Israel has launched an airstrike from the occupied Syrian Golan region, a military source says. Syria’s air defence intercepted most of the missiles, with no deaths reported. The Observatory for Human Rights says the bombing targeted facilities in southern Damascus countryside . A military source told Syria’s official news agency SANA that Syrian air defence … Read more
Dozens of Israeli soldiers stood guard in the occupied West Bank town of Huwara, Unrest erupted at the funeral of Al Jazeera TV journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, Today, the Israeli army has a heavy presence in Huwara. Dozens of Israeli soldiers stood guard in the occupied West Bank town of Huwara, where a Palestinian flag … Read more
Palestinian schoolteacher Zawada Shalaldeh has been the subject of an Israeli travel ban for 37 years. The 59-year-old from the town of Sa’ir, near Hebron, in the West Bank told Arab News that the restrictions imposed on his movements had also impacted his wife’s ability to get around. He said: “Since 1985 until today, I … Read more
Hungarian police announced Monday that they had busted an international money-laundering ring based in Hungary that was led by an Israeli man and defrauded people in dozens of countries through online investment scams. According to police spokesman Peter Farkas, around 44 million euros ($47 million) were transferred from 94 companies set up by the gang. … Read more
A senior Israeli lawmaker said on Monday the country risked “religious war” after a court ruled in favor of Jews who had tried to pray at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and as nationalists planned a march near the flashpoint site. Palestinian factions have denounced Israeli moves in Jerusalem’s Old City, the heart of their decades-old … Read more
An Arab Israeli lawmaker who quit the ruling coalition said Sunday that she was returning to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s 60-member alliance, ending a crisis that lasted just a few days. Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi said Thursday that she was quitting Bennett’s coalition, leaving it with just 59 members in Israel’s 120-seat parliament. She cited the … Read more
Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency reported on Sunday that members of an Israeli intelligence service network had been discovered and arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. “Under the guidance of the Zionist regime’s intelligence service, the network attempted to steal and destroy personal and public property, kidnapping and obtaining fabricated confessions through a network … Read more
A left-wing Arab-Israeli lawmaker who quit the governing coalition last week, citing grievances such as police aggression at an Al Jazeera reporter’s funeral, reversed her decision,On Sunday, Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi of the dovish Meretz party’s decision to leave the coalition led by right-wing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett had briefly left it with only 59 of 120 … Read more
Syrian air defenses intercepted Israeli missile strikes near Damascus on Friday, according to state media. “Our air defences stopped a number of hostile missiles in the airspace of the southern countryside of Damascus,” Syria’s official news agency SANA said. AFP correspondents in the Syrian capital said they heard very loud noises in the evening. The … Read more
After Israeli police disrupted the start of the funeral procession, thousands of mourners filled Jerusalem’s tense Old City on Friday for the burial of veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh. The Palestinian-American was fatally shot by an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday, and Israel and the Palestinians … Read more
Shock, indignation, and despair swept over the Palestinian territories when the Israeli army killed veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, early Wednesday. Israeli Defense Forces shot her in the head on the fringes of the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank. Israeli forces first said that Abu Akleh was killed by stray … Read more
Israeli police and the Shin Bet internal security service Thursday said they had captured a Palestinian asserted Islamic State ally blamed for two lethal blade assaults in the beyond three years. Wassim Isaid, 34, from Hebron in the occupied West Bank, has been held since last month and an prosecutor’s assertion was documented against him … Read more
Israeli soldiers have murdered five Palestinians in the illegally occupied West Bank, including a 14-year-old child, as part of ongoing operations by Israel’s military forces in response to a spate of fatal assaults inside Israel. According to the Palestinian health ministry, two Palestinians were murdered in an Israeli operation early Thursday, and three others on … Read more
