A Palestinian co-director of an Oscar-winning film was released from Israeli custody on Tuesday after he was attacked by Israeli settlers in the West Bank and then detained and blindfolded by Israeli forces,

Ballal said he was held at an army base, blindfolded for 24 hours and forced to sleep under a freezing air conditioner.

Israeli authorities released an Oscar-winning Palestinian director who was detained by the army after being attacked by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank.

While Republicans applauded Huckabee's staunch support for Israel, Democrats questioned his extreme rhetoric about Palestinians.

Huckabee, a one-time presidential hopeful, has spoken favorably in the past about Israel’s right to annex the West Bank and incorporate its Palestinian population into Israel. H

Israel is making plans for a potential major ground offensive in Gaza that would involve sending tens of thousands of troops into combat to clear and occupy large swaths of the enclave, an Israeli official and a second source familiar with the matter said.

An Israeli air strike killed a journalist working with Al Jazeera on Monday and the military issued fresh calls to evacuate parts of Gaza's north, as Israel pressed its renewed

Qatar’s Al Jazeera satellite news network says one of its Palestinian freelance reporters, Hossam Shabat, was killed by an Israeli airstrike.