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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
Gaza militants early Friday called their second truce in less than five days in an attempt to keep more than a week of hostilities with Israel from escalating. A leader of the Islamic Jihad faction, Mahfez Azzam, said Egypt mediated the cease-fire,...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
IAF strikes two terrorists on motorbike in Gaza; at least 15 rockets fired into Israel; Erez-border crossing damaged; IDF remains on high alert along Egyptian border; tourists advised to immediately leave Sinai. The South braced for a weekend of...
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The Daily Star
| over 1 year ago
A days-old truce announced by Gaza militants appeared to be fast unraveling Thursday after at least 10 people were killed and 30 wounded in Gaza in 24 hours of Israeli airstrikes. Rising tensions in and around Gaza kicked off early Wednesday, just...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Israeli warplanes carried out air raids over the Gaza Strip on Wednesday and Thursday after Palestinian militants fired rockets into southern Israel...Palestinian sources said at least one militant from the Islamic Jihad group was among those killed...
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The Boston Globe
| over 1 year ago
An Israeli airstrike killed two Palestinian militants in the northern Gaza Strip Thursday after a string of rocket attacks toward Israel. Palestinian officials said the two were members of the Islamic Jihad militant group. The Israeli military...
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j.
| over 1 year ago
Follow j. on and Yitzhak Santis We are sitting now in front of our TV watching live reports on two Grad rockets that fell on Beersheva tonight...Four more are lightly wounded, including a 9-year-old and a 4-month-old baby. This attack, like the...
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Examiner
| over 1 year ago
Negotiations with Israel on the terms of Palestinian statehood have been frozen since 2008. As an alternative, the Palestinians have decided to seek U.N. recognition of an independent "Palestine" in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the areas...
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The Washington Times
| over 1 year ago
Amid preparations for statehood, Pales-tinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad remain inexplicably silent regarding the brutal terrorist attack by Hamas militia against Israel on Aug. 18, which claimed eight...
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The Australian Jewish News
| over 1 year ago
THE IDF did everything in its power to prevent Egyptian troops from getting hurt in last Thursday's multiple terror attacks near Eilat, inquiries conducted by both the IDF and the Egyptian army showed. The IDF also found that at least three of the...
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Zaman.com
| over 1 year ago
The new round of violence began last Thursday when gunmen, apparently from Gaza, crossed the border from Egypt and ambushed cars and buses in southern Israel, killing eight people. That was followed by massive Palestinian rocket attacks and...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
An Israeli army statement said Asmar was involved in arms smuggling and efforts by Gaza militants to attack Israel from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. In a cross-border attack from Sinai last week, eight Israelis were killed north of the resort town of...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Even as the situation along the borders with Gaza and Egypt remain tense, Wednesday's weekly security cabinet focused more on how Israel should react if the UN General Assembly passes a Palestinian statehood recognition resolution than on the state...
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War In Context
| over 1 year ago
The events of the last week or so in Sinai have been overshadowed by the current diplomatic rift and public outrage over Israel's shooting of at least three Egyptian border guards a few days ago. The question of security and state legitimacy in the...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Senior Hamas official says that Israel fabricating reasons to attack Gaza, Palestinian factions reserve right to attack despite truce. Zahar also said that Israel killed PRC leader Rafah Abu Awad Neirab and five others without justification and is...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
An Islamic Jihad commander was killed and two Palestinians injured in separate Israeli airstrikes in Gaza Wednesday, the army said. Egyptian woman was injured when a rocket fired by Palestinians in Gaza exploded on the Egyptian side of Rafah.
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Mail and Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Israeli air strikes on Wednesday killed a Palestinian militant, prompting mortar fire into southern Israel just days after armed groups agreed to a temporary truce. Heightened tensions in and around the Gaza border raised fears of a fresh descent...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
An Israeli air strike has killed a commander from the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad group in the Gaza Strip. An Israeli missile hit the car of Ismael al-Ismar, a leader of al-Quds Brigades in the city of Rafah, close to the Egyptian border.
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen Benny Gantz instituted new defensive measures along Israel's border with Egypt on Wednesday in the wake of intelligence indicating that additional Palestinian terror groups were planning attacks like the one carried...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Security tightened at Egypt-Gaza border in attempt to bring lawless Sinai peninsula under tighter control, Egyptian newspaper reports. Egyptian security forces were mapping the network of tunnels running between the Sinai peninsula and the Gaza Strip...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
As border tensions simmer, sources says incident marks first rocket from Strip to land on residential area rather than desert, "raising concern among the security forces."...The woman was taken to hospital with light injuries, said a security source...
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Macleans
| over 1 year ago
Violence along the Gaza-Israel border heated up on Wednesday, with Israeli airstrikes on militant targets and militant rocket fire at Israel. Israeli media reported that security forces sent down reinforcements to the area. A music festival that was...
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KTUV
| over 1 year ago
Israeli aircraft were in action Wednesday morning in at least three strikes against militants who targeted Israelis, the country's military said. The Israel Defense Forces claimed a "direct hit" on Zadi Ismail Asmar, whom it said was a weapons...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| over 1 year ago
But after five days of violence that saw a deadly terrorist attack near Eilat, intense rocket fire from Hamas-controlled Gaza into southern Israel and new tremors in the Egypt-Israel relationship, Israeli leaders are keeping an anxious eye on the...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
The Israeli intelligence community is in disagreement regarding Hamas's involvement in the recent round of violence between Israel and terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip. Officially, Hamas has claimed it was not involved in the attacks near...
