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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has warned that unless a political settlement is reached between Israel and Syria, a full-fledged war might well erupt. Speaking at the annual conference...
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Hebrew media sources have reported that Israeli Defence Force investigations into the Rishrash (Eilat) attack in August have revealed that all the bombers involved were Sinai Bedouins and not...
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Jordan's King Abdullah II has decided to allow Israel to use its airspace to monitor the situation in Syria and attack the country's chemical weapons facilities, French newspaper Le...
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Israeli occupation forces have re-arrested the former hunger striker Thaer Halahla from his house in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Halahla was one of five Palestinians arrested during...
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Israeli occupation forces have arrested five senior Hamas activists in Hebron as part of an arrest campaign which has seen another five men taken into detention across the occupied...
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The Yesh Atid Party in Israel has said that the coalition government is in danger following a freeze in the debate over the recruitment of religious students into the...
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Reports on Israeli radio Tuesday afternoon suggested that a secret envoy for the Israeli government visited Cairo on Tuesday, and that he stayed there for several hours to hold...
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The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem issued a report on Thursday stating that "Palestinian citizens, mostly minors, have been subjected to harassment and torture at the hands of Israeli...
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Israeli forces launched an air strike on the Al-Nama neighbourhood between Sidon and Beirut in Lebanon on Friday. The spokesman of the Israeli forces said that the intended target...
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On Wednesday the Israeli Occupation expelled the Palestinian prisoner Ayman Abu-Daud to the Gaza Strip after he spent 40 days on hunger strike. Abu-Daud was released by the prisoner...
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An Israeli Major General who was the governor of the Gaza Strip between 1971-1972 recently said that killing 500 Palestinians in Gaza would bring calm. Speaking about the rockets...
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On Wednesday, Israeli occupation forces banned Jerusalem's Mufti Mohamed Hussein, as well as other religious and prominent Palestinian figures, from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The fatwa department of Palestine...
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Israeli occupation forces have blockaded a large number of Palestinian worshipers inside al-Aqsa mosque from the early morning, sources have said. According to the sources, the Israeli forces shot...
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Palestinian prisoners in Israel's Al-Ramleh Prison have announced that they are to start a hunger strike in protest at their "tragic" health conditions. The men are all ill and...
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Israeli occupation authorities renewed on Wednesday a six-month ban against Sheikh Najeh Bkeerat, the chief guard of the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Sheikh Bkeerat said that the Israeli police summoned him...
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Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth revealed on Thursday that Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Dayan suggested using non-traditional weapons against Arab forces in the Sinai during the 1973 war. This information,...
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Israeli occupation forces have evacuated around 100 Palestinians from their homes in Al-Mayteh and Al-Borj districts in the Southern Jordan Valley. The displacement has taken place because the area...
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Former Deputy Director of the Bedouin administration Eli Atzmon has warned that the implementation of the Prawer-Begin bill will lead to the eviction of 100,000 Bedouin from their homes...
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The Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip has called for all free people of the world to travel to the Gaza Strip in an attempt to end the "humanitarian...
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Official sources in Israel have denied reaching an agreement to release an additional 250 Palestinians prisoners along with the long-term 100+ pre-Oslo detainees. According to London-based Al-Hayat newspaper, Israel...
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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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81 Jordanian MPs have demanded their government to summon the Israeli Ambassador "to convey a message of protest against Jewish extremists calling to organize their religious celebrations on Islamic...
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The Secretary General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has condemned the siege imposed by Israel on Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Israeli forces' attack on worshippers. Ihsanoglu...
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An Israeli soldier was killed by a Palestinian villager, reports emerging today have stated. Twenty year old Sgt. Tomer Hazan accepted a ride with Nadal Amar, 42, when he...
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After the recent killing of two Israeli soldiers in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, senior Israeli officials have accused the Palestinian Authority (PA) security services of doing little in...
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As Israel's General Security Service, known locally as Shin Bet, continues to investigate the kidnapping and murder of a 20-year-old Israeli soldier by a Palestinian, it has been revealed...
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Dozens of settlers stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque again on Wednesday. The Muslim sanctuary in Jerusalem has now witnessed clashes with police officers protecting the Jewish extremists for several days. Eyewitnesses...
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On the 13th anniversary of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, it has been revealed that Israeli courts have issued 700 life sentences for Palestinian prisoners across occupied Palestine since 2000. Fuad...
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Palestinian activists have announced that they reject any Jewish use of the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa Mosque. Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement inside Israel (the...
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Israel's Peace Now movement revealed on Monday that the Israeli authorities are planning to build a new settlement in the heart of the occupied Palestinian city of Hebron. It...
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An Israeli court in Jerusalem has sentenced Anaam Qalambo to seven months in prison and a suspended sentence of five months, on charges of participating in a peaceful demonstration...
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A Qatari academic has made a personal appeal to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah to intervene in an attempt to ease the blockade of the Gaza Strip. Dr. Mohammed Mesfer,...
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