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FILE - In this Dec. 31, 2007 file photo, a view of the excavation site known as the City of David, bottom, with the background of the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan near Jerusalem's Old City is seen. A hard-line Israeli group is launching plans for a new tourist center at the City of David, a politically sensitive archaeological dig in a largely Arab neighborhood outside Jerusalem's Old City, officials said Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty, File)

Tourist center planned at sensitive Jerusalem site

Last updated Tuesday, December 27, 2011 - 11:04am

JERUSALEM -- A hard-line Israeli group said Tuesday it was launching plans for a new tourist center at the site of a politically sensitive archaeological dig in a largely Arab neighborhood outside Jerusalem's Old City, drawing fire from Palestinian officials.

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A Palestinian youth inspects the damage in a house following an Israeli air strike on a nearby Hamas training camp in Gaza City, early Friday, Dec. 9, 2011. Israeli aircraft fired missiles at militant facilities in the Gaza Strip early Friday, killing a Palestinian civilian and wounding more than 20 others, Gaza officials said, as a new round of violence in the area threatened to escalate into a wider confrontation. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Rockets hit Israel after fighting flares in Gaza

Matti Friedman The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, December 9, 2011 - 10:25am

JERUSALEM -- Palestinian militants fired three rockets into Israel on Friday, the Israeli military said, hours after an airstrike against a Hamas target in Gaza killed a Palestinian civilian.

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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, centre left, leads advisors as he arrives to speak to the media in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Sept. 2, 2011. Turkey said Friday it was expelling the Israeli ambassador and cutting military ties with Israel over the last year's deadly raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla. Davutoglu said Turkey was downgrading diplomatic ties to the level of second secretary and that the ambassador and other high-level diplomats would leave the capital Ankara by Wednesday.(AP Photo)

Turkey expels Israel ambassador over flotilla raid

Matti Friedman, Suzan Fraser The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, September 2, 2011 - 9:53am

ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkey expelled Israel's ambassador and said Friday it is cutting military ties with the country over its refusal to apologize for last year's raid on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla that killed nine people.

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Israeli soldiers secure the area near roads leading to the sites of several attacks in the Arava desert, near the southern Israeli resort town of Eilat, Friday, Aug. 19, 2011. On Thursday, gunmen who appear to have originated in Gaza and who crossed into southern Israel through the Egyptian desert ambushed civilian vehicles traveling on a remote road in southern Israel, killing eight people. Six were civilians, and two were members of Israeli security forces responding to the incursion.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Rockets, airstrikes follow attack on Israel

Matti Friedman The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, August 19, 2011 - 9:32am

JERUSALEM -- Gaza militants launched barrages of rockets deep into Israel early Friday and Israeli aircraft struck targets in the Palestinian territory in the aftermath of the deadliest attack against Israelis in three years.

Gunmen who appear to have originated in Gaza and crossed into southern Israel through the Egyptian desert ambushed civilian vehicles traveling on a remote road, killing eight people. Six were civilians, and two were members of Israeli security forces responding to the incursion.

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Israel condemns Web list of Gaza soldiers

Matti Friedman, The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, November 19, 2010 - 10:30am

JERUSALEM -- Israel's military on Friday condemned the publication of names and photographs of 200 Israeli soldiers on a website that called them "war criminals."

Militants in Gaza, meanwhile, fired rockets at southern Israel, causing no casualties, but sparking retaliatory Israeli air strikes that wounded five.

The website also published the home addresses and ID numbers of many of the Israelis. They included senior commanders and low-ranking soldiers who the site claimed participated in the three-week offensive Israel launched in Gaza in late 2008.

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