A man votes in Bnei Brak, Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Israelis began voting Tuesday in an unprecedented repeat election that will decide whether longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stays in power despite a looming indictment on corruption charges. .(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)/ JERUSALEM ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Israelis are going to the polls on Tuesday for a second general election in just five months. What happens matters not only in Israel but also beyond. Here are five of the most important things to know. Israel has the strongest military in ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Polls suggest no clear route to government for Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd L) or Benny Gantz (R) Israelis are voting in their country's second general election in five months. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the snap election after ...
In this March 21, 2019 file photo, an Israeli solider stands guard as Palestinian school children cross back from school in the Israeli controlled part of the West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday Sept. 16, 2019, to annex "all the settlements" in the ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the left, the country's longest serving premier, is seeking to fend off a huge challenge from his main rival retired general Benny Gantz, one of the leaders of the Blue and White political alliance/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the ...
In this Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019 file photo, a worker hangs an election campaign billboard of the Likud party showing US President Donald Trump, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. Israel is heading to an unprecedented repeat election next week with no guarantee that ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving prime minister Everything is very close in this troubled land. It's small. Travelling around and across land that has been fought over doesn't take long. Enemies, resentment, hopes and ...
11PM [Updated: Sun Sep 15, 2019 03:37PM ]/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (5th R) holds a weekly cabinet meeting in the Jordan Valley, the occupied West Bank, September 15, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the construction of a new ...
25AM [Updated: Tue Sep 17, 2019 07:25AM ]/ A woman prepares to vote in Israel’s parliamentary election at a polling station in Tel Aviv, occupied territories, September 17, 2019. (Photo by Reutes)/ People in the Israeli-occupied territories are voting for the second time in less than six months ...
16PM [Updated: Mon Sep 16, 2019 04:17PM ]/ Palestinian leadership slammed the Israeli regime’s approval of an outpost in the Jordan valley near the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinians stress that there’s nothing called authorized settlements and unofficial outposts, ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a weekly cabinet meeting in the Jordan Valley, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on September 15, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he plans to annex “all” settlements in the occupied West Bank if he ...
37PM [Updated: Sun Sep 15, 2019 06:02PM ]/ Foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation OIC meet in Saudi Arabia on September 15, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has censured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex areas of ...
42PM [Updated: Sun Sep 15, 2019 03:42PM ]/ has denounced Israel for continuing its “aggressive” policies after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his plan to annex areas of the occupied West Bank following the upcoming elections. Cavusoglu made the remarks on Sunday in Jeddah where the ...
Israeli ministers said the settler outpost at Homesh will be retrospectively legalised (file photo)/ Israeli ministers say 22 new Jewish settlements have been approved in the occupied West Bank - the biggest expansion in decades. Several already exist as outposts, built without government ...
In December 2023, the Israeli military released a video that it said showed Mohammed Sinwar being driven through a Hamas underground tunnel/ Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says its military has "eliminated" Hamas's Gaza chief Mohammed Sinwar, one of its most wanted men and the ...
The UN Human Rights Office has said it believes 47 people were injured in Gaza on Tuesday when crowds overwhelmed an aid distribution centre run by a controversial new group backed by the US and Israel. A senior official said the UN was still gathering information but that most of the injuries ...
At least 35 people were killed after Israel targeted the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School in Gaza City on Sunday/ The EU's top diplomat, Kaja Kallas, has said that "Israeli strikes in Gaza go beyond what is necessary to fight Hamas" as the death toll there continues to mount. Kallas also said that the EU ...
Noura and Mohamed at their home in Gaza City before the war began, where they hoped to raise a family/ "My nerves are shattered," says Noura, a 26-year-old Palestinian woman, explaining that she has been "left with nothing". After years of IVF treatment, she became pregnant in July 2023. "I was ...
Thousands of Gazans stampede towards a food distribution centre/ Thousands of Palestinians have overrun an aid distribution site in Gaza set up by a controversial US and Israeli-backed group, a day after it began working there. Videos showed crowds walking over torn-down fences and earth berms ...
Aftermath of an Israeli strike at Fahmi Al-Jarjawi School in Gaza City on 26 May/ Hundreds of lawyers have called on the UK government to use "all available means" to stop the fighting in Gaza, including reviewing trade ties with Israel and imposing sanctions and travel bans on Israeli ministers ...
The death of Moaz al-Kasasbeh shocked Jordan (file image)/ This article contains distressing descriptions of death Swedish authorities have charged a convicted terrorist over the 2015 killing of a Jordanian pilot who was burned to death in Syria. Osama Krayem, 32 - a Swedish citizen - was on ...
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says lorries delivered food to its "Secure Distribution Sites" on Monday/ A controversial new aid distribution group backed by the US and Israel has begun working in Gaza. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said lorry loads of food had been delivered to ...
Video footage shared online shows six-year-old Ward Jalal Al-Shaikh Khalil escaping a blaze at a Gaza City school following overnight Israeli air strikes. Among the 35 Palestinians reported to have been killed at the the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School were Ward's mother and two siblings. Our Middle ...