Palestinian workers wait for transportation after crossing from Gaza to Israel, on the Israeli side of Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip, March 27, 2022. (ODED BALILTY / AP) UNITED NATIONS – UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland on Monday described a cease-fire in Gaza and Israel as […]
A fireball rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on August 7, 2022 shortly before a ceasefire. Israel's army said it was striking "a wide range" of Palestinian militant targets in Gaza after a 2030 GMT ceasefire came into force, responding to rocket fire moments earlier. […]
Smoke billows from the site of a reported Israeli strike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on Aug 6, 2022. (SAID KHATIB / AFP) GAZA/JERUSALEM – Israeli air strikes pounded Gaza while the militant Islamic Jihad group fired hundreds of rockets into Israel on Saturday as a cross-border clash continued into a second day, […]
In this Feb 14, 2022 file photo, Palestinians inspect the damage after Israeli forces demolished part of the residence in the village of Silat al-Harithiya near the flashpoint town of Jenin in the West Bank. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH / AFP) RAMALLAH – Palestine on Thursday called for international intervention to stop the expansion of Israeli settlements […]
This handout picture released by the Jordanian Royal Palace shows Jordan's King Abdullah II (right) meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid at al-Husseiniya Palace in Amman on July 27, 2022. (YOUSEF ALLAN / JORDANIAN ROYAL PALACE / AFP) AMMAN – Jordan's king told Israel's visiting prime minister on Wednesday that Palestinians should be part […]
A United Nations ship is pictured in the southernmost area of Naqura, by the border with Israel, on Oct 14, 2020. Lebanon and Israel, still technically at war, are holding talks sponsored by the United Nations and the United States to settle a maritime border dispute and clear the way for oil and gas exploration. […]
IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi speaks during a candle lightning ceremony with Israeli soldiers on the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, In Jerusalem on Nov 29, 2021. (TSAFRIR ABAYOV / AP PHOTO) JERUSALEM – The chief of Israel's armed forces will visit Morocco on Monday in the highest-level public engagement between the countries, which upgraded […]
Palestinian workers clear the rubble of a destroyed building in Gaza city on July 16, 2022. (MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) JERUSALEM – Israel decided on Saturday to cancel a recently increased quota of work permits for Palestinian laborers from Gaza in response to rocket attacks earlier in the day. The decision was announced by the […]
Fires are seen following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza city on July 16, 2022. Israeli warplanes struck a weapons manufacturing facility in the Gaza Strip early on July 16, the military said, after rocket fire against Israeli territory. The exchange of fire came hours after US President Joe Biden visited Israel and the occupied West […]
The first Qatar Airways plane in three years lands at King Khalid Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Jan 11, 2021. (AMR NABIL / AP PHOTO) Saudi Arabia said it would open its airspace to all air carriers, paving the way for more overflights to and from Israel, in a decision welcomed by US President Joe […]
US President Joe Biden boards Air Force One for a trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia on July 12, 2022 at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (GEMUNU AMARASINGHE / AP) ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE – US President Joe Biden arrives in Israel on Wednesday to kick off a high-stakes trip to the Middle East dominated […]
Israeli President Isaac Herzog speaks during the Jerusalem Post 10th annual conference in Jerusalem on Oct 12, 2021. (Gil COHEN-MAGEN / AFP) JERUSALEM/WARSAW – Israel and Poland have agreed to improve relations that had deteriorated after Warsaw introduced a law last year limiting the ability of Jews to recover World War II properties, saying on […]
A handout picture provided by the Lebanese photo agency Dalati and Nohra shows (left to right) Lebanon's President Michel Aoun meeting with Prime Minister Najib Mikati at the governmental palace in the capital Beirut on May 20, 2022. (DALATI AND NOHRA / AFP) BEIRUT – Lebanon warned Israel on Sunday against any "aggressive action" in […]
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks during a news conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on Jan 2, 2022. (EMIL SALMAN / POOL PHOTO VIA AP) JERUSALEM – A laser-based air defense system that Israel hopes to deploy from next year to neutralize enemy rockets and drones will cost just $2 per interception, […]
A picture shows the new UAE embassy in Tel Aviv on July 14, 2021. (JACK GUEZ / AFP) DUBAI – Israel signed a free trade agreement with the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, its first big trade accord with an Arab state and a move aimed at boosting trade between the two Middle East nations. […]
