International firefighting teams were on Friday helping Israel battle a huge forest fire near theport of Haifa which has killed at least 42 people.
A major forest fire killed at least 40 people in northern Israel on Thursday, including prison guard cadets trapped in a bus.
Battling against a deeply patriarchal society, Arab Israeli and Palestinian lesbian women are uniting to break the taboo of homosexuality and politicise the right to be female and gay. ”We are Palestinian, we are women and we are gay,” is the slogan coined by Aswat, the association campaigning for lesbian Arabs to be accepted in Israeli and Palestinian society.
A barrage of Hezbollah rockets fired from Lebanon slammed into the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Friday, wounding at least 19 people, medics said. Rockets also hit several other northern towns. One missile hit an apartment building in Haifa. Sirens sounded shortly before the rockets struck.
A suicide bomber blew himself up on a crowded bus in the northern Israeli city of Haifa today, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens, officials said. The explosion, the first terrorist attack in Israel since January, ripped the roof off a No. 37 bus, strewing wreckage and body parts across the street.