JERUSALEM — A senior Israeli official says the attack on his country's embassy in Egypt is a "grave violation" of diplomatic norms and a "blow to peaceful relations" between the two countries.
The official says all the embassy staff except the (...)
CAIRO — The storming of the Israeli embassy by a mob of Egyptian protesters inflicted a "severe injury to the fabric of peace" between the two countries, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Saturday.
The ambassador and the entire (...)
JERUSALEM: Over the past five years, Israel's military has detained more than 800 Palestinian youths and children for pelting rocks at Israelis soldiers, and has interrogated and jailed many of them, a rights group said in a report released (...)
TRIPOLI: Forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Qaddafi shelled villages and towns to try to take control of the high ground in a western mountain range as NATO widened its campaign of bombings and leafleting to persuade government troops to stop (...)
CAIRO: Saudi Arabia's king promised a multibillion dollar package of reforms, raises, cash, loans and apartments on Friday in what appeared to be the Arab world's most expensive attempt to appease residents inspired by the unrest that has swept two (...)
TOBRUK: Outnumbered and outgunned, Libyan rebels lost control of their last town west of Tripoli on Tuesday and struggled to stall or outrun Moammar Gadhafi's forces as they raced eastward. With a punishing blockade, air strikes and long-range (...)
TULKAREM: For more than a year, a Palestinian couple belonging to an Islamic sect rejected by many mainstream Muslims endured insults from some of their neighbors and even death threats while struggling to maintain a quiet existence in this West (...)
JERUSALEM: Six decades after the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews, Israel's national Holocaust memorial has launched a new effort to educate the country's Arab minority — many of whom either deny the horror or undermine its scope.
Like their (...)
JERUSALEM: Rising numbers of African economic migrants and asylum seekers have been slipping into Israel this year from Egypt, an Israeli Interior Ministry official said Monday.
They appear to be racing to cross the border before Israel builds a (...)
UMM EL-FAHM: Relations between Israel's Jewish majority and its Arab minority have never been warm, but they appear to have hit a new low that has activists on both sides worried the troubled relationship is beyond repair.
In the past month (...)
JERUSALEM: The parents of a young American activist crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer seven years ago as she tried to save a Palestinian home from demolition never saw the soldier who killed her or his commanders put on trial or (...)
JERUSALEM: An Israeli military spokeswoman says border guards shot and killed an Egyptian infiltrator suspected of smuggling drugs into Israel.
The spokeswoman said Saturday that the man did not heed calls to stop before he was shot. Another man (...)
RAMALLAH: Palestinian women are speeding into the record books by competing on an all-female car racing team — the Speed Sisters.
Along the way, they're crashing through another gender barrier in this conservative Muslim society.
The eight (...)
JENIN, West Bank: The Helou family is so worried about getting expelled to Gaza by Israeli authorities that they're all but trapped in this West Bank town.
They couldn't even leave to get their disabled son the best possible surgery to let him (...)
JERUSALEM: Israeli and Palestinian officials say Israel has allowed some formerly banned food items into the Gaza Strip after widespread international criticism of its three-year-old blockade.
Palestinian liaison official Raed Fattouh says Israel (...)