Isaac Herzog pledged to heal deep divisions in Israeli society as he took the oath of office to become Israel’s 11th president, Al Jazeera reports. With one hand on a Torah before the Knesset – Israel’s parliament – Herzog, 60, assumed on Wednesday the largely ceremonial position designed to serve as the country’s moral compass. Herzog promised […]Read More
Israel says it carried out air strikes in Gaza overnight after Palestinians launched incendiary balloons from the territory, in the first major flare-up since an 11-day conflict last month. The Israeli military said it targeted compounds belonging to Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza. The incendiary balloons sparked 20 fires in southern Israel on […]Read More
A US congresswoman has hit back after a rare rebuke from Democratic colleagues over her remarks seeming to liken the US and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban. A dozen Jewish lawmakers called on Ilhan Omar to “clarify her words”, but the Minnesota representative slammed the group’s “tropes”. This is not the first time that […]Read More
Israeli opposition parties have reached an agreement to form a new government that would end Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12-year tenure as prime minister. Yair Lapid, leader of the centrist Yesh Atid party, announced an eight-faction coalition had been formed. Under a rotation arrangement, the head of the right-wing Yamina party, Naftali Bennett, would serve as prime […]Read More
CAIRO: The World Health Organisation (WHO) Wednesday warned of “staggering health needs” in the occupied Palestinian Territories after last month’s conflict between Israel and Islamist group Hamas. “WHO is scaling up its response to provide health aid for almost 200,000 people in need across the occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT),” which includes the West Bank, WHO’s […]Read More
Israeli police on Sunday dispersed Palestinians protesting forced eviction from their homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. According to eye witnesses, a journalist was injured and several Palestinians were detained during the protest in Sheikh Jarrah. Palestinians in recent days have protested in solidarity with residents of Sheikh Jarrah amid attacks […]Read More
Angry protesters clashed with Israeli police on Tuesday over an off-duty officer’s killing of a young man of Ethiopian origin, as the incident drew fresh accusations of racism. Crowds of Ethiopian Israelis battled police and blocked highways on at least 15 junctions across the country, with 47 officers wounded and 60 demonstrators detained, according to […]Read More
srael says it has hit Iranian targets around the Syrian capital, Damascus. The Israel Defense Forces says the overnight operation targeted the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, as well as Syrian air defences. The Syrian military says it shot down most of the Israeli missiles. But a monitoring group reported that at […]Read More
The Israeli Air Force Struck several targets in the Gaza Strip before dawn on Monday, after terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket into Israel, which was intercepted by the Iron Dome system. “Air force fighter jets and helicopters attacked several terror targets at a Hamas training camp in the northern Gaza Strip,” the […]Read More
Israeli Defence Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, urged early elections on Wednesday after announcing his resignation following a controversial Gaza ceasefire deal. “We should agree on a date for elections as early as possible,” Lieberman told journalists, while sharply criticising the ceasefire that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended. The Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his […]Read More
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