Netanyahu Snubs ‘shameful’ UN Vote
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a UN call to end illegal Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land is “shameful”. He stressed that Israel would not abide by Friday’s vote...
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UN Security Council Calls For An End
The United Nations Security Council has passed a resolution urging an end to illegal Israeli settlements after the US refused to veto it. The Egyptian-drafted resolution had been withdrawn after...
Egypt Delays UN Motion On Israel As Trump Intervenes
Egypt has delayed a UN vote on a text condemning Israeli settlements in occupied territory after Israel asked Donald Trump to intervene. Israel contacted the US president-elect's transition team...
Egypt Delays UN Resolution On Israel As Trump Raises Concerns
Egypt has suddenly delayed a vote on its UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank as Donald Trump made his opposition clear. A US official told the BBC that it had been...
Trump Joins Fight Against UN Vote
The Israeli government reached out to President-elect Donald Trump for help in pressuring the Obama administration to veto a UN Security Council resolution condemning settlement activity, a senior...
Egypt Delays U.N. Vote On Settlements After Trump, Israel Urge U.S. Veto
Egypt postponed a U. N. Security Council vote on Thursday on a resolution it proposed demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, diplomats said, after Israel's prime minister and U.S....
UNSC To Vote On Ending Israeli Settlement Activity
The United Nations Security Council is due to vote on a draft resolution that would demand Israel "immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory,...
Obama, Trying To Protect Legacy, Unlikely To Act On Mideast Peace
U. S. President Barack Obama, keen to preserve his legacy on domestic health care and the Iran nuclear deal, is not expected to make major moves on Israeli-Palestinian peace before leaving office,...
Tens of Thousands Flee Israel Fires
Tens of thousands of people are being evacuated as wildfires rage through parts of Israel's third largest city of Haifa. The fires follow a two-month drought and are being fanned by strong winds in...
Israel’s Muezzin Bill Seeks ‘Judaisation of Jerusalem’
A pre-dawn muslim call to prayer has provoked the main backlash from Israeli Jews Palestinian politicians in Israel have found an unexpected ally inside the government against a new bill banning...
UN Chief Calls Netanyahu Ethnic Cleansing Comment Outrageous
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's insistence that Palestinians want the "ethnic cleansing" of Jews in the West Bank "unacceptable and...