Rights Groups Challenge Israel's New Settlements Law
Two rights groups have requested Israel's Supreme Court to strike down a new settlements law legalising 3,900 settler homes built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
Two rights groups have requested Israel's Supreme Court to strike down a new settlements law legalising 3,900 settler homes built on private Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's comments on Wednesday linking a Muslim leader to the Holocaust were not supported by scholarly evidence, the State Department said, as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry left Washington for talks on ending weeks of Palestinian-Israeli violence.
Israel set up roadblocks in Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem and deployed soldiers across the country on Wednesday in an effort to stop a wave of Palestinian knife attacks.
Palestine's flag will fly at United Nations headquarters after the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved a Palestinian resolution, infuriating Israel with a move that Palestinians described as a step toward U.N. membership.