An Israel air force pilot, the son of an astronaut who died aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, was killed Sunday in an F-16 fighter jet crash, Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
Israel on Sunday withheld the press credentials of a Swedish newspaper in retaliation for a controversial piece that suggested the Israeli army kidnapped and killed young Palestinians to harvest their organs.
Investigators have ruled out a report that an Israeli soldier was kidnapped earlier Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces said.
A report from an Israeli advocacy group based on what it says is the testimony of several unnamed Israeli soldiers accuses the Israeli military of intentionally putting Palestinian civilians at risk during its recent operation in Gaza.
Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney -- who was aboard a ship the Israeli navy intercepted this week -- is in a detention center and will be returned to the United States, the U.S. Embassy said.
The Israeli navy took control of a boat that violated an Israeli blockade and crossed into Gazan waters Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said, while a Gaza group said the ship was carrying humanitarian aid, a former U.S. congresswoman and a Nobel laureate.
Thousands of Palestinians are facing a housing crisis because of inadequate urban planning by Israeli officials who run the east Jerusalem region, a U.N. report shows.
The Israeli Military said Thursday that the "vast majority" of Palestinians killed in the recent Gaza conflict were "terror operatives" and the number of people killed was less than Palestinian sources reported.
The Israeli military's firing of white phosphorus shells over densely populated areas during the Gaza offensive "was indiscriminate and is evidence of war crimes," Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Wednesday.
Israeli soldiers routinely and intentionally put children in harm's way during their 22-day offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza, according to a United Nations report made public Monday.
An Israel air force pilot, the son of an astronaut who died aboard the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, was killed Sunday in an F-16 fighter jet crash, Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
Israel on Sunday withheld the press credentials of a Swedish newspaper in retaliation for a controversial piece that suggested the Israeli army kidnapped and killed young Palestinians to harvest their organs.
Investigators have ruled out a report that an Israeli soldier was kidnapped earlier Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces said.
A report from an Israeli advocacy group based on what it says is the testimony of several unnamed Israeli soldiers accuses the Israeli military of intentionally putting Palestinian civilians at risk during its recent operation in Gaza.
Former U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney -- who was aboard a ship the Israeli navy intercepted this week -- is in a detention center and will be returned to the United States, the U.S. Embassy said.
The Israeli navy took control of a boat that violated an Israeli blockade and crossed into Gazan waters Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said, while a Gaza group said the ship was carrying humanitarian aid, a former U.S. congresswoman and a Nobel laureate.
Thousands of Palestinians are facing a housing crisis because of inadequate urban planning by Israeli officials who run the east Jerusalem region, a U.N. report shows.
The Israeli Military said Thursday that the "vast majority" of Palestinians killed in the recent Gaza conflict were "terror operatives" and the number of people killed was less than Palestinian sources reported.
The Israeli military's firing of white phosphorus shells over densely populated areas during the Gaza offensive "was indiscriminate and is evidence of war crimes," Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Wednesday.
Israeli soldiers routinely and intentionally put children in harm's way during their 22-day offensive against the Palestinians in Gaza, according to a United Nations report made public Monday.
Two rockets were fired Saturday morning from Gaza and landed in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, one of them hitting an educational institution and the other landing in an open area, the Israeli military said.
Citing security concerns, Israeli naval forces early Thursday commandeered a ship trying to bring humanitarian supplies into Gaza and redirected it to an Israeli port.
The Israeli military took the blame Wednesday for the deaths in Gaza of three daughters of a prominent Palestinian doctor during fighting in mid-January between Israeli troops and Hamas militants, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Clashes between Hamas militants and Israeli soldiers raged to the north and east of densely populated Gaza City early Sunday, the 16th day of an Israeli offensive, witnesses and medical sources said.
Israeli forces shelled a house where they had ordered about 100 Palestinian civilians to take shelter, killing about 30 people and wounding many more, witnesses told the U.N.
The Israeli army said Saturday it is investigating a video that appears to show Israeli soldiers taunting a blindfolded Palestinian man.
Israel launched an airstrike against Islamic militants in northern Gaza Wednesday night after rockets were fired into Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said.
