Tag Archives: Israel

As Israel heads to the polls on Tuesday for its fifth election since the spring of 2019, its politics are fractious, but stop short of visceral acridity. The country’s rival tribes are content to jostle each other. It’s an eerie quiet before what could be a terrible storm.

La Cour pénale internationale (CPI) doit enquêter sur les attaques illégales commises pendant l’offensive lancée par Israël en août 2022 contre la bande de Gaza, en les considérant comme des crimes de guerre, a souligné Amnesty International le 22 octobre dans un nouveau rapport faisant état de ses recherches.

Plusieurs Palestiniens, dont un haut commandant du mouvement Fatah, ont été tués mardi lors d'un raid de l'armée israélienne à Naplouse, en Cisjordanie occupée. Cette opération intervient deux jours après la fin d'une opération israélienne qui fait 46 morts dans la bande de Gaza.

Taysir al-Jabari, a commander of the Al-Quds Brigades, the military arm of the Islamic Jihad, died in an air strike on an apartment in the Palestine Tower in the centre of Gaza City, the group said.

Biden is due to make brief remarks on Wednesday at an arrival ceremony, before receiving a briefing from Israeli defence officials on the US-supported Iron Dome system and a new laser-enabled system called Iron Beam.

Four people have been shot dead on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel, medics say, in the third deadly attack of its kind within a week.

Israeli forces have destroyed the home of a Palestinian family in Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in occupied East Jerusalem, days after the family tried to stave off the demolition by threatening to blow up the house.

 Dozens of Palestinians staged a protest at the al-Manara Square in downtown Ramallah on Wednesday, calling for the release of six prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, some of whom are at imminent risk of death.

Algeria's announcement this week that it was severing its diplomatic ties with Morocco came as no surprise — Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune had issued a statement Aug. 18 saying relations with Morocco were being reviewed. Still, the depth of accusations Algeria leveled against Israel Aug. 24 did surprise Jerusalem. For the moment, the Israeli government has issued no comment, preferring to keep a low profile.

Israel has said the international community should have grave concerns about the election of Iran's new president-elect, Ebrahim Raisi.