Israel can't cut power to Gaza: attorney general
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Israel's attorney general told the government on Monday it could not cut electrical power to the Gaza Strip as part of its sanctions against the Hamas controlled territory, although he did approve other measures.
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JERUSALEM, Dec. 3 -- Extending a tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip to the far larger West Bank proved elusive Sunday as Israel's security cabinet decided against doing so and the governing Hamas movement withdrew from negotiations on the matter.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 19 -- Israel's security cabinet on Wednesday declared the Gaza Strip a "hostile entity" and said it would begin cutting electricity and fuel supplies to the Hamas-run territory in an effort to stop the constant rocket fire into Israel.
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Israel would like to sever its  remaining connections with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip  after militants blasted open the territory's border with Egypt,  a top Israeli defence official said on Thursday.
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Israel will slow a planned pullback from West Bank cities because of Gaza violence that has frayed a de facto cease-fire and raised doubts Palestinians can keep militants in check, officials said on Tuesday.
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The Israeli Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the government's cutoff of fuel and electricity to the Gaza Strip, a court spokeswoman said.
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Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Friday the Jewish state should not agree to a truce with Hamas unless the Islamist group first stops firing rockets from the Gaza Strip.
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Israel's attorney general urged the government Thursday to swiftly reroute its barrier in the occupied West Bank to minimize the risk of international sanctions after the World Court deemed the project illegal.
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Israel has a right to respond to security threats but should not collectively punish the Gaza population for rocket attacks from the Palestinian territory, the U.N. humanitarian affairs chief said on Friday.
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JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised the Palestinian president yesterday that Israel would not cause a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip despite his government's intention to cut power to the territory in hopes of curbing rocket attacks.
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A Hamas rocket attack from Gaza killed a man in Israel on Sunday and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pledged unlimited military action against the militant group, saying "no one involved in terror" would be immune.
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Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says he will not let his country's blockade of Gaza turn into a humanitarian crisis.
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The Palestinian prime minister said he failed to win assurances from Israel's defense minister Thursday that he'll ease stifling restrictions on Palestinian movement Â a measure seen as key to the success of an ambitious international effort to revive the Palestinian economy.
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 7 -- Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak threatened Thursday to intensify military operations in the Gaza Strip if fighters continue using the Palestinian territory for rocket attacks on southern Israel. Earlier in the day, Israeli troops supported by tanks, artillery and fighter...
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Israel's attorney general rules against taking land from a West Bank town.
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Israeli opposition to the prime minister's Gaza withdrawal plan raises safety concerns.
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Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniya reiterates that his Hamas-led government will not recognise Israel.