Deadliest Israeli bombing so far marks Nakba day in Gaza
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Is massive Hamas attack on Israel the assault Iran warned of? – analysis
Iran’s IRGC head Hossein Salami warned last week that Israel was vulnerable to one large tactical operation because the country is so small. Burnt vehicles are seen at the scene where a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip hit, in Holon, Israel May 11, 2021. (photo credit: RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS) The massive rocket barrage – involving some 600 rockets…
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Gaza Flare-up: Two Israelis Killed as Militants Expand Rocket Fire; Direct Hit to Israeli Homes, School
Twenty-six Gazans, including nine children, reported killed in Israeli strikes ■ Israel kills three top Islamic Jihad militants, report says ■ Direct hit to Israeli houses, dozens wounded, as Ashkelon residents forced into shelter. Over 250 rockets were fired into Israel and the IDF struck some 140 targets in the Gaza Strip, after Hamas joined…
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Israel to give 5,000 doses of coronavirus vaccine to Palestinians
A Palestinian boy inspects the damage in his family home following Israeli airstrikes in Buriej refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra). Israel has agreed to transfer 5,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine to the Palestinians to immunize frontline medical workers, Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz’s office said. It is…
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View from the Golan Heights: Israel prepares to take on Hezbollah
Ain Qana is a pretty pastoral village perched on a hillside in southern Lebanon. On 22 September a large explosion destroyed a building on the edge of the village. It was about 12 miles from the Israeli border. Reports indicated it was a munitions storage linked to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese terror group. Hezbollah is…
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Gaza factions respond with rockets to UAE, Bahrain normalization with Israel
Israel retaliates with airstrikes as Palestinian armed groups in Gaza reject normalization and weigh their next moves. Smoke and flames are seen following an Israeli airstrike in the Khan Yunis town of the southern Gaza Strip on September 16, 2020. Israel bombed sites in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday, Palestinian security sources said, after rocket…
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Israeli tanks shell Gaza again after cross-border balloon attacks
Palestinian Hamas militants take part in an anti-Israel military show in the southern Gaza Strip November 11, 2019. (Reuters) Israeli tanks shelled Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip overnight in response to continued waves of incendiary balloons across the border, the army said Thursday. The continuing cross-border violence came despite the attempts of Egyptian security…
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Blockaded Gaza looks wryly on as world isolates itself
GAZA (Reuters) – “Dear world, how is the lockdown? Gaza.” A sly dig at the international community, this is just one among a torrent of social media posts that has emerged from the blockaded Gaza Strip in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. The sight of a world locking itself down seems to have unleashed…
