Israel boosts defences after Iran revenge threat
The Israeli military halted leave for all combat units on Thursday amid concerns of a possible escalation in violence after the killing of Iranian generals in Damascus this week drew ...
Six months of Hezbollah fire keeps uprooted Israelis in limbo
From a temporary seaside abode in northern Israel, Shay and Reut Hanegbi can hear the explosions when missiles are fired from Lebanon towards their hometown on the border, only four ...
Israeli military halts leave for all combat units fearing escalation in violence
Israel’s military halted leave for all combat units on Thursday, it said in a statement, amid concerns of a possible escalation in violence after the killing of Iranian generals ...
WCK boss says Israeli deadly attack on Monday was not a mistake
Celebrity chef Jose Andres told Reuters in an emotional interview on Wednesday that an Israeli attack that killed seven of his food aid workers in Gaza had targeted them “systematically, ...
US wants swift Israeli investigation into attack on aid workers
The United States wants a swift Israeli investigation into an attack that killed seven people working for celebrity chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen charity in Gaza, the State Department ...
Bodies of foreign aid workers killed in Israeli strike leave Gaza
The bodies of foreign aid workers killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza were brought to the crossing with Egypt on Wednesday as international outrage simmered over an attack that ...
Humanitarian aid ships return to Cyprus (Updated, video)
By Iole Damaskinos and Tom Cleaver
The three ships which had carried humanitarian aid from Cyprus to Gaza but then were forced to turn back as Israel bombed aid workers’ ...
Pope deplores deaths in Gaza and Ukraine from ‘folly of war’
Pope Francis on Wednesday issued a fresh appeal for peace in Gaza and Ukraine, deploring the killing of aid workers in an Israeli airstrike and paying tribute to a Ukrainian ...
White House hosts muted Ramadan event as Biden’s Israel policy draws anger
The White House held a scaled-down iftar dinner on Tuesday to celebrate Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, after some invitees turned the president down over frustrations in the Muslim ...
Netanyahu laments Israel’s ‘unintended’ killing of aid workers in Gaza
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday an Israeli airstrike that killed seven people working for celebrity chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen charity in Gaza was unintended and “tragic”, ...
Iran vows revenge on Israel after Damascus embassy attack
Iran vowed on Tuesday to take revenge on Israel for an airstrike that killed two of its top generals and five other military advisers at the Iranian embassy compound in ...
Israel airstrike on Gaza kills seven working for celebrity chef’s NGO
Citizens from Australia, Britain and Poland were among seven people working for celebrity chef Jose Andres’ World Central Kitchen who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on ...
Netanyahu revives moves to shut Qatar’s Al Jazeera TV in Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revived moves on Monday to shut down Qatari satellite television station Al Jazeera in Israel, saying through his party spokesperson that parliament would be convened in ...
Israeli troops leave Shifa Hospital a wreck in sea of rubble
Israeli forces have withdrawn from Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after a two-week operation, the Israeli military said on Monday, leaving behind a wasteland of destroyed buildings and Palestinian ...
Israeli troops leave Gaza’s Shifa Hospital a wreck in sea of rubble
Israeli forces have withdrawn from Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after a two-week operation, the Israeli military said on Monday, leaving behind a wasteland of destroyed buildings and Palestinian ...
Tens of thousands rally against Netanyahu government in Jerusalem
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Jerusalem on Sunday against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and against exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from military service, in scenes reminiscent of ...
Israel says flying object from east hits Eilat, Iraqi militia claims launch
Israel’s Red Sea port city of Eilat came under an aerial attack on Monday that caused no casualties, the military said, and an Iranian-backed armed group in Iraq issued ...
Israel central bank says ultra-Orthodox need to join military to help economy
The Bank of Israel on Sunday warned of economic damage if more ultra-Orthodox Jewish men do not join the country’s military, weighing in on a contentious issue that has ...
With Israel, people are ignoring inconvenient truths
Nonsense to suggest Israel is fighting an existential war
By Fahri Zihni
The mediaeval Islamic cleric and wiseman Nasreddin Hodja’s fables and parables, which have evolved over centuries have ...
Pope Francis, in Easter address, calls for Gaza ceasefire
Pope Francis called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the release of all Israeli hostages in an Easter Sunday address that marked the most important day on the Christian ...
Three aid ships to arrive in Gaza on Monday
Three ships loaded with humanitarian aid sent from Cyprus are expected to arrive in Gaza on Monday.
According to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA), the three vessels, the Open Arms, ...
Three UN observers and a translator wounded in south Lebanon, peacekeeping mission says
Three United Nations observers and a translator were wounded on Saturday when a shell exploded near them as they were carrying out a foot patrol in south Lebanon, the U....
Palestinian teen shot dead during Israeli West Bank raid, Wafa news agency reports
Israeli forces shot dead a 13-year-old Palestinian boy during a raid in the occupied West Bank, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported on Saturday, an incident which the Israeli ...
Ultra-Orthodox Israelis resist push for military service
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties are resisting pressure to lift exemptions of religious students from military duty, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s struggles to preserve his coalition and spread the wartime ...