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Ultra-conservative Muslim clerics denounce football as millions turn to watch the World Cup games.

Israel's foreign minister said Sunday a final decision has yet to be made on his threat to expel the UN's peace envoy for offering to help transfer Qatari funds to Gaza.
      
Avigdor Lieberman was reported to have said by Channel Two television that he wants to declare Robert Serry persona non grata and expel him from Israel over the alleged offer.
      

Israel's foreign minister has threatened to expel the UN's special envoy for offering to help transfer Qatari funds to the Gaza Strip, Channel Two television reported.
      

Ottoman history flows back into Gaza Turkish government pays to restore centuries-old public fountain after learning of its link to the Ottoman Empire, Al Jazeera has reported June 5.

Israeli Housing Minister Uri Ariel has invited bids for 1,500 new homes in Jewish settlements in retaliation for a new Palestinian government backed by Hamas, reports said on June 5.

Of the new homes, 400 will be in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem with the rest elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, the online edition of Haaretz newspaper reported.

Palestine's new unity government was sworn in at Ramallah on Monday.

The forging of an administration that is to be politically non-affiliated is a result of the reconciliation deal between the rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah reached in end-April this year.

A long-awaited Palestinian unity government was sworn in before president Mahmud Abbas on Monday after a landmark reconciliation deal with the Islamist Hamas that has infuriated Israel.
      

“The heart has reasons that reason cannot know” is a famous saying of French philosopher Blaise Pascal. It was quoted by Yaşar Yakış, former foreign minister during the first Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, when he visited the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) last week to speak at a closed event.

Israeli officials denounced as "political" Wednesday attempts by a Turkish court to secure an international arrest warrant for four former Israeli military commanders over a deadly 2010 maritime assault.
      

Israel has appealed to Interpol not to honor a ruling from a Turkish court that issued arrest warrants on May 26 for four former Israeli military commanders on trial in absentia over the 2010 killing of nine Turks on the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara.