rights.
Israel's proposed map lays out maritime borders tha [...]
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