IHTIMAN, Bulgaria : Bulgarian investigators on Friday re-enacted a July 2012 bomb attack blamed bySofiaon Hezbollah that killed five Israelis, blowing up two old buses and 11 silicon mannequins in a controlled explosion. The aim was “to provide information and important evidence on the type ...

SILWAD - Scores of Palestinian youths clashed with Israeli soldiers for a second day in the occupied West Bank on Friday, after locals accused Jewish settlers of beating a man with steel pipes. Youths heaved rocks at Israeli army jeeps as smoke from blazing tyres mixed with tear gas a few hundred ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Hackers have launched an assault on Israeli websites, but the damage has been minimal as the Jewish state is prepared to fend off such attacks, one of the country's top cyber experts said on Sunday. The hackers associated with the activist group Anonymous reportedly hit the ...

URI AVNERY  - So, finally our Prime Minister has apologised to Turkey for “operational mistakes” that “might have” led to the death of nine Turks during the attack on MV Mavi Marmara, the ship which tried to break the Israeli blockade on Gaza. It took him two years and ...

JERUSALEM/SOFIA (Reuters/AFP) - Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers on Friday at a rally outside an Israeli prison in the occupied West Bank.Palestinian medical officials said two protesters were wounded by live gunfire in the demonstration, which was mounted as a show of ...

GAZA CITY  - Israeli army gunfire wounded two Palestinian teenagers near northern Gaza’s border with the Jewish state on Friday, a medical official said. “Two Palestinians, aged 16 and 17, were hit in the legs by Israeli army gunfire east of Jabaliya as they approached a security ...

JERUSALEM  - Israel on Sunday approved a plan to settle tens of thousands of desert-dwelling Bedouin in permanent townships, triggering criticism from opponents who say it will displace many from their traditional lands.The government said it would “as much as possible” grant legal ...

CHARLOTTE SILVERRecent statements by the Palestinian Authority declaring premonitions of the coming of an apartheid state in the likely event that Binyamin Netanyahu is re-elected have left many observers scratching their heads and questioning, yet again, the relevance of the nearly two decades-old ...

GAZA CITY/ZAIM  - Israeli army gunfire killed one Palestinian and wounded another in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday, a spokesman for the territory’s emergency services said.The two men, one a 20-year-old farmer, were hit by live fire east of Jabaliya and near the Israeli border, ...

NABLUS (AFP) - Israeli settlers opened fire in the northern West Bank on Thursday wounding two Palestinians in separate incidents, Palestinian security forces and witnesses said. The Israeli military confirmed “clashes” between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in the two locations, but ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and his Israeli counterpart Ehud Barak met Wednesday for a meeting that underscored a “strong US commitment to Israel’s security,” the Pentagon said. US Defence Department spokesman George Little said in a statement that the two ...

URI AVNERYIn a few hundred years, a professor looking for an especially esoteric subject will ask his students to research the Israeli elections of 2013.The students will come back with a unanimous report: The results of our research are incredible.Faced with at least three grave dangers, they ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Three Israeli rightwing parties, including two that are expected to be part of the next government after elections this month, are talking seriously about annexing all or part of the occupied West Bank.Seized by Israel in the 1967 Six Day War, the West Bank is now home to hundreds ...

JERICHO (AFP) - Around 500 Bedouin Palestinians were temporarily evacuated from their homes in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday as the Israeli army carried out exercises, residents and the army said. An AFP photographer at the scene saw dozens of people being evacuated in the Wadi al-Maleh area in ...

HEBRON (AFP) - Israeli troops Friday arrested a Palestinian policeman as he tried to pass through an Israeli military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian security source told AFP. He said that soldiers detained Firas Abu Aziz, 27, as he was on his way home to the village of Yata, ...

TEL MOTZA - Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a rare temple and religious figurines dating back to the Judaean period nearly 3,000 years ago, Israel's Antiquities Authority said on Wednesday.The discoveries were made at Tel Motza, outside Jerusalem, during archaeological work taking place ahead ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli attacks on journalists and media facilities in the Gaza Strip during an eight-day flare up last month “violated the laws of war,” Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.But Israel rejected the findings, saying the military had adhered to international law during ...

JERUSALEM - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, a key ally of the premier, resigned on Friday after having been charged with breach of trust, barely five weeks ahead of general elections.“I am not legally bound to submit my resignation... but I have decided to step down from my duties ...

JERUSALEM  - Israeli border guards shot dead on Wednesday a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank city of Hebron, sparking stone-throwing attacks on troops in the area, police and witnesses said. An Israeli police spokesperson said, “A Palestinian brandished a pistol as he approached a ...

JERUSALEM  - Israeli forces from the Shin Bet internal security agency shot dead a Palestinian in the West Bank on Monday after he rammed their car and attacked them with an axe, the intelligence agency said."During the course of Shin Bet operations in the Deir Sharaf area, a Palestinian ...

Laying bare the hesitation of international forces to so much as lay a finger on Israel, Israeli planes continued to strike Gaza at will and on Sunday they attacked with a vengeance, marking an untrammelled display of ruthlessness committed against its inhabitants, when 26 of them, including 14 ...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN - People from all walks of life including lawyers, ex-servicemen, civil society members, politicians and social persons condemned the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians living in Gaza Strip. Manzoor Tarar Advocate condemned the Israeli brutality. PPP district secretary ...

MANDI BAHAUDDIN - People from all walks of life including lawyers, ex-servicemen, civil society members, politicians and social persons condemned the Israeli aggression against the Palestinians living in Gaza Strip. Manzoor Tarar Advocate condemned the Israeli brutality. PPP district secretary ...

Israeli air strikes killed 21 people in Gaza on Monday, raising the overall death toll to 98 on the sixth day of the relentless bombing campaign.In the latest raids, one person was killed when Israeli warplanes hit the Shuruq tower media centre in Gaza City, which houses Palestinian and ...

GAZA CITY  - Israeli strikes on Gaza killed 15 more Palestinians and destroyed the Hamas government headquarters on Saturday as Israel called up thousands more reservists for a possible ground war.Israeli warplanes carried out 180 airstrikes overnight levelling the headquarters of the Hamas ...

An Israeli air strike on Rafah in southern Gaza killed four people on Saturday, Palestinian medics said, raising the overall death toll from the aerial campaign to 38.The attack came as the Tunisian foreign minister crossed into southern Gaza through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.It followed ...

GAZA CITY  - Israeli airstrikes killed two Gaza fighters on Monday as they clashed with troops who crossed the border on the eve of a landmark visit by the Qatari emir, medical sources said.The flareup provoked threats of revenge from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the ...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel's parliament voted overnight to dissolve itself and hold early elections on January 22, officials said Tuesday. The dissolution of the Knesset was approved by 100 votes to none in a third reading after a lengthy session in the 120-seat chamber. Last week Prime Minister ...

RAFAH (AFP) - An Israeli strike on Gaza overnight killed two people whom Palestinian officials described as border guards, but Israel said it had thwarted an attack in the advanced planning stage. “Two citizens were martyred and another was wounded in an Israeli air strike on a car in Rafah ...

JERUSALEM  - Israel’s army on Wednesday staged a surprise drill on the country’s northern border, the military said, amid tensions over Iran’s nuclear drive and the fate of Syria’s chemical weapons.The one-day exercise was ordered by army chief Lieutenant General Benny ...