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Israel: Hezbollah moves rockets in towns (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:47:18 GMT

Hezbollah guerrillas have moved most of their rockets in south Lebanon among civilians in villages, an apparent attempt to avoid detection by Israel and U.N. troops, Israeli military officials said Sunday.


Arab taboo phrase in Israel text book sparks outcry (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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Mon, 23 Jul 2007 03:16:49 GMT

A school text book for Arab children in Israel has sparked an outcry among rightist Jews by including a reference for the first time to the Palestinian view of the Jewish state's founding as a "catastrophe."


In text, Israel calls '48 war catastrophe for Arabs (International Herald Tribune)
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Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:47:19 GMT

A book for use in Arab schools describes Israel's war of independence as a "catastrophe" for the Arab population.


Israel kills four Gaza militants (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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Sun, 22 Jul 2007 20:39:36 GMT

Israel killed four Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, two in a ground assault and two in an air strike on militants launching rockets at the Jewish state, Palestinian witnesses and medics said.


Israel launches twin air strikes against Gaza militants (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Sun, 22 Jul 2007 21:00:21 GMT

Israel launched two air strikes against Gaza on Sunday, killing at least two militants from the Islamic Jihad group and wounding two passers-by, medical sources said.


Darfuri woman shot dead trying to enter Israel from Egypt (AFP via Yahoo! News)
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Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:53:56 GMT

A Sudanese woman was shot dead by Egyptian police on Sunday as she and a group of African migrants tried to cross illegally into Israel from Egypt, a security source told AFP.


Israel kills two Hamas gunmen in Gaza (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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Sun, 22 Jul 2007 07:30:15 GMT

Israeli troops shot and killed two Hamas gunmen in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday as they approached the border fence with Israel.


Israel cannot meet Syria demand on Golan (AP via Yahoo! News)
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Sun, 22 Jul 2007 04:55:18 GMT

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in an interview broadcast Saturday that Israel cannot meet a Syrian demand to commit in advance of peace negotiations to withdraw from all Syrian territory captured in the 1967 Middle East war.


Israel, Syria Boost Military Presence Along Border (The New York Sun)
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Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:33:32 GMT

GOLAN HEIGHTS — Israel visibly has beefed up its military presence here while neighboring Syria reportedly has placed its army on high alert and — for the first time in 30 years — has opened a strategic border road to civilian traffic in a move that some Israeli security officials worry could help facilitate guerilla attacks against Golani Jewish communities. The escalating military moves on both ...


Textbooks to give Arab view on Israel's birth (Guardian Unlimited)
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Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:22:02 GMT

A new third grade textbook for Israeli Arab students acknowledges that Israel's creation was a tragedy for Palestinians.