Hamas has been quite busy lately. Last week, after 2 years of relative calm, a long range Grad rocket exploded in Beer Sheva. The rocket landed in a courtyard near a villa at about 8.45 p.m., causing extensive damage to homes in the area but luckily no casualties. Iran has supplied Hamas with such long range [...]
Israel is sending sanitation, water purification equipment and temporary shelters to the earthquake-ravaged city of Christchurch. This nearly a week after Israel first offered aid to Christchurch. Last night, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key formally asked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu for help. Key turned to Israel for assistance as health and sanitation problems continue to [...]
Four days before Mideast Quartet officials are planned to meet Israeli and Palestinian representatives, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still hasn’t decided whether or not he will be sending his adviser and peace-talks representative Yitzhak Molcho. The forum of seven senior ministers will be meeting this Tuesday to reach a decision on the matter. Over the [...]
A prominent Christian surgeon in the Gaza Strip said assailants threw a bomb at his vehicle and sent him threatening messages. Dr. Maher Ayyad, 55, says no one was hurt in Friday’s bombing, though the explosion damaged his brother’s vehicle. He said Sunday that after the blast, he received text messages to halt evangelical work [...]
Anti-government rebels rejoiced on Sunday after gaining control of the city closest to Libya’s capital, while at the same time preparing to stave off an expected offensive by forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi. Diplomatic pressure abroad continued to build against the embattled strongman. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton echoed President Barack Obama’s demand for Gaddafi to relinquish [...]
WASHINGTON – The United States on Sunday accused Iran’s government of hypocrisy and “blatant” violations of the rights of its citizens. “The United States strongly condemns the Iranian government’s organized intimidation campaign and arrests of political figures, human rights defenders, political activists, student leaders, journalists and bloggers,” the White House said in a statement. “The Iranian government [...]
Militants in the Gaza Strip fired a Qassam rocket into the western Negev early Sunday, only a day after Israel Air Force jets bombed targets in the coastal enclave. On Saturday, Israeli planes bombed at least three targets in the Gaza Strip, Gaza medics said. As a result of the strike, a Palestinian man and [...]
Anti-government forces backed by rebel army troops are in control of the city closest to the capital Tripoli. An Associated Press reporter, who arrived Sunday in Zawiya, 30 miles west of Tripoli, says forces loyal to longtime ruler Muammar Gadhafi are surrounding the city of 200,000. But anti-government rebels and troops allied with them are [...]
The upheaval in the Arab world, especially the events in Tunisia and Egypt, both of which resulted in the resignations of these countries’ leaders, is being followed closely by jihadi operatives, ideologues, and online supporters. The jihadists welcomed the ouster of president Hosni Mubarak, whom they considered a tyrant and apostate, and responded by discussing [...]
IAF attacked two Islamic Jihad and Hamas targets in the central Gaza strip on Saturday night, in response to Kassam rockets fired on the Sdot Negev Regional Council on Friday. The IDF spokesman confirmed direct hits on the targets. No Palestinian casualties were reported. In addition to the Kassam rocket fired into Israel an additional Kassam was [...]
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