World Oct 10 What to know as the war between Israel and Hamas continues The conflict already has killed hundreds on both sides. The Israeli military said more than 1,000 people have died in Israel since Saturday's incursion. In Gaza and the West Bank, 830 people have been killed, according to authorities there.
World Oct 08 What Israel’s declaration of war means, and other takeaways from the weekend’s fighting Israel declared war Sunday as it bombarded the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, a day after an unprecedented incursion by Hamas fighters who blew through a fortified border fence and gunned down Israeli civilians and soldiers. Here are some key takeaways as the…
World Sep 19 Israeli military sentences commander to 10 days in prison over shooting of Palestinian motorist Israel has sentenced a military commander in the occupied West Bank to 10 days in prison after an investigation into his shooting last week of a Palestinian motorist who was found to be innocent.
World Sep 12 Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul faces first legal challenge in Israeli Supreme Court Critics say the plan — which would weaken the Supreme Court — represents a profound threat to Israeli democracy and argue it would concentrate power in the hands of Netanyahu and his allies.
World Aug 31 Family of 13-year-old Palestinian attacker to lose home in controversial punitive demolition The family’s case — which rights groups describe as uniquely problematic from a legal prospective — has drawn attention to Israel’s controversial practice of demolishing the family homes of Palestinian assailants.
Aug 22 17-year-old militant fighter killed in West Bank raid, according to Palestinian officials Palestinian health officials say that Israeli security forces stormed into a town in the north of the occupied West Bank, leading to fighting that killed a 17-year-old Palestinian.
World Aug 21 Suspected Palestinian gunman’s West Bank attack latest example of escalating regional violence The combustible mix of armed Palestinians carrying out shooting attacks against Israelis across the West Bank and within Israel as well as near-nightly aids by the Israeli army to arrest militants has fueled the worst fighting in the West Bank…
World Aug 04 An American billionaire says he’ll stop funding the think tank behind Israel’s controversial judicial overhaul The decision on Friday by Arthur Dantchik, a 65-year-old libertarian multibillionaire, to cut funding to the Kohelet Policy Forum reflects the scope of the unrelenting protest movement against Netanyahu's plans to weaken the Supreme Court.
World Aug 03 Palestinian foreign minister says Biden’s inaction amid Middle East violence surges is ‘weak’ U.S. President Joe Biden had initially won plaudits from the Palestinians when he rejected the Trump administration's unabashedly pro-Israel stance.
World Jul 26 Israel’s Supreme Court to review controversial new judicial overhaul law Israeli civil society groups and others have filed petitions asking the Supreme Court to strike down the law enacted Monday — the first major piece of legislation in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's broader program to overhaul Israel's judiciary.