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Israeli police carry a wounded young Palestinian demonstrator at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound on 22 April 2022.

Palestinian israel conflict

Israel closes crossing to Gazans after new rocket attacks

By AFP

Israel has closed its only crossing from the Gaza Strip for workers in response to overnight rocket fire, stopping short of conducting retaliatory strikes in an...

  • FILE: An Israeli Merkava tank rolls back from the Gaza Strip to an army deployment near Israel's border with the Palestinian enclave on 4 August 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Gaza militant rocket hits Israel, Israel responds with air strikes, shells

    The rocket caused no injuries or damage in Sderot, where it landed in a residential area, police said.

    2187 days ago
  • FILE: Members of the Israeli security forces fire a tear gas canister from the top of Isreals controversial separation barrier during clashes with Palestinians demonstrators in the village of Bilin, near the West Bank city of Ramallah following a march in support of the resistance in the Gaza Strip. Picture: AFP.

    Israel approves new settler homes - reports

    According to the reports, 560 homes will be built in Maale Adumim, a large settlement in the West Bank.

    2236 days ago
  • FILE: An Israeli couple looks towards people gathering at the restaurant targeted during a shooting attack the previous night at a shopping complex in Tel Aviv on 9 June 2016. Picture: AFP

    Palestinian gunmen kill four in Tel Aviv, assailants held

    Both gunmen were identified by police as Palestinians from a village near the city of Hebron.

    2261 days ago
  • Israeli firemen and emergency services gather around the remains of a burnt-out bus and car after extinguishing the flames following an explosion in Jerusalem on 18 April, 2016. Picture: AFP.

    Jerusalem bus bomb wounds 16

    Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has linked the attack to a 6-month-old wave of Palestinian street violence.

    2312 days ago
  • Israeli forces stand guard at the scene of shooting Palestinian female Yasmeen Zaro near the Ibrahimi mosque in the West Bank old city of Hebron 14 Februday 2016. Picture: EPA/ABED AL HASHLAMOUN.

    Israel forces kill 5 Palestinian assailants

    Israeli security forces have killed at least 163 Palestinians, 107 of whom Israel says were assailants.

    2376 days ago
  • FILE: An Israeli border guard grabs Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ein (L), in charge of the issue of Israeli settlements for the Palestinian Authority, during a demonstration in the village of Turmus Aya near Ramallah, on 10 December, 2014. Picture: AFP.

    Palestinian shot dead after wounding Israeli soldier with knife

    The attack occurred in the occupied West Bank at a road junction near a cluster of Palestinian villages.

    2457 days ago
  • An Israeli soldier hurls a smoke grenade during clashes with Palestinian youth close to the Jewish settlement of Bet El, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 4 October 2015 after Israel barred Palestinians from Jerusalem’s Old City as tensions mounted following attacks on Israelis. Picture: AFP.

    5 dead in Palestinian attacks in Tel Aviv

    Police said a US citizen was one of 3 people killed, others were a Palestinian & an Israeli.

    2463 days ago
  • FILE: US Secretary of State John Kerry informs media during his press conference outside the Palais Coburg Hotel, where the Iran nuclear talks meetings are being held, in Vienna, Austria on 5 July, 2015. Picture: AFP.

    Kerry lays out steps to ease Israeli-Palestinian strife

    Kerry said that Israeli and Jordanian officials would meet to work out the details of the video monitoring.

    2489 days ago
  • Palestinian protesters run for cover from teargas shot by Israeli soldiers during clashes near the border fence between Israel and the central Gaza Strip east of Bureij on 16 October 2015. Picture: AFP.

    Palestinian factions call for 'day of rage'

    World and regional powers are pressing on with talks to try to end more than three weeks of bloodshed.

    2490 days ago
  • An Israeli soldier hurls a smoke grenade during clashes with Palestinian youth close to the Jewish settlement of Bet El, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on 4 October 2015 after Israel barred Palestinians from Jerusalem’s Old City as tensions mounted following attacks on Israelis. Picture: AFP.

    Rocket launched from Gaza lands in southern Israel open field

    While no injuries have been reported, emergency meetings are being held amid fears of more rocket fire.

    2504 days ago
  • Recent tensions have been inflamed in particular by frequent clashes between Palestinian stone-throwers and Israeli security forces at Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam’s third-holiest shrine.

    Israel razes homes of Palestinian militants in Jerusalem

    Israel has said such demolitions are punitive and can also serve as a deterrent to other potential attackers.

    2507 days ago
  • The ANC confirmed it's examining the possibility of banning people from having dual citizenship to stop Jewish South Africans from fighting in the Israeli army. Picture: AFP.

    Jewish Board unhappy with plans to ban dual citizenship

    The ANC wants to ban dual citizenship to stop Jewish South Africans from fighting in the Israeli army.

    2536 days ago
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech during the 15th Herzliya Conference titled Israel in a turbulent Middle East at the Lauder School of Government Diplomacy and Strategy in the Israeli coastal city of Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv, on 9 June, 2015. Picture: AFP.

    Netanyahu wants Arab states to press Palestinians back to peace talks

    Netanyahu, speaking to a strategic conference near Tel Aviv, blamed the Palestinians for the 14-month impasse.

    2626 days ago
  • FILE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Picture: Benjamin Netanyahu Facebook page.

    Palestinian UN draft calls for Israel occupation end by 2017

    The draft resolution states that a negotiated solution should be based on several parameters.

    2800 days ago
  • FILE: The City of Jerusalem's religous compound which includes Al-Aqsa Mosque, Dome of the Rock and the Western Wall among others. Picture: I Love Jerusalem Faceboomk page.

    Palestinians, Israelis look to personal safety in holy city on edge

    The holy city of Jerusalem is on knife's edge after sporadic attacks from both Israelis and Palestinians.

    2828 days ago
  • FILE: Head of the Palestinian delegation Azzam al-Ahmed (2L) and others members of the delegation arrive to the hotel after a meeting with Egyptians seniors intelligence in Cairo 11 August , 2014. Picture: AFP

    Gaza talks stall

    As a 72-hour ceasefire holds for a second day, negotiatiors are holding held fresh in Egypt.

    2927 days ago
  • Former president Nelson Mandela's eldest grandson says his family fully supports Palestine. Picture: Lauren Isaacs/EWN.

    'Mandela family supports Palestine'

    Demonstrators gathered in Kaizersgracht Street in the CBD today and marched to Parliament.

    2930 days ago
  • FILE: Israeli soldiers sitting on a tank hold their position on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip on 22 July as smoke billows from the coastal Palestinian enclave. Picture: AFP.

    Most overseas flights to Israel cancelled

    Several North American and European airlines have cancelled their flights in and out of Israel.

    2948 days ago
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