Israel has allowed about 20 cars into Gaza, in the first such shipment since the militant Hamas movement took over the Strip in 2007. No cars have been legally imported into the territory since Israel tightened its economic blockade soon after that.

Palestinian security forces in the West Bank detained dozens of Hamas activists on Wednesday in response to a lethal attack on Jewish settlers in the occupied territory, a senior security source said. The Hamas armed wing claimed responsibility for the...

The Gaza Strip ruler Hamas movement said the Palestinian negotiators are not mandated to surrender Jerusalem or any part of the Palestinian territories when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas pledged to commit to direct peace talks with...

Last week, Majid Rajbi reported to the courtroom of Jerusalem Traffic Court Judge Abraham Tennenbaum to face charges of driving with a license that had expired more than six months ago. But instead of returning home after the session, Rajbi, a father of...

The Islamic Hamas movement banned girls last month from riding behind men on motor scooters and forbade women from dancing at the opening of a folk museum. Girls in some schools must wear Islamic headscarves and cloaks. Signs of Hamas’s creeping...

Despite one of the quietest periods in decades along the Israel-Lebanon frontier, people on both sides of the border seem to fear that another eruption of violence is only a matter of time. Sporadic flare-ups - like the exchange of fire on Friday -...

Venezuela and Bolivia are supplying Iran with uranium for its nuclear program, according to a secret Israeli government report obtained Monday by The Associated Press. The two South American countries are known to have close ties with Iran, but this is...

Israeli campaigners and left-wing lawmakers have condemned moves to ban Israeli Arabs from marking the Nakba - the “catastrophe” of Israel’s creation. On Sunday a government panel backed putting the bill, proposed by the party of...

There are various charitable organisations that regularly visit patients in Israeli hospitals. Some bring sandwiches to give to people visiting the patients, others come just to give greetings and make the sick feel that they are not alone with their...

Israel has said it will not allow a UN official appointed to investigate Israeli human rights abuses to enter the country or Palestinian territories. It said it made the decision after Richard Falk told the BBC he stood by comments he made comparing...