Mideast Conflict

  • Palestinians accuse settlers of firing rockets Reuters - Mon Jul 21, 12:03 PM ET

    NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Two rockets landed outside Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank on Monday, causing no injuries, residents said, accusing neighboring Jewish settlers of launching an attack.

  • A still video image made available by Israeli human rights group B'Tselem on July 21 shows an Israeli soldier apparently shooting a rubber bullet towards the leg of an arrested, handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian man who was protesting against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin on July 7. The Israeli army has launched an investigation into the incident.(AFP/B'TESELEM)
    Israeli army probes shooting of detained Palestinian AFP - Mon Jul 21, 11:56 AM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - The Israeli military has launched an investigation into the shooting of a blindfolded and handcuffed Palestinian with a rubber-coated bullet which was caught on film, the army said on Monday.

  • Israeli President Shimon Peres (right) greets Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas during the 2007 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Peres is to host Palestinian counterpart Abbas on July 22 to discuss Middle East peace efforts and regional issues, Peres's office has said.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)
    Israeli, Palestinian presidents to meet AFP - Mon Jul 21, 10:28 AM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli President Shimon Peres is to host Palestinian counterpart Mahmud Abbas on Tuesday to discuss Middle East peace efforts and regional issues, Peres's office said on Monday.

  • British Prime Minister Gordon Brown addresses the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday July 21, 2008. Brown on Monday slammed Iranian calls for Israel's destruction and pledged that Britain would remain at the forefront of efforts to block Tehran's efforts to acquire nuclear arms. (AP Photo/Ahikam Seri, Pool)
    British premier vows to thwart Iranian atomic arms AP - Mon Jul 21, 10:07 AM ET

    JERUSALEM - Visiting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown on Monday said his country would remain at the forefront of efforts to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, directly addressing one of Israel's greatest fears.

  • Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem shop in Jerusalem's Old City market in 2005. Israel plans to build a new city for Arab citizens in the Galilee region, the first housing project of its kind since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, local media have reported.(AFP/File/Gali Tibbon)
    Israel plans to build first new Arab city in Galilee AFP - Mon Jul 21, 6:03 AM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel plans to build a new city for Arab citizens in the Galilee region, the first housing project of its kind since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, local media reported on Monday.

  • Israel arrests Hamas lawmaker in West Bank AP - Mon Jul 21, 5:11 AM ET

    NABLUS, West Bank - Palestinian security officials say Israeli troops have arrested a Hamas lawmaker from the West Bank city of Nablus.

  • Obama and McCain diverge on Israeli-Palestinian conflict The Christian Science Monitor - Mon Jul 21, 5:00 AM ET

    WASHINGTON - When Barack Obama stops in Jerusalem and Ramallah this week – as part of an overseas trip designed to reassure the American electorate about the presumptive Democratic nominee's national security credentials – he'll be wading into the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

  • Israeli forces detain Hamas lawmaker, businessmen Reuters - Mon Jul 21, 3:19 AM ET

    NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces detained a Hamas woman lawmaker on Monday along with 14 managers of a West Bank business venture that Israel accuses of having links to the Islamist faction, Palestinian officials said.

  • Israeli army probes shooting of bound Palestinian Reuters - Mon Jul 21, 3:08 AM ET

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Video footage of an Israeli soldier firing what appears to be a rubber bullet at point-blank range at a bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainee has led to an army investigation.

  • Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gestures during a press conference in Kuala Lumpur on July 8. Prime Minister Gordon Brown was set to attack Ahmadinejad's "abhorrent" threats against Israel and threaten more sanctions on Tehran in a key speech to the Israeli parliament.(AFP/File/Roslan Rahman)
    British PM's Knesset stand against 'abhorrent' Ahmadinejad AFP - Sun Jul 20, 7:18 PM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was to attack the Iranian president's "abhorrent" threats towards Israel and threaten further sanctions on Tehran in a key speech to the Knesset on Monday.

  • Israeli soldiers unload their weapon as they return to Israel from an operation inside the Gaza Strip in April 2008. An Israeli soldier is seen shooting an arrested and bound Palestinian in the leg with a plastic bullet, in a video released by an Israeli human rights group on Sunday.(AFP/File/David Buimovitch)
    Israel soldier shoots arrested Palestinian on film AFP - Sun Jul 20, 6:30 PM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - An Israeli soldier is seen shooting an arrested and bound Palestinian in the leg with a plastic bullet, in a video released by an Israeli human rights group on Sunday.

