Netanyahu faces pressure from far-right ministers after Saudi insistence on ‘credible pathway’ to statehood The UN security council is to vote on Monday on a US-drafted resolution to set up an international stabilisation force (ISF) in Gaza that includes a late and highly tentative addition on a future Palestinian state, added under pressure from Arab … Read more
Isaac Herzog can pardon convicted criminals in some circumstances, but cases against Israeli PM are ongoing Donald Trump has repeated a request to Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, for a pardon for Benjamin Netanyahu, who is on trial in three separate corruption cases. The Israeli prime minister has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing in the ongoing court … Read more
Armed forces and settlers used bombs, dogs, poison and machinery to attack people and infrastructure at key sites Israeli armed forces and settlers have attacked Palestinian water sources more than 250 times in the past five years, amounting to the most sustained assault on civilian water supplies in recent years, new research reveals. Bombs, dogs, … Read more
IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy Israeli soldiers have described a free-for-all in Gaza and a breakdown in norms and legal constraints, with civilians killed at the whim of individual officers, according to testimony in a TV documentary. “If you want to shoot without restraint, … Read more
Exclusive: Detainees at Rakefet include nurse and teenager who have been deprived of natural light since January Israel is holding dozens of Palestinians from Gaza isolated in an underground jail where they never see daylight, are deprived of adequate food and barred from receiving news of their families or the outside world. The detainees include … Read more
Rightwing politicians and pundits have called the soldiers accused of attack on Palestinian detainee ‘heroes’ and military investigators traitors Police in Israel have arrested and detained the military’s top legal officer after she admitted leaking footage of soldiers allegedly attacking a Palestinian detainee and then in effect lying about her actions to Israel’s high court. … Read more
The chief legal officer of Israel’s military resigned after authorizing the leak of a video in the case involving grave abuse of a Palestinian detainee. That further politicized a fraught case.
Israel’s defence minister accuses Beirut of delaying efforts to disarm militant group a day after deadly Israeli airstrike Israel has threatened to step up its attacks against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, a day after the Lebanese health ministry reported that four people had been killed in an Israeli airstrike. Despite the November 2024 ceasefire, Israel … Read more
Remains of Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch returned to Israel for burial after identification process, Israeli military said Hamas handed over two bodies of deceased Israeli hostages on Thursday, a day after the tenuous Gaza ceasefire was shaken by deadly Israeli strikes across the strip. The bodies of hostages Amiram Cooper and Sahar Baruch were … Read more
Netanyahu accuses Hamas of ‘clear violation’ of ceasefire as far-right ministers call for resumption of war Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas of a “clear violation” of the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire, saying the militant group had returned body parts of a hostage whose remains Israeli troops had recovered two years before. Under the terms of the … Read more