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Israel National News
| 2 years ago
Apr/13/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and Egypt General Petroleum Corp. announced on Wednesday it planned to retroactively increase the price of natural gas sold to Israel, the World Tribune reports. Officials said Cairo's interim junta has already...
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Jerusalem Post
| 2 years ago
MK Otniel Schneller ( Kadima ) renewed calls Wednesday to strip MK Haneen Zoabi (Balad) of her parliamentary immunity , after the freshman MK was quoted in a local newspaper as calling on Palestinians to start a third Intifada against Israel. Almost...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 2 years ago
Republicans were likelier to oppose such a proposal, at 66 opposed to 21 percent in favor, in constrast to Democrats, with 44 percent opposed and 33 percent in favor, and independents, with 48 percent opposed and 37 percent in favor. The question is...
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Israel National News
| 2 years ago
Apr/13/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and Approximately 200 people have been killed in clashes between protesters and security forces in Syria, a Syrian human rights group reported Wednesday. Iranian officials said Tuesday that they believe the West...
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NOW Lebanon
| 2 years ago
Prime Minister Essam Sharraf "has directed the revision and review of all gas contracts Egypt agreed to with all countries, including Jordan and Israel," the news agency reported. The contracts are to be revisited so the gas "would be sold with...
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BNO News
| 2 years ago
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Wednesday announced that the Gaza Strip border crossing was reopened to passage on goods after seven days of closure.
The Kerem Shalom crossing, the main entrance point for goods to the Gaza Strip was closed last week...
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National Public Radio
| 2 years ago
Thirty-five minutes after reporting that "facing criticism over the amount of taxes it pays, General Electric announced it will repay its entire $3.2 billion tax refund to the US Treasury on April 18," The Associated Press just moved this "urgent...
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United Press International
| 2 years ago
The Israeli Army plans to purchase an additional battery of the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system within six months and others by 2012, the army said. Due to the increased threat of rocket fire into southern Israel from Gaza, military officials...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 2 years ago
Breaking News Peres visits south, says 'proud of Iron Dome' President Shimon Peres visited Kibbutz Erez, a Gaza vicinity community, and met with the driver of the school bus that was hit by a rocket last week. Peres hailed the success of the Iron...
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Ynet News
| 2 years ago
Eliad Levy Gaza leaders want lull while military wing targeting civilians, says GOC Southern Command Ilana Curiel Russo analyzed the tense calm that has pervaded Israel's southern region since an anti-tank missile was fired from Gaza at a school...
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The New York Times
| 2 years ago
Authorities with Hamas , which controls the Gaza Strip, said the men suffocated while repairing the tunnel, which they said had been hit by an Israeli missile several days ago during a recent wave of violence. Some people have died in the tunnels in...
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Fox
| 2 years ago
A wounded Israeli is treated by medics at the site where an Israeli school bus was hit by a mortar shell fired from the Gaza Strip near the border between southern Israel and Gaza Wednesday. A Palestinian mortar shell from the Gaza Strip struck a...
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The Australian Jewish News
| 2 years ago
World Wide Web by members of Izz al-Din al-Qassam, Hamas' military wing, show the firing of rockets from civilian centres in the Gaza Strip thereby confirming IDF claims. The videos clearly show Qassam rockets being fired from civilian centres such...
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Israel National News
| 2 years ago
Apr/12/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and Israel asked Turkey to prevent a Turkish group from sending boats to Gaza, according to the Turkish daily Huriyet . A Turkish group, IHH, was behind a previous boat to Gaza, a trip which ended in violence...
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Israel National News
| 2 years ago
Apr/12/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and Israel may allow ships to violate the naval blockade on Hamas by entering Gaza, according to media reports Tuesday. Ships would be allowed to enter only after submitting to a thorough search conducted by...
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Israel National News
| 2 years ago
Apr/12/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and Hamas has confirmed what Israel has charged for years and has released videos of rocket and mortar shell launches from within civilian areas in Gaza. The IDF release the video after taking it from Hamas...
