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Egypt police shut passage to Israel due to abductions
Egyptian police closed a commercial passage with Israel on Sunday in support of colleagues who shut down a crossing with Gaza to protest the abduction of policemen, state media reported. The protesters say the commercial Al-Ouga crossing between Egypt and Israel will remain closed until three policemen and four soldiers…
‘Prisoner X’ sabotaged spy mission to recover bodies: report
Australian-Israeli Mossad agent Ben Zygier unwittingly sabotaged a top secret spy operation aimed at bringing home the bodies of Israeli soldiers missing in Lebanon, a report said Tuesday. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which broke the story in February of Zygier’s arrest, detention and suicide in a Tel Aviv jail, said…
Pentagon doubts Syrian rebels used chemical weapons
The United States said Monday it was “highly skeptical” of an assertion that Syrian rebels had used chemical weapons, after a UN human rights investigator suggested the opposition had deployed sarin gas. Washington also reiterated that Israel had every right to protect itself and to prevent sophisticated weaponry from getting…
Iranian general denies reports of weapons depot in Syria
A top Iranian general said any arms Israel targeted in Syria did not come from the Islamic republic, in remarks published on the Revolutionary Guards website on Monday. Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri “denied Western and Israeli media reports that an Iranian weapons depot has been targeted in Syria,” the website…
Beirut bans award-winning Lebanese film shot in Israel
Lebanese director Ziad Doueiri said Saturday the Lebanese authorities have banned his award-winning film “The Attack” from cinemas in his home country because it was partly shot in Tel Aviv using Israeli actors. “I regret to inform you that the Interior Minister of Lebanon, Minister (Marwan) Charbel, has decided to…
Compensation talks over flotilla raid a key test for Turkey-Israeli relations
AFP - Israeli and Turkish officials meet on Monday for talks on compensation over a deadly Israeli raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, which if successful could get the two states’ rocky relations back on track. But demands by families of the Turks who lost their lives in the May 2010 assault…
Israel bars Gaza runners from Bethlehem marathon
Israel has refused to grant permission to 26 runners from the Gaza Strip to travel to the West Bank to run in the first Bethlehem marathon on April 21, officials said on Thursday. The race, which begins at the Nativity Church, is the first event of its kind in the…
Pentagon requests more funding for Israel’s ‘Iron Dome’
The Pentagon has requested $220.3 million in 2014 to bolster Israel’s “Iron Dome” missile defense system despite broader cuts to US military spending, according to budget documents. The US Missile Defense Agency also is asking for an additional $175.9 million in fiscal year 2015 for Israel’s homegrown missile defense network,…
Israel offers to deport final Palestinian hunger striker to any EU country
Israel has told the European Union and UN it can deport a Palestinian prisoner on a life-endangering long-term hunger strike to one of their member states, an Israeli official told AFP on Friday. But a lawyer for Samer Issawi, who has intermittently refused food for more than eight months, said…
Netanyahu: Israel will not ‘abandon our fate’ to U.S. strategic interests
AFP – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel cannot rely on any other country, even an ally, when it comes to facing up to the perceived nuclear threat from Iran. “We appreciate the efforts of the international community to halt Iran’s nuclear programme,” Netanyahu said in a speech…
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