The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), an organization with an established record of anti-Israel bias, is poised next week to condemn the Jewish state for its conduct during last year’s Operation Protective Edge, noted an op-ed published Friday in The Boston Herald by Jeff Robbins, a former UNHRC delegate....

Israel relaxed security restrictions to allow thousands of Palestinians to observe the first Friday services of the holy month of Ramadan in Jerusalem, Al Jazeera reported Friday. Police said at least 80,000 people from East Jerusalem, Israel and the West Bank had gone to Islam’s third-holiest site, for Friday prayers,...

A 25-year-old man was killed and a second man wounded in a terror attack near Dolev, northwest of Jerusalem in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported today. The 25-year-old was shot in the upper body near the settlement of Dolev, northwest of Jerusalem. He was found unconscious and...

Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization that rules the Gaza Strip, has rejected a move by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve the unity government it agreed to last year, Agence France-Presse reported today. Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah presented Wednesday the resignation of the unity government to PA...

Israel will permit hundreds of Palestinian families living in the West Bank and Gaza to access Al-Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount for Friday prayers and to visit relatives in the Palestinian territories and abroad as part of a sweeping policy to ease travel restrictions ahead of the Muslim holy...

Israel’s Foreign Ministry released its report on Operation Protective Edge on Sunday. According to the Times of Israel, the Foreign Ministry explained the country’s actions as responding to “an enemy that targets civilians and operates from among its own people.” The central argument, though, is coherent and persuasive and evidence of the...