Hamas Official : “Hamas will continue kidnapping soldiers & Israelis”

 

Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhairi: “Hamas will continue kidnapping soldiers & Israelis until the last Palestinian in Israeli prison is freed.”

By Daniel Siryoti, Reuters and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Hamas is continuing to threaten Israel even as concern grows in Palestinian circles over Israeli retaliation for the kidnapping and murder of three teens. Hamas official Mushir al-Masri in Gaza warned Israel against an escalation in the Gaza Strip, adding that Hamas possesses rockets and missiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv and the densely populated Gush Dan area.

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh – Photo: AP

“Hamas will continue kidnapping soldiers and Israelis until the last Palestinian in Israeli prison is freed,” Masri said.

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Albania is proof Israel and a Muslim country can have close ties

Knesset Speaker Edelstein, “Albania is a Muslim country that shows things can be different.”

 

Albania is proof that Israel can have good relations with Muslim countries, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said in a meeting with his Albanian counterpart Ilir Meta Wednesday.

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Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein meets with his Albanian counterpart Ilir Meta. – Photo: KNESSET SPOKESMAN’S OFFICE

“Albania is a Muslim country that shows things can be different,” Edelstein told Meta, who is visiting Israel for the first time. “Israel-Albania relations are continuing to grow closer and I that your visit hear will contribute to that.”

Edelstein also pointed out that Albania saved all of its approximately 800 Jewish residents during the Holocaust and had a larger Jewish population after World War II than it did before. Continue Reading »

Israel the trade gateway from Europe, via Israel, Jordan then the Arab world, truck by truck

 

Due to Iraqi, Lebanese & Syrian unrest, European exporters rely on Israel for route to Arab customers across the Sheikh Hussein Bridge to Jordan and then to the Arab world.

By Reuters

 

The hydraulic ramp of a Turkish freighter taps down on the eastern Mediterranean port of Haifa and, under a full moon, 37 trucks roll off onto an otherwise empty pier.

Goods unloading in Port of Haifa (Photo: Reuters)

Goods unloading in Port of Haifa – Photo: Reuters

In a convoy that stretches hundreds of meters, the trucks travel east across northern Israel, bringing goods from Europe to customers in Jordan and beyond.

Until three years ago the cargo these trucks carry – fruits, cheese, raw material for the textile industry, spare parts, and second-hand trucks – would have come through Syria. Continue Reading »

WATCH: Israel’s demolition team raze terrorist’s house

Israel destroys house of Hamas convicted murderer Ziad Awad, who after being released is charged with the killing of Baruch Mizrahi who was on his way to Passover seder with his family.

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Israeli security forces were engaged in clashes Wednesday with about 250 Palestinians gathered in the West Bank village of Idna to protest Israel’s demolition early in the day of the home of the Hamas operative suspected of killing a senior police officer on his way to the seder on Passover eve.

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IDF’s demolition of terrorist’s home – Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s office

The army said Isareli forces were attempting to disperse the protest with rubber bullets and tear gas and that Palestinian protesters were throwing firebombs and stones.

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Knesset Member Hotovely: It’s Time Israel Imposes Death Penalty for Terrorists

Deputy Transportation Minister Hotovely announces it’s time to “change the rules” following the Hamas inspired kidnapping-murder of the 3 Israeli youths.

By Benny Toker and Elad Benari

 

Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely (Likud Beytenu) on Tuesday said it was time to “change the rules of the game” following the murder of the three Israeli teenagers by Hamas terrorists.

Speaking to Arutz Sheva, Hotovely said that increased construction in Judea and Samaria and targeted killings of terrorists were no longer sufficient as responses, adding that it was time to impose a death penalty on terrorists.

“This is the first incident to come out of Judea and Samaria after the Hamas and Fatah unity. Continue Reading »

ISIS Parades Captured Iraqi Scud Missiles in Syria, ‘Heading Towards Israel’

ISIS parades its captured Iraqi Scud missile and tanks in Al-Raqqah, Syria, as ISIS member threatens that their missiles will be ‘heading towards Israel.’

By Dalit Halevy, Ari Yashar

 

Video footage reveals that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) has transferred some of the advanced weaponry it has captured in its blitz conquest of Iraq to Syria – weaponry which includes long range Scud missiles.

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ISIS scud missile in Syria – Screenshot

ISIS, which on Sunday declared itself an Islamic “caliphate” and proclaimed its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as “Caliph,” has been busy looting Iraq after capturing large areas of the country from the American-armed and trained Iraqi army. Continue Reading »

Hamas empties its Gaza HQ & bases in anticipation of Israeli reprisals over murder of 3 teens

 

Israel Air Force hits dozens of targets in Gaza.

PA president calls U.S. & European leaders to pressure Israel to show restraint.

By Daniel Siryoti & Lilach Shoval

 

Israel bombed dozens of targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, striking at Hamas after finding the bodies of three missing teenagers — Gil-ad Shaer, Eyal Yifrach and Naftali Frenkel — whose abduction and killing it blames on the Palestinian Islamist group.

A ball of fire is seen following an Israel airstrike in Rafah, southern Gaza, overnight Monday – Photo: AFP

Israel’s security cabinet, which held an emergency session late on Monday and was due to meet again on Tuesday, was currently split on the scope of any further action in the coastal enclave and Judea and Samaria, officials said.

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60,000 Israelis download free SOS app since kidnapping of 3 Jewish teens

Free lifesaving Israeli phone app will set in motion emergency distress alert with a simple swipe of your finger.

 

Following the tragic murders of the kidnapped youths, 60,000 Israelis have already downloaded the one-swipe emergency alert application that was recently offered free to the public by the volunteer rescue organization, United Hatzalah (UH).