The Emirati, Israeli and US flags sway in the wind at the Abu Dhabi airport at the arrival of the first-ever commercial flight from Israel to the UAE, on Aug 31, 2020. (KARIM SAHIB / AFP) JERUSALEM – Israel and the United Arab Emirates will sign a free trade agreement in Dubai on Tuesday in […]
A photo taken on May 19, 2022 shows drawings at an art exhibit honoring slain Palestinian Al-Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. (RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP) RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian Authority said on Thursday its investigation into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh showed that she was shot by an Israeli […]
Israeli soldiers are positioned near the northern Israeli town of Metula along the border with Lebanon on April 25, 2022, following overnight rocket fire from Lebanon into northern Israel. (JALAA MAREY / AFP) BEIRUT – The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon on Thursday called on Lebanon and Israel to use the tripartite meetings to […]
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye speaks during a joint press conference with Libya's interim prime minister in the Libyan capital Tripoli, on Feb 14, 2022. (MAHMUD TURKIA / AFP) JERUSALEM / RAMALLAH – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Ishtaye on Tuesday called on the European Union to pressure Israel to stop its violations against the Palestinians […]
Palestinians perform Friday prayers, the third of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, at Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque complex on April 22, 2022. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) AMMAN – Jordan has intensified efforts to push Israel to respect the historic status quo of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque and avoid violent confrontations that could threaten a wider […]
US President Joe Biden speaks about trade with Russia, from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 11, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN / AFP) JERUSALEM – US President Joe Biden has accepted Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's invitation to visit Israel in "the next few months," the prime minister's office said […]
A missile from Israel's Iron Dome air defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, lights the sky in the central Gaza Strip, April 21, 2022. (SAID KHATIB / AFP) GAZA – Israel carried out air strikes in central Gaza before dawn on Thursday after a rocket launched from the […]
An overturned vehicle lies on the road at the scene of a shooting attack on March 29, 2022 in Bnei Brak, 7km (4.5 miles) east of Tel Aviv. Five people were killed in gun attacks Tuesday near the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv, emergency responders said, in the third fatal gun or knife spree […]
A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency on September 21, 2021 shows Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi addressing the 76th Session of the UN General Assembly from Tehran. (HO / IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / AFP) TEHRAN – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday some Arab nations' normalization of ties with Israel will create more problems […]
In this file photo dated May 14, 2021, the Israeli Iron Dome missile defence system (left) intercepts rockets (right) fired by the Hamas movement towards southern Israel from Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip as seen in the sky above the Gaza Strip overnight. (ANAS BABA / AFP) JERUSALEM – Israel will start using […]
A handout picture released by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows firefighters battling the blaze at Syria's Latakia port after an Israeli air strike early on Dec 28, 2021. (SANA / AFP) TEHRAN – Iran's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday condemned Israel's recent attack on Syria's port of Latakia. "The leaders of the Zionist […]
Israeli soldiers stand on guard by the fence along the border with the Gaza Strip near Moshav Netiv HaAsara in southern Israel on Dec 7, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP) JERUSALEM – An Israeli was wounded in a shooting attack on the Gaza border on Wednesday, the military said, after a rare visit to Israel […]
Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed (right) chats with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett after his arrival at the Presidential Terminal at Abu Dhabi International Airport on Dec 12, 2021. Bennett arrived in the UAE for the first official visit by a prime minister of the Jewish state, after the […]
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks to reporters following a session at the Knesset (Israeli parliament), in Jerusalem on Nov 4, 2021. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will travel to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday and meet the Gulf state's de facto ruler in the highest-level visit since […]
All paths should be explored to revive Middle East peace efforts, experts say A Palestinian approaches an Israeli army checkpoint outside the city of Hebron on Oct 13. The woman wants to work on olive fields on the other side of Israel's separation barrier. (HAZEM BADER / AFP) Opportunities to narrow the political divide between […]