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Palestinian civilian shot dead in raid on family home
At around 2am yesterday, a squad of Israeli soldiers raided the house belonging to Yehya Isaq al-Jabari, 67. According to his sons and daughters, who were in the house at the time, the soldiers ran into the house and pushed one son to the floor. Mr Jabari then began a scuffle with the soldiers.
Israeli army resumes razing trees in Bethlehem
The Israeli army and a group of settlers continued their efforts to raze trees in a Palestinian graveyard near the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem on Thursday morning.
Israeli security forces admit to 245 kidnappings in Gaza over the past year
The Israeli secret police, Shin Beit, has presented a report to the Law and Justice Committee of the Israeli Knesset, admitting to the kidnapping of 245 Palestinians residents in the Gaza Strip over the past 11 months.
France condemns the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements
France said on Thursday that it condemns without reservation the announcement that Israel is illegally extending settlements in the Occupied Territories.
PHR and PCAT files a petition against Shin Bet interrogators for abusing a young Palestinian detainee
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCAT) filed a petition to the Tel Aviv Administrative Court on Wednesday and demanding an urgent court decision to allow their physicians to visit an under-age Palestinian detainees imprisoned at the Sharon Israeli prison.
Fatah to Israel: Let us get arms to fight Hamas
Senior Fatah officials in the Gaza Strip have asked Israel to allow them to receive large shipments of arms and ammunition from Arab countries, including Egypt. The group says it needs the weapons to counter attacks by Hamas, which has an overwhelming advantage in the Gaza Strip.
1967: Our rights have to be recognised
Israel must recognise our basic entitlements if it is serious about peace, writes Palestinian prime minister Ismail Haniyeh .
Soldiers hurl grenade into house in village near Ramallah; mother and three children hurt after inhaling gas.
An IDF officer was suspended from operational duty Thursday after he threw a tear gas grenade into the house of a Palestinian family in a village near Ramallah.
Lebanon: Unexploded ordnance hampering aid deliveries to refugees
Unexploded ordnance and booby-trapped buildings are hindering an already highly restricted relief effort trying to provide vital food and water and evacuate the injured from the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in north Lebanon. Up to 8,000 people remain caught in a deadly stand-off there between the military and Islamist militants.
Children still caught in the crossfire at refugee camp in Lebanon
As the crisis at the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli enters its third week, several thousand children and family members remain trapped inside the camp, caught in the middle of a continuing conflict between the Lebanese army and the armed faction Fatah al-Islam.
Sanctions are needed to save Israel from itself
Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank 40 years ago this week. The victory was celebrated as a great triumph, at once tripling the size of the land under Israeli control, including East Jerusalem. It was, however, a Pyrrhic victory.
Israelis expand West Bank settlements
An Israeli settler organisation has expanded several settlements in the occupied West Bank despite international commitments by the government not to do so, media and the settlers said.
Explain Palestinian travel ban on West Bank road the state is told
The Israeli High Court ordered on Thursday that the government explain why Palestinian villagers cannot travel on a section of road that runs through the heart of the West Bank, connecting Jerusalem to the illegal settlement of Modi'in.
A day at the Gaza seaside
It was the last day of school before the summer holidays, a day when the children are allowed to dispense with uniforms. Beit Lahiya lies in the far north of the Gaza Strip, along the border with Israel and the sullen concrete wall that marks it. It is literally within spitting distance of Israeli military positions and watchtowers. A few hundred metres to the west is the Mediterranean Sea, which you can hear crashing against the strip of beach running the length of Gaza.
Begin's grandson is apartheid wall protester
The tabloid-style Maariv newspaper published a photograph of 32-year-old Avinadav Begin and a young Palestinian facing off with Israeli soldiers in riot gear during a weekly demonstration against the barrier.
The world will understand us more
Rory McCarthy reports from Ma'asara on efforts to use non-violence as means of protesting against Israel's West Bank barrier.
MK: We must prevent Burg's burial in J`lem national cemetery
MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima) said Thursday that former Knesset speaker Avraham Burg, after his comments about Israel and Zionism must be prevented through legislation if necessary from being buried in the section in the Jerusalem cemetery on Mount Herzl reserved for national leaders.
Syrian official: We want to renew the peace process
A Syrian official said Thursday that Damascus is interested in renewing the peace process with Israel, a day after similar remarks by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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