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A legal expert in Israel has said that the country's soldiers "broke international law" by firing at unarmed protesters at the weekend. A large number of Palestinians crossed the...
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The Israeli Knesset Committee for Immigration, Absorption and Diaspora Affairs convened an extraordinary session on Wednesday, January 11 to address the phenomenon of racial discrimination against Israelis of Ethiopian...
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Spokesman of the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, said on Monday that "a developed security barrier" in the southern Golan Heights near the Israeli-Syrian border is now nearly completed. The...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that his country is to build an electrified fence on the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. The aim, he claims, is to prevent...
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On Thursday, Damascus condemned Israel's intentions to drill for oil in the Golan Heights – Syrian territory it occupied in 1967, and labelled the action an "illegal and a...
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Israel has revealed that it will use the advanced Tamuz "smart" missile in any future offensive against the people of the Gaza Strip. The previously-top secret weapon was used...
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The Israeli daily newspaper, Yediot Ahronot, reported on Monday that Israel has sent a secret message to the Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, as part of efforts to ease tensions...
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The eleven martyrs in Maroun el-Ras in southern Lebanon and the four in the occupied Golan Heights on May 15, 2011, were enough to turn the "Return to Palestine...
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Israeli newspaper, Maariv, yesterday reported Martin Nesirky, a UN spokesman, as saying that the organization have decided to withdraw their international observation forces from the Golan Heights, in light...
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Israeli forces responded on Monday night to missile fire they claim originated from the Syrian side of the Golan Heights. No casualties have been reported, a spokesman for the...
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Israel announced on Monday that a missile fired from Syria landed in the occupied Golan Heights near an Israeli military patrol. No injuries were sustained. This follows incidents last...
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The Syrian army said that it has destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed the ceasefire line in the Golan Heights into the Syrian territories. The Israeli army responded with...
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Israel has decided to re-arm and train teams of illegal settlers in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. Hebrew media sources claim that the decision was made in the context...
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A leading Middle East commentator has claimed that the proximity of Quneitra to the border with Israel makes the battle for the town of great strategic importance for the...
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Syrian regime forces have retaken Quneitra Crossing in the Golan Heights after rebel forces seized control of it early on Thursday morning. Israeli radio reported that rebel forces had...
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The United Nations Mideast envoy, Robert Serry, warned that if the ongoing civil war in Syria moved to the Golan Heights to involve Israel, this could jeopardize the 1974...
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Israel has deployed additional army staff in the occupied Golan Heights after a group of Syrians infiltrated a work site near to the newly built electric fence along the...
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Israel has completed a new "security fence" along its frontier with Syria on the occupied Golan Heights. The old fence has been replaced by a hi-tech version, the construction...
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January 25, 2014
Majed Kayali
Statements by Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi that Palestinian refugees in Syria are guests "who lack manners", when considered with those of Buthaina Shaaban, a presidential adviser, who...
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January 24, 2014
Saleh Al-Na'ami
Things have become clearer and there are indications that an Arab-American (Israeli) agreement regarding the Syrian issue has begun to manifest. What is important to us is the focus...