A rocket was fired into the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon, Israeli police said Wednesday, but no damage or injuries were reported.
Israel launched an airstrike Tuesday night on southern Gaza after clashing with Hamas militants in central Gaza, Palestinian sources and Israel Defense Forces said.
West Bank settlers, long coddled by the Israeli government, turn on the security forces, hoping to block moves toward a two-state peace with the Palestinians
The Israeli military Thursday charged a commander and a soldier in an incident in which a rubber bullet was fired at a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee at close range.
The Israeli military said Tuesday that it has suspended a lieutenant colonel for "moral failure of command" after one of his soldiers fired a rubber bullet at close range at a blindfolded Palestinian in military custody.
Video shows an Israeli soldier firing a rubber bullet at a handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinian man this month in the West Bank, an Israeli human rights group said Sunday.
Israeli troops shot and killed an unarmed Palestinian man Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said.
An Israeli military investigation has cleared its air force in Monday's deaths of a Palestinian mother and her four children, the Southern Command of the Israel Defense Forces said Friday.
Four Palestinian siblings ages 1 to 6 and their mother were killed Monday when Israeli tank shells hit their house, Palestinian medical and security sources said.
The daughter of a senior member of Hamas was killed and her two siblings and mother were wounded in an exchange of fire with Israel Defense Forces, who surrounded the house Saturday morning, Palestinian security forces said.
An Israeli airstrike killed a wanted Palestinian militant in Beit Hanoun, Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian sources said Monday.
Israeli forces have arrested a wanted Hamas leader accused of planning one of the worst suicide attacks on Israel, the Israeli military announced Wednesday.
Israeli aircraft hit the Gaza City building housing the office of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh early Sunday, heavily damaging it.
An Israeli airstrike killed at least three Palestinians and wounded 16 others Sunday in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, Palestinian and Israeli sources said.
Israeli cross-border gunfire killed one Lebanese civilian and critically wounded another Sunday in a village that straddles the country's southern border with Israel, a spokesman for the Lebanese army told CNN.
Israel Defense Forces carried out two airstrikes on an old Hamas Interior Ministry building in Gaza City on Friday, killing one Palestinian woman and injuring 14 people, Palestinian security sources said.
Israeli forces arrested the local head of a Palestinian militant group in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday night, Israel Defense Forces said.
The Israel Defense Forces carried out two airstrikes against targets in northern Gaza early Saturday, killing two Palestinian militants, according to an IDF spokeswoman and Palestinian security sources.
The Israeli military carried out two airstrikes Thursday on vehicles in northern Gaza, killing six Palestinians -- including two civilians, Palestinian security sources said.
The U.S.-led push for an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by year's end has hit turbulence as U.S. President George W. Bush winds down his eight-day Mideast trip.
Nearly a week after vowing a harsher response to rocket attacks, the Israeli military overnight Monday pummeled Gaza with airstrikes that killed at least 11 Islamic Jihad militants, according to Israeli military and militant sources.
Israeli forces made forays into northern and southern Gaza Tuesday morning in operations targeting Palestinian militants, killing up to six, according to Palestinian sources and the Israel Defense Forces.
Islamic Jihad said it fired a longer-distance, shrapnel-packed missile into an Israeli military base early Tuesday -- wounding dozens of soldiers -- as part of its mission to hit targets deeper into Israel, a spokesman for the militant group told CNN.
An Israeli air strike east of Gaza City early Wednesday killed a militant, Palestinian security and medical sources and the Israel Defense Forces said.
The refusal of a few soldiers to evict two settler families in Hebron raises fears of a possible wider rebellion
An Israeli airstrike on Monday hit a car carrying Islamic Jihad militants in northern Gaza, killing four, Palestinian security sources said.
Lebanese army troops fired Wednesday on Israeli troops hunting for explosives along the Israel-Lebanon border, Lebanese army and Israeli military sources said.
Four Palestinians were killed and 25 wounded, including two journalists, Thursday during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Israeli sniper fire accidentally killed a 12-year-old Palestinian girl in Beit Hanoun on Saturday, Israel Defense Forces said.
