Israel's swift eviction of Jewish zealots from one of the most volatile West Bank flashpoints offers encouragement to people both inside and outside Israel who hope it is still possible to uproot settlers to make room for a Palestinian state. Visit this link to read more: West Bank settler eviction offers warning, hope

Israel's prime minister warns militants in Gaza that while his government would not rush to go to war, it would not avoid it. Visit this link to read more: Israel 'will not avoid Gaza war'

Following the end of a six-month truce between Israel and Hamas, the Israeli cabinet is more than ever hinting at a war on the Gaza Strip. Visit this link to read more: Israel considering all-out attack on Gaza

Barrages of rockets fired from Gaza hit Israeli towns Sunday and the Israeli air force responded with a missile strike as violence surged following the official expiry date of a shaky truce. Visit this link to read more: Gaza truce recedes as rockets hit Israel

Barrages of rockets fired from Gaza hit Israeli towns Sunday and the Israeli air force responded with a missile strike as violence surged following the official expiry date of a shaky truce. Visit this link to read more: Rockets hit Israel; Gaza truce recedes

Israel weighs launching major military strikes on Hamas-ruled Gaza as violence simmers in the besieged Palestinian strip. Visit this link to read more: Israel debates attack on Gaza

The Israeli siege on Gaza backed by some Arab countries is designed to eliminate Hamas from the Palestinian political arena, says a lawmaker. Visit this link to read more: Hamas: Some Arabs back Gaza siege

Palestinian fighters in the Gaza Strip fire rockets into the Israeli towns of Sderot and Negev a day after an Israeli blitz killed a Gazan. Visit this link to read more: Israeli hurt in Palestinian rocket fire

Israeli rescue services say Gaza militants have launched barrages of rockets and mortar shells at southern Israel. The rescue services say one rocket hit a house in the town of Sderot. No injuries were reported. Visit this link to read more: Gaza militants launch more rockets into Israel

GAZA CITY: An Israeli airstrike against a Gaza rocket squad on Saturday killed a Palestinian militant, the first death since Hamas militants formally Visit this link to read more: As Truce Ends, Israeli Airstrike Kills One in Gaza

An Israeli air strike against a rocket squad killed a Palestinian militant on Saturday, the first Gaza death since Hamas formally declared an end to a six-month truce with Israel. Visit this link to read more: Israel strikes Gaza day after truce expires

ordanian politicians and analysts are fretting that Israel’s February legislative elections could bring Benjamin Netanyahu, leader of Israel’s Likud Party, to power. Visit this link to read more: Jordan braces for a Likud victory

The six-month truce between Israel and Hamas formally unravelled over the weekend, leaving one dead and three wounded. Visit this link to read more: One killed as Hamas ends Gaza truce

GAZA CITY: Israeli forces killed one Palestinian and wounded three others in an air raid on the Gaza Strip on Saturday morning, a day after the end of Visit this link to read more: Israeli air strike kills Palestinian

Even as a six-month truce between Israel and Hamas came to an end, Bush says good progress was made under his peace plan. Visit this link to read more: Annapolis plan ‘irreversible’

Hundreds of protesters in Pakistan's major cities have strongly condemned the US-backed Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, reports say. Visit this link to read more: Pakistanis rally against US, Israel

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman is planning to file an official protest at 'the kidnapping' of two Lebanese nationals by Israeli troops. Visit this link to read more: Lebanon to protest arrests by Israelis

An Israeli air strike Saturday against a Gaza rocket squad killed a Palestinian militant, the first death since Hamas militants formally declared an end to a six-month truce with Israel. Visit this link to read more: Israeli strike kills Gaza militant

Israeli forces killed one Palestinian and wounded three others in an air raid on the Gaza Strip, a day after a six-month truce ends. Visit this link to read more: Militant killed in Israeli air raid

A boat carrying international activists has broken the Israeli imposed blockade of the Gaza Strip in the fifth voyage of this kind. Visit this link to read more: Fifth Gaza Free boat breaks siege

The US Secretary of State has urged Hamas to renew a truce deal with Israel, warning that ending the truce will only hurt Palestinians. Visit this link to read more: Rice urges Hamas to renew truce

Tensions surged in and around Gaza Friday as the Islamist rulers of the besieged Palestinian strip declared an end to a cease-fire with Israel that the Jewish state has repeatedly violated, and warned they would respond to any new attacks. Shortly after the armed wing of Hamas formally announced the six-month truce was over. Visit this link to read more: Hamas declares end to truce, cites Israeli violations

An Israeli strike has killed a militant in Gaza about to fire rockets at Israel according to Israeli security officials. Visit this link to read more: Militant killed as Gaza truce ends

An Israeli air strike on the Gaza strip has left one Palestinian dead and two others wounded, Palestinian medical sources say. Visit this link to read more: Israeli blitz kills 1, wounds 2 in Gaza

Israel's former National Security Advisor has warned Tel Aviv that it lacks the military power to launch a successful attack against Iran. Visit this link to read more: Ex-Israeli Gen.: Army can't defeat Iran

Far-right Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday dismissed peace efforts with Syria led by interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. "The concessions made by the Olmert-Livni government to the Syrians do not and will not obligate a government that I shall head," Netanyahu, a former prime minister, told Israeli public radio. Visit this link to read more: Netanyahu disavows Olmert's bid to reach peace with Syria

Qalqilya has been an encircled town since the Israeli West Bank barrier was built around it in 2003. Only one narrow gate guarded by Israeli soldiers allows access. The anger, disbelief and protests over this situation have become muted. The people of Qalqilya are waking up to the reality of near imprisonment. Visit this link to read more: Israel has turned West Bank town into prison

Israel captures two Lebanese civilians on a raid across the border into Lebanon, as the Lebanese demand Israel to lift its blockade on the Gaza Strip. Visit this link to read more: Israelis raid as Lebanese protest

Israeli soldiers captured two Lebanese civilians in a raid across the border into South Lebanon on Friday, a Lebanese security official said. Tarraf Tarraf and his brother Hassan Tarraf, both aged about 50, were taken on Lebanese territory near the border village of Blida, the official said. Visit this link to read more: Zionist troops abduct two men during raid into South Lebanon

Hizbullah's defense of South Lebanon in the 2006 war with Israel employed conventional warfare tactics far more than asymmetrical "guerrilla" or "terrorist" methods, a US government report has said. The report, commissioned by the US Army War College, said that Hizbullah's unwillingness to give up ground to advancing Israeli forces. Visit this link to read more: US report acknowledges Hizbullah 'skills'