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The population of the Gaza Strip is facing an acute cooking gas shortage this winter, after a unilateral Israeli decision in October to permanently close the sole oil and gas terminal between the coastal Palestinian territory and the Jewish state.
Israeli officials shut down construction work in this town and dozens of other settlements throughout the West Bank on Monday, the first step in Israel's 10-month settlement freeze. But builders and settlers are pushing back on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's edict. Palestinians aren't happy with his controversial bid to restart stalled Middle East peace talks either.
JERUSALEM - Defiant West Bank settler leaders rejected on Thursday a personal plea from the prime minister to respect a government-ordered construction freeze in their communities, vowing to keep confronting security forces sent to enforce the edict.
Carlo Strenger: A return to 1967 borders would put most Israelis in rocket range. The EU needs to see that a two-state solution is complex
World stage South African President Jacob Zuma attends the inauguration ceremony of the 15th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh on July 15 2009.
The Hamas interior minister says that a prisoner exchange with Israel is likely to take place this month as a German mediator is in Gaza City to deliver Israel's final response to Hamas' demands over the impending deal.
NEW YORK, December 1, 2009 (WAFA)- Nearly a year after Israel's military offensive into the Gaza Strip which left some 1,400 Palestinians dead and pushed an already desperate humanitarian situation into crisis, the question of Palestine was at a critical juncture, and sustained focus was needed to both revive stagnant peace talks and create conditions for broader peace in the Middle East ...
A group of Israeli soldiers, backed by armored vehicles and two armored bulldozers stormed early on Monday an area east of Jabalia town in northern Gaza Strip, local sources and witnesses said. The witnesses said hat several Israeli armored vehicles backed by two bulldozers rolled 200 meters into Abu Saffeya area east of Jabalia amid intensive gunfire at Palestinian houses. The sources said that ...
In a bid to sidestep media, the Israeli military is turning to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to battle its enemies online and unfiltered.
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CHESUNCOOK, Maine -- This tiny village is in turmoil, and the Piscataquis County commissioners and police aren't sure how to restore the peace.
A German mediator is to give Israel's response to Hamas on a prisoner swap as the two sides edge closer to a deal, a Palestinian official said on Monday.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Monday evening rejected reports of gunfire during its operations earlier in the day in the Gaza Strip. "Earlier today, IDF forces conducted regular security activities along the security fence in the Gaza Strip," Maj. Erik Snider, head of the Foreign Press Branch of IDF Spokesperson Unit, told Xinhua. "IDF forces did not open fire, nor did they come under fire ...
Israeli army tanks have opened fire on houses and farmlands in the northern sector of the Gaza Strip, according to a report.
The Islamist Hamas-run government ruling Gaza has approved a legal change that will allow for the execution of convicted drug dealers, its attorney general said on Monday.
Israel's state prosecutor on Sunday provided a broad outline of a plan to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for a kidnapped Israeli soldier who has been held by militants in the Gaza Strip for more than three years.
