Israel has continued air strikes on the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip Thursday, killing at least three suspected militants.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says a peace agreement with the Palestinians will not necessarily be concluded by the end of this year.

The European Parliament has passed a resolution urging Israel to lift its blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

The leader of the Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah says he is ready for "open war" on Israel, following the assassination of a top Hezbollah commander wanted for deadly attacks against Western and Israeli targets.

Oranim Educational Initiatives' plan called Israel Free is organizing 10 day free trip to Israel for those who have Jewish heritage.

Israeli security forces are on high alert following the first Palestinian suicide bombing in Israel in a year.

A suicide bomber killed at least one person and wounded at least six others in the southern Israeli city, Dimona, Monday. Earlier, Israel said commandos killed two Palestinian gunmen and wounded a third in a pre-dawn raid in the occupied West Bank. VOA's Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem.

Suspected Islamic militants attacked the Israeli embassy in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, early Friday. Jim Teeple reports from Jerusalem, two Mauritanians and a French woman were wounded when the attackers also opened fire on a nearby nightclub.

With the release Wednesday of the Winograd committee's final report on the Second Lebanon War, the focus has shifted to its political aftermath.

A Royal Jordanian passenger plane made an emergency landing at Ben Gurion International Airport Wednesday night due to a storm in Amman.

The final report of the Winograd Commissionon on the inconclusive 2006 war against Hezbollah guerrillas blamed the military and the Govt. for failing to protect Israel from 4,000 Hezbollah rockets and faulted decision-making.

An Israeli commission is set to release its final report Wednesday about Israel's conduct during the 2006 war with Hezbollah in Lebanon.