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Israel is willing to release many Palestinian prisoners , even long-term detainees, if Palestinian militants agree to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit , Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Monday. Shalit was captured...

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour on Monday condemned human rights violations occurring in the Palestinian authorities, saying that violations were "intolerable" and expressing concern for civilians in the area. Arbour is currently visiting the...

The United States Saturday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning an Israeli attack on Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip on November 8 that resulted in the deaths of at least 18...

Israel is breaching international humanitarian law and is violating the rights of Palestinians by placing severe restrictions on family visits with Palestinian prisoners, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B'Tselem) said in...

China is building a large barbed wire and concrete fence along parts of its border with North Korea , according to farmers and visitors in the area. A Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman refused to...

An Act of Vengeance, B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, September 27, 2006 [concluding that the June 28 bombing by Israeli forces of a power plant in the Gaza Strip amounts to a war...

Israeli human rights group B'Tselem issued a report Wednesday concluding that the June 28 bombing by Israeli forces of a power plant in the Gaza Strip during the early stages of the 34-day Middle East conflict...

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday released Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister Naser al-Shaer, detained in August for his membership in Hamas after Hamas members in Gaza seized an Israeli soldier. Thirty-one Hamas lawmakers are still in...

An Israel Defense Forces court denied bail Monday to 18 Palestinian lawmakers on trial for charges of membership in a terrorist organization . The ruling, postponed from last week, reverses an earlier military court decision that...

An Israeli military court on Monday postponed a decision on whether 21 defendants, who were who were detained following the Hamas capture of Israeli Cpl. Gilad Shalit in Gaza in June, should be released from...