Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated on Wednesday that he would support an initiative to integrate four Jewish communities in the West Bank, as well as a large settlement bloc, into the Jerusalem municipality.
The head of the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah called Israel’s removal of metal detectors from Temple Mount entrances a “victory” in a televised speech Wednesday, even as Muslim leaders have said that the move is not enough and vowed to continue protests.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II urged Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas to work to calm spiraling tensions Wednesday, hours after Palestinian factions, backed by Abbas, called for violent demonstrations Friday over the Temple Mount.
Israeli soldiers arrested the mother of Palestinian terrorist Omar al-Abed on Tuesday on charges of “aggravated incitement,” following her son’s fatal stabbing of an Israeli father and two of his adult children on Friday night in the West Bank community of Halamish.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party will vote against the creation of a Palestinian state on Tuesday, a move which will trigger a chain of events including the probable collapse of the Palestinian Authority.
More than two dozen Palestinians were wounded in fresh clashes that broke out on Sunday night in Jerusalem and the West Bank as Palestinians continued to protest against new security measures at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount.
At least two Palestinians were killed Saturday in clashes as demonstrations continued against the installation of metal detectors at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount holy site. The metal detectors were installed after three Arab Israelis shot dead two Israeli police officers just outside the Temple Mount compound on July 14 using guns they had smuggled into the holy site.
Abed Aljaleel al Abed, the father of 19-year-old Omar al Abed who murdered three Israelis in the West Bank settlement of Halamish on Friday evening, blamed the “Israeli occupation” on Saturday for the attack his son carried out.
The IDF said on Thursday it was preparing to deploy five battalions to prevent the spread of violent clashes from Jerusalem to the West Bank, ahead of massive Muslim protests anticipated on Friday outside the Temple Mount.
TEL AVIV — The leaders of Palestinian jihadist factions in the Gaza Strip held a press conference threatening that if Israel continues an “assault” against the Al Aqsa Mosque, “this will result in a response that will change the entire region.”
A Palestinian man attempted to stab a group of soldiers outside the Arab village of Teqoa in the central West Bank on Thursday, the army said.
Hours after a Canadian government-funded agency called for a ban on importing wines manufactured in Judea and Samaria (or the West Bank) and labeled as “product of Israel,” the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reversed course and issued an apology citing their failure to consider the illegality of their decision.
TEL AVIV – The UN Human Rights Council is ignoring the fact that more than 40 European companies – most of which are under some degree of state control in their home countries – operate in four areas around the world deemed occupied by the United Nations even while the agency continues to boycott businesses that operate in Israeli settlements, a new report found.
TEL AVIV – Two Palestinians were arrested for trying to steal Byzantine-era antiquities, the IDF’s Civil Administration said on Monday.
TEL AVIV — A Palestinian assailant wounded one Israeli soldier in an attempted car ramming and stabbing attack outside the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, located northeast of Hebron.
The Palestinian Authority cut the salaries of 37 Hamas lawmakers as part of a series of measures to get the terror group to cede control of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reports said on Sunday.
TEL AVIV – The United Church of Christ (UCC) overwhelmingly approved a resolution this week claiming Israel mistreats Palestinian children and called on the U.S. to suspend military assistance to the Jewish state.
One of the most wanted Palestinian terrorists, believed by Israeli intelligence to have planned the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in the West Bank in the summer of 2014, has moved to Lebanon after being expelled last month from Qatar.
Israeli authorities have re-arrested a prominent Palestinian lawmaker in an overnight raid over her leadership in a movement Israel considers a terrorist organisation, officials said Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Following Tuesday’s strikes from Israel’s Air Force into Gaza in response to rocket fire, the Gulf press has come out in an attack of Hamas and said the nations supporting it were using Palestinian lives in as pawns to divert attention from their own countries.
TEL AVIV – About 20 Jewish pilgrims were arrested Sunday morning when they attempted to visit the Jewish holy site of Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus, the IDF said.
An Israeli government official denied on Friday a report that an agreement had been reached with the Trump administration to refrain from issuing any tenders for new construction projects in the West Bank until the end of this year.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved on Thursday an expansion project for the settlement of Beit El in the West Bank, okaying the construction of 300 new housing units in the community.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that construction of the first new Jewish settlement in the West Bank in 25 years has begun.
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A new report by a United Nations expert, and submitted to the U.N. Human Rights Council, blames Israel in part for Palestinian men beating their wives — offering more fuel to those in the Trump administration seeking to leave the
Both Islamic State and Hamas claimed responsibility for an attack in Jerusalem on Friday in which an Israeli border policewoman was killed, but the Israeli army said the assailants didn’t belong to any terror group.
As Israel marked the fiftieth anniversary of its military victory in the Golan Heights during the Six Day War, President Reuven Rivlin called Thursday for global recognition of Israeli rule there, saying the northern territory is “essential” to the survival of the Jewish State.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday he was not seeking an “escalation” in the Gaza Strip after his government moved to reduce electricity supplies to the Hamas-run enclave.
Israel has reportedly decided to heed a Palestinian Authority request to cut electricity supply to the Hamas-run Gaza Strip after the PA announced it would not continue to pay the bill as it stepped up pressure on its main rival.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Sunday for the United Nations to shut down its Palestinian refugee aid agency, saying it was responsible for incitement against the Jewish state.
The United Nations is preparing to release yet another anti-Israel report, blaming Israeli settlements for a host of Palestinian grievances for everything from excessive use of force to building parks on the West Bank so as to “entrench” Israeli presence — the report coming just days after the 50th Anniversary of the beginning of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
Qatar has asked Hamas to stop any actions in Qatar that makes the gulf state look like a nation that provides a safe haven for Hamas’ terrorist activities, a senior official in Hamas told Breitbart Jerusalem.
The West Bank town of Burqa on Tuesday vowed that it “would never capitulate to pressure and blackmail” and would not rename a women’s center named after a female Palestinian terrorist, after the facility’s international backers pulled their support and lambasted the Palestinians for glorifying terrorism.
President Reuven Rivlin on Thursday declared that Jews will always live in the West Bank city of Hebron, including under any future peace deal with the Palestinians.
A soldier was stabbed on Thursday morning outside the Mevo Dotan settlement in the West Bank.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that Israel must maintain its military control over the West Bank in the event of a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
The head of Palestinian Islamic courts on Sunday told judges not to grant divorces during Ramadan, fearing the month-long fast could spark rash words that would be regretted later.
On Thursday, the One Israel Fund held a groundbreaking ceremony for the Binyamin Medical Center (BMC), which is the first major medical center in Judea and Samaria, which is the Biblical term for the West Bank.
The Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry in Gaza on Thursday said it executed the suspected killer of Mazen Fuqaha and his two alleged accomplices.
