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March 17, 2019

Military: West Bank shooting spree kills 1 Israeli, wounds 2

A Palestinian killed an Israeli and seriously wounded two others in a West Bank shooting and stabbing spree Sunday before ...

March 15, 2019

The Latest: Israel says Gaza rockets fired by mistake

The Latest on Israel-Gaza (all times local): 12:30 p.m. Israeli defense officials said after a preliminary investigation that ...

March 15, 2019

The Latest: Israeli military accuses Hamas of firing rockets

The Latest on Israel-Gaza (all times local): 2:50 a.m. The Israeli military has concluded that the militant Hamas group of ...

March 15, 2019

Israel strikes Gaza targets following Tel Aviv rocket attack

Israeli warplanes attacked militant targets in the southern Gaza Strip early Friday in response to a rare rocket attack on ...

March 14, 2019

Air raid sirens in Tel Aviv over apparent Gaza rocket attack

Air raid sirens wailed late Thursday throughout Tel Aviv, Israel's densely populated commercial capital, after an apparent ...

March 13, 2019

Israel opens criminal probe of 11 deaths in Gaza violence

Israeli authorities have opened criminal investigations of the deaths of 11 Palestinians who were killed by Israeli fire ...

March 11, 2019

Israeli court sentences soldiers for abusing Palestinians

Three Israeli soldiers charged with abusing Palestinian detainees have been sentenced to six and a half months in prison ...

March 09, 2019

Israeli fire kills Gaza protester; clashes in West Bank

Israeli troops on Friday shot dead a Palestinian at the weekly protest along the fence bordering the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, ...

February 28, 2019

UN probe faults Israel for deadly crackdown on Gaza protests

Israeli soldiers intentionally fired on civilians and could have committed crimes against humanity during a string of ...

February 28, 2019

The Latest: Israel denounces UN human rights report

The Latest on a U.N. investigation into Israel's crackdown on Gaza demonstrations (all times local): ____ 3:50 p.m.

February 11, 2019

Israel wants Dutch case against ex-army chief dropped

The Israeli Justice Ministry on Monday said the government has asked a Dutch court to dismiss war crimes allegations against ...

January 29, 2019

Israeli ex-army chief launches campaign to replace Netanyahu

Retired Israeli military chief Benny Gantz on Tuesday launched his campaign to be prime minister, presenting himself as a ...

January 21, 2019

Israel increasingly goes public with its strikes in Syria

Israel on Monday claimed responsibility for a series of airstrikes on Iranian military targets in Syria, drifting further ...

January 21, 2019

In rare move, Israel confirms attacking Iran forces in Syria

In an extraordinary statement, the Israeli military confirmed early Monday that it attacked Iranian military targets in ...

January 21, 2019

The Latest: Israel announces attacks on Iran forces in Syria

The latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local): 2:20 a.m. In a very unusual move, the Israeli military has issued a ...

January 18, 2019

Thousands of Palestinians protest at Gaza border

Thousands of Palestinians have gathered for a weekly protest along the fence between Gaza and Israel. The Palestinian Health ...

January 17, 2019

Man detained in Lebanon on suspicion of entering from Israel

Lebanon's army intelligence have detained a man on suspicion that he crossed into Lebanon from Israel, a military official ...

January 12, 2019

Israel tried to wiretap Hamas in botched mission, group says

Gaza's ruling Hamas said Saturday that Israeli undercover forces had attempted to install equipment to monitor the Islamic ...

January 12, 2019

Syrian army shells areas held by insurgents in northwest

Artillery shelling by government forces pounded parts of the northwestern Idlib province on Saturday, thwarting an ...