Associated Press Writer= GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - An Israeli airstrike killed four Palestinian militants launching mortars at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday, Palestinian officials said, just hours after another group of militants struck ...
21 Nov 2008
Associated Press Writer= JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel stood fast Wednesday by its decision to clamp shut cargo crossings at the Gaza Strip, brushing off pleas to ease the blockade from United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon. Israel sealed the passages two weeks ...
21 Nov 2008
JERUSALEM, Nov 21, 2008 (AFP) - Israeli Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit launched proceedings on Friday to revoke the citizenship of Arab former MP Azmi Bishara, who fled Israel last year amid claims he had spied for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, a ...
21 Nov 2008
A Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip exploded in an industrial area south of the Negev city of Ashkelon on Friday, Israel Polcie said. There were no injuries reported in the incident, which came as weeks of traded violence ...
21 Nov 2008
(IsraelNN.com) Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, the chairwoman of the ruling Kadima party, attacked the Likud Thursday and also managed to anger the Sephardic hareidi-religious party Shas. Speaking at a Kadima gathering, in a talk that one commentator ...
21 Nov 2008
Israel said on Friday it will maintain its closure of the Gaza Strip despite international concern over a deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the aid-dependent Palestinian territory. "This decision was taken because of the continuation of ...
21 Nov 2008
Israeli Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit launched proceedings on Friday to revoke the citizenship of Arab former MP Azmi Bishara, who fled Israel last year amid claims he had spied for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, a ministry spokesman said.
21 Nov 2008
JERUSALEM (AFP)--Israeli Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit launched proceedings on Friday to revoke the citizenship of Arab former lawmaker Azmi Bishara, who fled Israel last year amid claims he had spied for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia, a ministry spokesman said.
21 Nov 2008
(Adds rocket attack, senior Israeli official quotes.) JERUSALEM (AFP)--Israel said Friday it will maintain its closure of the Gaza Strip despite international concern over a deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the aid-dependent Palestinian territory.
21 Nov 2008
Israel said on Friday it will maintain its closure of the Gaza Strip despite international concern over a deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the aid-dependent Palestinian territory.
21 Nov 2008
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21 Nov 2008
JERUSALEM -- Israel's foreign minister rebuffed a new attempt by U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to ease a bruising blockade of the Gaza Strip, pledging retaliation for Palestinian rocket attacks and calling on the world to condemn them, an aide to the minister said.
21 Nov 2008
Three international peace activists imprisoned by Israel after the Israeli Navi abducted them as they were accompanying Palestinian fishermen, stated on Thursday that they are on hunger strike until the Israeli authorities return the ...
20 Nov 2008
I fully support the State of Israel's right to exist, and can't even grasp the motivations behind anti-semitism, but I know we must not put support of friendly nations above national interest. So come on David Miliband, ...
20 Nov 2008
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20 Nov 2008
Several groups of European parliamentarians were banned last week from passing through Israel's Erez border crossing into Gaza to assess the situation on the ground and to hold meetings with Hamas leaders. ...
20 Nov 2008
They are the enemies of our people as much as they are the enemies of Israel. The fact that British Nationalists cannot see that tolerating the murder of Jews in the name of Jihad in Israel will lead to the murder of Christians and ...
20 Nov 2008
The closure was ordered on the pretext of Palestinian homemade projectiles fired from Gaza into Israel. Israeli radio reported that this decision came after a meeting Barak held with representatives of the various Israeli security ...
19 Nov 2008