The Guardian reports: Two Israeli soldiers sparked an hour-long deadly battle in a Palestinian refugee camp which they entered, apparently by mistake, while following the popular online navigation app Waze. In the course of a rescue operation, during which helicopters
Ynetnews reports: A British-Palestinian director whose Oscar-nominated short film deals with the Arab-Jewish conflict has said he does not view himself as representing a people or a political faction, only himself. “If I win the Oscar I will be winning
Ynetnews reports: Israel recently requested from the Merkavim factory 71 bullet resistant vehicles for a total amount of NIS 106 million, due to the continued wave of terrorism in the West Bank and renewed shooting attacks. This is the largest
The Times of Israel reports: A children’s playground at the West Bank settlement of Beit El was hit by sniper fire Saturday night. No one was injured in the attack. According to Channel 10 television, the gunfire is believed to
Columnist Pat Buchanan stated that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton “probably agree” on the West Bank and that he agrees with Trump, adding, “if you’re going to be an honest
Ynetnews reports: A group of BDS supporters disrupted a lecture by two Israeli students at the University of South Florida earlier this week. One of the protesters was Tariq Abu Khdeir, who was beat up by Israeli police officers when
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israeli security authorities took three Palestinians who had illegally entered the country in search of work into custody early Saturday morning after initially fearing that they had intended to carry out a terrorist attack. The three
Ynetnews reports: Wanted terrorist Omar Nayef Zayed was found dead at the Palestinian embassy in Bulgaria, local media reported on Friday morning. Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) member Zayed, 51, was convicted along with his brother and
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinians are criticizing the Kenyan president’s visit to the region, saying his stops in east Jerusalem and the West Bank are akin to accepting Israel’s occupation. During his first official visit to Israel this week, Kenyan President
The Times of Israel reports: Thousands of people attended a late night funeral Wednesday for an Israeli reserve soldier killed earlier in the day by errant IDF gunfire during a stabbing attack in the West Bank. Eliav Gelman, 30, (pictured)
The Jerusalem Post reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must complete the security barrier around the settlement blocs, including the West Bank city of Ariel, opposition leader Isaac Herzog said Tuesday. “The residents of Ariel deserve the same protection as the
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged calm in talks on Sunday with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, and reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to a two-state solution to the
NABLUS (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (AFP) – A Palestinian tried to stab an Israeli soldier in the West Bank on Sunday and was shot dead, Israel’s army said, the latest incident in a nearly five-month wave of violence. The attack occurred at the
The Times of Israel reports: Austria invited Hedy Epstein, a Jewish pro-Palestinian activist whom the Anti-Defamation League criticized for demonizing Israel, to represent Holocaust survivors at a panel discussion about women during World War II. In invitations sent out Friday
The Jerusalem Post reports: Anti-Israel campus activist groups in the United States are shifting their tactics, replacing BDS resolutions with “theatrics and disruptive tactics,” according to a report by a Jewish watchdog group. In its “Fall 2015 Campus Trends” report,
Ynetnews reported: A Palestinian terrorist attempted to run Israeli reserves soldiers over with his car on Friday in Silwad, not far from Ramallah. A woman was lightly wounded, apparently by shrapnel, but no one was struck by the terrorist’s car.
