A Labour Member of the British Parliament, Naz Shah, has resigned from her position as aide to shadow chancellor John McDonnell after it was revealed she called in a 2014 Facebook post for Israel to be relocated to the US.
83 Republican and Democratic US Senators – representing 80% of the Senate- have sent a letter to President Obama, urging him to increase military aid package to Israel, given dramatically increased defence challenges in the region.
During a meeting in Moscow, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to strengthen security cooperation between the two countries regarding activities in Syria.
France will organize end May a meeting of Foreign Ministers from around 20 countries to prepare a peace conference involving Israel and the Palestinians later this year, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault announced.
An international conference to tackle the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the best way to bring peace, French President Francois Hollande declared after meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris.
The call to follow Ukrainian law with regard to Crimea is the first time Israel publicly, if indirectly, makes a statement about the peninsula since the Russian invasion and annexation.
No agreement to normalise ties between Israel and Turkey has yet been reached following the latest round of talks in London between Israeli and Turkish negotiators.