Facebook Images Posted: Israeli soldier poses with bound Arab

ShareA former Israeli soldier posted photos on Facebook of herself in uniform smiling beside bound and blindfolded Palestinian prisoners, which has drawn sharp criticism internationally and Palestinian officials on Monday. Israeli news websites and blogs showed two photographs of the woman. In the first one, she is sitting legs crossed beside a blindfolded Palestinian man [...]

Dead Palestinian boy found in West Bank

ShareA Palestinian boy has been found dead from a gunshot wound in the West Bank, Palestinians and Israeli police said. Some Palestinians say the teenager was throwing stones at Israeli cars and was most likely shot by one of the drivers or Israeli settlers. The boy’s body was found near his village not far from Ramallah on Thursday [...]

Israeli-Palestinian talks to start next week – Clinton

ShareIsraeli-Palestinian proximity talks are set to start next week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says. Mrs Clinton told reporters in Washington that US special envoy George Mitchell would be returning to the region next week. Plans to launch the indirect negotiations failed last month over a row about Israeli plans to build 1,600 homes [...]

Osama Bin Laden threatens retaliation over 9/11 trial

ShareA message said to be from Osama Bin Laden threatens to kill Americans if the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 attacks is executed by the US. Al-Jazeera, an Arabic  news channel broadcast an audiotape reportedly from the al-Qaeda leader talking about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other suspects. The tape said that if the US made [...]

2 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza Strip

ShareThe Israeli military said on Friday that two soldiers had been killed in an exchange of fire with militants who were planting explosives along the security fence in the southern Gaza Strip the very day. They said that two other soldiers were wounded and evacuated to a hospital. According to reports, the soldiers opened fire [...]

2 Palestinians killed by Israeli troops

ShareOn Sunday, two Palestinians were killed by the Israeli troops, when they tried to stab a soldier in West Bank violence. This placed further strain on US efforts to get indirect peace talks under way. Four Palestinians have been killed so far in the past two days due to violent incidents within the occupied territory. [...]

Clash between Israeli troops and Palestinians near Jerusalem

ShareSeveral Palestinian women came to blows with the Israeli troops on the outskirts of Jerusalem on Saturday, during the already rising religious and political tensions in the disputed city. At the Qalandiya crossing between the West Bank and Jerusalem, the confrontation erupted when a woman chanted “Jerusalem is Arab, our eternal capital,” and briefly planted [...]

Iranian leader predicts destruction of Israel

ShareIran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini’s website quoted him saying that he is confident that Islamic nations will one day watch the destruction of arch-foe Israel, on Wednesday. The remark was made by the Iranian leader during a meeting with Mauritanian President Mohammed Ould Abdel Aziz in Tehran, the website said. The all-powerful Iranian leader [...]

6 Palestinians killed by Israeli Military

ShareIsraeli soldiers shot and killed six Palestinians in two incidents over the weekend. Three were shot in the West Bank when they were accused of killing an Israeli settler there, and three were later killed in Gaza when they were caught crawling under the border wall to carry out an attack on the region. The [...]