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United Hatzalah’s SOS app. – Photo: Courtesy

Parents are urged to download the lifesaving app called SOS, which could prevent future abductions, said UH founder and president Eli Beer. With one simple swipe of the finger, SOS subscribers can inform the non-profit organization, which has an active switchboard around the clock, that they are in distress and give the security forces permission to track their exact location using patented GPS technology. Continue Reading »

Israel Police release recording from Gil-Ad Shaer’s emergency call: “We’ve been kidnapped”

 

Some Police officers were dismissed & may possibly be fired after release of emergency police call from kidnapped Gil-Ad Shaer, shortly after his abduction.

By Omri Efraim

 

 

Israel Police on Tuesday released a recording of the emergency call made by Gil-Ad Shaer shortly after his abduction in the West Bank on June 12, whose bodies were found Monday near Hebron.

These are the most dramatic moments in the kidnapping of the three Israeli teens – Naftali Frenkel, Gil-Ad Shaer, Eyal Yifrach.

At 10:25pm on Thursday, June 12, Gil-Ad Shaer make a chilling call to the police’s 100 call center, saying “I’ve been kidnapped.” Continue Reading »

Holocaust memorial in Athens desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti

The graffiti included threats that a synagogue in Athens would be destroyed.

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Anti-Semitic graffiti has been scrawled on the Holocaust memorial in Athens, including threats against the Jewish community.

Holocaust memorial in Athens, Greece.

Holocaust memorial in Athens, Greece. – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Police have opened an investigation into Friday’s vandalism, according to Victor Eliezer, the secretary general of the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece.

The graffiti included a purported quote from the Talmud saying that Jews who convert should be put to death, and threats that the synagogue in Athens would be destroyed.

“Regretfully, 70 years after the end of World War II, which left millions of victims of bigotry, racism, Nazism and anti-Semitism behind, there are people beyond redemption aiming at terrorizing us by molesting the memory of our brothers, victims of the Holocaust,” said a statement from the Jewish community, issued Monday.

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2 Pro-Israel Arab Boys Under Threat, Now Looking for Safe Houses Abroad

Concerned Zionists are are working to find Yihya Mahmeed & Mohammad Zoabi,  safe houses where they can remain protected.

By Gil Ronen

 

Concerned Zionists are are working to place two courageous Muslim youths from Israel, Mohammad Zoabi and Yihya Mahmeed, in safe environments – after they expressed opinions sympathetic to the abducted Jewish teens and became targets of hatred in the radical Muslim community.

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2 Brave Pro-Israel Arab Boys: Yihya Mahmeed ( left) & Mohammad Zoabi (right)

Zoabi received much media attention after he posted a video on Facebook expressing his concern for the three teen hostages. Mahmeed uploaded a picture of himself to Facebook, with a large Israeli flag and a sign saying “#Bring Back Our Boys.” Continue Reading »

One of the Abducted Jewish Teens Resisted the Arab Kidnappers

Walla news site reports: Forensic evidence suggests 1 of the abducted boys put up a ‘meaningful resistance’ to his kidnappers.

By Arutz Sheva staff

 

Forensic findings on the body of one of the three teenage boys abducted and murdered on June 12 show that the boy put up “meaningful resistance” to his attackers, reported news site Walla on Tuesday, citing a source who was involved in the process of identifying the bodies of the teens.

Israel Mourns

According to an IDF source, after the boys entered the abductors’ vehicle at the Alon Shvut intersection at Gush Etzion, the vehicle traveled west, then made a U-turn toward Hevron. Continue Reading »

Obama condemns killing of Israeli youths, calling parties to exercise restraint

Reiterating Obama, the State Department urges restraint on both sides.

Chairman of House Foreign Relations C’tee  says US should be under no illusion that unity gov’t wants peace.

By JPOST.COM STAFF, MICHAEL WILNER

 

NEW YORK — The United States issued a measured response to the murder of three Israeli teenage boys on Monday, two weeks after the students first gripped the heart of the Jewish nation, and hours after Israel Defense Forces found the missing – Naftali Fraenkel, Eyal Yifrah and Gil-Ad Shaer – dead in an open field.
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US President Barack Obama – Photo: REUTERS

In a statement issued to the press, US President Barack Obama balanced a message of empathy as a father with a call for restraint from a leader familiar with spiraling conflicts in the Middle East.

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Jerusalem once again retaliates with multiple airstrikes after Gaza rocket lands in Israel

 

Even though a single rocket from Gaza struck the Eshkol Regional Council with no damage or injuries reported, Israel will no longer allow attacks go without retribution.

By Ilana Curiel, Yoav Zitun and Elior Levy

 

The Israeli Air Force (IAF) attacked several terror sites in the Gaza Strip late Monday night in response to a rocket fired earlier by Palestinian terrorists that struck an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council.

No injuries or damage was reported as a result of the rocket fire.

Earlier in the day the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teens who were kidnapped over two weeks ago were discovered by security forces just north of Hebron. Continue Reading »

Netanyahu Decrees: ‘Hamas Will Pay’ for the 3 Boys’ Murder

Netanyahu, ‘Revenge for the blood of a teenager or young man is not the devil’s work, Hamas is responsible, Hamas will pay.’

By Tova Dvorin

 

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu released an official response to the murder of abducted Israeli teens Gilad Sha’ar (16), Naftali Frenkel (16), and Eyal Yifrah (19) on Monday, expressing grief and vowing revenge.

Israel Mourns

“With a heavy heart, we have found tonight three bodies, and all of the information we have indicates that these are the bodies of the abductees – Eyal, Gilad, and Naftali,” Netanyahu began.

“They were murdered in cold blood by human animals,” he said. Continue Reading »