Israeli soldiers and several dozen Palestinians clashed in Jerusalem Saturday, exchanging volleys of rocks, tear gas, fire bombs, and rubber bullets, according to eyewitnesses and the Israeli military.
Dozens of Israeli security personnel stormed the compound housing the al-Aqsa mosque Friday after Palestinians threw rocks at nearby police, according to Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
A bus carrying school children burst into flames after a collision with a truck outside the Palestinian city of Ramallah on Thursday, killing at least six people, authorities said.
Two Palestinian parliament members suspected of involvement in Hamas activity were arrested in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli police said.
There is growing concern in Israel about a spate of right-wing attacks. CNN's Kevin Flower reports.
In an attack Tuesday -- which an Israeli official termed an act of Jewish terrorism -- around 50 right-wing Israeli extremists infiltrated and attacked the Ephraim Regional Division Headquarters, an Israel Defense Forces military base in the West Bank.
An Israeli teen in central Jerusalem was hurt when a man stabbed him in the back and stomach, police said Sunday.
A second 18-year-old was set Monday to make his first court appearance in connection with the torching of a mosque in the northern Israeli village of Tuba Zangaria, authorities said.
Police in Israel have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with the burning of a mosque, according to Israeli National Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
A suspected arson attack on a mosque raises fears more violence will hit West Bank settlers. CNN's Kevin Flower reports.
Police stepped up security in northern Israel Monday after a fire at a mosque overnight in an apparent revenge attack.
Israeli police and security forces destroyed three houses in the Israeli settlement outpost of Migron in the northern West Bank early Monday morning clashing with settlers who refused to accept an Israeli court decision ordering the community to be demolished.
A Palestinian man plowed a stolen vehicle into a Tel Aviv police checkpoint and then stabbed several people early Monday morning, Israeli police said.
Tens of thousands of Israelis gathered in Tel Aviv on Saturday night to protest against the soaring housing prices in the Jewish state.
Israeli officials have detained dozens of people traveling to Tel Aviv as part of an organized pro-Palestinian protest, a police spokesman said Friday.
Thousands of ultra-orthodox and nationalist right-wing Israelis rallied peacefully outside Jerusalem's Supreme Court Monday night in a public display aimed at expressing solidarity with two rabbis recently detained in a police probe into incitement surrounding a controversial religious text published two years ago.
Three Israeli settlers from the West Bank were arrested overnight on suspicion of setting fire to a police commander's car, Israel police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told CNN Monday.
The Palestinian Authority has accused the Israeli government of incitement in an arson attack Tuesday on a West Bank mosque, claiming the act was committed by settlers under the protection of the Israeli military.
One man was killed and 16 others injured Sunday when a truck plowed into vehicles and pedestrians on a busy Tel Aviv road, authorities said.
A funeral procession for a Palestinian teenager who died from a gunshot wound turned violent Saturday when participants clashed with Israeli police, escalating tensions ahead of a Palestinian mourning day marking the birth of the Jewish state.
Israeli settlers damaged cars and tried to burn down a house in Palestinian villages in the West Bank Monday night and Tuesday, police told CNN. The actions followed removal of three illegal shacks in a Jewish settlement.
Israeli police and security services have arrested four Palestinian men in connection with the December slaying of American tourist Kristine Luken, authorities said.
Israeli police arrested Tuesday an immigrant from the former Yugoslavia who is suspected of participating in the 1995 massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica.
Five members of Hamas were charged Sunday with planning to fire a rocket into a Jerusalem stadium during a soccer game, Israeli police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said.
Israel is violating its own laws by arresting an increasing number of Palestinian minors in East Jerusalem for stone-throwing, according to a new report by Israeli human rights group B'tselem.
Israeli police officers razed a mosque they said was built illegally in the southern city of Rahat as residents hurled rocks at them.
CNN's Nadia Bilchik speaks to T.J. Holmes about a window display in an Israeli mall, aimed at battling sex trafficking.
A driver was charged with excessive speeding and reckless endangerment after police came across a video he posted on Facebook, Israeli authorities said.
Vandals torched a West Bank mosque and sprayed graffiti on its walls early Monday, officials said.
Vandals attack a mosque in the West Bank, spraying graffiti on its walls. CNN's Paula Hancocks reports.
A Palestinian worker was fatally shot Sunday morning during a struggle with an Israeli border officer, an Israeli police spokesman said.
Palestinian youths and Israeli border police clashed Friday in a third day of violence sparked after a security guard shot and killed a Palestinian man in an East Jerusalem neighborhood.
