Archive for May 6, 2016

Israeli Air Force hits 4 Hamas targets in 2nd airstrike after continued mortar attacks

 

view video“In response to the ongoing attacks against Israeli forces, IAF aircraft targeted 4 Hamas military posts in the southern Gaza Strip,” an army statement said of the retaliatory mission that left a Palestinian woman dead & 3 others wounded.

By i24news

 

The Israeli air force conducted air strikes in the southern Gaza Strip for the second time on Thursday, in response to renewed shelling from the coastal enclave following the discovery a new tunnel reaching from the Hamas controlled territory into Israel.


Gaza: Airstrikes in southern area in response… by i24news-en
A 54-year-old Palestinian woman was killed in the strikes and another three people injured. Continue Reading »

Arrested Hamas Operative Tells All to IDF

 

Cleared for publication: A Hamas terror operative, caught and arrested in early April after an unsuccessful infiltration attempt into Israel, ‘spills his guts,’ conveying a wealth of information on weapons caches, operatives’ identities, and on terror tunnels.

By Yoav Zitun

 

A Hamas terror operative who is affiliated with the Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades was arrested by Israel in early April.

Terror operative Mahmoud 'Atuna (Photo: Shin Bet)

Terror operative Mahmoud ‘Atuna – Photo: Shin Bet

He revealed a wealth of information regarding the tunnels following an interrogation.

The operative, Mohammad Atuna, 29, was arrested after crossing the border fence and in possession of two knives. He crossed with the intent of attacking Israeli forces on the border with Gaza. Continue Reading »

SUCCESS!  IDF Exposes 2nd Hamas Terror-Tunnel Into Israel

 

Today’s revelations confirm that both the small arms & mortar rounds directed at IDF forces by Hamas was a desperate and unsuccessful ploy to prevent Israel from locating, then destroying another multimillion dollar Gaza terror-tunnel.

By Ari Soffer

 

It has been cleared for publication that the IDF has uncovered a second terror tunnel from Gaza into southern Israel, mere weeks after a previous tunnel was exposed and destroyed.

Second terror tunnel revealed by IDF

Second terror tunnel revealed by IDF IDF Spokespersons Unit

The tunnel reached as deep as 30 meters underground, security sources said, and begins in the southern Gaza Strip.

“Over the past few days, we have worked thoroughly in several locations,” a senior IDF officer told Arutz Sheva.

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WATCH: Israelis observe 2-minute silence as Jewish State marks Holocaust Remembrance Day

view videoIsrael’s PM Netanyahu warns, ‘Anti-Semitism didn’t disappear with the death of Hitler.’

By i24news

 

As Israel was commemorating the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day, traffic ground to a halt as a two-minute siren sounded throughout the country, during which Israelis held a moment of silence in memory of the six million Jews who were slaughtered under Nazi rule.

A series of ceremonies are taking place throughout the country to honor victims and survivors of the Holocaust. In Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem museum, officials will lay wreaths at a monument dedicated to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced Wednesday what he called “poisonous” anti-Israeli propaganda in the West which he compared to Nazism, in remarks on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day. Continue Reading »

Netanyahu accepts invitation for Israel to open permanent office at NATO HQ

 

view videoFive years after Turkey blocked past invitations, this move represents a significant upgrade for Israel’s ties to the 28-nation NATO.

By HERB KEINON

 

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Wednesday that Israel would accept an invitation from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to open a permanent office at its Brussels headquarters, a move Turkey claimed it had blocked some five years ago.

The move represents a significant upgrade for Israel’s ties to the 28-nation NATO. Israel is currently a partner in NATO’s Mediterranean Dialogue, along with six other countries on the Mediterranean: Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, Jordan, Mauritania and Morocco. Continue Reading »

IDF responds to Hamas shelling IDF in 3rd incident of the day

 

This is the 4th time in the past 2 days that Palestinians in Gaza opened fire at IDF soldiers searching for Hamas terror-tunnels on Israel’s border.

By Yoav Zitun, Elior Levy, Matan Tzuri

IDF troops shelled Hamas military posts in the Gaza Strip for three times on Wednesday in response to mortar shell fire at forces operating near the border fence. There have been four incidents of fire opened on Israel8i troops on the frontier over the past two days. There were no Israeli soldiers hurt in any of the incidents.

On Monday morning, Palestinians fired a mortar shell at IDF soldiers doing engineering work near the border fence, leading the army to respond with tank fire at a Hamas observation point near a landfill in southern Gaza, not far from the Sufa Crossing. Continue Reading »

Veteran Syrian-born BBC anchor quits due to unprofessional Mid-East bias

 

Senior female BBC journalist refuses to continue as presenter due to company’s improper and inaccurate biased reporting of the Middle East.

By Ari Yashar

 

A senior journalist for BBC has announced she will no longer be working as a new anchor for the leading UK news company due to its biased coverage – but she was not referring to its well-documented bias regarding Israel.

BBC headquarters – Thinkstock

Instead, Dima Izzedin of Syria accused her employer of bias in favor of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in its reporting on the bloody war in her home country. After eight years at BBC she announced she will no longer continue, reports The New Arab on Tuesday.
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Islamic Jihad terrorist in Gaza blows himself up, wounds 2 others

 

Mazen Lulu, 30, died from an explosion at an Islamic Jihad training site in Gaza, in what was described as a “jihadi mission,” a euphemism used to bring meaning to operational mishaps.

By The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

An Islamic Jihad operative was killed in an explosion in the Gaza Strip on Monday, in an apparent work accident. Palestinian media reported that two other operatives were wounded in the blast.

