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News Source: Haaretz
| about 1 year ago
Defense Minister Ehud Barak is considering purchasing or borrowing several Phalanx automated cannons from the United States. The cannons intercept incoming mortar shells and short-range rockets, and would be used to defend Sderot and other Negev...
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News Source: Financial Times
| about 1 year ago
Hamas, the Islamist group that took control of the Gaza Strip last year, arrested about 200 Fatah members in the coastal territory over the weekend. It blamed the party of Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, for a blast on Friday...
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News Source: 7days
| about 1 year ago
Hamas and Fatah carried out tit-for-tat arrests yesterday after deadly Gaza bomb attacks fuelled tension between the Palestinian factions.In the West Bank, security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas detained 20 Hamas activists in...
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News Source: Turkish Press
| about 1 year ago
Barack Obama's foreign tour cemented his status as an international political superstar Sunday, but raised the question of whether rampant adulation abroad will translate into votes in America. The adoration of 200,000-strong crowd in Berlin, and the...
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News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| about 1 year ago
In the worst outbreak of inter-Palestinian strife since Hamas took over the Gaza Strip last year, Hamas gunmen rounded up hundreds of Fatah activists in Gaza and threw up dozens of checkpoints over the weekend. The militant Islamist group accused...
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News Source: Associated Press
| about 1 year ago
It's back-to-back bad news for Mahmoud Abbas: Israel has stepped up army raids in West Bank cities, further embarrassing the moderate Palestinian leader, and he's facing growing problems paying 150,000 civil servants because of a foreign aid...
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News Source: Jerusalem Post
| about 1 year ago
Large amount of weapons and explosives flowing into Gaza' Hamas has smuggled four tons of explosives, 50 anti-aircraft missiles, dozens of Kalashnikov rifles and materials used to produce rockets into the Gaza Strip since the inception of the cease-...
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News Source: Press TV
| about 1 year ago
9 Senior Israeli officials are slated to hold strategic talks with the United States on tactics likely to resolve Iran's nuclear standoff. According to the Israeli public radio, during his three-day visit, Defense Minister Ehud Barak is expected to...
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News Source: Chicago-Sun Times
| about 1 year ago
Israeli troops killed a Hamas militant in the West Bank town of Hebron early Sunday, surrounding a house and exchanging gunfire with the man before bulldozing the structure. A Hamas statement said the 25-year-old man was a group member who fought...
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News Source: Israel National News
| about 1 year ago
Abbas told reporters at a news conference in Cairo following his meeting on Sunday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak that Egypt would immediately begin the process of coordinating reconciliation talks between the two factions. Hundreds of PA...