In December last year, Westminster Magistrates' Court issued an arrest warrant for Israel's former Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, under Britain's universal jurisdiction laws. It was granted in the wake of evidence found by the United Nations fact-finding mission on the conflict in Gaza which concluded that both Israeli forces and Palestinians had committed acts that amount to war crimes and possible crimes against humanity.

Over the past four decades Israel has defrauded Palestinians working inside Israel of more than US$2 billion (Dh7.4bn) by deducting from their salaries contributions for welfare benefits to which they were never entitled, Israeli economists revealed this week.

Israel's ambassador to Denmark says Danske Bank follows a Middle East policy with a disproportionate focus on Israel by dropping investments in two companies involved in settlements.

CAIRO — The Israeli military rewrote its war conduct rules before unleashing its offensive on the Gaza Strip to allow targeting Palestinian civilians if that meant saving the lives of its personnel, the Independent reported on Wednesday, February 3.

Israel claimed it did not bomb flour mill, but 500lb explosives find proves otherwise.
The flour mill is the only one in Gaza, and the Goldstone Report, commissioned by the United Nations, said its destruction "was carried out for the purpose of denying sustenance to the civilian population".

Two Israeli army officers have been "disciplined", but not demoted, for firing artillery shells towards a densely-populated area near a UN compound during its war on Gaza last year.

The Gaza Strip is only receiving enough fuel to supply 40% of the power that it needs for its 1.5 million civilians.

In the richest of the Occupied lands, Israeli bureaucracy is driving Palestinians out of their homes. Robert Fisk reports from Jiftlik

Two months after the government decision on November 26 to freeze construction in Jewish settlements for 10 months, you'd have to be blind, an idiot, or a member of the Yesha Council of settlements to use the term "freeze" to describe the real estate situation in Judea and Samaria.

The Israeli government's restrictions on the movement of NGO workers will impose more hardship on beleaguered Palestinians