The number of tourists to Israel came to standstill in 2015, due to a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence, according to official figures released on Monday.
Israeli soldiers on the border with the Gaza Strip wounded three Palestinians on Tuesday, while Israeli naval forces arrested 10 fishermen while they were fishing in Gaza sea, officials said.
A senior UN official on Wednesday called for "unprecedented vision" by Israelis and Palestinians to take the bold steps necessary for peace in the Middle East, saying the current bloodshed between the two sides "should not be accepted as 'the new normal'."
The UN General Assembly on Monday marked the 38th annual International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, again seeing Palestinian diplomat trading barbs with the Israeli representative.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday announced more measures aimed at fighting Palestinian attackers, as a two-month-long wave of violence persists.
Israeli war jets struck early on Monday an Islamic Hamas movement military facility in southern Gaza Strip, with no injuries reported, according to security and medical officials.
Violent tensions continue between Israel and the Palestinians which left two Palestinians killed Thursday in separate incidents in southern West Bank city of Hebron, Palestinian authorities said.
The United Nations condemned Thursday the recent flare-up of violence in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict from both sides, saying the fatal stabbings of innocent Israelis amount to "murder" and Palestinians need an end to "stifling and humiliating occupation."
More Palestinians shot dead by Israel after serial stabbing attacks, PLO urges votes for UN resolution
France expressed concerns over a new wave of violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem, urging swift moves to appease tension and resume diplomatic talks to end the year-long deadlock in the Middle East, the office of French President Francois Hollande said on Sunday.
Hundreds of angry mourners on Sunday buried a pregnant Palestinian mother and her 4-year-old daughter who were killed in pre-dawn Israeli airstrikes on a Hamas training facility in southern of Gaza city.
Seventeen Arab Israelis were arrested by Israeli police as violent clashes spread to Israeli Arab cities on Wednesday, despite calls for calm on both Palestinian and Israeli sides.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday called on his security forces in the West Bank to avoid any escalation of violence with Israel, the official news agency (WAFA) reported.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas asked on Sunday the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon for speeding up international protection for Palestinians, in light of the increasing confrontation with Israel, Palestinian official News Agency WAFA reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel and Russia have agreed on a coordinating mechanism to avert accidental clashes between the Israeli military and Russian forces deployed in neighboring Syria.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that Palestinian incitement is responsible for the recent bout of violence in Jerusalem's flashpoint Temple Mount site.
Mother of the Palestinian toddler killed in a Jewish arson attack near the West Bank city of Nablus on July 31 died of her sustained wounds, her family confirmed on Sunday.
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