The clashes broke during a ground operation on Gaza’s coast by Israeli commandos- the first ground assault since the offensive against Hamas began.
US President Barack Obama has said that settlement building in the occupied West Bank did not "advance the cause of peace".
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/ 27 September 2010
Israel allowed its halt in construction in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank to expire on Monday, defying a call to extend the moratorium.
On a neighbourhood in the West Bank settlement of Efrat, workers construct a foundation that will expand a building towards a nearby playground.
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/ 18 September 2008
Tzipi Livni was narrowly elected leader of Israel’s ruling party and vowed on Thursday to start work immediately on forming a new coalition.
Paralysed for the past 20 years, former Israeli paratrooper Radi Kaiof now walks down the street with a dim mechanical hum.
Microsoft is not looking to bid to buy all of Yahoo! but is in talks about other types of deals with the United States number two search engine, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said on Wednesday. Earlier this month, Microsoft walked away from a proposal to acquire Yahoo! for ,5-billion, or per share.