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FILE: A view of the United Nations headquarters in New York. Picture: AFP

Israeli government

Israel pushes for UN action against Iran over deadly ship attack

By AFP

The MT Mercer Street tanker was struck Thursday in the northern Indian Ocean, killing two crew members, in what the United States said was a drone-style attack.

  • FILE: This studio photographic illustration shows a smartphone with the website of Israel's NSO Group which features 'Pegasus' spyware, on display in Paris on 21 July 2021. Picture: AFP

    Israel appoints commission to review Pegasus-maker NSO

    Pegasus has been implicated in possible mass surveillance of journalists, human rights defenders and 14 heads of state. Their phone numbers were among some 50,000 potential surveillance targets on a list leaked to rights group Amnesty International and Paris-based Forbidden Stories.

    382 days ago
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Picture: @IsraeliPM/Twitter

    Netanyahu says Israel is Arabs' 'ally' against Iran

    That evaluation, he told Brazil's Globo TV during a visit to Rio, has caused "a revolution in relations with the Arab world."

    1315 days ago
  • Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison speaks during a press conference at the presidential palace in Bogor, West Java on 18 August 2018. Sonny Tumbelaka/AFP

    Australia recognises West Jerusalem as Israel's capital but embassy not moving

    Morrison also confirmed Australia’s support for a two-state solution with a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem.

    1332 days ago
  • Brazil's president-elect Jair Bolsonaro. Picture: AFP

    Brazil risks Middle East trade with Israel embassy move

    Brazil exports $16 billion annually to the Middle East and Turkey, with just 3% going to Israel, according to government statistics.

    1368 days ago
  • King Abdullah of Jordan. Picture: King Abdullah FB page.

    Jordan says Israel wants to discuss border land deals

    Under the peace treaty, two border areas were recognised to be under Jordanian sovereignty but gave Israel special provisions to use the land and allow Israelis free access.

    1372 days ago
  • An Egyptian policeman stands guard. Picture: AFP

    Israel and Egypt's enduring 'cold peace'

    While many Egyptians welcome the absence of war, they remain hostile to Israel.

    1422 days ago
  • FILE: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Picture: Facebook.

    Philippines' Duterte says 'never again' at Israel's Holocaust memorial

    Reading from what he wrote in the visitors’ book after the ceremony, Duterte said: “Never again.”

    1434 days ago
  • FILE: South African model Shashi Naidoo. Picture: Facebook

    Shashi Naidoo: They told me I'm a liar

    TV personality and model Shashi Naidoo has vowed to return to Israel one day, after being banned from the country for a decade.

    1473 days ago
  • FILE: TV personality Sashi Naidoo speaks at a press briefing on June 20. Picture: Kayleen Morgan/EWN

    Shashi Naidoo to arrive back in SA after being barred from Israel

    The popular model and actress was interrogated at the Israel-Jordan border and refused entry after already being warned by Israel before she left South Africa that she would not be allowed to enter.

    1474 days ago
  • Israeli soldiers ride in the turret of a Merkava battle tank near the Kibbutz of Nahal Oz, along the border with the Gaza Strip on 20 July, 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Israel to reopen Gaza terminal, extend fishing on Tuesday if quiet holds

    Hostilities escalated last week, with Palestinian gunfire killing an Israeli soldier and Israel’s military killing three Hamas fighters and a fourth Palestinian.

    1477 days ago
  • Palestinians gather and react at a Hamas outpost that was struck by Israeli bombardment near Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on 20 July, 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Israel-Hamas Gaza truce largely holds after flare-up

    Hamas said it had agreed to the truce with Israel, a day after clashes killed an Israeli soldier and four Palestinians, three of them Hamas fighters.

    1479 days ago
  • Tear gas is fired at protestors during clashes with Israeli forces near the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, east of Gaza City on 14 May 2018, following the controversial move to Jerusalem of the United States embassy. Picture: AFP

    Israel announces Gaza sanctions in response to cross-border blazes

    Israel also cut the area fishing boats are allowed to operate off Gaza’s Mediterranean coast and blacklisted what it described as a pro-Hamas TV channel.

    1490 days ago
  • Palestinian men burn tyres during a protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah on April 6, 2018. Clashes erupted on the Gaza-Israel border Friday, AFP journalists said. Picture: AFP.

    Israel enacts law to freeze Palestinian funds equal to prisoners' stipends

    The Western-backed Palestinian Authority headed by President Mahmoud Abbas has limited self-rule in the occupied West Bank where Israel retains overall security control.

    1497 days ago
  • FILE: A Palestinian holds his national flag in the smoke billowing from burning tyres during clashes with Israeli forces near the border between the Gaza strip and Israel east of Gaza City on 14 May 2018. Picture: AFP

    United Nations condemns excessive Israeli force against Palestinians

    The General Assembly adopted a resolution with 120 votes in favour, eight against and 45 abstentions.

    1516 days ago
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Picture: AFP

    Pushing to bury Iran deal, Israel says no one wants war with Tehran

    A senior Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had informed Trump at a 5 March meeting about alleged evidence seized by Israel.

    1559 days ago
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on Iran's nuclear program at the defence ministry in Tel Aviv on 30 April, 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Israel's Netanyahu pressures US to scrap Iran nuclear arms

    Tehran dismissed Netanyahu as “the boy who cried wolf”, and called his presentation propaganda.

    1560 days ago
  • FILE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Picture: AFP

    Netanyahu uses Holocaust event to urge action against Syria, Iran

    The United States has threatened air strikes against Syria over the use of chemical weapons that Syria and its ally Russia deny.

    1579 days ago
  • FILE: Palestinian men burn tyres during a protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 6 April 2018. Picture: AFP.

    Victims of Israel-Gaza violence to be laid to rest

    Among the victims was a video journalist and two teenage boys aged 16 and 17.

    1583 days ago
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