The Israeli military has closed probes into more that 60 allegations of misconduct during its November Gaza campaign, including a strike that killed 12, among them five women and five children.
In a report sent to Agence France Presse, the army said its Military Advocate General had "reviewed the factual findings, as far as they existed, with respect to approximately 65 incidents, and did not find a basis for opening a criminal investigation in those cases."
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said his country's foes will never managed to annihilate Israel, as Tel Aviv marked Memorial Day, remembering its fallen troops and civilian deaths in militant attacks.
"Since our inception as a people, we had to fight for our freedom and our existence," Netanyahu said at a Sunday afternoon ceremony.
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Germany is in talks with Israel to buy weaponized drones for its military that are seen as more technologically advanced than U.S. ones, the weekly Der Spiegel reported.
The news magazine's Monday edition said the German defense ministry had already held two meetings with Israeli military officials, in November 2012 and February 2013, on the proposed purchase.
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President Michel Suleiman slammed Israel on Sunday for its continued threats against Lebanon, urging the international community to pressure it to end its intimidation.
In a statement carried by the state-run National News Agency, Suleiman said: “The Israeli enemy continues to threaten Lebanon through its overflights in a new and grave violation of (U.N. Security Council) resolution 1701.”
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The Palestinian Authority on Sunday summoned Canada's envoy to convey "strong dissatisfaction" over Foreign Minister John Baird's visit last week to annexed east Jerusalem.
The Palestinian foreign ministry summoned Katherine Verrier-Frechette "to express its strong dissatisfaction over the meeting between Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird and Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni in east Jerusalem," a statement read.
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Security forces in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip have started arresting suspected "collaborators" with Israel after a month-long amnesty ended, a Hamas official said on Saturday.
"Since yesterday (Friday), we arrested several collaborators with the Israeli occupation," Interior Ministry spokesman Islam Shahwan told AFP, declining to give a number.
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Israel has rejected appeals to release a Palestinian prisoner on a life-endangering long-term hunger strike to the West Bank, Palestinian prisoner affairs minister Issa Qaraqea told AFP on Saturday.
Qaraqea said that Israeli officials told him on Saturday that Samer Issawi, who has intermittently refused food for more than eight months, "is in critical condition and might die at any moment."
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A planned meeting Saturday between Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad to try to resolve a damaging dispute has been postponed until at least next week, Palestinian officials said.
It has been put back until after a visit by Abbas to Kuwait on Monday, an official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
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Israel's army fired artillery into Syria on Friday night after gunshots and shells were directed at soldiers on the Israeli-occupied sector of the Golan Heights, the military said.
"A short while ago, artillery and shots were fired at IDF (Israel Defense Forces) soldiers along the security fence between Israel and Syria," it said in a statement.
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Israel reopened a goods crossing into the Gaza Strip on Friday, officials said, after closing it several days earlier in response to rocket fire from the besieged Palestinian enclave.
"Kerem Shalom crossing was reopened this morning," said Guy Inbar, spokesman for the Israeli defense ministry unit responsible for all civilian affairs in the Palestinian territories.
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