CAIRO – Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit on Wednesday condemned the escalations practiced by the Israeli forces in the West Bank. Aboul-Gheit warned against “targeting and murdering the Palestinians in cold blood,” and called [Read More]
GAZA – Palestinian authorities say that 57 percent of the Gaza Strip population suffers from food insecurity due to an Israeli blockade imposed on the coastal enclave for 16 years. Poverty rates in the enclave [Read More]
JERUSALEM – The exports of Israeli hi-tech services rose in the third quarter by 13.5 percent year-on-year, the country’s Central Bureau of Statistics reported on Tuesday. The total export of Israeli hi-tech services reached 11.95 [Read More]
JERUSALEM – A commercial flight operated by China’s Hainan Airlines landed at the Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel on Tuesday morning, marking the resumption of direct passenger flight between the Chinese mainland and Israel [Read More]
1947: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine. The resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States and a Special International Regime for the city of Jerusalem. [Read More]
JERUSALEM – Israel’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has announced a national plan to preserve and develop ecological corridors throughout the country. Such corridors allow the free passage of animals and the distribution of plants amid [Read More]
RAMALLAH – The Israeli ministerial coalition has signed a deal to abandon bilateral peace agreements signed under international auspices, a senior Palestinian official said Sunday. Nabil Abu Rudeineh, spokesman of the Palestinian presidency, told reporters [Read More]
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and far-right Noam party signed a coalition deal on Sunday, moving Netanyahu one step closer to forming what is expected to be the most right-wing government [Read More]
JERUSALEM – An Israeli died of his injuries in hospital three days after being wounded in a double blast attack in Jerusalem, the hospital said on Sunday. Tadesse Teshome Ben Madeh, 50, died on Saturday [Read More]
2002: Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles. An all-terrain vehicle crashed through a barrier [Read More]
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