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| September 8, 2016
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Israel’s TV1 reports: Released Soviet archives expose Abbas as KGB agent in Syria

 

REPORT: According to the Mitrokhin archive which was smuggled out of the USSR, Palestinian Authority president then worked under KGB agent Mikhail Bodganov, who was at the time posted in Damascus, according to Israel’s TV1 News.

By i24news

 

Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet spy in Damascus in the 1980s, Israel’s Channel 1 News reported Wednesday evening, according to an archive smuggled out of the USSR.

Mahmud Abbas pictured in Brussels on June 22, 2016 – Photo: THIERRY CHARLIER/AFP

According to a document from the famous Mitrokhin archive, which was obtained by Israeli researchers and scholars Isabela Ginor and Gideon Remez, Abbas was code-named Krotov (mole) while he worked as a spy, the report said. Continue Reading »

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| September 4, 2016
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The “Other” Palestinians the world couldn’t care less about

 

Since 2011, nearly 3,500 Palestinians have been killed in Syria, but because these Palestinians were not killed by Israel, mainstream media, ‘human rights’ organizations, or even Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority have given them any attention.

The “Other” Palestinians by Khaled Abu Toameh

 

 

It seems as though the international community has forgotten that Palestinians can be found far beyond the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. These “other” Palestinians live in Arab countries such as Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, and their many serious grievances are evidently of no interest to the international community. It is only Palestinians residing in the West Bank and Gaza Strip that garner international attention. Continue Reading »

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| September 4, 2016
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Turkey dispatches second humanitarian aid ship to Gaza

 

For the 2nd time since the Reconciliation Agreement with Turkey, a vessel carrying more than 3,000 tons of humanitarian aid is set to dock at Ashdod Port for a preliminary security inspection, before being trucked to Gaza.

By i24news

 

A ship transporting humanitarian aid left the Turkish port of Mersin for the Gaza Strip on Friday, the second such shipment since the reconciliation deal between Israel and Turkey was struck in June, Haaretz reports.

Photo taken on July 3, 2016 shows Lady Leyla, a humanitarian aid ship sent from Turkey to the Gaza Strip, docked at the Israeli southern port of Ashdod.

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| August 31, 2016
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Watch: Hamas highlights Gaza’s wealthy neighborhoods, shopping malls, pristine beaches

Hamas, no longer claiming Gaza is destitute thanks to Israel, is now flaunting the enclave’s prosperity, and the good life of it’s citizens.

By Israel Today Staff

 

The “Gaza siege” is a favorite buzzword of the international media and the pro-Palestinian propagandists who feed it. The picture they have so successfully painted in the minds of most Westerners is that the entire population of Gaza is destitute, living in the most pitiable conditions known to man thanks to a heartless Israeli embargo.

And Gaza’s Hamas overlords encourage that perception, when it suits their agenda.

At other times, such as now, with Palestinian municipal elections looming, Hamas is looking to portray Gaza in a much different light. Continue Reading »

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| August 28, 2016
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Palestinian Authority arrests Sa’ir’s mayor & 13 municipal employees over water theft

 

Palestinian Mayor acknowledges that the residents of his village Sa’ir, have been known to steal water from the Water Authority’s pipes, but maintains his innocents over the massive water theft.

By ADAM RASGON

 

The Palestinian Water Authority and the Sa’ir Municipality are at odds over the disappearance of large amounts of water from Sa’ir, a town of 25,000 northeast of Hebron, as the region experiences water shortages.

A TRACTOR carries water in the village of Sa’ir earlier this month.- Photo: TOVAH LAZAROFF

The PWA, which coordinates and regulates the distribution of water in the Palestinian territories, said August 12 it had uncovered an ongoing water-theft operation in the village. Continue Reading »

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| August 24, 2016
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Violent protests after detainee beaten to death when in Palestinian Police custody

 

Hundreds of rioters in Nablus, some throwing stones, marched through the city protesting the death of Ahmed Halawa, who, arrested for the death of two Palestinian Authority police officers, was allegedly beaten to death while in custody.

By The Associated Press

 

Nablus, the second largest city in the West Bank, was gripped by violent protests on Tuesday after the death of a Palestinian detainee shortly after he was seized by Palestinian security forces.

Palestinian security forces stand guard as riots take place in Nablus – Photo: AFP

Hundreds of protesters, some throwing stones, marched through the city to denounce the death of Ahmed Halawa, who was seized during a police raid that followed the death of two police officers last week.

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| August 23, 2016
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Syrian schoolgirl returns home after being cured of blood cancer in Israel

 

view videoWith the help of the Israeli gov’t, the IDF tracked down her family in Syria and covertly spirited her brother to Israel, so a bone-marrow transplant at Rambam Hospital was able to cure her cancer.

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

 

A six-year-old girl from Syria who was treated for her wound and a blood disease at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center was discharged and sent home on Tuesday after her new Israeli friends held a farewell party and gave her with many gifts, including a first-grade backpack — in the hope that her school is still standing.

Photo Rambam Hospital

She was one of the 140 Syrian civilians — men, women and children — that Rambam doctors, nurses and other personnel have treated over the past three years of civil war there. Continue Reading »

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| August 20, 2016
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Sheikh Nasrallah, ‘I’m not hiding underground in any bunker’

 

Hezbollah leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah leaves his secret bunker to be interviewed on Hezbollah’s television network, Al-Manar, insisting he hasn’t been hiding underground for the past decade, deflecting, then adding his group can defeat Israel in a new war.

By Elad Benari

 

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah denied on Friday that he has been hiding in an underground bunker for the past decade, since the 2006 Second Lebanon War.

