Latest in Tag: Israel Highlight
Latest in Tag: Israel
UN Secretary General urges Al-Sisiâs help for Palestine ceasefire
Secretary General encourages Egypt to open Rafah Crossing
âOperation Protective Edgeâ worst offensive since 2012
Gaza death toll expected to rise as Israel continues operation
Death toll continues to rise in Gaza
Israel bombs 50 targets in Gaza, considering a ground invasion of the strip
3 Israelis confess to Abu Khudeir murder
Egypt calls on Israel to âstop policy of revengeâ, Netanyahu promises justice for murdered Palestinian teen
âNo shameâ in Egypt using Israeli gas through British oil Company, after state’s approval: Petroleum minister
Egyptian government struggles to contain discontent of BG Group, which had to stop supplying Egyptian gas for export because of fuel shortage
Palestinian-American teen released, Gaza airstrikes continue
Israel releases 15-year-old boy in the West Bank and continues to strike Gaza in latest raids
Egyptian foreign minister discusses regional issues with Moroccan counterpart
Foreign ministers touch upon concerning developments in Iraq, Palestine and Libya
Gaza will live
By Dr Cesar Chelala Gaza is subject, once again, to severe Israeli bombing for the death of three Jewish teenagers. This only aggravates a situation that has been causing enormous and unnecessary civilian suffering to a population whose main sin is to want to remain alive and prosper in their own land. As a result of …
Hamas looks to Egypt to ease crisis
Call for Egypt to apply pressure on Israel to end âaggressionâ
Murder of Palestinian teen, Abu Khudeir, condemned
HRW describes Israeli military actions in the West Bank following the kidnap and murder of three Israelis as amounting to “collective punishment”
Foreign ministry encourages Israeli restraint
The ministry says that the Palestinian-Israeli situation is frail and that negotiations should resume
Israeli police arrest hundreds of African refugees on Israeli-Egyptian border
After two days of protests, the asylum seekers were taken back to Israel
UN representative visits African refugees on Egypt-Israeli border
Around 1,000 African migrant detainees, most of whom are Eritreans, had left the Holothuroidea Detention Facility in Israel on Friday, making their way on foot towards the Egyptian border to protest their detention in Israel and to ask for United Nations help.
Israel launches air raids on Syrian positions in Golan
The air raids came after the 13-year-old son of an Israeli defence ministry contractor was killed on the Golan on Sunday morning.
Israel troops kill 14-year-old in hunt for missing teens
Troops also wounded two Palestinians in a refugee camp just outside Jerusalem as clashes flared in the face of the massive military operation in which they have detained 330 Palestinians over the past week, medical sources said
Foreign Ministry warns Israel on military operations
The Egyptian Foreign Ministry warned its Israeli counterparts Thursday against ongoing military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories, citing concerns over the ârepercussions of continuing Israeli military operationsâ. The operations come as part of Israelâs expanded search for three kidnapped Israeli teenagers, and have included air strikes, raids, and dozens of arrests of Palestinians. Israel …
Israel aims to break Hamas as hunt for youths intensifies
AFP – Israel stepped up efforts to crush Hamas in the West Bank on Tuesday as the hunt for three Israeli teenagers believed kidnapped by the Islamist movement entered its fifth day. Thousands of Israel troops engaged in the search for the youths turned their attention during the night to the northern West Bank city …
Egypt calls on Israel to show restraint
Foreign Ministry warns Israel against aggravating situation in search for missing teens
Israel PM says Hamas responsible for teens’ kidnapping
Israel broadened the search for three teenagers believed kidnapped by militants, arresting 80 Palestinians overnight and imposing a tight closure on the Hebron.
Israel backs law to block Palestinian prisoner releases
The amendment would give the courts power to prevent Israel’s president from granting clemency or shortening the jail term of anyone imprisoned for murder.
Fahmy meets with Mahmoud Abbas in Cairo
Palestinian president in Cairo for Al-Sisi inauguration
Politics left behind as Mideast rivals head to Vatican
AFP – Israel’s government is boycotting its Palestinian counterpart with relations to a new low, and when their two presidents join Pope Francis in a Vatican prayer for peace on Sunday politics are likely to be absent. Israeli President Shimon Peres and his Palestinian counterpart Mahmud Abbas have been acquaintances for years and held peace …
Egyptian foreign ministry welcomes Palestinian unity government
MFA hails Hamas-Fatah agreement as âimportant step for the restoration of Palestiniansâ legitimate rightsâ
Israel denies future Palestinian ministers West Bank entry
Gazaâs Islamist rulers and the Western-backed Palestine Liberation Organisation, which is dominated by Abbasâs secular Fatah party, signed a surprise reconciliation agreement in April to end years of rivalry.
Netanyahuâs nose
Dr Cesar Chelala As the Middle East peace talks face another standstill, Israelâs Prime Minister, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, is quick to blame the Palestinian side. And most of the Western press dutifully parrots Mr Netanyahuâs lies. Palestinians have been guilty of stalling the peace talks, too, but for different reasons. The main weakness of Palestinian …
Israel continues spying on the US
By Dr. Cesar Chelala As Middle East peace efforts go through another round of failure, information published by Newsweek magazine indicates that Israel has been conducting spying activities in the US. Although the main targets are industrial and technical secrets, they have a connection to national security that makes these activities by a US ally highly reprehensible. This is not the first …
Israel, Palestinians eye political gain from papal visit
In fact, the popeâs âpilgrimage of prayerâ, which begins in Jordan on Saturday, will leave a relatively faint footprint in Israel.
Israeli mobile operator Cellcom profit up more than forecast
Cellcom was forecast to earn ILS 86m shekels on revenue of ILS 1.18bn, according to a Reuters poll.
Former Israel PM Olmert gets 6 years jail for bribery
Olmert is the first former prime minister of Israel looking at a prison term for corruption.
Fahmy begins UK visit
Terrorism and Middle East peace process top foreign ministerâs agenda in London