#Israel

Gaza is a coastal strip of land that lay on ancient trading and maritime routes along the Mediterranean shore. Held by the Ottoman Empire until 1917, it passed from British to ...

Israel formed an emergency unity government on Wednesday as its jets pounded Gaza and tanks massed around the Palestinian enclave, and the army said it killed three Hamas militants in ...

Cypriot tourism is recording some cancellations due to the ongoing conflict in Israel, according to the tourism deputy minister Kostas Koumis, but not many. Koumis was speaking at the opening ...

Until last weekend, the Biden administration was counting on the Middle East to remain relatively calm while it quietly pursued its main policy goals there: brokering Israeli-Saudi detente and containing ...

Hacktivist groups say they are hitting Israeli targets online amid the war in Israel and Gaza, disrupting and defacing websites like the Jerusalem Post. The conflict between Israel and its ...

Israel vowed to escalate its response to an attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas with a ground offensive, while U.S. President Joe Biden pledged support for Israel and ...

Israel has the right to defend itself but some of its decisions would breach international law, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell told reporters on Tuesday. In response to ...

Israeli air strikes hammered Gaza on Tuesday, razing entire districts and filling morgues with dead Palestinians as Israel took revenge for the Hamas assaults that have triggered some of the ...

Cypriot pilgrims left for Jerusalem barely an hour after Hamas fired rockets into Israel even though it was known the attack had started, the groups’ travel agent said on Tuesday. “...

Iran’s top authority Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that Tehran had not been involved in the Hamas group’s weekend attack on Israel, but he hailed what he ...

The government on Tuesday activated the national ‘Estia’ action plan for the reception of people fleeing the ongoing conflict in Israel. The plan entails Cyprus acting as a hub for ...

Global companies have temporarily shut some operations in Israel and have asked employees to work from home following a devastating weekend attack by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas. Following are the ...

The European Union backtracked in disarray on an announcement that aid to Palestinians had been suspended in response to the attack on Israel by Hamas after EU countries complained the ...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other Canadian authorities on Monday condemned demonstrations across Canada by those they said were glorifying violence by supporting Palestinian Islamist group Hamas’ attack on Israel. “...

Israel said on Tuesday it had re-established control over the Gaza border and was planting mines where Hamas militants had toppled the barrier during their bloody weekend assault, after another ...

Cyprus’ economy may be resilient enough to withstand the fallout from the conflict between Israel and Hamas, however the island may also be classed as a danger zone if the ...

The Israeli military said it had called up an unprecedented 300,000 reservists and was imposing a total blockade of the Gaza Strip, in a sign it may be planning a ground ...

Cyprus’ foreign ministry on Monday raised the Israeli flag outside its building as a show of solidarity after the neighbouring country suffered a major attack from Hamas. In a post ...

Cyprus’ foreign ministry on Monday issued a travel warning to avoid all non-essential to Israel and Palestine. The ministry said to avoid all travel to Gaza and the West Bank, ...

All non-Israeli players of the Maccabi Tel Aviv basketball team, along with their families, have arrived in Cyprus, president of the Cyprus Basketball Federation Andreas Mouzourides said on Monday. Mouzourides ...

By Iole Damaskinos and Jonathan Shkurko President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday reiterated his deep concern regarding the unfolding situation in Israel, underlining the shock and sympathy felt by the whole ...

The violence in Israel that erupted this weekend is prompting a move into safe-haven assets as investors closely watch events in the Middle East to gauge the geopolitical risk to ...

Several international air carriers have suspended flight services with Tel Aviv in light of the Hamas militant attack on Israel, saying they were waiting for safety conditions to improve before ...

Israel battered Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday after suffering its bloodiest day in decades when Hamas fighters rampaged through Israeli towns, with hundreds killed on both sides and spiralling violence ...