US President Barack Obama urges Israeli and Palestinian leaders that they shouldnt let the chance of a permanent peace deal slip away. He says this moment of opportunity may not soon come again and pledges US support for the new negotiations
US President Barack Obama assured the Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas by telephone of his commitment to the establishment of a Palestinian state, the Palestinian leader’s spokesman said. Mr
An Israeli minister secretly met with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in order to thaw the deep chill in relations between former allies, Channel Two television said the Trade Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer, who is on good terms with the personal Davutoglu, met in an undisclosed location in Europe in recent days.
ISTANBUL: Israeli forces have attacked a flotilla of aid-carrying ships aiming to break the country’s siege on Gaza, according to a Turkish aid agency being quoted by Turkish media. At least two people were killed and more than 30 people injured when Israeli troops stormed the Freedom Flotilla early on Monday. Free Gaza Movement, the organisers of the flotilla, said the toll was much higher and that up to 10 people may have been killed
Israel Gaza latest updates :- At least 10 passengers were killed as Israeli forces stormed a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists bound for Gaza, the private Israeli television station “10″ reported Monday. Israeli marine commandos had opened fire after being attacked with axes and knives by a number of the passengers on board the aid ships, the television said, without giving the source of its information. The station did not say whether the dead and injured were passengers or members of the Israeli navy
Israeli planes and helicopters were reported to have carried out at least seven missile attacks on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on Friday, destroying what a military spokesman described as Palestinian munitions sites and also injuring three children. The three children, aged two, four and eleven, were hit by flying glass in a raid on the Sabra district, in the western part of Gaza City, said Moawiya Hassanein, head of the Palestinian emergency services in Gaza. The air strikes came after the latest in a series of rocket attacks from Gaza into southern Israel, when one landed in town of Ashkelon, causing damage but no casualties, said the Israeli army.
Israeli aircraft struck at least seven targets in the Gaz a Strip on Friday a day after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave killed a Thai worker in Israel, Hamas security officials and witnesses said. Eleven people were wounded in the series of Israeli strikes, which targeted smuggling tunnels along the border with Egypt, a metal foundry near Gaza City and the territory’s non-operating airport. Those wounded in the evening strike on the airport in southern Gaza were brought to hospital in Rafah
The Obama administration continued to criticise Israel’s announcement to build 1,600 settler homes in east Jerusalem during a visit by US Vice President Joe Biden. In an interview taped on Friday and broadcast Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the announcement an insult to her country
The killers of a Hamas commander drugged him before suffocating him, Dubai police said Sunday. Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh was killed last month in his hotel room in what Dubai police say they are almost certain was a hit by Israel’s Mossad spy agency. The killers used a muscle relaxant to tranquillize Mabhouh before suffocating him, said deputy police chief Khamis al-Mazeina, quoted by the Dubai police website
Israeli troops kill Palestinians, HELD AL-QUDS: A Palestinian Health Ministry official says Israeli forces have killed two Palestinian militants and wounded three in an incident along the Gaza border. Dr.