UN, UK say aid should go by land, not sea. Israeli leaders denounce provocation, urge concern for Shalit. Israeli Navy issues direct appeal to flotilla activists. United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Alistair Burt, the UK Foreign Office Minister for the Middle East, have joined the growing chorus of international leaders criticizing the planned flotilla [...]
Organizers of the Gaza flotilla are blaming Israel for causing damage to the propeller of one of their ships anchored in Greece. “Maybe they wanted it to break down on the way and us stranded in the middle of the ocean,” Israeli expat Dror Feiler said. Feiler stressed that the ship’s engines were checked and cleared [...]
When New York Times’ Ethan Bronner came through the Erez crossing into the Gaza Strip this week, he expected something completely different. This was not his first visit to the Strip. During the past three and a half years, Bronner, who heads the newspaper’s Jerusalem bureau, visited the Palestinian enclave on several occasions. During Operation Cast [...]
Israel sent a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad in recent days, warning him that if he started a war with the Jewish state in order to divert attention from domestic problems, Israel will target him personally, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the personal warning was sent through Turkey following intelligence reports [...]
An Arab assailant beat a 40-year-old man with a hammer and sprayed tear gas at a cab driver Monday at about 5:00 p.m. in Be’er Sheva, in what appears to have been a terror attack. The two victims were not related, nor were they attacked in the same exact location, although both attacks were carried [...]
Major Avichay Adraee, IDF Spokesman in Arabic, issued a video message Monday stating Israel’s resolve to block any flotillas headed toward Gaza. The IDF “will not apologize for doing everything it can to defend Israel’s borders from terror organizations and the countries who sponsor them, who seek to harm the Israeli home front,” Adraee said. [...]
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unveiled an “underground missile silo” Monday which they said will allow them to launch long-range ballistic missiles, state television reported. According to AFP, the broadcast showed footage of a facility at an unknown location, with an underground missile silo holding a projectile described as a Shahab-3 missile. The state television website quoted Col. Asghar [...]
IDF sources said Monday night that new intelligence information obtained in recent days shows that participants of the flotilla planning to break Israel’s sea blockade over the Gaza Strip later this week plan to kill IDF soldiers who board their ships. According to the information obtained by the IDF, some of the participants have prepared sacks with sulfur, which they plan [...]
Released for publication: A high-stakes joint operation by the IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) has foiled a terrorist plot to kidnap an Israeli soldier and attack other Israeli citizens. At least 20 terrorists were recently arrested on suspicion of planning to kidnap IDF soldiers and shoot Jews in the Jerusalem and Samaria areas. [...]
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