The Palestinian radical Islamist group Hamas is responsible for the violence that erupted in Gaza around the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem on Monday and led to dozens of deaths, said the White House.
The actions of Israel on the Gaza border, where according to Palestinian sources dozens of Palestinians were killed during mass protests on Monday, were self-defense against the ruling Hamas group in the area. That is what the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says on Twitter.
Israel braces itself for rocket attacks from Gaza, after riots in the Palestinian strip of land today- the day the American embassy was opened in Jerusalem- led to a gigantic massacre.
France and the United Kingdom call on the Israeli authorities to exercise restraint after more than forty people were killed on Monday according to the Palestinian authorities. In addition, the US decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem violates international law, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said.
Israel must respect the right to peaceful protest and act proactively in the use of force. That said EU foreign chief Federica Mogherini after the Israeli army killed over forty Palestinians. She calls both sides to extreme restraint, to prevent further loss of life.
The American embassy in Jerusalem is officially opened. Ambassador David Friedman receives approximately eight hundred guests in the new diplomatic post on Monday.
Certainly one person was killed during the protests on the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel. It is a 21-year-old Palestinian, Palestinian health officials say. Also, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent, at least 28 Palestinians shot gunshot wounds.
Dozens of people were injured in the protests on the border between Gaza and Israel. Medical workers say that at least 28 Palestinians suffered gunshot wounds.
The Israeli army warned Palestinians in pamphlets to stay away from the fence at the border between Gaza and Israel. New protests are expected on Monday.
President Donald Trump is the big absent Monday at the opening of the US embassy in Jerusalem. He is represented at the ceremony by a delegation with, among others, his daughter Ivanka and his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
After the victory of the Eurovision Song Contest, Israel is still waiting for a party today, but the hangover can be big. The American embassy officially moves to Jerusalem and the Palestinians have announced massive demonstrations against it.
The Israeli army carried out an air strike on Saturday night in the north of the Gaza Strip. According to the newspaper Haaretz, seven missiles were fired to an agricultural area east of the city of Beit Hanoun. There are no reports about victims. According to the Palestinians, the target was a generator. Israel maintains that a tunnel has been bombarded with terrorists.
The US government has tightened security measures for its diplomatic posts in Islamic countries. Government officials told CNN that this extra vigilance is mainly due to the opening of the US embassy on Monday in Jerusalem. Washington takes into account protests at American embassies in Muslim countries for that day.
Israel closed the border crossing Kerem Shalom with Gaza on Saturday, because it was damaged during Palestinian protests. The Israeli army said that the border crossing is first repaired and that afterwards it is checked whether the situation allows to reopen the post. The post will remain open for humanitarian aid.
Iran condemns the Israeli attacks on Syria and says that its ally has the full right to defend itself against this aggression. 'The international community stirs it up by saying nothing about it', the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Bahram Qasemi added on TV on Friday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended the air attacks on targets in Syria. He said the bombing was appropriate because Tehran 'crossed a red line.'
According to the Israeli army, Iran has fired about twenty projectiles to targets on the Golan Heights. That shelling from Syria according to that country was not much later answered by Israel with missiles on Syrian targets.
According to the Israeli army, Iran has fired about twenty projectiles to targets on the Golan Heights.
Donald Trump does not go to the opening of the American embassy in Jerusalem on 14 May. The White House has announced this on Monday.
Israel can better confront Iran later than later, if that is necessary. That said the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who according to the newspaper Haaretz at the same time stressed not to be on escalation.
Israel has withdrawn from the struggle with Germany and Belgium for a non-permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council in 2019-2020. Jerusalem estimates its chance of winning as too small, according to a UN source on Friday.
For the first time, a serious cycling platoon will pull through the holy land. Where the biblical prophets walked around centuries ago, 176 riders in Jerusalem will step on their bikes on Friday for the start of the Giro d'Italia. Israel has pulled out all the stops, and money bags, to win the round. A very expensive promotional stunt for a country that does not have any cycling tradition.
Tehran does not stick to the Iran deal and is secretly still developing a nuclear bomb. That is what the Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu said during a television speech on Monday evening.
President Donald Trump says he has rejected a proposal to pay a billion dollars (about 825 million euros) for the construction of a new US embassy in Jerusalem. He states that the United States will spend less than half a million dollars on the diplomatic mission.
A letter from the German composer Richard Wagner has yielded almost 28,000 euros at an auction in Jerusalem. The favorite composer of the German dictator Adolf Hitler was negative in the text about French and German Jews, reports the auction house.
The party is over in Israel. The day after the celebration of 70 years of independence, the Gaza Strip is once again the scene of bloody riots and the Israelis get a painful stab in the back of one of their most beloved compatriots: the Israeli-American actress Natalie Portman refuses to travel to Israel for the ' Jewish Nobel Prize 'to receive.
Israel says it has foiled a Palestinian attack, aimed at the celebration of Independence Day that starts Thursday after sunset. At a checkpoint in the West Bank, border guards discovered explosives, hidden in the roof of a truck.
The Israeli workers' party Ha'Avoda has broken the relationship with the British sister organization Labor. The Israeli Social Democrats condemn Jeremy Corbyn, who in their view has tolerated anti-Semitism.
A day after the deadly protests at the border with Israel, Palestinians have once again sought the confrontation with the Israeli army. With warning shots, young people in the Gaza Strip were kept at a distance. In addition, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, thirteen people were injured.
Jerusalem has posted more than one hundred snipers at the border with the Gaza Strip in connection with expected protests. Various Palestinian activist groups have called for protracted demonstrations along the border and thousands are expected to participate.