An Islamic Jihad gunman in the Gaza Strip [Archive]  – Photo: Reuters

An Islamic Jihad statement said Monday’s explosion took place at a training site in the northern Gaza Strip. Continue Reading »

Gaza sewage poisoning its own coastline, now threatens Israel’s

 

Palestinian political infighting is keeping Gaza’s electricity off which fails to run their water treatment plants, so Hamas is dumping the enclave’s sewage into the sea, now threatening the Israeli coastline.

By The Associated Press

 

Each day, millions of gallons of raw sewage pour into the Gaza Strip’s Mediterranean beachfront, spewing out of a metal pipe and turning miles of once-scenic coastline into a stagnant dead zone.

The sewage has damaged Gaza’s limited fresh water supplies, decimated fishing zones, and after years of neglect, is now floating northward and affecting Israel as well, where a nearby desalination plant was forced to shut down, apparently due to pollution. Continue Reading »

Trump: Israel needs “to keep moving forward” & build in Judea and Samaria

 

view videoWATCH VIDEO: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump says in response to Palestinian terror, “thousands of missiles being launched into Israel,” by Hamas prior to the 2014 Gaza war, asking rhetorically: “Who would put up with that? Who would stand for it?”

By Ari Soffer

 

Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said Israel should continue building in Judea and Samaria, insisting the Jewish state should “keep moving forward” in response to Arab terrorism.

Donald Trump – Photo: Reuters

Speaking to the UK’s Daily Mail, Trump emphasized his support for the State of Israel, and appeared to veer away from previous comments in which he declared that he would stay “neutral” on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Continue Reading »

Palestinian terrorist shot dead during vehicular ramming attack, 3 injured

 

One of the 3 wounded IDF soldiers is in serious condition after being deliberately run over by Palestinian terrorist’s car near the town of Dolev, in the Binyamin region.

By Roi Yanovsky

 

Three IDF soldiers from the Kfir brigade were run over in a terrorist vehicular attack on Tuesday evening at HaParsa Junction near the settlement of Dolev and the Arab village of Ein el-Arik in the West Bank’s Binyamin region.

Scene of car-ramming attack at HaParsa Junction

The forces were conducting unannounced checks at the entrance of Ein el-Arik when the driver, who has been identified as 36-year-old Ahmed Shahada, used a van to carry out his attack before being shot dead by one of the soldiers nearby. Continue Reading »

Senior UN official shields Hamas’ appropriation of cement for terror tunnels

 

Despite tedious and insufficient progress repairing residential neighborhoods after Hamas received 1.2 million tons of cement & construction materials ,UN Assistant Secretary-General says there’s ‘no proof’ Hamas uses aid materials for ‘military purposes,’ i.e. dozens of newly dug terror-tunnels.

By Matt Wanderman

 

UN Assistant Secretary-General Robert Piper claims that there is no proof that Hamas is taking advantage of UN-provided construction material for “military purposes,” the pro-Hamas Middle East Monitor reports.

Old-style Hamas tunnel, left, & The newer terror tunnels built after Operation Protective Edge, right – Photo: IDF spokesperson

He made his remark after Israel announced that it was blocking the transfer of cement into Gaza because Hamas uses it to build terror tunnels. Continue Reading »

Israeli teens take 2nd place at international high school robotics competition

view videoHigh school team from Binyamina, Israel takes 2nd place at the annual FIRST competition of 4,000 teams from 24 countries competing to assemble robots that complete set challenges.

By Ilan Gattegno

 

An Israeli high school team from Binyamina, near Haifa, came in second at the prestigious FIRST Robotics Competition in St. Louis, Missouri, held April 27-30.

The Binyamina team at the FIRST Robotics Competition

The final match was a showdown between the Orbit team of students from Binyamina’s Rothschild-Hashomron High School, and an American team. Although it ended in a 2:2 draw, the defending American champion came on top due to a technicality. Continue Reading »

Israel’s Shin Bet Nabs 4 tons of Hamas-bound chemicals used for rocket fuel

 

Released for publication: Just prior to Passover, Israeli customs & security officials at the Nitzana Border Crossing with Egypt seized 4 tons of ammonium chloride concealed within a shipment of salt, destined for Gaza.

By NOAM AMIR/MAARIV HASHAVUA, JPOST.COM STAFF

 

Security forces have foiled an attempt to smuggle into Gaza four tons of chemicals that can be used to manufacture long-rang rockets, the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced on Tuesday morning.

Nabbed by Israel’s Shin Bet

Before the Passover holiday, customs and Shin Bet officials at the Nitzana Border Crossing used by Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Authority seized the four tons of  ammonium chloride concealed within a shipment of salt. Continue Reading »

Palestinian conference in Ramallah calls for Jordan, Egypt to invade Israel

 

Palestinians at the conference called on the armies of Egypt, Jordan & Pakistan to attack Israel and “free” the Al-Aqsa Mosque, so to unify the Muslim world under a global Caliphate.

By Dalit Halevi

 

The radical Islamist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir, which has pursued an Islamic Caliphate since 1953, held a massive conference in Ramallah on Saturday, calling upon the armies of Jordan and Egypt to intervene directly and “free Palestine.”

Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters in Ramallah (file) – Photo: Reuters

Thousands participated in the event, which was billed as “Tent of Believers: the Caliphate Through the Path of the Prophet, and the Tent of Hypocrites, Heretics, and Imperialists.” Continue Reading »