Tag: Israeli armed forces
2 Palestinian officers reported killed in West Bank shootout
RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli troops shot and killed two security officers during clashes in the West Bank town...
Israel says Hamas tried to disrupt Iron Dome, AP seeks proof
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Israel's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that Hamas militants tried to disrupt Israel's Iron Dome rocket defense...
Palestinian mom fights to stave off punitive home demolition
TURMUS AYYA, West Bank — Sanaa Shalaby says she had no idea what her estranged husband was up to until Israeli soldiers raided her...
UN agency withdraws director from Gaza after threats
JERUSALEM — The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees says it has recalled its Gaza director after he faced threats over remarks in which he...
Gaza’s bereaved civilians fear justice will never come
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The al-Kawlaks, a family of four generations living next door to each other in downtown Gaza City, were utterly...
Naftali Bennett is Netanyahu’s former protege, now successor
TEL AVIV, Israel — For months, Naftali Bennett vexed Israel's political establishment by refusing to say whether he and his Yamina party would get...
Israeli army says troops shoot infiltrator from Gaza Strip
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israeli troops shot a Palestinian man who sneaked into the country from the Gaza Strip with a knife, the military...
Israeli official rolls back army chief comments on AP Gaza
JERUSALEM — Israel’s defense minister on Monday distanced himself from comments made by his military chief after Israel bombed a Gaza Strip high-rise housing...
Palestinian killed by Israeli troops in West Bank protest
JERUSALEM — A Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli troops on Friday during a protest against settlement expansion in the Israeli-occupied West...
After another war, displaced Gazans face familiar plight
BEIT HANOUN, Gaza Strip — It took Ramez al-Masri three years to rebuild his home after it was destroyed in a 2014 Israeli offensive....