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AA Edit | Modis Visit Adds Warmth As Indias Ties With Israel Grow

AA Edit | Modi's Visit Adds Warmth As India's Ties With Israel Grow

It was controversial that while Mr Modi made no mention of Israel’s newly approved measures to deepen control over the...

27 Feb 2026 10:29 PM IST

K.C. Singh | Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan: Good Start, Hurdles Loom

K.C. Singh | Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan: Good Start, Hurdles Loom

This involves the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) retreating to a “yellow line”, skirting Gaza City etc, but well within...

12 Oct 2025 9:20 PM IST

AA Edit | Hamas Must Accept Trump’s Far-reaching Gaza Peace Plan

AA Edit | Hamas Must Accept Trump’s Far-reaching Gaza Peace Plan

The prospects for peace may seem dim as ever right now but if Hamas can be made to see reason there might still be a...

30 Sept 2025 11:40 PM IST

For Palestinians in marriages where one partner is from West Bank and the other from the Israeli state, the slum is a haven. (Photo: Pixabay)

For some Palestinians in love, this slum is the only place to live

So along with what residents describe as apartments full of other mixed couples, he and Alqam see a solution in Kafr...

13 Nov 2017 3:18 PM IST

Palestinians demonstrate in front of the EU offices in east Jerusalem during a demonstration demanding from the EU to intervene in Israels plans to annex West Bank settlements and the Jordan Valley Jerusalem. (AFP)

Israel doesn't want anybody to call West Bank's Area C as 'occupied'

Currently more than 450,000 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank, alongside more than 2.8 million Palestinians

25 Jun 2020 9:02 AM IST

Palestinians cross a bridge at Qalandia checkpoint between the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem. (AP)

Israel, Palestinians tighten restrictions as coronavirus reemerges

The Palestinian Authority put the West Bank city of Hebron on lockdown as well

24 Jun 2020 3:37 PM IST

A section of Israels separation barrier blocks a road near the West Bank Jewish settlement of Beit Horon. (AP)

Israeli annexation plan draws apartheid comparisons

For years, Israel's harshest detractors have labeled it an apartheid state to describe its rule over Palestinians

24 Jun 2020 3:28 PM IST

A Palestinian demonstrator holds national flag in front of Israeli forces as they protest against President Donald Trumps Mideast initiative, in Jordan Valley in the West Bank. (AP)

Palestinians fear displacement from an annexed Jordan Valley

Israel's Netanyahu has vowed to annex the valley and all of Israel's far-flung West Bank settlements

19 Jun 2020 3:47 PM IST

Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa (C) arrives in the biblical city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank ahead of Christmas Eve celebrations (according to Western tradition) on December 24, 2023. (Photo by HAZEM BADER / AFP)

AA Edit | A time to hope as wars rage

It's also the time to reflect and renovate oneself even as one prays and actively participates in the revival of the...

24 Dec 2023 10:55 PM IST

Palestinians run from sound grenades thrown by Israeli police in front of the Dome of the Rock in the al-Aqsa mosque complex in Jerusalem, Friday, May 21, 202, as a cease-fire took effect between Hamas and Israel after a 11-day war. (AP/Mahmoud Illean)

AA EDIT | Israel Strikes Again, World Mute

The direct toll in the latest operation was 10 Palestinians

5 July 2023 12:00 AM IST

In 2017, the United Nations Security Council slapped three sets of sanctions on North Korea, one on August 5, another on September 11 and the most recent on December 22 focused on refined petroleum products. (Photo: File)

Israel condemned over Gaza violence by 120 countries at UN

An amendment presented by the US condemning Hamas for 'inciting violence' did not garner the required two-thirds...

14 Jun 2018 10:48 AM IST

Protesters wearing masks and gloves amid concerns over the countrys coronavirus outbreak hold Israeli flags and shout slogans during a protest by supporters of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of Israels Supreme Court in Jerusalem. (AP)

Israelis protest at court ahead of anti-Netanyahu petitions

If the Netanyahu-Gantz deal unravel, which would plunge the country into a fourth election in just over a year

30 April 2020 4:01 PM IST