Palestinian militants who had been in a firefight with Israeli soldiers escaped Friday, many of them slipping away in a crowd of women who had come to join what had begun as a standoff.
Israel said on Wednesday it will continue military operations it launched in Palestinian-controlled Gaza after a night of ground and aerial assaults.
A Hamas militant was targeted and killed in an Israeli airstrike east of Gaza City Sunday morning while Israeli ground forces patrolled the area for tunnels and planted bombs, Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian sources said.
Israel Defense Forces killed a Palestinian in a confrontation in Nablus in the West Bank on Saturday, Palestinian sources said.
Israel lobbed artillery rounds into southern Lebanon late Wednesday as troops backed by tanks and armored vehicles moved across the border.
Israeli strikes shook Beirut at daybreak and nightfall on Monday, while Lebanon proposed changes to a draft U.N. resolution aimed at halting the Israel-Hezbollah conflict that left some 800 people dead.
After bombing the last land routes into Beirut, and effectively cutting off the Lebanese capital from relief supplies, Israel issued a statement saying the attacks were designed to thwart Syrian attempts to arm Hezbollah.
Powerful explosions shattered the early morning peace in Beirut on Thursday -- airstrikes which announced a resumption of attacks on Hezbollah strongholds in the city's southern suburbs.
Israeli troops landed Tuesday near the eastern Lebanese town of Baalbeck, Lebanese security sources said, and the Israeli military also engaged in fierce fighting with Hezbollah forces just across the border with Lebanon.
The Israeli military and Hezbollah fighters exchanged heavy fire around three border towns in southern Lebanon on Thursday as rockets rained on northern Israel, much of which appears to be nearly deserted.
The Israeli military on Wednesday suffered its largest loss of life in its 15-day offensive against Hezbollah guerillas as nine Israeli soldiers were killed while fighting in southern Lebanese towns.
Hezbollah rockets destroyed homes and lives in northern Israel on Tuesday, and Israeli forces bombarded Lebanese villages as violence between the two groups entered a third week.
Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants battled Monday in southern Lebanon around what the Israeli military has dubbed Hezbollah's "terror capital."
Denying that it plans a full-scale ground invasion, the Israeli military entered the southern Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras on Saturday to establish its "first foothold" in a security buffer along the border, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed battling Hezbollah guerrillas Thursday in a second day of fierce ground fighting in war-ravaged southern Lebanon, the military said.
New explosions shook Beirut early Thursday, hours after Israeli warplanes dropped 23 tons of bombs on a bunker where Hezbollah leaders were holed up, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Israeli aircraft blasted the Palestinian Authority's Foreign Ministry offices in Gaza early Monday for the second time in less than a week, Palestinian sources and the Israeli military said.
Israeli fighter jets bombed Beirut International Airport Thursday, expanding Israel's military campaign against Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas holding two Israeli soldiers captive.
An Israeli missile missed its target Wednesday and hit a house in southern Gaza, killing a brother and sister and wounding 10 others, Palestinian security sources and witnesses said.
Three children were killed Tuesday in an Israeli missile strike on a car in northern Gaza, Palestinian hospital sources said.
An Israeli airstrike Friday targeted a car carrying two members of an alleged Palestinian Islamic Jihad "terror cell" in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Israel's prime minister on Sunday expressed regret over the deaths of seven members of a family at a Gaza beach on Friday that Palestinians say was caused by Israeli shelling.
Four Palestinians were killed and nine others were injured Tuesday morning when Israel launched a raid into northern Gaza, Palestinian security forces said. At least two others were killed in the West Bank.
An Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in southern Gaza killed six Palestinians, including a senior militant and some of his family members, Palestinian security and medical sources said Saturday.
Hamas told its followers to take to the streets of Gaza City on Thursday after the Israeli military reportedly killed six people during military strikes in the West Bank. Thousands of Palestinians peacefully heeded the call.
The Israeli military pounded northern Gaza with artillery fire Wednesday evening after warning Palestinian civilians to stay out of a zone used by militants to fire rockets at Israel.
