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Netanyahu has until October to face a pre-trial hearing after Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit announced in February his intention to indict the leader. (Photo:AP)

Israel hits Gaza after rocket sirens force Netanyahu off stage

The Israeli military said 15 targets were hit, including a weapons manufacturing facility.

11 Sept 2019 6:10 AM

Quoting security sources, Xinhua news agency reported that the Israeli planes fired several missiles at military posts that belong to Hamas militants in the southwest of Gaza City. (Photo: ANI Representational)

Israel strikes in Gaza after rocket attack Jerusalem

The exchange came hours after two Palestinian teenagers were killed by Israeli fire during clashes on the Gaza border.

7 Sept 2019 12:14 PM

Palestinians cross a bridge at Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem. (AP)

Israel, Palestinians tighten restrictions as coronavirus reemerges

The Palestinian Authority put the West Bank city of Hebron on lockdown as well

24 Jun 2020 10:07 AM

Palestinians attach an incendiary device to inflated plastic bags and condoms to be directed and flown towards Israel, near Rafah along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. (AFP)

Hamas calls on regional leaders to 'break silence' as US' Pompeo...

Israel has bombed the coastal Palestinian strip, which is ruled by Hams, almost daily since August 6

24 Aug 2020 9:08 AM

Smoke and flames rise after war planes belonging to the Israeli army carried out airstrikes over the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. (AFP)

Israel launches fresh strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza in retaliation...

Despite a truce last year backed by UN, Egypt and Qatar, the two sides clash sporadically with rockets, mortar fire or...

13 Aug 2020 5:45 AM

Israeli ruthlessness was most evident in recent times by its retaliation on the Gaza Strip, horrific its ferocity and far exceeding any limits of justifiable and even acceptable retribution (Representational Image/AFP)

Mohan Guruswamy | Why State of Israel has lost its heroic sheen

Israel's heroic burnish is now dulled after the emergence of Israel as the pre-eminent and most ruthless power in the...

2 Aug 2022 6:20 PM

There is a strategic bent to Mr Bidens visit in the sense that he will be hoping that the message of his presence in Israel is strong enough to deter Iran, Syria and other powers, and militant players in the region, from expanding the war against Israel to more than the one front that the Hamas is involved in. (Image: AP)

AA Edit | Biden goes to Israel amid fears of a larger conflict

In his 15 years in office, the belligerent Netanyahu had never engaged in an all-out war

17 Oct 2023 6:30 PM

ormer J&K chief Minister Farooq Abdullah in Jammu. (PTI Photo)

Farooq seeks India, Pakistan peace dialogue

He warned that if the issues are not resolved amicably through a dialogue a Palestine-like situation might emerge in the...

26 Dec 2023 8:44 PM

In 1945, however, Ibn Saud was at least formally the supplicant. As the representative of the Palestinian-Arabs he did not deny that Europes Jews had been cruelly treated. But he argued that innocent Palestinians should not have to pay for Germanys crimes. (File Image AFP)

Sunanda K. Datta-Ray | Why US, Saudis aren't in a hurry to halt war in...

If the major powers failed the Palestinians, their own race brothers were not very helpful either

10 Jan 2024 6:30 PM

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran of planning attacks against the Jewish state and said everything possible would be done to prevent them. (Photo: File)

AA Edit | A judicial rap for Netanyahu

The Israeli army may have strategically decided to pull some troops from Gaza

2 Jan 2024 6:30 PM

Palestinian protesters carry an injured man who was shot by Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strips border with Israel, Monday, May 14, 2018. (Photo: AP)

Is the Cold War starting all over again?

To a watching world it was a graphic demonstration of iron-fisted crowd control by the Israeli security forces, circa...

29 May 2018 7:53 PM

The applicant should also be deft in singing, dance, oration and drama, and students who follow yoga, pranayama and meditation should be given preference.

First women's yoga training center opens doors in Gaza

The Gaza Strip, which is dominated by the Islamist Hamas faction, has experienced three wars with neighboring Israel in...

29 March 2018 6:38 AM