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An Israeli soldier places a flag close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria at Golan Heights (Reuters)

Israel threatens Syria over attacks

Israeli and Syrian troops exchanged fire across their tense cease-fire line in the Golan Heights on Tuesday, prompting an Israeli threat.

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NZ Foreign Minister Murray McCully with US Secretary of State John Kerry (@StateDept/Twitter)

McCully pledges Mid East peacekeepers video

Murray McCully has offered to send NZ soldiers to the Middle East if there's an unsanctioned peace deal between Palestine and Israeli.

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An Israeli police forensics expert investigates the bank after the shooting (Reuters)

Israel gunman kills 4, then self

A gunman stormed into a bank in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba Monday, killing four people before killing himself, police said.

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Yair Lapid (Reuters)

Israeli seeks interim deal with Palestinians

Benjamin Netanyahu's senior coalition partner says that reaching a final peace agreement with the Palestinians is unrealistic at the current time.

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The peacekeeper was abducted from an observation post on the Golan Heights (Reuters)

Kiwi abducted in Golan Heights

A New Zealand Defence Force peacekeeper has been released after a five-hour abduction in a contentious Israeli border area.

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A United Nations peacekeeper directs an armoured vehicle in the Golan Heights (Reuters)

Syrian rebels release UN hostages

Syrian rebels have released four Filipino UN peacekeepers they abducted from the Golan Heights last week.

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Stephen Hawking (Reuters)

Hawking boycotts Israeli conference

British physicist Stephen Hawking has dropped plans to attend a major international conference in Israel in June.

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A UN base near the border crossing between Israel and Syria (Reuters)

Syrian rebels seize UN peacekeepers

Rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad have detained four UN peacekeepers in area that separates Syria and Israel.

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Israeli airstrikes prompt threats in Syria video

Israel rushed to beef up its rocket defences on its northern border yesterday to shield against possible retaliation after two airstrikes.

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Israeli strikes spike tensions in Syria video

Israeli warplanes struck targets in the Syrian capital yesterday [local time] for the second time in three days.

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Israeli soldiers clean a tank near the border with Syria (Reuters)

Fears Israel could enter Syria conflict video

Israel's Friday airstrike on Syria has raised fresh concerns that the region's most powerful military could be dragged into the civil war.

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Benjamin Natenyahu Israeli Prime Minister (Reuters)

Israel fears end to 40-year peace with Syria

Against a vista of green fields and snow-capped mountains, all is silent but for a gusting wind. Then comes a burst of gunfire from the Syrian civil war raging next door, where jihadist rebels are battling Bashar Assad's troops in a village.

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Israeli Prime Minister Banjamin Netanyahu has viewed the drone infiltration attempt with "utmost gravity" (File)

Israeli military shoots down drone

Israel has shot down a drone as it approached the country's northern coast, the military says

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An Israeli woman stands still while another prays beside her as a two-minute siren marking Holocaust Remembrance Day is sounded in Jerusalem (Photo: Reuters)

Israel at standstill to remember holocaust

Israel came to a standstill for two minutes as to remember those killed in the holocaust

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Palestinian protesters take cover during clashes with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank (Reuters)

Clashes after Palestinian deaths

Palestinians have taken to the streets in the West Bank in a show of outrage over the deaths of two protesters killed in clashes with Israel.

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An Israeli soldier sits atop a tank just outside the northern Gaza Strip (Reuters)

Israel: Gaza militants firing rockets

The Israeli military says Gaza militants have fired rockets at the south of the country a day after Israel warned of an escalation.

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Israeli border policemen remove a Palestinian medic during a protest (Reuters)

Gaza rockets cannot continue - Israel

Israel says it will not sit back, as the military retaliated for rocket fire for the first time since November.

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Israeli artillery soldiers at a training site next to the Israeli-Syrian border (AAP)

Israeli military responds to Syria

Israel's army said it fired a guided missile into Syria destroying a military post.

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US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Reuters)

Israel: Syria reason for restoring Turkey ties

Concerns that Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons could reach militant groups bordering Israel and Turkey was the motivating factor in restoring relations with Ankara after a three year rift, Israel's prime minister said.

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US President Barack Obama with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres (Reuters)

Israel and Turkey to restore ties video

Israel and Turkey agreed to restore full diplomatic relations on Friday after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized in a phone call for a deadly naval raid against a Gaza-bound international flotilla in a dramatic turnaround partly brokered by President Barack Obama.

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