A conference for peace in the Middle East on Sunday warned Israel and the Palestinians against taking "unilateral steps" on Jerusalem and on borders that could imperil a negotiated solution to their seven-decade conflict.
The Syrian army said on Friday that Israeli missile strikes caused a series of explosions at an airbase outside Damascus before dawn.
A Palestinian rammed a truck into a group of Israeli soldiers visiting a popular tourist spot in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four and wounding 17 others, authorities said.
Israel could advance plans this week for thousands more settlement homes in annexed east Jerusalem in defiance of a landmark UN resolution demanding an end to such activity.
Palestinians look forward to building on the recent UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlement activity, while Israel expressed fear of more international steps against it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday summoned ambassadors of the UN Security Council's member countries for a reprimand over a West Bank settlements resolution, the Foreign Ministry said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed at the Obama administration on Saturday, after a U.S. abstention in a UN vote that passed a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement construction.
The United States intended to allow the U.N. Security Council to approve a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, two Western officials said on Thursday, a major reversal of U.S. practice, which prompted Israel to ask President-elect Donald Trump to apply pressure.
Thousands of settlers and their supporters were gathering over the weekend in Amona, a hilltop illegal Jewish outpost in the West Bank, preparing to barricade themselves and confront the Israeli security forces who are expected to evict them next week.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict did not come any closer to an end in 2016 and the following year does not bode well either.
French attempts to revive the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process have been met with a repeated Israeli refusal.
Republican candidate Donald Trump's surprise victory in the U.S. presidential elections may help ease international pressure on Israel over its long-running conflict with the Palestinians in the future, observers here said.
Israeli authorities on Wednesday are preparing for the arrival of dozens of world leaders for the funeral of former President Shimon Peres, who passed away overnight.
Former Israeli president and elder statesman Shimon Peres, 93, died in Tel Aviv on Wednesday.
A "knife-wielding" man was shot and wounded outside the Israeli mission in Ankara on Wednesday, but no one was hurt among the embassy staff.
The United States on Tuesday announced it had reached a record $38 billion 10-year military aid deal with Israel, despite increased disagreement over the Middle East peace process.
Former Israeli Defense Minister and ex-chief of the Labor party Benjamin Ben Eliezer died at the age of 80 on Sunday, an Israeli hospital said.
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