Human Rights Watch directed an accusation to the Israeli occupation of using unjustified force to arrest Palestinian children up to the age of 11 years, in addition to using the threat to force them to sign confessions.
The organization said in a (...)
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak approved in principle on Sunday the purchase of 20 U.S.-built radar-evading stealth fighters in a deal worth $2.75 billion, Israeli defence ministry officials said.
According to Reuters, the F-35 warplanes are (...)
Israel on Friday rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution urging an investigation into a report saying war crimes were committed in Gaza, and condemned the world body vote as "completely detached from realities", Reuters reported.
The (...)
The Palestinians on Sunday accused Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton of undermining progress toward Mideast peace talks after she praised Israel for offering to curb some Jewish settlement construction, AP reported.
After meeting Israeli (...)
International aid plans for
post-war Gaza call for rushing in food and medicine and
restoring water and power, but a wholesale reconstruction of the
enclave is a long way off, Western diplomats said on Saturday, according to Reuters.
Preliminary (...)
A human rights groups said Saturday Israel is using white phosphorus in violation of international law.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that given
Gaza's high population density, and the chance that civilians would
be hurt, Israel should (...)
Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert survived
what was considered a no-confidence vote Monday night in the Knesset
(parliament) in spite of having the Labour party, his primary
coalition partner, vote against him, according to dpa.
The vote, in (...)
British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in
Israel Saturday for talks with the Israeli leadership on the
situation in the Middle East, reported dpa.
Blair was due to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on
Saturday evening, the Israeli (...)
Palestinian prisoners accused guards in Megiddo prison in northern Israel of desecrating editions of the Koran, and said they would begin a hunger strike Wednesday, dpa quoted Palestinian reports as saying.
Israeli prison administrators rejected (...)
Opposition leader Shimon Peres said on Tuesday he feared Israeli extremists might try to assassinate Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the target of growing far-right fury over a planned withdrawal from Gaza next year.
Peres, head of the center-left (...)
Premier Ariel Sharon met with Israeli settler leaders in Jerusalem Sunday afternoon but failed to pacify them regarding his plan to withdraw unilaterally from the Gaza Strip.
The settlers, bitterly opposed to Sharon's initiative to evacuate all 21 (...)
