An Israeli force failed on Monday to abduct two shepherds from southern Lebanon, reported the National News Agency.
It said that 20 soldiers crossed the border at Mount Hermon and infiltrated 500 to 800 meters into Shebaa where it tried to kidnap Mohammed Qassem Hashem from Lebanon and Ahmed Haidar from Syria.
Full StoryIsrael has agreed not to renew its detention order for Palestinian parliament speaker Aziz Dweik and will free the Hamas member on Thursday, his lawyer told Agence France Presse on Monday.
Fadi Qawasmi said Israel had agreed to his request that Dweik's six-month administrative detention order not be renewed. "That means that Dweik will be released on Thursday," he said.
Full StoryDeath threats were spray painted outside the Jerusalem home of a prominent Israeli anti-settlement activist working for Peace Now, police said on Monday, in the third attack on her home in 10 months.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the attack, believed to be the work of right-wing extremists, targeted the home of Peace Now's Hagit Ofran.
Full StoryTwo Lebanese men were wounded on Monday when a cluster bomb left over from the 2006 Israeli aggression on Lebanon exploded on the outskirts of the southern town of Houla.
The National News Agencies identified the men as 21-year-old Hassan Ali Mustafa and Dany Moussa Hussein, 36.
Full StoryU.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton held top-level talks on Monday with Israeli leaders expected to focus on changes sweeping the Middle East, as well as Iran and the stalled peace process.
On the last leg of a 12-day, eight-nation tour, Clinton was also to brief Israeli leaders on a weekend trip to Egypt when she met with newly elected President Mohammed Morsi and military leader Field Marshall Hussein Tantawi.
Full StoryA group of Palestinians gathered on Monday to cross from Gaza and visit relatives in Israeli prisons for the first time in five years.
The visits were banned in June 2007, leaving the families of hundreds of Gazans held in Israeli jails unable to see their sons, husbands and fathers.
Full StoryEnergy Minister Jebran Bassil expressed hope on Monday that the cabinet would swiftly approve the appointment of the personnel in the vacant posts in the oil authority.
“We should prepare for the second stage of process by issuing tenders for foreign companies to kick off oil exploration along Lebanese offshores,” Bassil told An Nahar newspaper.
Full StoryIsrael is weighing measures to sanction an U.N. agency that works with the Palestinians over "illegal activities" including "illegal construction," media reported on Sunday, citing local officials.
Haaretz newspaper reported that Israel wants to "reassess" the role of the U.N.'s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, in particular in response to the agency's promotion of "illegal" construction in the West Bank.
Full StoryIsrael was still holding five foreign women activists on Saturday who were arrested in the West Bank after a demonstration a day earlier, a police spokeswoman said.
"Five European activists arrested Friday during a demonstration in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) remain in detention," Luba Samri told Agence France Presse.
Full StoryAn Israeli teenager who killed a Palestinian from east Jerusalem in a racially-motivated attack last year has been sentenced to eight years in jail.
In February 2011, 24-year-old Hossam al-Ruweidi was killed during an attack in central Jerusalem by four Jewish youths.
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