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Sunday, September 13, 2009 JERUSALEM: Israeli media reports that President Shimon Peres has fainted on stage while speaking at an event in Tel Aviv.The 86-year-old Peres passed out Saturday while answering questions from the crowd. He regained consciousness a few seconds later. According to media reports, Peres refused to be taken to hospital and is still at the venue.

Friday, September 04, 2009 GAZA CITY: Israeli warplanes struck the Gaza Strip early on Friday near the southern city of Khan Yunis, Palestinian and Israeli officials said. The air strike targeted a tunnel under Israel's security barrier that was to be used to infiltrate Palestinian militants, an Israeli military spokeswoman said. Palestinian security officials confirmed the air strike, adding that no one was injured.Five mortar rounds were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israel on Thursday without causing damage or casualties, according to the Israeli military. Two exploded inside Israeli territory, a third landed near the Karni crossing point into the Palestinian enclave and the other two hit near the border fence on the Palestinian side, a military spokesman said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned on several occasions that the Israeli army would respond to each rocket or shell fired into Israel. According to the army more than 200 rockets and shells have been fired from G...

GAZA CITY: An Israeli airstrike on a smuggling tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt killed three Palestinians inside and wounded seven on Tuesday in the deadliest Israeli attack on the volatile border area in months, a Palestinian Health Ministry official said.The Israeli military said the air force struck in retaliation for a mortar attack from Gaza Monday into southern Israel that lightly wounded an Israeli soldier. The Israeli government has pledged a military response to every attack.Fighting between Israel and Gaza militants has largely subsided since a fierce Israeli offensive in January, but Israel and Egypt have maintained a tight economic blockade of the coastal area to maintain pressure on the militant Hamas government.In Gaza, the men killed and wounded were all smugglers caught in a tunnel during the pre-dawn Israeli strike, said Gaza Health Ministry official Dr. Moaiya Hassanain.

Wednesday, August 26, 2009 JERUSALEM: A Palestinian was wounded by Israeli gunfire late on Tuesday after he breached a security fence separating the Gaza Strip and the Jewish state, a military spokesman said. "According to latest information, a Palestinian was injured by fire from our soldiers after he crossed the security fence near the Nahal Oz fuel terminal," said the spokesman.Soldiers "fired warning shots which were ignored, whereafter they aimed and wounded" the Palestinian. "The man, who was apparently lightly wounded in a leg, was moved to an Israeli hospital," he added. Early on Tuesday, three Palestinian brothers were killed and nine other people wounded when Israel bombed smuggling tunnels between the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and Egypt, medics said. The Israeli military said it launched the raid in response to mortar fire from the Palestinian territory late on Monday that wounded one soldier.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009 LONDON: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began a European tour aimed at placating critics with talks in London Tuesday, as efforts gathered pace to revive Middle East peace talks. The hawkish premier, who has upset Britain over Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, was here for his first talks with Prime Minister Gordon Brown since taking power nearly five months ago. The talks at 10 Downing Street come ahead of a summit on Thursday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, whose government is traditionally one of Israel's closest allies in Europe. As well as debating the prospects of peace with the Palestinians, Netanyahu will discuss international efforts to halt arch-foe Iran's nuclear drive. The United States has threatened new sanctions if Tehran fails to return to the negotiating table. The visit to London offers Netanyahu a chance to patch up relations with Brown's government, which recently said it wa...