Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak will be named Israel's defence minister next week in a reshuffle of the coalition cabinet rushed through in response to Palestinian factional warfare in Gaza, officials said on Friday.
The United States, Israel and European states are prepared to ease a ban on aid to the Palestinian government that President Mahmoud Abbas is forming in the West Bank after sacking Hamas, officials said on Friday.
Could the Hamas takeover of Gaza actually help Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas maintain control of the West Bank? Will it strengthen the relationship between the United States, Israel and the Fatah movement? Martin Indyk, former Israeli ambassador and the director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution, talks with Michele Norris.
The United States, European states and Israel are considering rapidly easing sanctions in the occupied West Bank to try to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Western and Israeli officials said on Friday.
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Israel said on Friday it is prepared to ship humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip after the Islamist movement Hamas seized full control of the impoverished territory.
Israel's new Labour Party chief and former PM, Ehud Barak, is appointed the country's defence minister.
The rout of Fatah by Hamas in Gaza changes the political landscape of the Middle East, uprooting long-established diplomatic assumptions and necessitating a radical rethink of how the world views the Israel-Palestine question.
Israeli officials worry that Palestinians will try to flee Gaza for Israel to escape Hamas-Fatah fighting. Border crossings with Gaza are now closed, but cannot stay that way indefinitely.
Middle East: Most of the world is under the impression that Hamas has won the Palestinian civil war. But the real winner is the militant Islamic regime in Tehran, which is running a proxy war against Israel.