Three Islamic Jihad terrorists were killed by Israeli security forces during a raid in the West Bank on Saturday, authorities said, the latest killings amid a wave of violence. The bloodshed comes as tensions rise ahead of the start of Ramadan, the holy Muslim month in which unrest has erupted in Israel and the occupied … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s Covid-19 tests came positive on Monday, after his meeting with US Secretary of the State Antony Blinken. Bennett, who met Blinken in Jerusalem on Sunday on the sidelines of a “historic summit” of Israeli and Arab diplomats, “is feeling well and will continue his schedule as planned from his home,” a statement … Read more
JERUSALEM – Israel’s premier said Sunday his country had a “moral obligation” to help stem fighting in Ukraine even if chances of success were “not great”, after shuttle diplomacy that saw him visit the Kremlin. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met for three hours with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin on Saturday, before flying … Read more
JERUSALEM – Seventeen Israelis have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in a racist attack on a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank last month, police said Wednesday. Police said Jewish Israelis armed with stones, clubs and “other objects” wounded one Palestinian and vandalised shops, vehicles and property in the northern West Bank village … Read more
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM – Amnesty International labelled Israel an ‘apartheid’ state that treats Palestinians as “an inferior racial group,” joining the assessment of other rights groups. “Israel’s cruel policies of segregation, dispossession and exclusion across all territories under its control clearly amount to apartheid,” said Amnesty’s secretary general Agnes Callamard. “Whether they live in Gaza, east … Read more
JERUSALEM – Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced on Friday that he has tested positive for COVID-19. “I feel good,” Gantz tweeted about his diagnosis. “In the coming days I will conduct defense matters from my home.” In recent weeks, Israel has been facing a spike in coronavirus cases, with more than 65,000 new cases … Read more
JERUSALEM – An Israeli soldier shot dead a knife-wielding Palestinian who attempted to stab him in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Israeli military said. The incident took place at the Gush Etzion Junction, a major crossroad near a Jewish settlement bloc in the central West Bank. “The soldier fired toward the assailant and … Read more
ABU DHABI: Israel’s Naftali Bennett arrived in the United Arab Emirates Sunday for the first official visit by a prime minister of the Jewish state after the countries established diplomatic ties last year. The trip announced by Bennett’s office comes with Israel making a renewed diplomatic push against international talks which global powers resumed with … Read more
Muslim-majority Malaysia is refusing to grant visas for Israeli players to participate in a major squash tournament next month, the sport’s governing body says, sparking anger in the Jewish state. It is the latest instance of the Southeast Asian nation, which has no diplomatic relations with Israel, attempting to bar athletes from the country. The World Team … Read more
BEIRUT: Lebanon‘s Hezbollah announced on Friday that it has launched tens of rockets, attacking Israeli targets in retaliation for Israeli airstrikes a day earlier. Israeli war jets struck rocket launch sites in southern Lebanon early on Thursday in response to rockets that were fired earlier from Lebanon into Israel. No injuries have been reported on … Read more
The National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan called upon his Israeli counterpart on Sunday to let him know about the United States ‘serious concerns’ over Israel’s planned evictions of Palestinian families from their homes in East Jerusalem, stated the White House statement. Clashes have continued on Sunday night as the Palestinians expressed their outrage over Israel’s … Read more
Telephone service between the UAE and Israel has been restored following the agreement. According to US media, telephone lines have been opened between the two countries after the agreement between the UAE and Israel, after which the UAE can easily call any number in Israel. [embedpost id=”50366″ slug=”pakistan-responses-on-israel-uae-agreement”] The sources said that UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his condolences to the family of a mentally ill Palestinian man who was killed by police. On May 30, Israeli police shot and killed a 32-year-old man with a mental illness while he was on his way to school, and police misunderstood that the man was armed. Speaking … Read more
Syrian air defenses has intercepted Israeli missiles over the capital Damascus, the state media said. However the nature of the targets not yet specified . Syrian state run Ikhbariyah TV said the attack was launched from over the Golan Heights as well as through Lebanese airspace. State news agency SANA said air defenses downed most … Read more
Israeli Spyware Company NSO Group allegedly targeted the cellphones of at least two dozen Pakistani officials this year. According to report published on British daily newspaper Guardian, senior defense and intelligence officials have been targeted by the Israel Spyware Company. The report further stated that the attackers took advantage of vulnerability in the WhatsApp messaging … Read more
