A court injunction has slowed plans to build a crocodile moat at a facility holding Palestinian prisoners. But Israeli government hard-liners are pushing ahead.
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Israeli treatment of the detained flotilla activists has outraged the world. This is why international law matters in conflicts.
The foreign minister has condemned the actions of Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir towards detainees.
Invites are rescinded, teams and singers are booed, and citizens wonder if they should disclose their nationality. Israelis are feeling the effects of international isolation.
The two extremist members of the Netanyahu government have consistently opposed any efforts to bring peace to the region.
Australia has imposed country-wide sanctions on Russia, Myanmar and Iran. Calls are growing for stronger action on Israel, including an arms embargo.
The tension comes as the prime minister prepares to leave for the G7 summit at the end of the week.
The impression that Israel is at a stalemate or that there is a rift between leader Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli public over the fate of the hostages is misleading. His hold on power is solid.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu probably feels he has no choice, from a political perspective, but to continue prosecuting the war in the same manner.
More than 450 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the start of the year, the most since 2005.
Israel’s prime minister is under pressure from public protests and an increasingly assertive right wing in his coalition government.
Mass protests against the government’s plans to weaken the judiciary have exposed the deep divisions in Israel’s civil society.
The controversial new government of Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure from massive protests by both Israelis and Palestinians.
Netanyahu’s new government is exacerbating deep divisions in Israeli society and threatening the very essence of Israel as a liberal democracy.
A claim about how persecuted Jews were freed from the Soviet Union decades ago relates to how Palestinians might be treated today.
Israel’s most far-right and religious ruling coalition, which just assumed power, poses a profound threat to the country’s democratic institutions, from the courts to individual rights.
The Likud leader looks set to return as Israeli prime minister after a period of political instability in the country – and five elections in less than four years.
The fighting between Israelis and Palestinians grew quickly and ferociously after being ignited by a conflict in an Arab part of Jerusalem. Why did things go so bad so quickly?
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