Measures designed to benefit Jewish school-leavers applying for places in Israeli higher education at the cost of their Arab counterparts have been criticized by lawyers and human rights groups.

The worsening of 83-year-old Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's illness has raised concerns in the Arab world and the International community over the future of Egypt after Mubarak's possible death.

Israeli military chief of staff Gabi Ashkenazi during the publicized Turkel investigation into the deadly attack on the Freedom Flotilla said he is fully responsible for all operations carried out

A large force of Israeli police raided Tuesday several villages in Negev, south of Israel, amid a demolition operation targeting dozens of homes in the villages.

Hamas political bureau member Ezzat al-Resheq called on the Palestinians in the territories occupied in 1948 to revolt against plans by the Israeli occupation aimed at destroying Palestinian villages in

Stuart Littlewood reviews Norman Finkelstein’s book, This Time We Went Too Far, which “pulls together the facts surrounding Israel's blitzkrieg on Gaza” and “plots the long lead-up and the reverberating

CO Shir Regev, has returned to prison for the third time. He was sentenced on 14 July to 34 days of imprisonment, which he is serving in Military Prison no.

The female soldiers, located far away in an operations room, are responsible for aiming and firing remote-controlled machine-guns mounted on watch-towers every few hundred metres along an electronic fence that

As UN head, he is supposed to be above political interests, impartial, fair, and above all standing on the same distance from all parties in offering his advice and opinion

Jonathan Cook views Israel’s increasing use of video-game-like remote killing machines, which have been deployed to murder Palestinians and Afghans and are being aggressively marketed throughout the world.