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Israel's defence minister has accused the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, of having an "incomprehensible obsession" with his push for Middle East peace, but later apologised for his remarks via a statement released by his ministry.

Israel's army says two rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip just hours ahead of Ariel Sharon's funeral but they did not appear to have landed in Israel.

The head of the hospital treating Israel's iconic and controversial former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says only "a miracle" could prevent his condition from deteriorating further.

In the second part of his remarkable special report, Chris McGreal investigates the clandestine alliance between Israel and the apartheid regime, cemented with the ultimate gift of friendship - A-bomb technology.

Anti-Muslim insults were found on the walls of a mosque in northern Israel on Sunday, a police spokeswoman said.

A natural gas field has been discovered on the coast of the Gaza Strip, a senior Hamas movement official revealed Tuesday.

Tehran, YJC. Poll has investigated into what people think was ayatollah Khamenei's most important statement in the past year.

Israeli police on Monday limited Muslim access to Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound, fearing new violence after clashes at the weekend, a spokesman said.

Hamas rejected an Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel on Tuesday, moments after the Israeli Cabinet accepted the plan, throwing into disarray international efforts to end a week of fighting that has killed 192 Palestinians and exposed millions of Israelis to Hamas rocket fire.

The Israeli Cabinet has accepted an Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire to end a week of conflict with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip that has killed 185 Palestinians and exposed millions of Israelis to Hamas rocket fire.

Tehran, YJC. Ayatollah Khamenei says Islamic states must come to their senses seeing what is happening in Gaza.

Israel kept up its punishing raids on Gaza Monday, but held off from a threatened ground incursion as the world intensified efforts to broker a truce.

Tehran, YJC. Iranian filmaker Majid Majidi has raised voice over killing civilians in Gaza.

Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions.

Tehran, YJC. Iran's cleric Jannati has stated that it is time that Israel be wiped out of the earth's surface.

The Israel Defense Forces rushed to destroy the house of Ziad Awad, suspected of murdering an off-duty policeman, after the High Court of Justice rejected a petition against demolishing the home. The IDF is now preparing for the demolition of dozens more houses in the West Bank. This immoral, inane policy - which breaches international law and which the IDF itself has deemed futile - is returning.

Israel's army on Sunday said two more soldiers had been killed in fighting in and around the Gaza Strip, bringing the total Israeli death toll to seven.

The nearly 1.9 million member Presbyterian Church USA voted Friday after a contentious debate to divest from three companies that provide supplies to Israeli forces and settlers in the occupied West Bank.