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Norwegian prosecutors announced on Friday they would not pursue war crimes charges against Israeli officials, including former prime minister Ehud Olmert, over the Gaza Strip offensive.
A senior opposition leader in Israel unveiled a peace plan Sunday that held out the possibility of negotiations with Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group in control of the Gaza Strip.
When Ehud Olmert strolled into a back entrance at the Westin St. Francis Hotel last week, having already been heckled during appearances in Chicago and New Orleans, the former Israeli prime minister must have known what was coming.
Bay Area residents attempted a citizen's arrest of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, while he gave a speech to the World Affairs Council in San Francisco on 22 October 2009.
by Ian Black Ehud Olmert, Israel's prime minister during the Gaza war, would probably face arrest on war crimes charges if he visited Britain, according to a UK lawyer who is working to expand the application of "universal jurisdiction" for offences involving serious human rights abuses committed anywhere in the world. read more
Israel has responded angrily to a United Nations resolution that accuses the Jewish state of war crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Israel's leader is heading to the United States, but trouble is brewing back home with the Palestinians. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu left for Washington amid a deepening crisis in the peace process.
The rocket was reportedly supplied by Iran and can reach Tel Aviv from Gaza. Israeli officials say the launch is the latest sign that the militant group is rebuilding and upgrading its arsenal. Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip have test-fired a rocket with a 37-mile range, Israel's military intelligence chief said Tuesday, giving them the capacity to reach deeper into Israel and strike Tel Aviv ...
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The top Palestinian negotiator says before talks broke down in January, Israel proposed a Palestinian state in all of the Gaza Strip and the equivalent of the West Bank.
Israel's president has called on Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to rescind his decision to stand down, invoking the memory of Yitzhak Rabin at a commemoration for the assassinated Israeli premier.
WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Norwegian prosecutors have dropped a case alleging war crimes by 10 Israeli leaders during last winter’s Gaza military campaign.
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