Tag: Israel

Israeli mom of missing teen pleads for UN to help

Washington Examiner · June 24, 2014 1:52 pm

Israeli soldiers load shells in their tank following the first death on the Israeli side of the Golan since the Syrian civil war erupted more than three years ago, near the Israeli village of Alonei Habashan, in the area of Tel Hazeka, close to the Quneitra border crossing in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Sunday, June 22, 2014. A civilian vehicle in the Golan Heights was targeted by forces in neighboring Syria on Sunday in an attack that killed a 15-year-old boy and prompted Israeli tanks to retaliate by firing on Syrian government targets, the Israeli military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Syria: 4 killed, 9 wounded in Israeli airstrikes

RYAN LUCASJOSEF FEDERMAN · June 23, 2014 5:36 pm

Israeli soldiers load shells in their tank following the first death on the Israeli side of the Golan since the Syrian civil war erupted more than three years ago, near the Israeli village of Alonei Habashan, in the area of Tel Hazeka, close to the Quneitra border crossing in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Sunday, June 22, 2014. A civilian vehicle in the Golan Heights was targeted by forces in neighboring Syria on Sunday in an attack that killed a 15-year-old boy and prompted Israeli tanks to retaliate by firing on Syrian government targets, the Israeli military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Syria acknowledges Israeli airstrikes, calls them ‘flagrant violation’

Washington Examiner · June 23, 2014 3:13 pm

Israeli soldiers load shells in their tank following the first death on the Israeli side of the Golan since the Syrian civil war erupted more than three years ago, near the Israeli village of Alonei Habashan, in the area of Tel Hazeka, close to the Quneitra border crossing in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Sunday, June 22, 2014. A civilian vehicle in the Golan Heights was targeted by forces in neighboring Syria on Sunday in an attack that killed a 15-year-old boy and prompted Israeli tanks to retaliate by firing on Syrian government targets, the Israeli military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli military carries out airstrikes in Syria

Josef Federman · June 23, 2014 6:14 am

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 22, 2014. Israel's military says troops have shot dead one Palestinian, and a Palestinian medical official says another was killed, as the army searches for three missing teens and looks to dismantle the Islamic militant group Hamas. Meanwhile the military says a civilian vehicle has exploded near the Syrian frontier in the Golan Heights, and that there are several casualties. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner, Pool)

Israeli leader criticizes Presbyterians

Yousur Alhlou · June 22, 2014 7:29 pm

A Palestinian woman cries in her home after a raid by Israeli troops as the army continues feverish searches for three missing Israeli teens, in Salim village near the West Bank city of Nablus, Sunday, June 22,2014. Israel's military says troops have shot dead one Palestinian, and a Palestinian medical official says another was killed, as the army searches for three missing teens and looks to dismantle the Islamic militant group Hamas. Over the past week, thousands of Israeli troops have searched hundreds of locations in the West Bank and arrested more than 300 Palestinians, many from Hamas. (AP Photo/Nasser Ishtayeh)

2 Palestinians killed as Israel raids West Bank

Mohammed Daraghmeh · June 22, 2014 10:35 am

Israeli soldiers walk downstairs in a building as they search for three missing Israeli teens in the West Bank city of Hebron on Friday, June 20, 2014. The three Jewish seminary students disappeared June 12 while hitchhiking in the West Bank. Israel has blamed the Islamic militant Hamas group for the apparent abduction, but has offered no proof. Hamas has praised the abduction of the teenagers but has not claimed responsibility for it. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israeli troops kill Palestinian in arrest raids

Mohammed Daraghmeh · June 20, 2014 6:11 pm

Israeli Medical Association president Dr. Leonid Eidelman speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at his office in Ramat Gan, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Dr. Eidelman says in an interview that doctors "will absolutely refuse to cooperate'' if parliament passes legislation permitting the force-feeding of prisoners on hunger strike. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

AP Interview: Israel doctors against force-feeding

Karin Laub · June 20, 2014 1:40 pm

FILE - This undated file film image released by Sony Pictures Classics shows Avraham Shalom in a scene from the Oscar-nominated documentary, "The Gatekeepers," about former heads of the Israeli security agency, Shin Bet. Shalom, a former director of Israel's Shin Bet security service who led the agency through some of its greatest achievements before resigning in disgrace, died in Tel Aviv on Thursday, June 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Sony Pictures Classics, File)

Former Israeli security director dies at 86

Yousur Alhlou · June 19, 2014 7:46 pm

Israeli soldiers search for three missing Israeli teens believed to have been abducted in the West Bank city of Jenin, Thursday, June 19, 2014. Since the operation to locate the teens began a week ago, about 280 Palestinians have been arrested, the military said, including 200 members of Hamas. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ballas)

Palestinians, Israeli troops clash in teens search

Ian Deitch · June 19, 2014 5:25 pm

Israeli soldiers patrol during a search for three missing Israeli teenagers in the village of Taffouh near the West Bank city of Hebron, Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Israeli security forces searched the West Bank, looking for three missing teenagers, including an American, who they fear have been abducted by Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Palestinian leader defends cooperation with Israel

JOSEF FEDERMANKARIN LAUB · June 18, 2014 7:27 pm

Israeli soldiers search for three missing teenagers during a military operation in the West Bank city of Hebron, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. Israeli security forces searched the West Bank, looking for three missing teenagers, including an American, who they fear have been abducted by Palestinian militants. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Israel leader seeks world pressure on Palestinians

KARIN LAUBJOSEF FEDERMAN · June 17, 2014 6:33 pm