The Jerusalem Post reports: A top Hamas official said on Friday that the Islamist movement’s military wing discovered sensors, cameras, and other surveillance equipment in one of its tunnels underneath the Gaza Strip. Ismail Haniyeh, the former head of the Hamas-run
Israel’s i24 News reports: Two Israelis were injured in a stabbing attack at Jerusalem’s Damascus gate by the Old City on Friday. The injured were reportedly border police and were lightly wounded by stab wounds to the upper body. A Palestinian
The Times of Israel reports: Police said lax security was partly to blame for a terror attack in a West Bank supermarket Thursday, and appeared intent to make an example of the store in order to pressure other businesses to
The Times of Israel reports: An Israeli television report on Tuesday night alleged that a newly enforced US Customs policy to label products from the West Bank was not merely a technicality, but an “under the radar” US government policy
The Times of Israel reports: The Israeli army overnight arrested the head of the Palestinian Tanzim terrorist organization, the Shin Bet security service said Monday. The group is allied to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movement. Jamal Abu Lel,
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority called for international protection on Sunday, claiming that the IDF deliberately killed three teenage Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank. An Israeli official responded by stating “the problem is the Palestinian Authority, which continues
The Times of Israel reports: Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday called for Israel to start taking steps toward annexing parts of the West Bank while helping the Palestinian Authority establish “autonomy on steroids” in other parts of the territory.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli police officers fatally shot two Palestinians who opened fire at them outside Jerusalem’s walled Old City on Sunday, police said, on a day when officials said three other Palestinian terrorists were killed in two other incidents. A
The Times of Israel reports: A two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is vital to the defeat of the Islamic State, King Abdullah of Jordan argued Friday, saying that the decades-long dispute only served to benefit
The Times of Israel reports: The UN’s human rights rapporteur in the Palestinian territories accused Israeli security forces of using excessive force against Palestinians, and called on Israel to investigate and prosecute perpetrators, Reuters reported. “The upsurge in violence is
The Jerusalem Post reports: Less than 48 hours after Zionist Union leader Isaac Herzog presented a diplomatic plan at the Jerusalem Conference to relinquish Arab neighborhoods in the capital to increase security, a cross-section of Israelis expressed conflicting opinions about the
Ynetnews reports: A Palestinian woman attempted to stab an IDF soldier in Hebron on Saturday afternoon, near the Cave of the Patriarchs. Reports indicate that the soldiers from the IDF Kfir Brigade approached the woman, who seemed suspicious, and asked
The UN human rights investigator for Gaza and the West Bank called on Israel on Thursday to investigate what he called excessive force used by Israeli security against Palestinians and to prosecute perpetrators. Makarim Wibisono, U.N. special rapporteur on human
The Israeli army locked down a village in the West Bank, the military said, as part of efforts to find the terrorist who stabbed a Jewish man from a nearby settlement Tuesday. The army spokeswoman said only “humanitarian cases” would be
Israel plans to increase the number of entry permits it grants to Palestinian workers, Palestinian and Israeli sources said on Monday, in a drive to ease economic hardship that has contributed to a wave of Palestinian terrorist attacks. Publicly, the
Ynetnews reports: A new music video aired on Sunday on Hamas’s al-Aqsa TV network urges the resumption of suicide bombings on Israelis. The video shows portraits of Yahya Ayyash (Hamas’s deceased chief bombmaker) and the murderers of the Henkin couple,
The Israeli army Saturday said it was lifting a blockade imposed on the West Bank town of Qabatiya, from where Palestinians carried out a Jerusalem terrorist attack that killed a policewoman. “Based on an assessment of the situation, it was
The European Union (EU) on Saturday called on Israel to halt the demolition of Palestinian housing, some of which was EU-funded, and reiterated its opposition to expanding Israeli settlements in the West Bank. “In the past weeks there have been
The Times of Israel reports: Israel and Hamas have exchanged calming messages in recent days, assuring one another that they are not interested in open conflict, Hebrew media reported Friday. The messages were conveyed through Turkey and Qatar, among other
Thousands of Palestinian residents of Qabatiya, in the northern West Bank, attended the funerals Friday of three terrorists who killed a border policewoman in Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday.
HEBRON (AFP) – A Palestinian terrorist threw a petrol bomb at Israeli soldiers in the south of the occupied West Bank and was shot dead on Friday, the Israeli military said. At least two Palestinians threw a Molotov cocktail at
“Three Palestinians killed as daily violence grinds on.” This was the headline on the website of US TV network CBS on Wednesday, following a terror attack in Jerusalem in which Border Police officer Hadar Cohen, 19, was murdered and her
GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) (AFP) – Islamist movement Hamas on Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary of the legislative election it won in 2006 with a call for new parliamentary and presidential polls in the Palestinian territories. At a news conference, senior
Israel restricted access Monday into and out of the Palestinian political capital of Ramallah on the occupied West Bank after a checkpoint shooting that wounded soldiers, stepping up its response to attacks. It was the first time such a step
