Dozens of Israeli Air Force planes hav conducted nighttime maneuvers over the Mediterranean to simulate striking various targets, including Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times of Israel reported on Wednesday. The exercise was part of Israel’s month-long “Chariots of Fire” war game and saw fighter jets scrambled from several bases in the country and sent to Cyprus, its military said... 

The U.S. is fully aware of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s flat rejection of the creation of a Palestinian state along with his plans to extend Israeli law to West Bank settlements, the Israeli premier said on Monday. In an interview with Channel 12, Netanyahu pushed back against his main challenger Benny Gantz’s claims that his vow to annex the West Bank was nothing more than an empty campaign... 

The Israeli military has confirmed that two Palestinian rockets have struck the city of Dimona where Israel has a nuclear reactor. Palestinian resistance groups in the besieged Gaza Strip fired the rockets in retaliation for Israeli attacks on the coastal enclave on Wednesday. Tel Aviv said earlier that more than 70 rockets had been fired into Israel’s illegal settlements since the early hours of... 

A branch of the destroyed Islamic National Bank following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, on November 20, 2012. At least 150 Palestinians have lost their lives and 1,200 others have been injured as the Tel Aviv regime continues its deadly strikes against the besieged Gaza Strip. On the eighth consecutive day of the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces pounded the impoverished... 

The Chief of the General Staff of China’s People’s Liberation Army, Chen Bingde, has met his Israeli counterpart Benny Gantz and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Tel Aviv. Chen stressed that ties between the two countries’ militaries have been developing in recent years, and the deepening of Sino-Israeli cooperation contributes to regional peace and stability. For his part, Gantz said...