  • British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speaks during a UK-Palestine Business Meeting which brought together top British business chiefs in the occupied West Bank town of Bethlehem. Brown insisted Sunday that the gap between Israel and the Palestinians can be bridged and that a landmark Middle East peace deal is achieveable.(AFP/Musa al-Shaer)
    Middle East deal doable, says British PM AFP - Sun Jul 20, 3:59 PM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown insisted Sunday that the gap between Israel and the Palestinians can be bridged and that a landmark Middle East peace deal is achieveable.

  • Lebanese soldiers secure an army checkpoint at the entrance to the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Sidon. Three Palestinians have been killed after an argument between rival factions in a refugee camp in Lebanon turned violent.(AFP/Mahmoud Zayat)
    Three killed in Lebanon refugee camp brawl AFP - Sun Jul 20, 7:31 AM ET

    AIN EL-HELWEH, Lebanon (AFP) - Three Palestinians have been killed after an argument between rival factions in a refugee camp in south Lebanon turned violent, a Palestinian official said on Sunday.

  • Lebanese Sunni residents of Tripoli's Bab al-Tebbaneh neighbourhood take refuge inside a school as they flee the area of clashes. Tanks were out on the streets of Tripoli after nine people including a boy were killed in sectarian fighting which raged through the night in the northern port city.(AFP)
    Palestinian extremist dies in Lebanon AP - Sun Jul 20, 5:32 AM ET

    BEIRUT, Lebanon - Palestinian security officials say the leader of an extremist Palestinian group has died from wounds sustained in a clash inside a refugee camp in south Lebanon.

  • An Israeli woman passes a poster of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in Tel Aviv, 2007. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed to bring back Shalit captured by Gaza militants more than two years ago, following a prisoner exchange with the Lebanese Hezbollah militia.(AFP/File/Yehuda Raizner/Afp)
    Israeli PM vows to recover captured soldier in Gaza AFP - Sun Jul 20, 4:57 AM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert vowed on Sunday to bring back a soldier captured by Gaza militants more than two years ago, following a prisoner exchange with the Lebanese Hezbollah militia.

  • Prime Minister Gordon Brown (L) shakes hands with his Iraqi counterpart Nuri al-Maliki during their meeting in Baghdad. Brown prepared for talks on Sunday during his first visit to Israel and the West Bank since becoming prime minister in a bid to bolster peace negotiations and economic development.(AFP/POOL/Khalid Mohammed)
    Brown due for talks in Israel, West Bank AFP - Sun Jul 20, 12:18 AM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - Gordon Brown prepared for talks on Sunday during his first visit to Israel and the West Bank since becoming prime minister in a bid to bolster peace negotiations and economic development.

  • Lebanese Sunni residents of Tripoli's Bab al-Tebbaneh neighborhood flee the area of where clashes broke out overnight. Lebanese tanks were out on the streets of Tripoli after nine people including a boy were killed in sectarian fighting which raged through the night in the northern port city.(AFP)
    Gunbattle at Palestinian camp in Lebanon kills two Reuters - Sat Jul 19, 2:04 PM ET

    EIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon (Reuters) - Two people were killed on Saturday in a gunbattle between members of the Fatah faction and Sunni Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, camp officials said.

  • Israel didn't know of cluster bomb use AP - Sat Jul 19, 7:11 AM ET

    JERUSALEM - A former Israeli defense official says the Israeli military used cluster bombs for two weeks during the 2006 Lebanon war without telling the Israeli government.

  • Israeli soldiers check their tanks during a military exercise in the Golan Heights, May 2008. Israeli security forces have opened fire on suspected drug smugglers along its border with Syria, killing one Syrian citizen and wounding another, officials said.(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)
    Suspected drug smuggler killed on Israel-Syria border AFP - Sat Jul 19, 4:37 AM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli security forces opened fire on suspected drug smugglers along its border with Syria early on Saturday, killing one Syrian citizen and wounding another, officials said.

  • Israeli troops kill Syrian drugs smuggler: army Reuters - Sat Jul 19, 4:19 AM ET

    JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed a drugs smuggler from Syria and wounded another on Saturday as they crossed a fence into territory controlled by Israel on the occupied Golan Heights, the Israeli army said.

  • Israel shoots smuggler on Syrian border AP - Sat Jul 19, 3:42 AM ET

    JERUSALEM - Israel's army says it shot and killed a suspected smuggler in a rare incident on the frontier with Syria.

