Gazan breached border fence for moshav attack

Published on November 28, 2012

The Gaza Palestinian who stabbed a woman in an Israeli farming town near the Egyptian border had breached an unguarded border fence.

Gaza boy killed by Israeli troops, Palestinian officials say

Published on November 8, 2012

A Palestinian boy who died in southern Gaza was killed by Israeli troops, Palestinian officials said.

Syrian clashes intensify near Turkey border

Published on October 9, 2012

NATO said on Tuesday it had drawn up plans to defend Turkey if necessary against any further spillover of violence from Syria's border areas where rebels and government forces are fighting for control.

Israelis look nervously across to Syria

Published on October 4, 2012

The Golan Heights on the border between Israel and Syria is a favorite holiday destination for Israelis, and thousands have been hiking and picnicking there during this week’s holiday. But the Israeli army asked some visitors to leave after a group of 50 Syrians, some of them armed, approached the border with Israel in the area of Mount Hermon, which in the winter functions as Israel’s only ski resort.

Egypt sentences 14 to death for Sinai attacks

Published on September 24, 2012

An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced 14 Islamists to death for attacks on security forces in the Sinai Peninsula, showing Egypt's determination to put down militancy in a region critical to relations with neighboring Israel.

IDF soldier, assailants killed in skirmish near border with Egypt

Published on September 21, 2012

One Israeli soldier and three armed assailants died in a skirmish near the border with Egypt.

Agreement reached on African migrants at Israeli border

Published on September 6, 2012

Israel said it will allow two female African migrants -- one who is pregnant -- and a teen to enter the country, and turn over more than a dozen other refugees who have been trapped at its border to Egyptian authorities.

African migrants remain trapped at border following hearing

Published on September 6, 2012

A group of African migrants remain trapped at the border with Egypt after Israel's Supreme Court decided to hold another hearing next week on their situation.

Egypt replaces tanks with armored vehicles in Sinai

Published on September 4, 2012

Egypt's military is deploying light armored vehicles in Sinai to replace some heavy tanks whose presence at the border area had raised concerns in Israel, security sources said on Tuesday.A source said last week the army had begun withdrawing some of the tanks, after they had been deployed as part of an operation against militants who attacked and killed 16 border guards on August 5.

Egypt broadens Sinai campaign against militants

Published on August 29, 2012

Egypt's military said on Wednesday it would broaden its offensive against militants in the Sinai Peninsula, a campaign that has raised concerns in Israel about the movement of heavy armor into the area near its border.

Israel denies pro-Palestinian activists entry to West Bank

Published on August 27, 2012

Pro-Palestinian activists were denied entry into the West Bank from Jordan by Israeli authorities.

Clinton urges Egypt, Israel to talk about Sinai

Published on August 23, 2012

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Egypt's foreign minister to keep lines of communication open with Israel amid tensions over an Egyptian push against militants in the neighboring Sinai desert, the State Department said on Thursday.

Egypt’s deployment of armor in Sinai worries Israel

Published on August 21, 2012

Israel is concerned about the deployment of Egyptian armor in a push against militants in the neighboring Sinai desert, saying the vehicles' entry wasn't coordinated and is in violation of a 1979 peace treaty, an Israeli official said on Monday.

Report: Morsi ‘interested in amending’ peace treaty with Israel

Published on August 15, 2012

Following unrest in the Sinai including a terrorist attack that killed 16 soldiers, Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi "is interested in amending" the country's 1979 Camp David Accords with Israel "with regards to the deployment of forces in Sinai," said his judicial adviser, Mohamed Gaddalah, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masri Al-Youm reported.

Little sign of battle in Egypt’s Sinai region

Published on August 9, 2012

Egypt poured troops into North Sinai on Thursday in an offensive meant to tackle militants in the Israeli border region, but residents were skeptical, saying they had seen no sign of anyone being killed in what they described as a "haphazard" operation.

Egyptian troops move into Israeli border zone

Published on August 9, 2012

Gunmen fired shots towards a police station in the main administrative center of Egypt's North Sinai on Thursday, underscoring lawlessness in the desert region bordering Israel as a Egyptian military offensive there entered its second day.

Sinai border attack seen as test in Egypt-Israel relationship

Published on August 7, 2012

The attack this week along the Israel-Egypt border poses dilemmas both for Israel and for the new Egyptian president.

Israel moves tanks to border with Egypt after attack kills civilian

Published on June 18, 2012

Israel reportedly moved tanks close to the border with Egypt following a cross-border attack in which an Israeli civilian was killed.