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War In Context
| over 1 year ago
Democracy rests on the recognition of the political rights and power of demos , the people, and in as much as it allows for any kind of discrimination it does so by empowering the under-privileged. The idea that there could be such as thing as a...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| over 1 year ago
First is the breakdown of Egyptian central authority in the Sinai Peninsula, which has created fertile ground for terrorism against Israel. Complicating matters further is a heightened sensitivity in post-Mubarak Egypt to Israeli retaliation,...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Washington Times' quotes US intelligence official as saying Gaza-based PRC was involved in terror attacks but not the brains of operation. US intelligence agencies were investigating reports that terrorist groups connected to al-Qaida played a major...
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International Middle East Media Center
| over 1 year ago
www.albawaba.com/ar The three detained persons are fugitives wanted by the Egyptian security forces for illegal activities and attacks, Al Jazeera added. Following the attack that led to the death of eight Israelis, Israeli helicopters crossed the...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Let's talk to Hamas now 08/22/2011 21:43 When it comes to dealing with the Gaza Strip, this is our only option. I am writing this in the first hour after a truce has been announced. If Hamas is successful in preventing rocket fire into Israel, Israel...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Group spokesman says they are willing to comply to truce if Israel agrees not to carry out more strikes in Gaza. Taher a-Nunu, spokesman for the Hamas government, said Monday that the factions in the Gaza Strip and Hamas announced that they are...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| over 1 year ago
One official who was involved in mediating talks between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza said the groups had reached an understanding on a truce and that the truce has started. A Palestinian official said Hamas had agreed to ensure the...
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Turks. US
| over 1 year ago
Central Daylight Time Israel is working hard to avoid the deterioration of relations with Egypt and is continuously sending signals to Cairo in that regard. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu does not want the same thing happen that happened with...
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
Palestinians militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip fired rockets and mortars into southern Israel on Monday, despite an unofficial truce meant to defuse days of escalating violence. The Israeli military said 15 projectiles were launched at Israel...
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The Australian Jewish News
| over 1 year ago
Israel, officials in Jerusalem are on alert for how Egyptian instability may be opening up more avenues for terrorists intent on attacking Israel. Thursday's coordinated attacks north of Eilat by terrorists who crossed over the border from Egypt left...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
The Palestinian silence regarding Thursday's terrorist attack in the South was deafening, and raises serious questions about the Palestinian Authority's readiness for independence, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's spokesman Mark Regev said Sunday.
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Three days after the series of attacks in the South that left eight Israelis dead, authorities have finally identified the eighth and last victim, 56-year-old Yitzhak Sela of Beersheba, an Egged driver who was killed instantly when a suicide bomber...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
One of the main reasons that Israel appeared to be shying away on Sunday from significantly escalating its military response to the continued rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and launching Operation Cast Lead II was the absence of diplomatic support...
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Canadian Free Press
| over 1 year ago
The new round of rocket attacks were planned and orchestrated out of Tehran, Iran using missiles smuggled into Gaza through a Sinai that is barely under the control of the Egyptians. The Arab Spring is being manipulated by the Iranian ayatollahs...
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The independent
| over 1 year ago
A house in Beersheba that was hit by a rocket The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, ordered that air strikes on Gaza be as "surgical" as possible in a bid to prevent the three days of renewed violence across the Gaza border escalating out...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Hamas calls on Palestinian groups to abide by cease-fire agreement but Popular Resistance Committees says it "won't stop the resistance." A tense cease-fire between Israel and Hamas appeared to go into effect on Sunday night as Israeli air strikes...
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The New York Times
| over 1 year ago
Israel Egypt and the United Nations were working Sunday to restore an informal cease-fire between Israel and Hamas , the Islamic militant group that controls Gaza , officials said, after days of intense rocket fire from Gaza and Israeli airstrikes...
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KSAZ
| over 1 year ago
Gaza's Islamist rulers declared a cease-fire Sunday after three days of fighting with Israel, in an attempt to curb escalating violence that has left dozens dead and brought Israel into its first diplomatic crisis with post-revolutionary Egypt. The...
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War In Context
| over 1 year ago
Israel's security strategy when in doubt, hit Gaza by Paul Woodward on August 21, 2011 Three days after the attacks by gunmen outside Eilat in southern Israel, what do we know about the identities of the gunmen?...In the mainstream media they are...
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Jerusalem Post
| over 1 year ago
Ismail Haniyeh urges Egyptian intelligence chief to secure ceasefire with Israel; Popular Resistance Committees reject notion, say "We have nothing to do with a ceasefire with the enemy." "Hamas is keen on maintaining the period of calm that has...
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Moreover Silicon Valley
| over 1 year ago
But if Israeli and Palestinian leaders wanted to solve their problem, or at least make a serious run at negotiating (with or without U.S. help), we would not be on the verge of a big blame game. The fact is, however unpleasant the status quo, keeping...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| over 1 year ago
At least six rockets were fired at the city; at least one was intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system. Six rockets were also fired in the direction of Ashkelon, damaging a building...In all, nearly 100 rockets have been fired at Israel...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, talks to soldiers in Ashkelon. Photograph: Tsafrir Abayov/AP Binyamin Netanyahu has instructed Israel 's military to continue air strikes in Gaza for as long as rockets are being fired from the territory, as...
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Belleville News-Democrat
| over 1 year ago
A Hamas official in Gaza says that all of Gaza's militant groups have agreed to a cease-fire aimed at ending a three-day round of violence with Israel. The official says Egypt helped broker the cease-fire, which will go into effect this evening.
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
Story continues below Egypt has recalled its ambassador from Israel while the Arab League was expected to hold a meeting last night to discuss the crisis. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak was forced to issue an apology over the deaths, releasing a...
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Voice of America
| over 1 year ago
Israel says militants in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip have fired more than 100 rockets into southern Israel in the past few days. Israeli military spokesman Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai says Israel "will not hesitate" to widen its military...