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Seattle Times
| 2 years ago
Gaza Strip Gaza officials say four Palestinians have suffocated while trying to repair a smuggling tunnel hit in an Israeli airstrike last week. There are hundreds of tunnels under the 9-mile (15-kilometer) Gaza-Egypt border, used for smuggling goods...
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Israel National News
| 2 years ago
Apr/12/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and Four Gaza Arabs were killed Tuesday when a smuggling tunnel linking Gaza to Egypt collapsed, according to doctors in the region...Hundreds of tunnels are active under the border, and are used to bring in...
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BBC
| 2 years ago
The government in the West Bank is largely ready to govern a Palestinian state, the United Nations has said. The Palestinian Authority (PA) has successfully built some institutions and public services required for a future state, the UN said in a...
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Yedioth Ahronoth
| 2 years ago
Since they were staying in Israel illegally, they were deported to their homeland. Since the government decided to take action to deport illegal migrant workers, 30 people have been removed from Israel. (Meital Yasur Beit-Or)
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Israel National News
| 2 years ago
Apr/12/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and Lebanese Economy and Trade Minister Mohammad Safadi said that all of Lebanon considers Israel its enemy, Lebanon's Daily Star reported on Tuesday. "Lebanese of different [political factions] unanimously view...
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Jerusalem Post
| 2 years ago
A tense quiet settled over southern Israel on Monday as a shaky cease-fire went into effect, ending several days of Gaza attacks and IDF counterattacks. Defense officials said that the IDF would remain on high alert along the border. IDF...
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Zaman.com
| 2 years ago
After hearing Turkey's accusations and findings and Israel's defense and findings, the panel will draft its conclusions in order to present it to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Yet, since all elements of the report by the panel have to be written...
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Asian Tribune
| 2 years ago
36 editor As grateful and longstanding friends of Sri Lanka, we Palestinians express our deepest concern over the repeated attempts made by Secretary General of UN Ban Ki Moon in association with U.S. State Department to launch a war crime probe...
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Arab News
| 2 years ago
For the last six days, Israel has been maintaining a complete commercial closure in the Gaza Strip by keeping the only functioning crossing Kerem Shalom east of Rafah sealed off. Raed Fatouh, a Palestinian liaison officer, told reporters that Israel...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 2 years ago
April 11, 2011 Israel's military ordering more Iron Dome defense systems JTA Israel's military is ordering four more Iron Dome missile defense systems, which successfully deployed during recent rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense...
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NOW Lebanon
| 2 years ago
A flotilla of ships is preparing to sail to Gaza to mark the first anniversary on May 31 of a deadly Israeli raid against a similar convoy, organizers said Monday. "Preparations are on track, adequate conditions for the departure of the ships will be...
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Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
| 2 years ago
Israel and terrorist groups in Gaza reportedly agreed to a cease-fire. The agreement came late Sunday night and was followed by a Kassam rocket fired on Ashkelon and ten mortar shells that hit southern Israel. Israel did not respond to the rockets,...
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Macleans
| 2 years ago
Pro-Palestinian activists say they are planning to send a new convoy of humanitarian aid ships to the Gaza Strip, a year after a raid by Israeli forces on a similar mission left nine Turks dead. Organizers said Monday more than 10 ships are expected...
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Israel National News
| 2 years ago
Apr/11/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and Chairman Shaul Mofaz of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee said Monday that, "Israe must use its long arm and act against terror leaders in Gaza. Addressing a scholarship-award ceremony at the...
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Jerusalem Post
| 2 years ago
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Monday that Iran 's nuclear program has accelerated recently as it appears Iran feels less international pressure, Israel Radio reported. Speaking to EU ambassadors to Israel, Netanyahu also commented on the...
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AP Online
| 2 years ago
On Friday, the contract jumped $2.49 to $112.79, the highest since September 2008.
In London, Brent crude for May delivery was down $1.06 to $125.59 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange.
Oil prices have soared about 33...
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Israel National News
| 2 years ago
Apr/11/11 Follow Israel news briefs on and The Tuerkel Commission, which is investigating last year's attempt by a Turkish-led flotilla to break the Gaza naval blockade, open new hearings this week to probe whether Israel's investigation of such...
