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A panel of Israeli judges has found former President Moshe Katsav guilty of rape and other sex crimes against several women. Mr. Katzav, who served from 2000 until 2007, faces a possible sentence of up to 16 years in prison. Moshe Katzav had turned d
Many of the items in one of Gaza's market come from Egypt through smuggling tunnels sanctioned by Hamas This month marks three years since the militant Islamic group Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip. The event led Israel to impose a blockade on
Protesters take part in a demonstration to protest Israel's military assault on a convoy of six humanitarian aid ships traveling to Gaza at Taksim Square in Istanbul, May 31, 2010 The reported killing of at least 10 people by Israeli forces during a
A handout picture from Israeli human rights organization Breaking the Silence, 18 Aug 2010, shows an undated photograph of an Israeli soldier posing near a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee at an undisclosed location A former Israeli so
As Israelis and Palestinians head into U.S.-brokered negotiations, both sides are drawing lessons from Israel's unilateral pullout from the Gaza Strip, five years ago. By removing thousands of Jewish settlers and Israeli troops, Israel hoped to ease
A showdown is looming in the Middle East with a 10-month freeze on Israeli settlement construction due to expire on Sunday. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure from his hawkish coalition partners to resume building in the West
Newspaper columns in Israel and the Palestinian territories have placed little hope that these negotiations will accomplish what decades of attempts at peace have failed to do. Others have expressed optimism that the talks have at least made it into
David Gollust | State Department 25 November 2009 The Obama administration says the 10-month moratorium on new settlement construction starts in the West Bank announced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday falls short of the com
By Luis Ramirez Jerusalem 18 November 2009 Palestinian leaders are warning Israel that its approval of 900 new housing units in a disputed area of Jerusalem may kill the peace process. The warning came after the United States condemned the Israeli d
Displaced Gazans Fear Returning Home Despite Israeli Assurances BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA The Israeli military has told residents of several neighborhoods in Gaza that they may return home, seeming to indicate that the operation to destroy infiltration tunne
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 12 December 2007 The first formal meeting between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators since last month's Annapolis, Maryland peace conference, ended in acrimony Wednesday with both sides accusing each other of acting in bad fa
SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Foxtrot is Israel's most celebrated film of the year and perhaps its most controversial. It opens in theaters in the United States this weekend and tells the story of one family trying to grapple with the loss of their son at war.
STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: Somewhere near its heart, the Middle East conflict is a fight over history. Each side has a story to tell about who was first on the land, and each competing view of history becomes part of the argument over who should rule it no
LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: There are times when we can connect surprisingly deeply with someone and then never see them again - a missed connection. Eight years ago, when I was a correspondent in the Middle East, I did a story about two people - an I
Larry James Israeli forces have struck at suspected guerrilla positions in southern Lebanon, after an exchange of rocket and artillery fire with Hezbollah fighters. The attack came after two hours of
Israeli soldiers look through the sights of their weapons from a position in northern Israel overlooking the Israeli-Lebanese border, 03 Aug 2010 Israeli and Lebanese troops exchanged fire in an incident that broke years of relative calm on the borde
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 16 December 2007 An Israeli delegation is making an unscheduled visit to the United States amid disagreements over the recent American intelligence report on Iran. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the v
By Jim Teeple Jerusalem 29 October 2007 Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer. VOA'S Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem that Mr. Olmert says his cancer is treatable, and that it will have no effect on his
Demonstrators hold a sign against the blockade of the Gaza Strip near Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem, 31 May 2010 As the United Nations considers investigating this week's Israeli ship raid Arab leaders are calling for end
A leading Israeli human rights group says most of the people killed in Israel's offensive in Gaza eight months ago were civilians - many of them children. Those findings contradict statistics from the Israeli military, which has said most of the cas