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Critically, it lifts punishing economic sanctions on Iran “in exchange for only temporary limitations on its nuclear program – not a rolling back, not a dismantling”, Menendez said.

Sen. Menendez will “vote to disapprove the agreement and, if called upon, would vote to override a veto“, according to remarks prepared for a speech at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey.

Elkin, who is one of the politicians closest to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said he was disappointed that the rabbis have not joined efforts to persuade Congress to reject the deal next month when it will vote on the controversial agreement. Maybe Iran will desist from its...

He said the IAEA’s arrangements with Iran are “technically sound and consistent with our long-established practices. They do not compromise our… standards in any way”. Investigating the site is part of the overarching nuclear-limits deal.

The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended the detention of a critically ill Palestinian inmate whose two-month hunger strike has placed a harsh spotlight on Israel’s legal system.

Doctors say he has suffered brain damage and will remain in hospital but that his shackles will be taken off and his relatives can visit him. He woke up Tuesday, but by Wednesday Dr. Chezy Levy in Barzilai said Allan was speaking incoherently and “not connecting with his...

Around 340 Palestinians are now held in administrative detention, according to Israeli authorities, and detainees have regularly gone on hunger strike to protest.

The disclosure sparked a firestorm of criticism from GOP lawmakers and presidential candidates who think the Obama administration made too many concessions during negotiations for the broader nuclear agreement between Tehran and Western powers.

The US can not persuade countries like India and China to join the Iranian sanctions regime again, Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday said as he warned the Congress against rejecting the nuclear deal with Iran.

The Lawyer of hunger-striking prisoner Mohammad Allan, said that the Israeli Military Prosecutor on Wednesday offered that Allan be released on November third, in exchange with suspending his hunger strike until then.

Palestinian detainee Shireen Issawi, held by Israel without trial for alleged involvement with terrorist groups, launched a hunger strike Monday in solidarity with a prisoner who’s protested by going without food for over two months.

Israel’s High Court began a hearing on Wednesday afternoon on whether to release him due to his health.

A Palestinian detainee on a two-month hunger strike emerged from a coma Tuesday but pledged to resume fasting if Israel did not resolve his case within 24 hours, a Palestinian group said.

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian attacker after he stabbed an Israeli police officer at a West Bank checkpoint today, the police and the military said.

Earlier this month, a Palestinian non-governmental organization said that almost 150 prisoners have gone on hunger strike since the beginning of August.