An Israeli missile hit a car Tuesday in the Jabalya refugee camp in northern Gaza, killing two Palestinians, Palestinian security sources said.
Israeli security forces rounded up nearly two dozen suspected Palestinian militants in West Bank raids overnight, a military source said Tuesday.
For a sixth straight day, Israeli forces rounded up suspected Palestinian militants across the West Bank, killing three of them and arresting another dozen, an Israel Defense Forces representative said Thursday.
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.
A Palestinian man and an Israeli soldier were killed early Monday in a shootout during an Israeli military operation near the West Bank city of Tulkarem, a spokeswoman for the Israel Defense Forces said.
Israel Defense Forces said three Palestinian teenagers who were shot and killed by Israeli military were not playing soccer, but were actually involved in smuggling weapons from Egypt into Gaza.
Israel turned over security control of the West Bank city of Tulkarem to the Palestinian Authority on Monday after negotiators reached an agreement earlier in the day, the Israel Defense Forces said.
An Israeli army officer and a United Nations peacekeeper were killed Sunday when a gunfight erupted between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah militants in the disputed Shebaa Farms region along the Israel-Lebanon border, Israel Defense Forces said.
Israel Defense Forces troops raided the Khan Yunis refugee camp in southern Gaza overnight, killing six Palestinians, an IDF spokesman said Friday.
Israeli forces shot and killed three Egyptian policemen Wednesday night after mistaking them for a terrorist cell operating near the Egypt-Israel border, according to the Israeli military.
Israeli military police have arrested a previously-cleared army commander after additional investigation indicated he may have lied about repeatedly shooting a 13-year-old Palestinian girl.
An Israeli airstrike killed a senior commander of Hamas who was known as a master bombmaker Thursday night as he rode in a vehicle in Gaza City with his bodyguard, Hamas and the Israeli military said. The bodyguard also died in the attack.
An Israeli army commander has been cleared in the killing of a 13-year-old Palestinian girl, the Israel Defense Forces said.
After launching a criminal investigation into the shooting death of a 13-year-old Palestinian girl, the Israel Defense Forces have suspended an army commander for his involvement in the incident.
An Israeli aircraft attacked a car near Khan Yunis, Gaza, on Monday, killing a Palestinian militant and wounding four others, Palestinian security sources said.
The Israel Defense Forces said Sunday its air force attacked a car in Gaza City, killing a Hamas field commander.
Israeli helicopters fired four rockets at a camp in Gaza City where they believed Palestinian militants were training, killing at least 15 people, Palestinian medical sources told CNN.
A photographic exhibit called "Breaking the Silence" has struck a nerve in Israel where critics say the images cast Israel in a poor light.
Palestinians blame an Israeli helicopter strike for the deaths of 18 people among 200 marching in a protest of Israel's crackdown in Gaza, but the Israeli military denied its helicopter fired on the crowd.
Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian gunmen trying to infiltrate a Jewish settlement in central Gaza early Monday, an Israel Defense Forces spokeswoman said.
A day after Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus stopped and disarmed a Palestinian boy who was wearing a vest packed with explosives, Israeli officials Thursday sought to determine who was responsible for sending him on what was to have been a suicide terrorist attack.
Israeli soldiers on Wednesday stopped a 14-year-old boy wearing a vest of explosives at a checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus.
At least four Palestinians -- including Hamas militants -- were killed early Sunday after Israeli forces entered southern Gaza near the Khan Yunis refugee camp, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources.
Israeli military forces killed two Palestinian members of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in separate incidents Sunday in Balata, a refugee camp in Nablus, Palestinian officials said.
The Israel Defense Forces killed three Palestinians on Monday in clashes in the southern Gaza town of Rafah, Israeli military sources said.
Israeli forces early Wednesday shot and killed eight Palestinians, including at least three members of the Islamic Jihad, and wounded six others during a raid near Gaza City, Palestinian security and medical sources said.
Israeli soldiers shot and killed four Palestinians in two skirmishes Saturday in the West Bank town of Nablus, according to Palestinian medics.
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