Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian toddler in Gaza on Monday, hospital officials and witnesses said.
The Israeli army has seized documents suggesting the radical Islamic movement Hamas held talks in Cairo with Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement not to agree on curbing attacks on Israelis but to build its own links to Egypt, Israel media reports said Sunday.
Israeli police briefly detained the chief Muslim cleric in Jerusalem, Ikrema Sabri, and questioned him on Tuesday about a newspaper interview in which he was quoted as condoning suicide bombings, police said.
The Israeli army early on Tuesday entered the town of Jenin, hours after a suicide bomber killed two Israelis in an attack on a shopping mall in a Tel Aviv suburb.
Two Palestinian men were shot dead on Sunday in the northern West Bank, one in a gunbattle with Israeli troops, the other allegedly shot by a Jewish settler in an olive grove.
The radical Islamic Jihad movement has claimed responsibility for the pre-dawn kamikaze attack on an Israeli naval patrol boat that left four sailors wounded and the two Palestinian militants dead.
The head of Israeli military intelligence said on Saturday that no Iraqi missiles were so far positioned within striking distance of Israel and there were no signs of likely deployment soon.
Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer has ordered an inquiry into the increasing number of Palestinian civilians, including children, being killed by the army, after a bloody week in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Israeli police restricted access to Friday prayers at annexed east Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque, as security forces went on high alert a day after a Palestinian suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
The man behind last week’s car bombing and missile attack near Mombasa was identified as a Kenyan on the FBI’s most wanted list, reports an Israeli daily.
The Palestinians have refused an Israeli payment of ,7-million in unblocked customs duties and taxes because of conditions attached to its use.
Israeli officials hit out Thursday at CNN founder and AOL Time Warner Vice Chairman, Ted Turner, for accusing Israel of practising state terrorism, in comments made earlier this week.
Two years after the intifada erupted, the Palestinians appear to have lost the war on the political and diplomatic levels, but Israel has not won it yet, since the cycle of violence continues, with no solution shaping up.
Israel’s coalition government collapsed on Wednesday as Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer and other Labour ministers quit right-wing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s cabinet, throwing the country’s politics into turmoil and opening the door to snap elections.
Israeli settlers have set up a new ”rogue” settlement in the West Bank in response to a deadly Palestinian roadside attack.
Some 200 Jewish settlers refused on Monday morning to abandon a wildcat settlement ordered dismantled by Defence Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer six days ago, public radio said.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres has unveiled a peace plan calling for the centralisation of Palestinian security forces immediately followed by the establishment of a Palestinian state
Israel warned it will press ahead with daily raids on Palestinian areas after four Israelis were killed in the West Bank.
When Israeli soldiers track and kill a Palestinian militant, the army calls it ”focused prevention.” When Palestinian suicide bombers strike, their backers cheer ”heroic martyrdom operations.”
Israeli tanks were surrounding Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s office building in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Friday after a suicide bomber blew up a bus in downtown Tel Aviv, killing five other people and wounding dozens.
Nael Azmi Abu Hilail had more than enough time to see those he was about to kill after he boarded the number 20 bus at the bottom of Mexico Street.
A powerful car bomb exploded next to a bus, engulfing it in flames during the morning rush hour on Wednesday. At least 18 people were killed and more than 37 injured, police and rescue workers said.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was set for a day of political horse-trading on Friday in his bid to form a new government, and avoid snap polls, after the centre-left Labour party walked out of the coalition in a row over the budget.
The Israeli army began calling up reservists under emergency procedures on Sunday as it continued its partial occupation of the West Bank, a military source told public radio.
A Palestinian attacker blew himself up outside a nightclub in Tel Aviv early on Friday in the fourth suicide attack since Sunday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Yasser Arafat was ”finished”, in his latest jab at the Palestinian leader, besieged by the army in his Ramallah office.
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered the army to ease restrictions on Palestinians amid increasing signs of popular resistance to Israel’s five-week occupation of major West Bank towns.