Israel on Thursday rejected calls from the United Nations and others for an international investigation of its deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla but left the door open to foreign involvement.

The UN Security Council called for an impartial investigation of Israel’s deadly raid, condemning the “acts” that resulted in the loss of life.

Pro-Palestinian activists promised Tuesday to send two more boats to challenge Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip as international outrage mounted over a botched Israeli raid that left nine people de

Israeli marines stormed a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza on Monday and 10 pro-Palestinian activists were killed, triggering a diplomatic crisis and plans for an emergency UN Security Council sessions

Israeli marines stormed a Turkish aid ship bound for Gaza on Monday and 10 pro-Palestinian activists were killed, triggering a profound diplomatic crisis.

US President Barack Obama’s chief of staff on Wednesday invited the Israeli Prime Minister to the White House next week, in a sign that strained relations between the two allies are beginning to thaw.

Israel held a dress rehearsal for disaster on Sunday, beginning a defence drill to test the response of soldiers, emergency crews and civilians to simulated missile barrages, terrorist attacks and chemical strikes.

An Israeli nuclear whistleblower, who served 18 years in prison for revealing state secrets, returned to prison on Sunday after failing to report for community service as part of a sentence.

A heavily guarded operation to dig up ancient graves to make way for a new hospital emergency room exposed on Sunday traditional tensions between Israel’s Jewish secular majority and ultra-Orthodox mi

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hawkish coalition partners vowed on Thursday to keep building Jewish homes and demolishing unauthorised Palestinian homes in contested east Jerusalem — des