Israel’s lawmakers have voted to impose a minimum three-year jail sentence on stone throwers, just weeks after the premier vowed “war” on those who pelt security forces with rocks. The law was approved by 57 [ More … ]
A 19-year old Palestinian stabbed and wounded three Israelis near Tel Aviv on Monday before being arrested, police said. It is the latest in a series violent attacks from both sides. The man stabbed two people [ More … ]
Violence flared again between Israelis and Palestinians Sunday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to install more security cameras at the al-Aqsa mosque compound in what he says is a bid to defuse tensions. In [ More … ]
A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a soldier lightly in the occupied West Bank on Friday. Israeli forces shot and wounded the assailant, says the army. “An assailant stabbed an IDF soldier during operational activity adjacent [ More … ]
Israeli historians and politicians joined Wednesday the wave of criticism that is denouncing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel for saying it was a Palestinian, the grand mufti of Jerusalem, who gave Hitler the idea of [ More … ]
Israeli police are hunting members of a group of Israelis who killed an Eritrean migrant after they thought that he was involved in an attack at a bus station. Haftom Zarhum, was shot repeatedly by [ More … ]
Palestinians have clashed with Israeli forces and settlers across the West Bank as violence continued to grip the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel. In the southern West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian demonstrators marched from [ More … ]
Palestinians have torched a site in the West Bank revered by Jews and others worldwide in an incident that threatens to further inflame more than two weeks of deadly unrest, as new  protests were planned [ More … ]
Israeli forces have shot and killed two more Palestinians, with these two killings the total number of killed Palestinians in the last 15 days has increased to be at least 30 Palestinians. A young Palestinian [ More … ]
The Israeli authorities erected roadblocks and checkpoints in some Arab neighbourhoods of East Jerusalem on Wednesday and deployed hundreds of police officers and soldiers on the roads and buses, a response to a wave of [ More … ]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel called an emergency meeting of top security officials and ministers after four attacks by Palestinians left three Israelis dead. It is the most intense eruption so far in two weeks [ More … ]
In an analysis in Al-Monitor author Ben Caspi notes that Israel is deeply divided during the wave of violence in the area. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu always tries to grab the stick by both [ More … ]
Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti delivered an impassioned plea to the international community to tackle the root causes of violence between Palestinians and Israelis on Sunday, as he praised the “new Palestinian generation†for resisting [ More … ]
Haaretz An Israeli soldier tried to detain a minor during clashes in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh on Friday, but a number of Palestinian women and children managed to stop him. According to [ More … ]
The Israeli nature authority objected to the decision of the war ministry to resume construction of the separation barrier near Beit Jala, south of Occupied Jerusalem, after the Supreme Court had invalidated the building of [ More … ]
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