The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza during Israel’s on-going offensive reached 100 on Monday, the Hamas-run Health Ministry said.
There are theories among Israelis and Palestinians about what has propelled the two sides towards their second war in four years.
Israeli strikes on Sunday killed 21 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in the bloodiest day of its bombing campaign over the Gaza Strip.
US President Barack Obama on Sunday said it was "preferable" for the Gaza crisis to be ended without a "ramping up" of Israeli military action.
An Iranian lawmaker has denied his country had supplied Palestinian Islamist militants with missiles capable of hitting Israel’s commercial centre.
Israeli strikes in Gaza have pushed the death toll to 40 as the US claims militant rocket fire is a ‘precipitating factor’ in the conflict.
Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu has called US President Barack Obama and the two discussed options for "de-escalating" the situation in Israel and Gaza.
Recent attacks on the Jewish National Fund can only be seen as part of the decades-long struggle to exclude Jews from the Middle East.
Israel was condemned on Thursday by much of the Arab world while securing Western backing and pressing its biggest air assault on Gaza for years.
In Gaza, the emergence of militant organisations beyond the control of the ruling Hamas make the consequences of Israel’s operation unpredictable.
Five Gazans were killed in Israeli air strikes as militants fired around 250 rockets over the border, killing three Israelis, officials have said.
Israel has killed the military commander of Hamas in an airstrike on the Gaza Strip, bringing the two sides to the brink of a possible new war.
Israel has announced it is considering resuming its contentious practice of assassinating militant leaders in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Israel launched raids on targets in the Gaza Strip as military top brass weigh a stronger response to rocket fire from the Palestine authority.
Israeli troops fired tank shells into Syria on Monday, confirming "direct hits" on the source of a mortar round that struck the Golan Heights.
Israel has warned Hamas that it will strike with "ever-growing intensity" in response to the latest barrage of rocket attacks into the Jewish state.
To equate Israel with apartheid, as Gideon Levy does displays a profound ignorance of the horror that was South Africa.
The removal of a billboard graphically explaining the expanding Israeli occupation of Palestinian land looks set to culminate in a legal battle.
Israelis like the idea of democracy, but openly advocate discrimination against Arab citizens. How can people embrace a word synonymous with evil?
With the sponsorship of a SA organisation, the Bedouin villages of Umm al-Hiran and Al-Arakib in Israel will soon be wiped off the map.
Human Rights Watch and other NGOs says Israel has turned back dozens of African asylum seekers, mostly Eritreans, trying to enter from Egypt.
Israel’s continuing developments on the West Bank imperil Obama’s model for peace in the Middle East.
Two-thirds of Israel’s Jews say Palestinians should not be allowed to vote if the West Bank was annexed, while three in four favour segregated roads.
The Israeli navy have boarded and diverted a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists seeking to breach Israel’s naval blockade on the Gaza Strip.
There has been a mixed response to the controversial billboard campaign that graphically explains the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land.
Israel killed three Palestinian militants on Sunday, a day after two men identified as senior al-Qaeda affiliates in Gaza died in an air strike.
On a train ride through Jerusalem’s various enclaves, no one is prepared to bet against Netanyahu.
Iran could launch a pre-emptive strike if Israel prepares to attack it, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander told broadcaster Al-Alam on Sunday.
Reading ‘Pastrami and apartheid’ gives the impression that there is only one side to this conflict and only one narrative, says areader.
Mitt Romney’s battered presidential bid has been hit by a secretly recorded video in which he sets out views on the Israel-Palestine issue.
Shaun de Waal reviews two documentaries about Israel-Palestine, both showing at the TriContinental Film Festival.
Which path should post-apartheid South Africa take in its relation with Israel, a country with its own brand of modern-day apartheid?