Hezbollah supporters gesture as they listen to Nasrallah on October 29, 2013 – Photo: REUTERS

Speaking to Hezbollah’s television network, Al-Manar, Nasrallah also said that his group would defeat Israel if it were to start another war. Continue Reading »

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| August 19, 2016
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REPORT: Arab League drops push for resolution on Israel’s nuclear facilities

 

Arab League member states decided to break away from tradition and refrain from seeking a vote on a resolution regarding the oversight of Israel’s nuclear program.

By Ben Ariel

 

The Arab states, led by Egypt, plan to refrain this year from seeking a vote on a resolution regarding the oversight of Israel’s nuclear facilities during the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) general conference next month, Haaretz reported Thursday, citing a cable sent to several Israeli embassies abroad.

IAEA headquarters

IAEA headquarters – Photo: iStock

Three Israeli diplomats who are privy to the content of the classified telegram, sent by Tamar Rahamimoff-Honig, head of the Foreign Ministry’s Arms Control Department, said it stated that the Arab League member states had made the decision not to demand a vote on a resolution regarding Israel’s nuclear program. Continue Reading »

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| August 19, 2016
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2 Palestinian Authority police officers in Nablus killed during factional infighting within Fatah

 

Akram Rajub, governor of Nablus, said that two Palestinian Authority policemen had been killed in the operation as well as two gunmen, both of whom he said were on a police wanted list.

By ADAM RASGON

 

Two Palestinian police officers were killed and two other police officers were wounded in Nablus on Thursday afternoon in clashes with gunmen, according to Palestinian Authority security service spokesperson Adnan al-Damiri.

Palestinian Authority police officers stand guard in the West Bank [File]. – Photo: REUTERS

“At 6PM on Thursday evening, security forces were exposed to gunfire in Nablus’s Old City while pursuing criminals, leading to the death a number of security forces,” Damiri told Wafa, the official PA news site. Continue Reading »

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| August 10, 2016
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Dropping like flies: 10 terrorists injured in another Gaza terror-tunnel collapse

According to Palestinian reports, at least 10 Islamic Jihad terrorists are reportedly injured in Gaza’s latest terror tunnel collapse.

By Elad Benari

 

At least 10 Islamic Jihad terrorists were injured when a terror tunnel leading into Israeli territory collapsed in Gaza late on Tuesday, Palestinian and Israeli media reported.

According to the reports, a few others were missing following the collapse of the tunnel in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza City.

The incident is just the latest of many similar collapses of Gaza tunnels in recent months. On Saturday, a 22-year-old Hamas terrorist was killed when a tunnel collapsed in Gaza. Continue Reading »

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| August 9, 2016
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WATCH: Hamas proves Gaza no longer ‘open prison camp’ in newest propaganda video

 

view videoBreaking away from its policy to show Gaza as an ‘open prison camp,’ Hamas presents the terror enclave as the ‘Singapore of Middle East’ in latest released political video ahead of upcoming Palestinian elections.

By Elior Levy

 

With the Palestinian local elections to be held in two months in Gaza and the West Bank in which Fatah and Hamas will participate, Hamas has released a propaganda video illustrating what appear to be huge successes in the Gaza Strip.

The terror organization seeks to demonstrate before the residents of the West Bank and of Gaza the practical achievements under its reign. Continue Reading »

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| August 7, 2016
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Iran executes nuclear scientist for leaking information after U.S. publicizes payment

 

US leaked offering Shahram Amiri, who was subsequently hanged in Iran, millions of dollars for intel on Iran’s secrete nuclear program during Clinton’s term as Sec of State, but may have been ‘left out in the cold’, forcing him to return to Iran penniless, and to a noose.

By The Associated Press

 

Iran confirmed on Sunday that it has executed an Iranian nuclear scientist who gave the US intelligence about the country’s contested nuclear program.

The official IRNA news agency quoted a spokesman for Iran’s judiciary, Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi, confirming the execution of Shahram Amiri, an Iranian nuclear scientist caught up in a real-life US spy mystery who later returned to his home country and disappeared. Continue Reading »

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| August 5, 2016
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IsraAID joins Yazidi refugees for memorial ceremony on anniversary of genocide

 

IsraAID, which operates in refugee camps all over Europe providing psychosocial assistance and humanitarian aid, joined over 1500 Yazidi refugees in Greece to commemorate the beginning of the genocide against them at the hands of ISIS.

By Eitan Goldstein

 

IsraAID staff joined 1500 Yazidi refugees as they lit candles and marched though Camp Petra refugee camp in northern Greece, in memory of the Yazidi genocide which began on August 3rd 2014. when ISIS entered the town of Sinjar, killing thousands, and turning thousands of women and girls into sex slaves.

The Yazidi were singing songs and crying as they mentioned the names of those who were brutally massacred, still missing, or captive.

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| August 3, 2016
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Blunder of epic proportions? Lebanon Army Day ad uses IDF soldiers as ‘good guys’ on Facebook

 

Finger-pointing, condemnations, and embarrassments follows an unforgivable gaffe when a social media post inadvertently uses photo of I.D.F. soldier in a celebration of Lebanese Army Day.

By Israel Hayom Staff

 

In an embarrassing gaffe, a Lebanese advertising company featured an image of an Israeli solider in a post commemorating Lebanon’s Army Day.

The original post commemorating Lebanon’s Army Day with an image of an IDF soldier  – Photo: Screenshot from Facebook

According to a report on the Walla news site, Virgin Ticketing Box-Office sparked a social media firestorm Monday, after an ad posted on its official Facebook page featured the image of an Israeli soldier, with the following caption: “Always keep your eyes on us, hero.” Continue Reading »

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