Israel

Israel demands ten million shekels compensation from Qunbur’s family

Friday-30-June-2017

A Palestinian family is being taken to court in an effort to force it to pay 10 million shekels ($2.86 million) compensation after four Israeli soldiers were killed in an anti-occupation car ramming attack by their son earlier this year.

Israeli transportation operator loses €190 Million following BDS act

Monday-26-June-2017

Last month Egged Bus Systems (EBS) a subsidiary of Egged Israel Transport Cooperative Society Israel’s largest public transportation operator lost a bid for a decade-long contract to run public transportation in the North-Holland region of the Netherlands.

Palestinian calls for obliging IOA to cooperate with UN missions

Saturday-24-June-2017

The Council of Palestinian Human Rights Organizations called on international community to oblige Israeli occupation authorities (IOA) to cooperate with the United Nations committees and missions including the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 Stanley Michael Lynk.

Israel intensifies cutback of electricity feed to blockaded Gaza

Thursday-22-June-2017

The Israeli occupation authorities reduced on Thursday their electricity feed to the blockaded Gaza Strip a few days after it had opted for a similar measure.

Washington urges Security Council to blacklist Hamas as terror group

Wednesday-21-June-2017

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday urged the UN Security Council to take a harder stance against Hamas resistance movement and state actors that support the Gaza-based group.

Switzerland considers trying Livni for war crimes in Gaza

Friday-2-June-2017

The office of Switzerland’s attorney general has confirmed that it is examining a legal complaint filed by a Geneva-based pro-Palestinian group against former Israeli foreign minister Tzipi Livni over her involvement in committing war crimes in the Gaza Strip.

US ambassador to UN to visit Israel next week

Wednesday-31-May-2017

The US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is slated to travel to Israel on June 7.

PA security hands over Israeli officers after entering Nablus

Sunday-16-April-2017

A Palestinian Authority (PA) security apparatus handed over two plain-clothes officers to the Israeli side after they infiltrated into Nablus city in the occupied West Bank.

Livingstone suspended from Labor party for anti-Israel statements

Wednesday-12-April-2017

The former mayor of London Ken Livingstone was suspended from the British Labor Party because of the statements he made a year ago describing the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as a Zionist.

Israel closes Taba crossing rocket fired at Eshkol

Monday-10-April-2017

The Israeli authorities closed Taba crossing with Egypt on Monday and ordered all Israeli tourists in Sinai Peninsula to leave immediately as rocket alert sirens were activated in Eshkol settlement near the border with Sinai.