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The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has significantly expanded its ability to strike deep into Israel with rockets that can now reach the Jewish state's largest cities, and now possesses tens of thousands of projectiles, Israel's army chief said Tuesday.

Concerns are growing in Israel's government over the possibility of a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence within the 1967 borders, a move that could potentially be recognized by the United Nations Security Council.

RAMALLAH, West Bank - The collapse of the Palestinian Authority , Israel's negotiating partner, was raised as a possibility on Monday, as several aides to its president, Mahmoud Abbas , said that he intended to resign and forecast that others would follow.

Two Jerusalem residents, one a former Hadassah hospital employee, were arrested for allegedly facilitating organ donation deals.

The fall of the Berlin Wall: what a testament to the power of peaceful revolution.

Marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Palestinian demonstrators breached Israel's concrete barrier near the West Bank city of Ramallah on Monday.

More than 100 Palestinians and left-wing activists arrived at the al-Kurd family home in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Wednesday to protest a Jerusalem District Court order that called on the family to evacuate the premises.

Israel does not want peace, does not want to stop settlement construction and does not want the two-state solution, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday.

"Make sure your father gets this," the municipal inspector tells a 10-year-old boy at the gate of the concrete house in an alleyway in the Al-Bustan quarter of Silwan, a Palestinian neighborhood right under the shadow of the walled Old City.

It is the British empire of the dead.Scattered across 150 countries and managed from a modest office building near London's Heathrow Airport, a global patchwork of graveyards constitutes a beautiful memorial to the ugliest carnage: the 1.7 million fighting men and women who died for Britain and its dominions in the world wars of the last ...

The top Palestinian negotiator says before talks broke down in January, Israel proposed a Palestinian state in all of the Gaza Strip and the equivalent of the West Bank.

Yesterday and while politicians fret over terms like "slow-down" or "restraint" on illegal settlement activities, the Israeli authorities demolished more homes and evicted some 30 people in Jerusalem.

Following the seizure of a massive shipment of Iranian arms bound for Hizbullah , the Foreign Ministry stepped up diplomatic efforts on Thursday, inviting foreign ambassadors stationed in Israel to inspect the container-loads of weapons seized by the navy during its raid of the Francop vessel.

Israel refuted accusations by a United Nations panel that it was involved in the blood diamond trade.

Academics in Israel are fighting against a proposed academic boycott against Israel by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.

Jewish Israelis moved into the home of a Palestinian family in eastern Jerusalem after a court ruled that it was Jewish-owned. After a Jerusalem district court on Tuesday denied the Palestinian residents appeal to remain in the home in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, the Jews arrived at the home with security guards and attempted to vacate the ...

Israel says the largest arms shipment it has ever seized was headed from Iran to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas, the chief advocate among Palestinians for a negotiated peace with Israel, says he will not run in the territory's January presidential and parliamentary election.

A Palestinian boy plays on the rubble of a building that was destroyed during Israel's January military offensive in Gaza City, Wednesday, Nov.

Date : Thu, 5 Nov 2009 15:01:28 +0400 EAST JERUSALEM: JEWISH SETTLERS SEIZE PALESTINIAN HOMES BY FORCE AsiaNews Nov 4 2009 Italy Israeli courts are increasingly ruling against Palestinian families, ordering them to leave their homes.