Ahram Online Israel carried out its first air strike on the Gaza Strip in months early Tuesday. The strike was in retaliations for a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave on Monday evening following a weekend of violence around a Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque holy site. The Israeli occupation army said …
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Ahram Online Israel launched airstrikes on what it said was “a Hamas military site” in Gaza early on Tuesday, after incendiary balloons were sent into the occupied territories. “Fighter jets struck a Hamas rocket manufacturing workshop and a Hamas military compound in Khan Yunis, in Southern Gaza”, a statement by …
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Ahram Online Israeli warplanes struck targets in Gaza, late on Monday, resulting in retaliations using machineguns from Hamas. The clashes are the heaviest fighting since the 11-day war in May. At the same time, officials in the occupied West Bank said, “a Palestinian teen was killed in a clash with …
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James Zogby* I remember Albert Einstein’s definition of insanity: “Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. I’ve been thinking about this quote in relation to the recent bizarre behaviour of all the parties involved in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel, the US government, and the major …
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Times of Egypt and Egypt Independent “Israeli fighter jets struck a weapons manufacturing site in Gaza overnight in response to incendiary balloons launched over the frontier into Israel”, an Israeli military spokesman said early Friday. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the strike, which the Israeli source said, …
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Ahram Online “Egypt has invited Israel, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority for separate talks aiming to consolidate the cease-fire, which ended an 11day war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip”, an Egyptian intelligence official said on Thursday. The talks would also focus on accelerating the rebuilding process in …
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Egypt Independent “Israeli forces may have committed war crimes in the latest 11-day war on the Hamas group which rules the Gaza Strip”, The UN Rights chief said on Thursday. The remarks by Michelle Bachelet came as the UN’s top human rights body opened a one-day special session to discuss …
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Ahram Online Palestinians rallied by the thousands after a cease-fire took effect in the latest Gaza war early Friday. Many viewed the agreement as costly, but a clear victory for the Islamic militant group Hamas. However, Israel vowed to respond with a “new level of force” to any further hostilities. …
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Egypt Independent Israel unleashed yet another wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, early on Thursday, killing at least five Palestinians and wounding several. Hamas retaliated by firing more rockets, even as expectations rose that a cease-fire could be coming. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed back against calls from …
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Egypt Independent Egypt sent a large shipment of aid to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing, in North Sinai, after reopening on Sunday. The Rafah crossing was opened to receive wounded Palestinians for treatment at Egyptian hospitals. Heavy airstrikes between Hamas and Israel have intensified, entering the second week on Monday. …
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