Palestinian youths rioted in East Jerusalem -- including at the politically sensitive al Aqsa mosque -- on Wednesday after a security guard shot and killed a Palestinian man.
Palestinian youths and Israeli security personnel clashed after an Israeli settlement guard killed a Palestinian man.
Two Israelis were wounded Wednesday night in a shooting at Rimonim Junction, east of the West Bank city of Ramallah, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Israel will deploy 3,000 police officers in and around Jerusalem to prevent any outbreak of violence as Muslims gather for the first Friday prayers for the holy month of Ramadan, police said.
A look at the first day of Ramadan in Jerusalem.
On the eve of the holy month of Ramadan, Israeli police re-entered a Bedouin village Tuesday to repeat the demolition of homes they had razed only a few days earlier.
Police evicted 200 Bedouins from their homes in a southern Israeli village on Tuesday and demolished their dwellings, an act decried by residents who said they are on ancestral land.
Israeli police shot and killed a Palestinian man who struck two Israeli border guards in mainly Arab East Jerusalem on Friday, police said.
Israeli police are restricting Friday prayers at Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem following intelligence reports about possible riots in the city, Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. Men age 40 and under will not be allowed to pray at the mosque Friday, he said.
At least five Palestinian residents and five Israeli police officers were injured in a brawl that broke out in an east Jerusalem neighborhood Saturday.
Police in Israel have recommended that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman be indicted in a case involving the transfer of sensitive documents, police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said Monday.
Authorities are investigating the shooting of a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank, an Israeli police spokesman said Friday.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has extended the closure of the West Bank, initially scheduled to end Saturday night, for three more days, Israeli officials said Saturday.
Middle East policy experts explain the impact of Vice President Joe Biden's recent trip to the region.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has ordered the army to seal off the West Bank for 48 hours and tightened security around the old city of Jerusalem, Israeli officials said Friday.
Dozens of people were injured during clashes Friday between Israeli police and Palestinian youths in east Jerusalem at one of the city's holiest sites.
Tensions around Jerusalem's al-Aqsa Mosque break out into clashes. CNN's Kevin Flower reports.
Five men were arrested Sunday as Palestinians clashed with Israeli police in East Jerusalem at one of the city's holiest sites.
Ten Israeli police officers were detained for questioning Sunday about the alleged abuse of a Palestinian man, an Israeli Justice Ministry spokeswoman said.
Israeli police were questioning a relative of the late Jewish extremist Rabbi Meir Kahane in its probe of a Palestinian mosque firebombing in the West Bank earlier this month.
An American-born Israeli man, called a terrorist by Israeli police, was indicted Thursday on murder charges despite his attorney's concerns about his mental stability.
An American-born Israeli settler is indicted on murder charges. CNN's Kevin Flower reports.
Palestinians and Israeli police engaged in a standoff for more than five hours at Jerusalem's holiest site Sunday, with police storming the site twice.
Israeli police on Tuesday arrested Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic movement in Israel, in the third consecutive day of unrest in East Jerusalem, police said.
Clashes between Palestinian protesters and Israeli police in east Jerusalem stretched into Sunday evening after a visit by a Jewish group to one of the city's holiest sites.
Israeli police Sunday recommended charging Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman with a slew of crimes following a lengthy corruption probe.
Israeli police say at least two people were killed in a shooting at a Tel Aviv "gay club".
A Palestinian woman opened fire Saturday on Israeli border police in southern Israel before they shot and killed her, an Israeli spokesman said.
A "huge disaster" was averted when a car bomb, set to go off outside a shopping mall, was disabled before it exploded, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday.
Police searched Sunday for gunmen who opened fire on an Israeli police vehicle in the West Bank, killing two officers, according to Israeli police.
A Palestinian man from East Jerusalem rammed a construction vehicle into a police car before he was shot and killed, Israeli police said Thursday.
At least 24 Russian tourists have been killed in one of Israel's deadliest traffic accidents when their bus plunged down a ravine, throwing nearly all of the passengers out of the vehicle.
Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert opened his weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday with sharp words for Jewish settlers who opened fire on Palestinians last week, saying their actions constituted a "pogrom."
Israeli police confiscated a shipment of goods destined for Gaza in the latest effort to break a blockade of the Palestinian-controlled region.
Jewish settlers are on a "terror" rampage in the West Bank city of Hebron, angry over the Israeli military's seizure of a disputed home, the city's mayor said Thursday.
A rocket was fired into the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon, Israeli police said Wednesday, but no damage or injuries were reported.
The northern Israeli town of Acre was quiet on Sunday after four days of Arab-Jewish rioting, sparked in part by unsubstantiated rumors.
