Funeral and memorial services will take place at week's end for two young women killed when a train carrying coal derailed near Baltimore, burying them.
A video released by an Israeli human rights organization shows what the group describes as a 9-year-old Palestinian boy being assaulted by two border police officers in the West Bank city of Hebron.
A Palestinian mosque in the village of Jabaa was vandalized and partially set on fire early Tuesday morning, Israeli and Palestinian officials said, with both sides suspecting Israeli settlers of the attack.
Israeli police evicted 15 Jewish settlers from a an illegally occupied house in the restive West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday following a weeklong showdown between the settler community and Israel's Defense Ministry, which administers the occupied territory.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu requested that the country¹s Defense Ministry postpone a planned eviction of Israeli settlers who occupied a home in the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron.
Three cars were set ablaze and a mosque was defaced in a Palestinian village in the West Bank, police said.
Tensions rise in Israel between ultra-orthodox Jews and mainstream Israelis.
A second 18-year-old was set Monday to make his first court appearance in connection with the torching of a mosque in the northern Israeli village of Tuba Zangaria, authorities said.
Police in Israel have arrested an 18-year-old man in connection with the burning of a mosque, according to Israeli National Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.
Police stepped up security in northern Israel Monday after a fire at a mosque overnight in an apparent revenge attack.
Standing under a large poster of Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock, Nabil Saeed lays out large rolls of red, green, white and black cloth on his workshop table. These are the colors of his homeland, one he hopes will soon become a fully recognized state.
As a soldier in the Israeli Defense Forces, Kobi Skolnick once fired shots at Aziz Abu Sarah's aunt's house in the West Bank town of Hebron.
Thomas Friedman discusses his take on the recent developments in the Middle East.
A barrage of rockets and mortars fired into southern Israel continued Sunday, the latest in a four-day escalation of violence sparked by a series of attacks on Israeli civilians and soldiers Thursday.
The suspected honor killing of a young Palestinian woman stirs outcry for legal reforms. CNN's Kevin Flower reports.
When Ayah Baradiyya stepped out of the door of the large house she shared with her parents and 12 siblings more than a year ago, her parents could not have known this would be the last time they would see their daughter alive.
Israeli settlers damaged cars and tried to burn down a house in Palestinian villages in the West Bank Monday night and Tuesday, police told CNN. The actions followed removal of three illegal shacks in a Jewish settlement.
The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday it has ended the military career of a soldier involved in a commando raid this month in the West Bank city of Hebron during which five Hamas members were arrested and a 66-year-old Palestinian man was "regrettably killed."
Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man when they raided a militant's home in the West Bank city of Hebron early Friday, Israeli and Palestinian authorities said.
Israeli troops killed two militants on Friday in an operation targeting Hamas in the West Bank, an act that has sparked outrage over Israeli-Palestinian Authority security ties and militant vows of "revenge."
The Israeli military said Tuesday it is launching an investigation into a video that surfaced on YouTube that showed what appeared to be an Israeli soldier dancing around a blindfolded and bound Palestinian prisoner.
A woman who was shot near a West Bank settlement gave birth to her baby at a nearby hospital, the Israeli military said Monday.
The Israeli military said Wednesday it is still looking for the perpetrators behind a drive-by attack Tuesday evening that left four people dead, including a pregnant woman.
On the eve of meetings to start peace talks in Washington, four Israeli settlers are killed in the West Bank.
Four Israelis -- including a pregnant woman -- were killed Tuesday near Hebron in the West Bank in a shooting for which the militant wing of Hamas claimed responsibility, officials said.
The world's first full face transplant recipient appeared in public for the first time Monday. The patient, identified only as Oscar, appeared at a press conference at University Hospital Vall d'Hebron in Barcelona, Spain.
One Israeli policeman was killed and two others were wounded near Hebron in the southern West Bank early Monday, authorities said. Security forces are searching the area for the shooters.
Israeli security forces killed a Hamas militant near the West Bank town of Hebron early Monday, an Israel Defense Forces spokesman said.
Animation from Vall d'Hebron Hospital in Barcelona depicts what doctors say is the world's first full-face transplant.
Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli soldiers broke out Monday, a day after Israel announced it would include two West Bank religious shrines as part of a larger list of 150 Zionist heritage sites.
The nearly 100 children living at an orphanage in Carrefour, Haiti, are hungry and thirsty, and desperately waiting for aid, a member of the orphan's foundation told CNN on Saturday.
Israeli anti-terror forces killed a suspected West Bank Hamas military leader Thursday, the country's military announced.
Arab protesters threw rocks and hurled insults at flag-waving Jewish marchers in Israel's largest Arab city on Tuesday, an event that reflected fresh hostilities between Israel's Arab citizenry and rightist sectors of the Jewish state.
Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert opened his weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday with sharp words for Jewish settlers who opened fire on Palestinians last week, saying their actions constituted a "pogrom."
Jewish settlers are on a "terror" rampage in the West Bank city of Hebron, angry over the Israeli military's seizure of a disputed home, the city's mayor said Thursday.
A tense calm gripped the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday after rioting and serious clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians that saw at least 11 people wounded.
West Bank settlers, long coddled by the Israeli government, turn on the security forces, hoping to block moves toward a two-state peace with the Palestinians
A new U.S.-backed security force will face a tough time in the tinderbox West Bank city, where both Hamas and militant Israeli settlers want it to fail
Hundreds of Palestinian security reinforcements were awaiting orders Saturday as part of a joint Israeli-Palestinian operation in the West Bank town of Hebron, officials said.
Two arrests are made in the beating of Palestinian shepherds caught on tape. CNN's Atika Shubert reports.
The shaky video shows four men, wearing makeshift hoods and wielding sticks or batons, as they walk up a grassy hill to a middle-aged Palestinian man tending his sheep in the Hebron Hills.
Despite restrictions on the movement of labor and goods, an increasingly young and unemployed labour force, and the problems of brain drain, the Palestinians are looking forward.
Business should be improving for the Abu Lafi Stone and Marble Company.
There's renewed hope this week that peace may finally become a reality in the Middle East.
The refusal of a few soldiers to evict two settler families in Hebron raises fears of a possible wider rebellion
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Stone throwing, tears and arrests marked the eviction of Jewish settlers from a home in Hebron, as police used a circular saw to cut through the door of the house early Sunday.
Israeli security forces clashed Wednesday with thousands of demonstrators before demolishing the illegal settlement at the center of the dispute.
As Israeli diplomats departed for Russia on Tuesday to discuss deep concerns about Iran's nuclear facilities, acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the Jewish state cannot allow Tehran to acquire nuclear weapons under any circumstances.
Israel suspended security coordination with the Palestinians on Monday, an Israeli official said, following the killings of three Israeli settlers by Palestinians Sunday.
Thirty Palestinians were arrested early Saturday and accused of being terrorists by Israelis.
After launching a criminal investigation into the shooting death of a 13-year-old Palestinian girl, the Israel Defense Forces have suspended an army commander for his involvement in the incident.
Israeli helicopters fired four rockets at a camp in Gaza City where they believed Palestinian militants were training, killing at least 15 people, Palestinian medical sources told CNN.
Two suicide bombers set off almost simultaneous blasts on buses in this southern Israeli city Tuesday, killing 16 people in addition to themselves.
Victoria's Secret is making college kids blush Pink with its new collection of lingerie, loungewear and sleepwear designed for the dorm-bound crowd.
A photographic exhibit called "Breaking the Silence" has struck a nerve in Israel where critics say the images cast Israel in a poor light.
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