Palestinian security forces that have been detaining and torturing Hamas supporters on the West Bank are working closely with the CIA, diplomats and human rights groups charge.
Israel reacted angrily to the news that a warrant has been issued in Britain for the arrest of former foreign minister Tzipi Livni for war crimes during Israel’s Gaza campaign.
Egypt has commenced construction of a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip that will extend 18 meters (55 feet) underground in an attempt to cut smuggling tunnels.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon “expressed his dismay at the continuation of demolitions, evictions and the installment of Israeli settlers in Palestinian neighborhoods in occupied East Jerusalem.”
The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem says the Palestinian conflict has left almost 8,900 people dead over the last 20 years—with 2009 the bloodiest.
A group of Israeli soldiers disobeyed orders to assist in the dismantling of two wooden structures that Jewish settlers had built without Israeli government authorization near Hebron.
Violent clashes erupted between Palestinian residents and Israeli troops as military forces razed two houses in al-Bustan neighborhood of East Jerusalem’s Silwan district.
Arab leaders reacted angrily after Hillary Clinton departed from her administration’s insistence that Israel halt settlement growth, instead applauding Tel Aviv’s “restraint on the policy of settlements.”
Amnesty International accused Israel of denying Palestinians the right to access adequate water by maintaining total control over shared water resources and pursuing discriminatory policies.
Hamas leaders are charging an Israeli plot to divide the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the wake of the latest violence at the Temple Mount, that left several injured and 20 detained.
Human Rights Watch responded to a New York Times op-ed by the organization’s ex-chairman Robert Bernstein that accused the group of bias against Israel and other “open societies.”
Commentaries on the passing of Marek Edelman, last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, have downplayed—or ignored—his anti-Zionism and support of the Palestinian cause.
