Conflict With Israel

May 17, 2013

A lone chicken is seen in the rubble of the site where an Israeli airstrike struck Damascus earlier this month. AFP Image
10:29 GMT

An Israeli official has come forward to say that the Israeli government may attack Syria again so as to prevent the transfer of weapons to what he called "Islamist militants".

May 13, 2013

Part of the Al Haram Al Sharif in East Jerusalem. Getty images.
10:50 GMT

After the Jordanian delegate at the Arab League called for a meeting on Sunday following Wednesday's attacks by Israelis on the Al Haram Al Sharif, the League met yesterday and condemned Israeli behaviour.

May 12, 2013

Palestinians demonstrate at Al Aqsa mosque following Friday prayers outside the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem's Old City on Friday, May 10. AFP Photo
12:35 GMT

In the aftermath of Israeli violations at Al Haram Al Sharif in East Jerusalem on Wednesday such as the obstruction of prayers and the arrest of the Grand Mufti, Jordan has taken immediate action to try and hold Israel responsible for its actions.

May 10, 2013

The old city, and within it sites such as Al Haram Al Sharif and the Wailing Wall, lie in East Jerusalem.
11:33 GMT

A new report, the first of its kind made by the UN, has provided insight on the ways in which Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem since the 1967 war has significantly decreased their standards of living, housing, health care and education.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah
06:43 GMT

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah said that as a result of Israeli airstrikes on Damascus last weekend, the Shiite group would be provided with weapons he described as "game changing" by the Syrian regime.

May 4, 2013

IDF warplanes. For illustrative purposes from aviationintel.com
07:20 GMT

Israeli airplanes have allegedly launched an airstrike inside Syria, targeting Hezbollah-linked chemical weapon delivery systems

May 3, 2013

Tensions ran rife in the West Bank earlier this week as Palestinian land was burned and destroyed by Israeli settlers in retaliation to the stabbing of an Israeli man on Tuesday. AFP photo
06:00 GMT

The stabbing of an Israeli man on Tuesday by a Palestinian in the West Bank, near the city of Nablus, has sparked Israel settlers in the local area to plan building a "revenge colony" as payback.

April 30, 2013

Israeli security forces gather near the site where an Israeli settler was stabbed in the Tapuah junction near the northern West Bank city of Nablus (AFP PHOTO /JAAFAR ASHTIYEH)
08:46 GMT

An Israeli settler was pronounced dead at the scene after being stabbed and shot by a Palestinian man, near the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday morning, whilst a confirmed Israeli airstrike killed one Palestinian in the Gaza Strip

April 17, 2013

A bomb technician collects the remains of a rocket launched from Gaza Strip falling close to Sderot on April 3, 2013 (AFP)
08:08 GMT

Rockets struck the Israeli Red Sea resort town Eilat on Wednesday morning, causing no casualties

April 11, 2013

Israeli policewoman talks to Women of the Wall member (AFP/Gali Tibbon)
09:11 GMT

Women of the Wall members arrested, also a Heredi man and woman who burned a prayer book detained according to reports

April 7, 2013

Anonymous hacking group (AFP Photo)
08:32 GMT

Anonymous hacking collective had promised to erase Israel from the internet this weekend

April 4, 2013

A bomb technician collects the remains of a rocket launched from Gaza Strip falling close to Sderot on April 3, 2013. Israeli aircraft carried out apparent warning strikes in the Gaza Strip, hitting empty fields after a militant rocket earlier struck waste ground in southern Israel. (AFP PHOTO/DAVID BUIMOVITCH)
09:23 GMT

The attacks, on Thursday, did not cause any casualties but are liable to raise tensions in the region.

A Palestinian boy plays in an old tree east of Gaza City, near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on April 3, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/MOHAMMED ABED)
07:57 GMT

Both teens were shot dead by Israeli soldiers at the military checkpoint outside the city of Tulkarem.

April 3, 2013

An Israeli bomb technician handles the remains of a rocket fired from Gaza into Sderot (AFP Photo/ David Buimovitch)
09:00 GMT

Israel launches air attack on Gaza for the first time since last November's 8 day war

March 27, 2013

File picture shows an undated handout image taken from the Free Gaza Movement website on May 28, 2010 of the Turkish ship Mavi Marmara taking part in the "Freedom Flotilla" heading towards the Gaza Strip. (AFP PHOTO / FREE GAZA MOVEMENT)
09:35 GMT

As part of deal to restore relations with Turkey, Israel will be paying millions of dollars according to official sources.