A man votes in Bnei Brak, Israel, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019. Israelis began voting Tuesday in an unprecedented repeat election that will decide whether longtime Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stays in power despite a looming indictment on corruption charges. .(AP Photo/Oded Balilty)/ JERUSALEM ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Israelis are going to the polls on Tuesday for a second general election in just five months. What happens matters not only in Israel but also beyond. Here are five of the most important things to know. Israel has the strongest military in ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Polls suggest no clear route to government for Benjamin Netanyahu (2nd L) or Benny Gantz (R) Israelis are voting in their country's second general election in five months. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the snap election after ...
In this March 21, 2019 file photo, an Israeli solider stands guard as Palestinian school children cross back from school in the Israeli controlled part of the West Bank city of Hebron. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Monday Sept. 16, 2019, to annex "all the settlements" in the ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the left, the country's longest serving premier, is seeking to fend off a huge challenge from his main rival retired general Benny Gantz, one of the leaders of the Blue and White political alliance/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on the ...
In this Sunday, Sept. 8, 2019 file photo, a worker hangs an election campaign billboard of the Likud party showing US President Donald Trump, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. Israel is heading to an unprecedented repeat election next week with no guarantee that ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel's longest-serving prime minister Everything is very close in this troubled land. It's small. Travelling around and across land that has been fought over doesn't take long. Enemies, resentment, hopes and ...
11PM [Updated: Sun Sep 15, 2019 03:37PM ]/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (5th R) holds a weekly cabinet meeting in the Jordan Valley, the occupied West Bank, September 15, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the construction of a new ...
25AM [Updated: Tue Sep 17, 2019 07:25AM ]/ A woman prepares to vote in Israel’s parliamentary election at a polling station in Tel Aviv, occupied territories, September 17, 2019. (Photo by Reutes)/ People in the Israeli-occupied territories are voting for the second time in less than six months ...
16PM [Updated: Mon Sep 16, 2019 04:17PM ]/ Palestinian leadership slammed the Israeli regime’s approval of an outpost in the Jordan valley near the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinians stress that there’s nothing called authorized settlements and unofficial outposts, ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a weekly cabinet meeting in the Jordan Valley, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, on September 15, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he plans to annex “all” settlements in the occupied West Bank if he ...
37PM [Updated: Sun Sep 15, 2019 06:02PM ]/ Foreign ministers of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation OIC meet in Saudi Arabia on September 15, 2019. (Photo by AFP)/ The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has censured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to annex areas of ...
42PM [Updated: Sun Sep 15, 2019 03:42PM ]/ has denounced Israel for continuing its “aggressive” policies after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced his plan to annex areas of the occupied West Bank following the upcoming elections. Cavusoglu made the remarks on Sunday in Jeddah where the ...
Israel's military struck the Syrian defence ministry in Damascus and government forces in southern Syria on Wednesday, as deadly sectarian fighting in the mostly Druze province of Suweida continued for a fourth day. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said its forces were "working to save ...
Casualties from the incident were brought to Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis/ Twenty people trying to get food have been killed "amid a chaotic and dangerous surge" at an aid distribution centre in southern Gaza, the US- and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) says. Nineteen were ...
Hezbollah leader Sheikh Naim Qassem addressed supporters in Beirut on 6 July/ At least 12 people have been killed in Israeli air strikes in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, a regional governor says. Seven Syrians, including a family of five, and three Lebanese were killed when the Wadi Faara area ...
Nimisha Priya is currently lodged in the central jail of Yemen's capital Sanaa/ Authorities in Yemen have postponed the execution of an Indian nurse who is on death row after being found guilty of murder, Indian foreign ministry sources say. for killing a local man, was set to be executed on 16 ...
Syria's defence minister announced a ceasefire as government forces entered Suweida city on Tuesday/ Israel says it has bombed Syrian government forces around Suweida, as they entered the predominantly Druze city following two days of deadly sectarian clashes. About 100 people have reportedly ...
Ten people were killed as they gathered near a water distribution point in Nuseirat refugee camp/ Mahmoud Abdul Rahman Ahmed says his son, Abdullah, was "searching for a sip of water" when he took the family's jerrycans on Sunday morning and headed as usual to one of the water distribution ...
A BBC documentary about Gaza breached editorial guidelines on accuracy by failing to disclose the narrator was the son of a Hamas official, the corporation's review has found. BBC director general Tim Davie commissioned the review into Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, after it was in February ...
Syria's interior ministry said security forces were deployed to try to restore calm/ At least 30 people have been killed in armed clashes between Sunni Bedouin tribal fighters and Druze militias in southern Syria, the country's interior ministry says. The violence erupted in the predominantly ...
Last week, President Pezeshkian accused Israel of trying to kill him - a claim denied by Israel/ Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian was reportedly slightly injured during one of Israel's attacks on Iran last month. Iran's state Fars news agency, close to the revolutionary guard, says that on 16 ...
Relatives mourn Palestinian child Saraj Ibrahim. In other photos and video, the man in grey is seen carrying the child's body after a strike hit a water distribution point/ Ten people, including six children, have been killed in an Israeli air strike while waiting to fill water containers in ...