Tag: Israel
Women, children among 38 killed, as Israel pounds Gaza
Eleven women and children were among 17 Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza Wednesday, hiking the overall death toll…
Israel strikes on Gaza kill 12, hurt 80
Israeli strikes on Gaza killed 12 people on Tuesday and wounded 80 others, the emergency services said, as the military…
Jewish extremists held over Palestinian teen’s murder
Israeli police have arrested a group of Jewish extremists in connection with the kidnap and murder of a Palestinian teenager…
Clashes spread over Palestinian teen ‘burnt alive’
A Palestinian teenager whose abduction and murder caused violent protests was burned alive, autopsy reports show, as clashes over the…
11 injured in Gaza raids, rockets strike Israeli houses
Eleven Palestinians were wounded Thursday when Israel pounded targets in Gaza as militants kept up a volley of cross-border fire,…
Murdered Israeli teens laid to rest
Israel on Tuesday paid an emotional farewell to three teenagers killed in the West Bank, while vowing to hunt down…
Israel warns over rising rocket fire
Israel is “ready” to expand its operations in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday after the air force struck…
63 Palestinian prisoners suspend hunger strike
Sixty-three Palestinian prisoners have suspended the hunger strike which they have observed in Israeli jails since late April, one of…
Israel accuses Assad forces of border attack
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday that military forces loyal to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad…
Ex-Jerusalem mayor jailed over corruption
An Israeli court sentenced former Jerusalem mayor Uri Lupolianski Thursday to six years in prison for his part in a…
65 Palestinians arrested as Israel search for kidnapped teens
Israeli troops arrested 65 Palestinians overnight, most of whom were freed in a 2011 prisoner swap, as they scoured the…
UN chief condemns Israeli teens’ kidnapping
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday condemned the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers, called for their safe return…
Palestinians demand US response to Israel settlement move
The Palestinians demanded Thursday that Washington take “serious steps” against Israeli settlement building, after the Jewish state announced plans to…
Israel beats World Cup-bound Honduras 4-2
World Cup-bound Honduras suffered a second deflating friendly defeat in four days on Sunday as they were beaten 4-2 by…
Israel hails Pope Francis anti-Semitism stance
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Pope Francis Sunday for his “determined stance” against anti-Semitism, a day after a shooting…
Long-term foreign help needed to stop Boko Haram
Nigeria needs foreign help to defeat Boko Haram, a senior intelligence source told AFP on Friday, as the country’s top…
Nigeria’s Israel-made drones grounded by corruption
It has been revealed that Nigeria would have had no need for foreign help to trace the schoolgirls kidnapped by…
Chibok Girls: Israel sends anti-terror experts to Nigeria
Israel has sent two anti-terror experts to Nigeria to join the search for hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by extremist Islamist…
Israel to help find kidnapped Nigerian girls
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday offered to help Nigeria search for hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by extremist Islamist…
Israel convicts ex-PM Olmert for corruption
A Tel Aviv court on Monday found former premier Ehud Olmert guilty of bribery linked to a Jerusalem property development,…
Filipina wins X-Factor in Israel, stirs celebration at home
Celebrations broke out in the Philippines Wednesday after a Filipina who has spent nearly half her life as a carer…
Sharon, ex-Israeli PM dies after 8 years in coma
Former Israeli premier Ariel Sharon died in hospital near Tel Aviv Saturday after eight years in a coma, prompting a…
African migrants protest in Israel
Nearly 200 African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally demonstrated Tuesday in Jerusalem against being housed at a new open…
Nigerian Pilgrims Abscond In Israel
Five Nigerian pilgrims who went to Israel for this year’s pilgrimage have absconded. Two were from Lagos State while the…
Israel slams Iran nuclear deal
Israel said Sunday that a nuclear deal struck Sunday between Iran and world powers in Geneva was “bad” as Tehran…
JP Jonathan promises better electoral deal
President Goodluck Jonathan on Sunday in Jerusalem promised to stabilise Nigeria’s electoral process. Jonathan, who made the promise at an…
Stella Oduah Lies Low In Israel
Nigeria’s embattled Minister of Aviation, Princess Stella Oduah, has kept a low profile in Israel where she is with President…
Outrage As Oduah Follows Jonathan To Israel
Nigerians have expressed shock and indignation over the trip to Israel by Stella Oduah, the embattled minister of aviation, who…
Jonathan leaves for pilgrimage Wednesday
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will late Wednesday embark on a pilgrimage to Israel, according to a statement by his special…
Israel hits Lebanon after rocket attack
The Israeli air force carried out an attack in Lebanon on Friday, the army said, hours after militants there fired…