Palestinian assailant stabs Israeli border guard in Hebron

Published on June 4, 2012

An Israeli border guard was stabbed by a Palestinian assailant near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron.

Israeli troops fire at Palestinians near Gaza border

Published on May 17, 2012

Israeli troops fired at armed Palestinians who came too close to the border fence with Gaza despite warnings.

Israel constructing security wall on Lebanese border

Published on April 30, 2012

Israel started building a security wall along its border with Lebanon.

Israel kills Gazan gunman along tense border

Published on April 2, 2012

Israeli soldiers shot dead a Palestinian gunman suspected of trying to plant explosives beneath a fence at the border with Gaza, the Israeli military said on Sunday.

Global March to Jerusalem could bring thousands of Arabs to Israel’s borders

Published on March 27, 2012

If pro-Palestinian calls for a so-called Global March to Jerusalem are heeded, thousands of Arabs from the West Bank, Gaza, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria could converge on Israel's borders.

VIDEO: YouTube video purports to show Israeli border police tossing gas grenade at Palestinians

Published on March 12, 2012

Israeli troops were captured on film throwing a tear gas grenade at Palestinians in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh.

Israeli troops foil terror attack on Egypt border

Published on February 21, 2012

Israeli troops thwarted a terror attack on Israel's border with Egypt.

Two Palestinians planting bombs killed by Israeli troops

Published on January 18, 2012

Two Palestinians were reported killed in an Israeli military strike near the Gaza border.

Gunmen fire on Israeli troops at Gaza border

Published on November 3, 2011

Palestinian gunmen fired on Israeli soldiers working on the border fence between Israel and Gaza.

Israeli, Lebanese troops exchange fire [VIDEO]

Published on August 1, 2011

Israeli and Lebanese troops exchanged fire on Israel's northern border; no Israeli soldiers were injured.

Bibi warns protesters planning new border breach

Published on June 2, 2011

Palestinian protesters planning to breach Israel's borders again will be halted, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. Netanyahu, speaking Thursday evening at a conference in Jerusalem, said Syria and Iran and the Hezbollah and Hamas terrorist groups are behind the planned mass protests planned for Sunday.

Work stepped up on Israel-Egypt border fence

Published on June 2, 2011

Construction has been completed on the first permanent section of a border fence between Israel and Egypt.

Egypt FM: Gaza border crossing to be permanently opened

Published on April 28, 2011

Egypt's foreign minister said in an interview with Al-Jazeera on Thursday that preparations were underway to open the Rafah border crossing with Gaza on a permanent basis.

The ABCs of immigrating to the USA

By Cedric M. Shen
Published on February 15, 2011

Concern rising along the Israel-Egypt border

Published on February 7, 2011

Driving along the Israel-Egypt border near this southern Israeli town, rusted metal posts strung with barbed wire give way to sand dunes and an exposed, open border as wide open as the question of what will become of the countries' relations now that Egypt is in turmoil.

My Interview with the Department of Homeland Security!

By Julia Bendis
Published on February 1, 2011

Israel beefs up troops on Egyptian border

Published on February 1, 2011

Israel's military has increased its presence on the border with Egypt over fears that terrorists and migrants will take advantage of the unrest in Egypt to cross into Israel.

Israel begins building barrier on Egyptian border

Published on November 22, 2010

Israel began construction of a barrier along its border with Egypt.

Israel again allowing cars to enter Gaza

Published on September 20, 2010

A shipment of private cars was allowed to enter Gaza for the first time in three years.

Reversal of fortune: The Mexican immigrant shift

Published on June 26, 2008

The immigration-reform debate has gripped the country and enflamed passions. Hate groups, along with mainstream media, have engaged in facile assumptions about Mexican immigration, often leading to racist stereotypes and opening the door to extremist ideology.

Border Protests Not Fight for Civil Rights

By Joe R. Hicks
Published on April 6, 2006

>Speaker after speaker at the recent immigration march in Los Angeles told the 500,000-strong primarily Latino crowd that racism and anti-immigrant sentiments lie behind the debates on Capitol Hill about border enforcement. This was the focus at the march and subsequent student walkouts, even though the House and Senate have debated competing immigration reform legislation, which has included discussions of some sort of guest worker or amnesty plan.

Israel: A Time of Change

By Larry Derfner
Published on September 3, 1998

On Aug. 9, the "Tel Aviv Serial Rapist," who has the city's women looking over their shoulders in fear, evidently tried to commit his 10th rape in the last six months, but police say he let his pleading victim go, and ran off. On the same day, Police Minister Avigdor Kahalani advised Israelis to do two patrol shifts a month with the volunteer Civil Guard in their towns and cities.