Israel's interior minister says it will take months to expel migrants from several African countries who entered Israel illegally. Eli Yishai spoke Friday, a day after a occupied Jerusalem court ruled that 4,500 illegal migrants — mostly from South (...)
Amnesty International has appealed to Israel to end the practice of imprisoning Palestinians suspected of militant activity without trial, calling in a report for the release of hundreds of detainees.
The London-based rights group claimed that (...)
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert Sunday urged Israeli leaders to relinquish the idea of a unified Jerusalem if they truly want peace, contending in a pair of interviews that years of government neglect have kept the Jewish and Arab sectors (...)
The Palestinian president has left the door open to continuing peace negotiations with Israel even if it resumes settlement construction in the West Bank, offering a glimmer of hope that a compromise will be reached in a key dispute that has (...)
Israeli troops killed a Hamas fighter Friday during an arrest raid in the West Bank, where violence has increased since the start of new Mideast peace talks this month.
The Islamic group, which killed four Israeli settlers in a Sept. 1 shooting (...)
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday that renewed peace talks with the Palestinians were unlikely to get anywhere within the one-year time frame set by the United States.
“It's clear that the two sides are so different - in (...)
line foreign minister said Tuesday that there was “no chance” a Palestinian state would be established by 2012 – a message that threatened to cloud the latest visit by Washington's Mideast envoy. The comments by Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman (...)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hawkish coalition partners vowed Thursday to keep building Jewish settlements and demolishing unauthorized Palestinian homes in east Jerusalem – despite indications the Israeli leader has put the brakes on (...)
Israel declined Thursday to address the international pressure that's been mounting for it to join the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, saying only that its refusal to acknowledge or deny it possesses atomic weapons is a pillar of its military (...)
The Israeli government has imposed a de facto freeze on new Jewish construction in the city's disputed eastern sector despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's public insistence it would not be stopped in the face of US pressure, Occupied (...)
A White House envoy tried Friday to get Israelis and Palestinians talking again after more than a year of deadlock, while confronting a second challenge – navigating the rocky relations between Israel and the US.
Senator and veteran negotiator (...)
Aides to Israel's prime minister said Thursday that his government has officially rejected President Barack Obama's demand that it suspends all construction in contested east Jerusalem, a move that threatens to entrench a year-old deadlock in (...)
Israel's prime minister abruptly called off a trip to Washington just days before he was slated to attend a conference there on the spread of nuclear weapons, officials in his office said Friday, fearing Israel would be singled out over its own (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Sunday that Israel would not restrict construction in occupied east Jerusalem, a step the US has requested - sticking to a tough position hours before he sets off on his first trip to Washington (...)
Israel's prime minister tried to play down a serious diplomatic dispute with the United States Sunday, urging calm after another stern rebuke from Washington over plans to build 1,600 new apartments for Jews in contested east Jerusalem.
Israel's (...)
Several dozen Palestinian women scuffled with Israeli troops on the outskirts of Occupied Jerusalem Saturday amid rising religious and political tensions in the disputed city.
The confrontation erupted at the Qalandiya crossing between the West (...)
– US Vice President Joe Biden condemned a new Israeli plan to build hundreds of homes in disputed east Jerusalem Tuesday, casting a cloud over a high-profile visit that had been aimed at repairing ties with the Jewish state and kickstarting Mideast (...)
Israeli troops clashed with Palestinian stone-throwers at two contested holy sites and in a West Bank village Friday, seriously injuring a Palestinian woman and a 14-year-old boy, officials and witnesses said.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (...)
Israel will not set up a special panel to investigate last winter's Gaza offensive, a Cabinet minister said Tuesday, rejecting a key demand of a UN report that accused the military of war crimes.
Information Minister Yuli Edelstein said Israel (...)
The Israeli prime minister said Sunday he believes Israel will retain parts of the West Bank forever.
Benjamin Netanyahu made the comments, shortly after meeting the visiting US Mideast envoy George Mitchell. Mitchell has been pressing Israel to (...)
Washington's Middle East envoy launched a new effort Thursday aimed at restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, just as US President Barack Obama expressed pessimism about the prospects.
Already complicating envoy George Mitchell's (...)
Israel Wednesday caved in to demands from Turkey and apologized over an insult to its ambassador, a government statement said, an attempt to defuse the latest crisis between the two nations.
On Monday, Israel's Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon (...)
Israel said Monday that it will build nearly 700 new apartments in occupied east Jerusalem, drawing tough criticism from both the Palestinians and the United States, which denounced the plan as an obstacle to peacemaking.
Prime Minister Benjamin (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his top ministers debated Monday whether to approve an emotionally charged deal to trade 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for an Israeli soldier held by Gaza militants for more than three years.
Netanyahu (...)
Israel has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without permission of their families.
The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's Abu (...)