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.
A bomb tore apart a packed bus in northern Israel during the morning rush hour on Sunday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than two dozen.
Tough-talking new foreign minister Binyamin Netanyahu was to be sworn in on Wednesday as Israel prepares for early elections which the right is tipped to win, while in the Gaza Strip an armed Palestinian kills two Jewish settlers before being shot dead.
Israel and the Palestinians were set on Thursday to hold security talks to discuss a phased Israeli withdrawal from some occupied areas.
Palestinian gunmen shot and killed an Israeli motorist early on Thursday as Israel’s foreign minister warned that civilians would likely ”pay dearly” for the airstrike that killed a top Palestinian militant and 14 other people.
Israel said it was ready to make peace following US President George Bush’s Middle East policy speech on Monday, but only once the Palestinians stamp out ”terrorism” and start reforming their
leadership.
Mohammed Kashir’s intended objective yesterday was, by one definition in the shifting standards of the war for Palestine, a ”legitimate target”.
The latest Palestinian suicide bombing threatened on Tuesday to reignite the cycle of violence in the Middle East as Israel mulled its response to the attack which left at least 14 people dead and blew a hole in US hopes to revive the peace process.
Israeli armed forces seized more Palestinian areas on Thursday, after a second suicide bomb attack on Jerusalem in two days killed six Israelis including a five-year-old girl.
Israeli cabinet secretary Gideon Saar declined to rule out the army storming Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s office on Saturday as he made clear the Jewish state’s determination to capture some 20 security commanders holed up with him.
At least 10 people were killed and 45 injured on Thursday as a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up aboard a rush-hour bus in west Jerusalem.
Israeli troops entered Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank overnight and arrested more than 70 Palestinians, the military said on Thursday, one of the largest such sweeps in two years of fighting.
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and an Israeli policeman on Wednesday at a bus stop in the northern Arab town of Umm el-Fahm, in the first kamikaze attack inside Israel in six weeks, police said.