Archive for April 3, 2013

IDF targets source of cross-border fire from Syria

After 2 incidences of cross-border fire from Syria on Tuesday evening, IDF tanks target the source.

Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon visited the borders with Syria & Lebanon earlier on Tuesday saying, ‘We will respond to all fire from Syria’.

By Danny Brenner and Lilach Shoval

 

Israel was struck twice on Tuesday by cross-border fire from Syria. In the first incident, a mortal shell exploded in the Tel Fares area of the Golan Heights on Tuesday evening. Shortly afterward, Israeli soldiers near the Tel Hazeka military post came under fire from Syria. There were no injuries or damage in either incident.

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Kerry to visit Turkey, Jordan & Israel in hopes of restarting dialogue

US Sec. of State will return to Mid-East in hopes of finding formula to restart negotiations.

Canadian FM Baird also scheduled to visit region.

 

US Secretary of State John Kerry will return to Israel Saturday night as part of his efforts to restart negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

US Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Netanyahu, March 20, 2013.

US Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Netanyahu, March 20, 2013.- Photo: REUTERS/Larry Downing

Kerry, who held four hours of talks with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on March 23, following the visit of US President Barack Obama to Israel, will also be meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Jordan during his visit.

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No one hurt as 2 Gaza rockets explode in Israel Again

As children make their way to schools & kindergarten after Passover holiday, 2 Qassams fired from Gaza explode in western Negev.

Defense Minister Ya’alon says Hamas is responsible.

Residents: ‘We knew the calm wouldn’t last.’

By Neri Brenner

 

Palestinian terrorists in Gaza fired two Qassam rockets toward the western Negev Wednesday morning, as Israeli children in Sderot and Sha’ar Hanegev were making their way to schools and kindergartens after the Passover holiday. No injuries or damage were reported.

"מציאות נפיצה". שרידי אחת הרקטות, הבוקר (צילום: רועי עידן)

Rocket in Sderot, Wednesday – Photo: Roee Idan

Sderot residents reported hearing explosions shortly after the Color Red siren sounded in the city at 7:33 am. Continue Reading »

Palestinians hid their true intentions from Obama & reporters’ eyes

Stone monument in Bethlehem that replaces all of Israel with a State of Palestine, was temporarily replaced during Obama’s recent visit.

By Israel Today Staff

 

In a telling example of just how genuine, or, rather, how false, Israel’s peace partners in the Palestinian Authority are, a monument that replaces the entirety of the land of Israel with a State of Palestine was hastily removed from Bethlehem before US President Barack Obama visited a little over a week ago.

Palestinians hid true intentions from Obama

Bethlehem monument that replaces all of Israel with a State of Palestine

Obama had gone to Bethlehem ostensibly to pray for peace at the birthplace of Jesus. Continue Reading »

Israel threatened with ‘potentially crippling’ cyberattack

Israeli Cybersecurity experts say financial system & gov’t websites are likely to be targeted by Anonymous. They say #OpIsrael is meant to “erase Israel from the Internet” in solidarity with the Palestinians & will peak on April 7.

Ilan Gattegno and Israel Hayom Staff

 

 

Israel is bracing for a “potentially crippling” cyberattack against the country’s major companies and websites, Israel Hayom learned Tuesday. The attack is set to take place on April 7, which this year will be the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The planned assault is part of hacktivist group Anonymous’s ongoing #OpIsrael campaign, which was launched in March in a show of solidarity with the Palestinians.

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Exploded rocket reported to police at Sderot kindergarten

Local kindergarten had been closed for Passover holiday, delaying the discovery of a rocket believed fired last month during Obama’s Jerusalem visit.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

The remains of a rocket likely fired into southern Israel during Barack Obama’s visit to Israel last month were found in a kindergarten in Sderot, police stated.

An Israeli policewoman looks at the damage after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza lan

An Israeli policewoman looks at the damage after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza – Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen

The rocket’s remains were not located previously barbecue the kindergarten had been closed for the Passover holiday, police added.

Police sappers were on the scene to safely dispose of the rocket.

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Israeli Navy digs in protecting gas fields

Israel’s Navy all prepared for defending Israel’s new found energy independence from ‘every possible scenario’.

Reuters

 

Israel’s huge new offshore gas resource offers its enemies an obvious target and gives its navy, long overshadowed by other branches of the Israeli armed forces, a big job that will require extra spending. On patrol boat 836, circling two gas platforms in choppy Mediterranean waters, Captain Ilan Lavi flipped through pictures of the possible threats: boat bombs, drones, submarine vessels, rockets and missiles.

Tamar's gas rig - Photo by Albatross

Tamar’s gas rig – Photo by Albatross

“We have to build an entire new defensive envelope,” said Lavi, head of the navy’s planning department who talks as knowledgeably about the financial aspects of the gas industry as he does about security. Continue Reading »

Palestinian prisoners begin hunger strike after prisoner dies of cancer

As clashes erupt in Hebron, PA President Abbas says Israel responsible for death of 64-year-old Maysara Abuhamdieh.

By Yaniv Kubovich, and Gili Cohen

Maysara Abuhamdieh, a 64-year-old security prisoner from Hebron, died Tuesday morning at Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva. Following his death, Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces in Hebron, while security detainees in Israeli prisoners announced a three-day hunger strike. Security was beefed up in prisons in case of further unrest.

A Palestinian woman holds a photograph of a prisoner on hunger strike during a rally

A Palestinian woman holds a photograph of a prisoner on hunger strike during a rally in the West Bank city of Hebron to show solidarity with prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails, in February.

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Hamas Law Bans Co-Education & ‘Zionist’ Ties in Gaza

The newly approved education law in Gaza forbids the “receipt of gifts or aid aimed at normalizing (relations) with the Zionist occupation (Israel).”

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

A law banning “normalizing ties with the Zionist occupation” as well as co-education schooling in the Gaza Strip has entered into force, the education minister for Hamas, said on Monday.

Arab schoolgirls - Photo AFP file

Arab schoolgirls – Photo AFP file

The law, which was issued on February 10, was approved by the Islamist movement’s legislative council and went into effect on Sunday, Osama Mazini told a news conference.

Article 46 of the law, obtained by the AFP news agency, will “ban the mixing of students from the two sexes in educational establishments after the age of nine, and work to ‘feminize’ girls’ schools.” Continue Reading »