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Israel has been strongly critical of the agreement struck this week between its arch-foe Iran and six world powers that would see Tehran curb its nuclear programme in return for a gradual lifting of sanctions.

“That’s not the purpose of my trip”, he admitted to reporters en route to Tel Aviv, Reuters reported.

Iran has always denied charges that it was seeking to build a nuclear bomb, insisting its nuclear programme was for peaceful purposes only. Moving forward and with the rapidly fading of the failed slogan of the Great Satan into oblivious bin of history, it is also inevitably...

The US announced Wednesday that Defense Secretary Ash Carter would be in the region next week, including a visit to Saudi Arabia but Kerry said he will follow Carter’s trip with his own travel August 3 to Qatar to meet with GCC countries and conduct a briefing about the...

The IDF said in a statement that it would not tolerate attempts to harm Israeli citizens.

JNS.org – Avera Mengistu, the 28-year-old Israeli of Ethiopian descent who has been missing since he crossed the border into Gaza last September, is an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldier who was taken captive during Operation Protective Edge and not a mentally unstable...

The Ethiopian immigrant, Avraham Mengistu, 29, crossed into Gaza last September through a broken fence on the Mediterranean coast marking the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel.

But it is hardly at odds with the general directional change in the outlook of Prime Minister Narendra Modi towards Israel – a solicitous turn which appears to go beyond India’s weapons purchase relationship with Tel Aviv.

On Wednesday, during a rally in Gaza, Hamas leader Khaled Meshal alluded to Mengistu’s capture when speaking about Israelis now being held by the terror group, including the bodies of two IDF soldiers who were killed during last summer’s war.

India has, however, maintained that there’s no change in its long-standing policy on support to the Palestinian cause. “The issue in this particular Resolution was the reference to the worldwide Criminal Court (ICC)”.

Michael Ratner, President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights, told IPS that once again, as it was true in the 2008-2009 Israeli assault on Gaza, the United Nations Commission of Inquiry report on last year’ s Gaza war was devastating regarding Israel’s...

“That India’s representative in Geneva abstained on Friday is a significant shift testament to the strong ties that have developed between Israel and India over the last 20 years, and which are taking off now under Prime Minister Narendra Modi”, a columnist wrote.

“There are another 14 who have begun the expulsion process”, a spokeswoman for Israel’s immigration authority told AFP.

In particular, it called on “the parties concerned to cooperate fully with the preliminary examination of the worldwide Criminal Court and with any subsequent investigation that may be opened”.

The Palestinian Authority has made its first submission of evidence of alleged Israeli war crimes to the worldwide Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.