Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday slammed a France-backed initiative to settle Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A growing tension between Islamic Hamas movement and Salafist groups overshadows the situation in the Gaza Strip, but analysts ruled out a comprehensive collision between the two sides.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday reiterated his commitment to the two-state solution, saying there were no preconditions to renew negotiations with Palestinians.
Israel recently carried out at least 20 test explosions in its southern desert to measure the damage that would be inflicted by a so-called "dirty bomb" attack, the Israeli Ha'aretz newspaper reported Monday.
Militants in the Gaza Strip fired on Saturday night a rocket at southern Israel, a second such attack from the Palestinian enclave that hit the Jewish state in less than one week, Israeli officials said.
Israeli war jets struck with air-to-ground missiles early Thursday military facilities in the Gaza Strip in response to earlier rockets firing from the enclave into Israel, witnesses and security officials said.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to show his support for the two-state solution with deeds rather than words.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized the international community for waging what he dubbed as an anti-Israel "diplomatic campaign" as he came before the parliament on Monday.
Leaders of Islamic Hamas movement and the Islamic Jihad (Holy War) denied late on Tuesday firing any rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
Israeli warplanes early Wednesday launched missile strikes on military training facilities in the Gaza Strip in response to earlier firing of four rockets into Israel, witnesses and security officials said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and visiting German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Stenmeier met here Sunday to discuss the international community's negotiations with Iran and the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
After two years in the opposition, Israel's ultra-Orthodox parties, Shas and the United Torah Judaism, managed to secure their spots in the new Israeli government formed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month.
An Israeli official on Tuesday denied a Jordanian report saying Israel has conducted talks with the Islamic Hamas movement over building a floating port to enable the transfer of goods to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The report is plainly "not true," the Israeli official, who asked to remain anonymous as he is not at liberty to discuss the topic, told Xinhua.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel would continue to build houses throughout Jerusalem, including east Jerusalem where the Palestinians aspire to build the capital for their future state.
Tens of thousands of ultra-nationalist Jews marched Sunday through east Jerusalem's Muslim Quarter, sparking scuffles between Palestinians and the police.
A senior Islamic Hamas movement official said on Thursday that his group has not been aware of any rocket being fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel.
At least one rocket fired from Gaza hit Israel on Friday night, a spokesperson for the Israeli military said.
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