  • Obama to meet with leaders in Mideast, Europe AP - Fri Jul 18, 6:11 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama intends to sit down with European leaders as well as King Abdullah of Jordan, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as part of a campaign-season trip that aides described Friday as substantive rather than political.

  • Lebanese Hezbollah supporters shout slogans as they attend the funeral eight fighters in Beirut's southern suburb. As Hezbollah boasted of victory in this week's prisoner swap with Israel, analysts said that the exchange gave the Shiite group increased political leverage at home.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)
    Prisoner swap gives Hezbollah domestic kudos: analysts AFP - Fri Jul 18, 3:32 PM ET

    BEIRUT (AFP) - As Hezbollah boasted of victory in this week's prisoner swap with Israel, analysts said that the exchange gave the Shiite group increased political leverage at home.

  • A Lebanese Shiite woman mourns the death of a relative as she holds his picture during the funeral of Hezbollah's fighters in Beirut's southern suburb.(AFP/Ramzi Haidar)
    Thousands attend funerals of fighters returned from Israel AFP - Fri Jul 18, 1:27 PM ET

    BEIRUT (AFP) - Thousands of people attended a memorial service in Beirut on Friday for eight Hezbollah fighters killed in the 2006 war with Israel and whose bodies were returned to Lebanon two days earlier.

  • A Shiite cleric, center, prays over the coffins of Hezbollah fighters, covered with wreaths and the party's yellow flags during their funeral ceremony in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Friday, July 18, 2008. The militant Hezbollah group has held a funeral procession for eight militants killed during the summer 2006 war with Israel. The bodies were returned in a prisoners swap with Israel. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)
    Hezbollah holds funeral for Lebanese guerrillas AP - Fri Jul 18, 12:20 PM ET

    BEIRUT, Lebanon - The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has held a funeral for eight guerrillas killed during its 2006 war with Israel. Their bodies were returned in a prisoners swap this week.

  • After Hizballah's Party Time.com - Fri Jul 18, 12:00 PM ET

    The prisoner exchange is greeted with celebrations in Lebanon. But it may signal a dangerous new phase in the Arab-Israeli conflict

  • Jewish-American businessman Morris Talansky, center, walks into the courtroom for the second day of a five-day cross-examination by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's lawyers, at the District court in Jerusalem, Friday July 18, 2008. Talansky testified in May that he gave Olmert hundreds of thousands of dollars before he became prime minister, much of it in cash-stuffed envelopes. The testimony caused public outrage and led Olmert's Kadima Party to schedule new leadership elections for September. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)
    Lawyers cross-examine Olmert witness AP - Fri Jul 18, 11:56 AM ET

    JERUSALEM - Defense attorneys raised doubts Friday about the memory of an American Jewish fundraiser at the center of a corruption probe against Ehud Olmert, but did not appear to decisively undermine testimony that threatens to drive the Israeli prime minister from office.

  • US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama meets with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the Hyatt Regency Churchill hotel in London. Obama has held talks with the Mideast peace envoy in London, with the two men discussing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and its wider implications, Blair's spokeman has said.(AFP/Paul J. Richards)
    Blair: Cease-fire should pave way to Mideast peace AP - Fri Jul 18, 11:15 AM ET

    OSLO, Norway - Mideast envoy Tony Blair is urging the Israelis and Palestinians to use the cease-fire that took effect June 19 as an opportunity to try to reach a peace agreement.

  • Palestinian security officers approach tunnels linking the Gaza Strip with Egypt in the town of Rafah in 2007. Egyptian authorities have discovered a weapons cache, a day after two tunnels used by smugglers were found in the Sinai desert close to the border with the Gaza Strip, a security official said.(AFP/File/Said Khatib)
    Weapons and contraband tunnels found in Egypt's Sinai AFP - Fri Jul 18, 8:33 AM ET

    EL-ARISH, Egypt (AFP) - Egyptian authorities discovered a weapons cache on Friday, a day after two tunnels used by smugglers were found in the Sinai desert close to the border with the Gaza Strip, a security official said.

  • An Israeli prison officer holds sets of handcuffs. Israel has arrested two Arab Israelis and four Palestinians from east Jerusalem, accusing them of attempting to organise a local network of Al-Qaeda, the Shin Beth security service has said.(AFP/File/Jack Guez)
    Israel says would-be Qaeda network members arrested AFP - Fri Jul 18, 5:17 AM ET

    JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel has arrested two Arab Israelis and four Palestinians from east Jerusalem, accusing them of attempting to organise a local network of Al-Qaeda, the Shin Beth security service said on Friday.

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