Fifteen people -- mostly Israeli soldiers -- were injured at an intersection in Jerusalem Monday night when a driver plowed his car into a group of people, Jerusalem police told CNN.
A car plows into a group of Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem, injuring more than a dozen people.
Israeli police divers found a suitcase Thursday containing human remains that are believed to be the body of a missing 4-year-old girl, an Israeli police spokesman said.
Israeli police on Sunday recommended that outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert be indicted on corruption charges stemming from two investigations, a police spokesman said.
An Israeli border policeman has been arrested in connection with last week's shooting death of a Palestinian boy, an Israeli police spokesman said Sunday.
Jerusalem attack
updated: Wed Jul 23 2008 04:42:00
In Jerusalem, emergency personnel arrive on scene after a man used heavy equipment to mow down cars.
A Palestinian man went on a rampage Tuesday in downtown Jerusalem, ramming a construction vehicle into cars and buses before he was shot and killed near the hotel where Sen. Barack Obama is scheduled to stay Tuesday night.
Israeli investigators say they suspect Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked multiple public organizations to cover the same expenses and pocketed the extra money when he was Jerusalem mayor and a government minister.
An Israeli police spokesman describes what happened when a man drove a bulldozer into a Jerusalem street.
Israeli authorities are investigating why a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem rammed his bulldozer into several cars and buses Wednesday, killing three people before Israeli police shot him dead.
Two arrests are made in the beating of Palestinian shepherds caught on tape. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
The shaky video shows four men, wearing makeshift hoods and wielding sticks or batons, as they walk up a grassy hill to a middle-aged Palestinian man tending his sheep in the Hebron Hills.
Israeli police will recommend not charging Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for any involvement in the privatization of Bank Leumi, Israel's second-largest bank, police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld told CNN Thursday.
Israeli police announced Wednesday they are investigating an Israeli-Arab politician suspected of laundering money and passing information to the enemy during Israel's war with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon last summer.
An Israeli-Arab legislator Friday helped negotiate an end to a standoff between Palestinians and police at a disputed Jerusalem holy site.
At least five people were killed and 67 injured when an Israeli passenger train struck a truck on a crossing and derailed, according to Israeli police and medical officials.
Stone throwing, tears and arrests marked the eviction of Jewish settlers from a home in Hebron, as police used a circular saw to cut through the door of the house early Sunday.
A man, accompanied by two others, entered a Nazareth church Friday and began throwing firecrackers, an Israeli police spokesman said.
An Israeli soldier opened fire inside a bus in Israel's northern Galilee region Thursday, killing four Israeli Arabs and seriously wounding five other people before he was killed, according to Israeli police.
Israeli authorities arrested 300 protesters overnight who were trying to enter Gaza in defiance of a government order banning nonresidents from entering the territory.
Thousands of Jewish protesters ended their demonstration late Wednesday without renewing their effort to march into Gaza, but organizers said the protest would resume in the morning.
Organizers of an anti-pullout protest told thousands of Israeli demonstrators Tuesday to bed down in a bid to wait out authorities ordered to block their march toward the Gaza border.
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Netivot Monday singing, praying and chanting in protest against the Israeli government's plan to pull out of Gaza and a small part of the West Bank.
A day after declaring all settlements in Gaza a controlled military zone, the Israeli army Friday lifted the order, saying the threat to Israel's disengagement plan had been eliminated, a statement from Israel Defense Forces said.
Israeli police and soldiers raided a hotel in southern Gaza Thursday to oust Israeli protesters opposed to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw troops and thousands of Israeli settlers from the Palestinian area.
An attempt to steal a reported $423 million from a Japanese bank in London has been foiled, according to British police.
Less than three weeks after Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to a cease-fire amid newfound optimism about the Mideast peace process, a suicide bomber attacked a nightclub in a popular beachfront area of Tel Aviv late Friday night, killing four people and wounding at least 65 others, according to Israeli police and emergency services.
Seven months after he was released from prison after an 18-year sentence for treason and espionage, Israeli police arrested nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu Thursday morning in Jerusalem on suspicion of passing on confidential information to unauthorized individuals, police said.
A suicide bomber killed at least three people and wounded 35 others when he detonated himself in an open-air market Monday in Tel Aviv, Israeli police and ambulance services said.
Three bomb blasts late Thursday rocked Egyptian resorts where Israelis were vacationing during Jewish holidays, killing about 40 people and wounding more than 100.
Israeli police entered a Jerusalem holy site and used stun grenades and rubber pellets to quell Palestinians throwing rocks at police and Jewish worshippers at the end of Friday prayers at the Al Aqsa Mosque, according to a police spokesman.
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