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AP Online
| 2 years ago
Oil prices hovered at a 30-month high near $113 a barrel Monday in Asia as traders eyed fresh Middle East tension and a wobbly U.S. dollar.
Benchmark crude for May delivery was up 6 cents at $112.85 a barrel at midday Singapore time in...
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Merced Sun-Star
| 2 years ago
Oil prices have soared 33 percent since mid-February as traders worry political violence in the Middle East and North Africa could disrupt crude supplies. Violence escalated last week between Palestinians in Gaza and Israel. Since Thursday,...
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Jerusalem Post
| 2 years ago
Egypt has suspended construction of an underground steel wall along the Egypt-Gaza border that it had been building over the past year in an effort to stop smuggling weaponry through tunnels into the Gaza Strip, defense officials have told The...
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 2 years ago
Israel has begun shelling targets in Gaza after militants fired a missile into an Israeli school bus on Thursday, critically wounding a teenager and wounding its driver. Israel also launched a series of air strikes at targets throughout the Gaza...
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Zaman.com
| 2 years ago
Albar was killed on Saturday during an Israeli air strike in Gaza. Below, Palestinians carry Albar's body during the funeral procession. Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers signaled on Sunday they were looking to end a flare-up in violence that...
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Haaretz
| 2 years ago
The latest upsurge in fighting began four days ago when militants from the Hamas group, which rules the Gaza Strip, fired an anti-tank rocket at an Israeli school bus, critically wounding a teenager. Israel's retaliatory air strikes have claimed the...
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The New Zealand Herald
| 2 years ago
At least 18 people in the Gaza Strip were killed in Israeli air strikes over the weekend and dozens wounded as 120 rockets and mortar shells were fired from Gaza into Israel in the most violent exchange since Israel's incursion into the Gaza Strip...
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Fox
| 2 years ago
A senior member of Gaza's ruling Hamas movement on Sunday made a rare appeal to the Israeli public for a halt to the escalating cross-border fighting, telling an Israeli radio station in fluent Hebrew that Hamas is ready to stop its rocket fire if...
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NOW Lebanon
| 2 years ago
Israel on Sunday urged its citizens and foreign Jews to exercise special caution against possible militant attacks when travelling over the Passover holiday as tensions in the Gaza Strip rise. The government routinely issues warnings ahead of Jewish...
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The Guardian
| 2 years ago
Mohammed Salem/Reuters Israel and Hamas appeared to have stepped back from a major confrontation after a weekend of attacks which left 19 Palestinians dead and saw dozens of rockets fired at southern Israel. The dead in Gaza included six civilians,...
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B92
| 2 years ago
Hamas says it wants to end a recent round of fighting with Israel after Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak signaled willingness to agree to a cease-fire. (Beta, file) Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri says Palestinian factions are not interested in an...
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Haaretz
| 2 years ago
Another Palestinian official said that militant groups in the Gaza Strip had agreed to Arab and United Nations proposals for a truce with Israel, and said they were told that Israel had also agreed in principle...Nineteen Palestinian militants and...
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The Independent
| 2 years ago
Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers signalled today that they were looking to end a flare-up in violence that began this week with a missile attack on an Israeli school bus and has claimed the lives of 19 Palestinians. The fighting stoked fears...
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NOW Lebanon
| 2 years ago
Hamas is willing to commit to a truce with Israel if the Jewish state stops attacks on the Gaza Strip, a spokesperson for the Islamist group told AFP on Sunday. "The ball is in the court of the occupation," Hamas spokesperson Sami Abu Zuhri said. "...
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BBC
| 2 years ago
Israel says it is willing to observe a ceasefire after days of military exchanges in Gaza, if Palestinian militants there end rocket attacks. Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said on Sunday: "If they stop firing on our communities, we will stop...
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Haaretz
| 2 years ago
If they stop firing in general, it will be quiet, it will be good," Barak told Israel Radio. Palestinian militants fired approximately 120 rockets and mortars at Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip over the weekend, with tens of thousands of...
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AP Online
| 2 years ago
Palestinian militants in Gaza fired three mortar rounds at southern Israel early Sunday, the military said, carrying worrisome new round of violence into yet another day.
No injuries were reported, but radio stations reported that...
