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TEL AVIV: A recent decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch a full investigation into war crimes in Palestinian territories has raised alarm among current and former Israeli officials and military personnel, who may face global arrest warrants as a result of the probe. Israel’s Channel 12 TV …

The International Criminal Court (ICC) says it will launch a full investigation into war crimes in the Palestinian territories, a move welcomed by the Palestinian government. In a statement on Friday, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda expressed her satisfaction with a “reasonable basis” to probe into the situation in Palestine. “In …

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has shed light on Israel’s decades-long violations of Palestinians’ fundamental rights through restrictive military orders, urging the occupying regime to grant the oppressed nation the same rights as Israeli settlers. In a 92-page report, published on Tuesday, the New York-based NGO said British Mandate-era regulations that …

TEL AVIV: Israel heads to hold an unprecedented third round of general elections within 12 months, after a deadline to form a cabinet passed with no politician able to build a coalition with disparate parties. The new round of elections is to be held on March 2, 2020, some six …

Israel’s attorney general has officially submitted his indictment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Knesset (parliament), laying out a sweeping case in which an estimated 333 witnesses, including wealthy friends and former aides, could be called to testify. IBLAGH NEWS: Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit sent the indictment to the …

TEL AVIV: Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that he discussed the annexation of the occupied Jordan Valley with US Donald Trump, among other “historic opportunities…in the coming months,” according to Israeli media. “I spoke yesterday with Trump about historic opportunities that we have in the coming months, including …

HAIFA: An Israeli court has convicted Raed Salah, an influential Palestinian figure, of “incitement to terrorism” and supporting the outlawed Islamic Movement which he headed. Hundreds of Palestinians, who had come in buses from different cities and villages across Israel to stand in solidarity with Salah, attended the trial. More …

TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political opponents and hundreds of demonstrators have moved to capitalize on the indictment on charges relating to corruption, bribery and breach of trust against him, hoping to strip the weakened 70-year-old leader of power. On Saturday night, Benny Gantz, the leader of center-left …

TEL AVIV: Israeli authorities have issued notices to seize thousands of square meters of private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official in charge of monitoring Israel’s settlement expansion activities, said that hundreds of dunums of Palestinian land would be confiscated from the towns …

TEL AVIV: The Israeli newspaper Haaretz published an article by an analyst Nehemiah Strasler, in which he assessed Netanyahu’s political and security progress. He looked at Netanyahu’s transformation from a master of security to a master of failure. “After a decade of Netanyahu’s rule, security has not been restored, Hamas’s …