Palestinian militants kept up their most intense rocket fire on Israel since the 2014 Gaza war on Tuesday, drawing Israeli air strikes against Hamas's television station and other targets. The flare-up, in which five Palestinians, four of them militants, and a civilian in Israel were killed, threatened to derail efforts by
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In Israel, African migrant families battle hunger, trauma
Israeli tech women protest men-only meeting with Merkel
Women working in high-tech companies posed around a cardboard cutout of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday to protest against a meeting she held with an all-male group of entrepreneurs in Israel last week. Merkel noted at that session that Israel's start-up industry appeared to be "very male-dominated", adding: "It would
Protesters rallied in Tel Aviv against Israel’s new law
TEL AVIV - On Saturday, thousands of dissidents rallied in Tel Aviv against Israel's new law pronouncing it the nation-state of the Jewish individuals, enactment that has enraged the nation's Arab minority and drawn feedback abroad. Benjamin Netanyahu has defended the law, which says just Jews have the privilege of self-assurance
Teen from Gaza dies after being shot by Israeli forces
(AFP) GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: A Palestinian shot by Israeli forces last month during protests on the Gaza border died of his wounds Monday, the health ministry in the Hamas-ruled territory said. “Mohammed Ghassan Abu Daqqa died ... on Wednesday evening from his wounds, after he was shot by the Israeli