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Israel OK's 900 new housing units in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Israel's interior ministry on Tuesday authorised the construction of 900 new housing units in annexed east Jerusalem, the ministry said, in a move bound to draw international criticism.
Israel could annex more of West Bank: minister
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli cabinet minister said on Monday Israel could annex more of the West Bank if Palestinians declared statehood without concluding a peace agreement.
Israel keeping Gaza parched, Amnesty International says
Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israel is denying Palestinians access to adequate water supplies by controlling shared water resources, the human rights group Amnesty International said in a report released Tuesday.
Israeli Police Clash With Palestinians at Sacred Compound in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM — Israeli police officers clashed Sunday with stone-throwing Palestinians at a site sacred to Muslims and Jews, in the latest sign of tension in this volatile city.
Israel government team to examine UN Gaza war report fallout
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has set up a team to outline Israel's response to a UN report on the Gaza war which has placed it under massive diplomatic pressure, officials said on Monday.
Iran denies secret nuclear talks with Israel: official
Tehran strongly rejects reported claims by an Israeli daily that the Iranian and Israeli delegations held secret talks during a September meeting of the International Committee on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in Cairo, the satellite Press TV reported.
UN says Israel, Palestinians committed war crimes
GENEVA — The U.N.'s top human rights official backed a report Thursday accusing Israeli forces and Palestinian militants of war crimes during their conflict in Gaza last winter.
Israel not undermining al-Aqsa foundations: Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday blamed recent violence at Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque on Arab "extremist elements" whom he said spread lies that Israel intended to dig under the holy site.
Israel Tries Less-Disruptive Tactics in West Bank
BET EL MILITARY BASE, West Bank -- Israel's military, taking a page from the Pentagon's counterinsurgency playbook, has changed tactics in the West Bank by emphasizing improvements in Palestinian living conditions, rather than focusing solely on k...
Peace an illusion, says Israeli Foreign Minister
Israel's foreign minister has said there is no chance of an early solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and told people to "learn to live with it".
Israel, Hamas in mutual gestures on prisoners
Israel will free 20 Palestinian women from jail as early as Friday in exchange for a videotape from Hamas proving an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip since 2006 is alive, officials on both sides said on Wednesday.
UN expert defends Gaza war crimes report
GENEVA — A U.N. investigator defended a report Tuesday that accuses Israel and Palestinian militants of war crimes during their conflict in Gaza, an allegation Israel condemns and claims is the result of bias against the Jewish state.
Jewish group's visit sparks clashes at Jerusalem holy site
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police in east Jerusalem stretched into Sunday evening after a visit by a Jewish group to one of the city's holiest sites.
Israeli ex-PM Olmert goes on trial on corruption charges
JERUSALEM — Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert on Friday made his first court appearance on charges of graft, vowing he would prove his innocence.
Israelis applaud, Palestinians slam Netanyahu UN address
Tel Aviv/Ramallah - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to Israel Friday, to applause by the majority of Israelis over his address to the UN General Assembly, but to sharp criticism from the Palestinians. Most Israeli commentators h...
Israel's Analysis and Comments on the GAZA FACT FINDING COMMISION REPORT
Israel's Analysis and Comments on the GAZA FACT FINDING COMMISION REPORT
UN body urges Israel to allow nuclear inspection
Arab states in the United Nations nuclear assembly on Friday won narrow approval of a resolution urging Israel to put all its atomic sites under the world body's inspection and join the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Israel says Mideast not ready for nuclear arms ban
JERUSALEM — Israel's defense minister said in remarks published Thursday that the Middle East is too unruly for a region-wide nuclear arms ban, arguing that the Muslim world must first "behave like Western Europe."
Israeli Foreign Minister: UN Gaza mission found Israel guilty in advance
Israel did not let up Thursday on its verbal assault against a UN fact-finding mission, which earlier this week said it had found "strong evidence" that both Israel and Palestinian militants had committed war crimes during last winter's Gaza war.
Iran attack: Israel ex-deputy defense minister sees end-year deadline
Israel will be compelled to attack Iran's nuclear sites if Western powers cannot agree crippling sanctions against Tehran by the end of the year, a former Israeli deputy defense minister said on Wednesday. Ephraim Sneh, who holds no position in th...