Israeli commandos have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships off the coast of the Gaza Strip, killing up to 19 people on board.
Dozens of others were injured when troops raided the convoy of six ships, dubbed the Freedom Flotilla, early on Monday.
Israel said activists on board attacked its commandos as they boarded the ships, while [...]
Israel offered to sell apartheid-era South Africa nuclear warheads in 1975, the UK’s Guardian newspaper says quoting a forthcoming book.
According to documents obtained by the newspaper, a secret meeting between the then-Israeli defence minister, Shimon Peres, and his South African counterpart, PW Botha, ended with an offer by Jerusalem for the sale of warheads “in [...]
The biggest attempt by international aid groups to break the Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip has gotten underway.
Nine ships under the banner, Freedom Flotilla, began their journey to Gaza on Saturday, despite warnings from Israel that they will be stopped for “breaching Israeli law”.
The vessels are carrying 5,000 tonnes of reconstruction materials, [...]
A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank, witnesses and activists said.
The settler opened fire after Palestinian youths threw stones at his car travelling along Route 60 in Mazra’a al-Sharqia, east of Ramallah.
The Popular Struggle Co-ordination Committee activist group said that Aysar al-Zaben was not involved in [...]
Israel’s foreign ministry has rejected Russian president Dmitry Medvedev’s call for immediate engagement with the Palestinian group Hamas.
Medvedev met with Khaled Meshaal, the exiled head of Hamas, in the Syrian capital, Damascus, on Wednesday.
The Russian president urged Hamas to work on a reconciliation deal with its rival Fatah, and insisted that “no one” should be [...]
Leaders of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and the Fatah movement have given their backing to indirect peace talks with Israel, an official has said.
Saturday’s decision was announced after a three-hour meeting of PLO and Fatah officials in the West Bank.
“The Palestinian leadership has approved the proximity talks,” Jibril Rajub, a leading member of the [...]
Israel’s prime minister has again rejected US calls to halt illegal settlement construction in East Jerusalem, as Washington’s Middle East envoy began a fresh attempt to relaunch peace talks.
Binyamin Netanyahu’s comments were broadcast on Israeli television on Thursday, shortly after George Mitchell, the US representative to the region, arrived for his first visit in six [...]
Two Palestinians have been deported to the Gaza Strip from Israel, raising fears that more expulsions could follow under a controversial new Israeli military order.
After nine years in Israeli jail, Ahmad Sabah, a 40-year-old Palestinian, was sent to Gaza, instead of being released to the West Bank where his family was waiting for him.
Israelis [...]
Israel’s prime minister has cancelled plans to attend next week’s Washington summit on nuclear security hosted by Barack Obama, the US president.
Binyamin Netanyahu made the decision after learning that Egypt and Turkey planned to raise the issue of Israel’s presumed nuclear arsenal at the conference, a senior Israeli government official was quoted as saying late [...]
Three children have been reported injured in eastern Gaza City after Israeli aircraft carried out a series of missile attacks across the Palestinian territory.
Palestinian hospital officials said the children were injured by flying debris after the air raids that came in the early hours of Friday.
Al Jazeera’s Casey Kauffman, reporting from Gaza, said there were [...]