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| March 14, 2014
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Gaza maintains the tension after firing mortar at Israel Friday morning

Mortar shell fired from Gaza Friday morning keeps the tension mounting, following multiple Israeli airstrikes overnight on the Strip.

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A mortar shell was fired from Gaza at southern Israel on Friday, as tension between in the area continues to be high following overnight Israeli strikes.

Palestinians inspect the scene

Palestinians inspect the scene of Israeli air strike in Rafah in the south of Gaza Strip March 14, 2014.- Photo: Reuters

The shell landed in an open area in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council. No injuries were reported.

Gazan militant groups said the Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip overnight hit a Hamas militant base, another site tied to the Popular Resistance Committees and a Palestinian National Security Forces position, all in the city of Rafah near the Egyptian border.

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| March 14, 2014
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Despite ‘ceasefire’ sporadic Gaza rocket fire continues to hit Southern Israel

 

3 rockets land in Sha’ar Hanegev, 1 in Sderot & 1 in Ashkelon Coast area despite Islamic Jihad’s claims that Egypt brokered a ceasefire.

IDF’s Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepts rocket headed for Netivot.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

Sporadic rocket fire from the Gaza Strip fell in southern Israel on Thursday evening hours after the Islamic Jihad claimed that Egypt had brokered a ceasefire to end two days of hostilities that has seen nearly 70 rockets fall in the South.

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Islamic Jihad underground rocket launcher – Photo: screenshot

A rocket fell in the Ashkelon Coast Council area around 5 p.m. Continue Reading »

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| March 13, 2014
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IAF Jets Hit More Terror Targets in 2nd Round of Retaliatory Strikes in Gaza

Amid Israeli calls to go in and retake Gaza, Air Force Jets hit additional targets following latest round of Gaza’s rocket fire, as Islamic Jihad claims Egypt brokered a ceasefire.

By Maayana Miskin

 

The Air Force hit several terror targets in Gaza on Thursday afternoon, following a wave of rocket attacks on southern Israel on Thursday morning.

IAF commanders reported that all warplanes involved had returned safely to their bases.

“The IDF will not tolerate any attempt to harm Israel’s citizens or soldiers, and will continue to take determined action against any party that uses terrorism against the state of Israel,” IDF spokespeople said. Continue Reading »

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| March 13, 2014
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Amidst falling rockets, Egypt boasts of destroying 1,370 Hamas tunnels into Gaza

In a show of yet another sign of Cairo’s antipathy towards Hamas, the French media’s announcement from Egypt comes as Gaza rockets land in southern Israel.

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As Gaza was rocketing the south on Wednesday afternoon, Egypt announced it had destroyed 1,370 tunnels into the Strip from the Sinai, Agence France Presse reports.

Egyptian Army soldiers patrol in Sinai.

Egyptian Army soldiers on duty in northern Sinai. – Photo: AP

 

The tunnels carry everything from rockets to food and are crucial to both Gaza’s military and its civilian economy. They run mainly under the Gazan border town of Rafah.

Egyptian authorities did not say when they began destroying the tunnels. Continue Reading »

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| March 13, 2014
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Israeli Air Force Pounds 29 Gaza Targets After Palestinian Missile Onslaught

In lightning-fast surgical strikes, Israeli jets hit 29 specific Islamic Jihad and Hamas targets.

Palestinian sources have yet to report on casualties.

By Tova Dvorin

 

The Israeli Air Force struck 29 terror targets belonging to Islamic Jihad and Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday evening as retaliation for firing a barrage of over 60 rockets on Jewish communities in southern Israel, the IDF announced Wednesday.

Palestinian Arab media is reporting now that the IAF are repeatedly slamming Islamic Jihad posts in Rafah, Khan Younis, Deir al – Balah, Beit Lahiya in north Gaza and another target in the center. Continue Reading »

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| March 12, 2014
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BREAKING NEWS: IDF Strikes Back after barrage of Gaza rockets fired at Israel

Israel responds to volley of rockets fired by at communities in the South.

Islamic Jihad reports firing 90 rockets.

Israeli air strike follows IDF shelling of 2 terror infrastructure targets in Strip. No casualties reported on Israeli side.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

The Israel Air Force has begun bombing targets in Gaza on Wednesday in response to a large-scale Islamic Jihad rocket attack on southern communities earlier in the evening.

IDF Strikes back – Photo:REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

The IDF said at least 30 rockets had been fired toward Israeli communities near the borders with southern and northern Gaza in the largest attack since 2012’s Operation Pillar of Defense. Continue Reading »

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| March 12, 2014
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Not American Stealth UAV, but Hamas gleaming over fallen Israeli drone in Gaza

 

Just Hours after the small Israeli Skylark UAV crashed in the Gaza Strip, Hamas proudly showcases pictures of its captured IDF intelligence aircraft.

By Elior Levy

 

Gaza-ruler Hamas released photos of the Israeli Skylark drone that crashed Tuesday morning in Gaza due to a technical malfunction.

Hamas militant holds up Israeli Skylark drone that crashed earlier Tuesday

Hamas militant holds up Israeli Skylark drone that crashed earlier Tuesday

It was reported by the Popular Resistance Committees that its men were the first to get their hands on the drone after its crash; however Hamas security official quickly reached them and forcefully took the UAV away.

The crash occurred Tuesday morning during a routine operational activity of the IDF’s Gaza division, about a kilometer west of the southern Gaza border fence. Continue Reading »

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| March 11, 2014
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Al Qaida-inspired jihadi movement challenging Hamas in Gaza

 

The rise of organized, heavily armed militant jihadi movements in the seaside strip poses serious threat to both Israel – and Hamas.

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A leader of one of Gaza‘s secretive jihadi groups says the al-Qaida-inspired movement now has several thousand armed fighters in the seaside strip, posing a formidable threat to both Israel and the area’s Hamas rulers.

Palestinian members from Youth Salafists group chant slogans

Palestinian members from Youth Salafists group chant slogans, Gaza, August 22, 2013.- Photo: AP

In an interview with The Associated Press, Abu Bakir al-Ansari described a movement that is larger and better organized than is generally believed, with dozens of fighters now in Syria, and claimed his group killed an Italian activist three years ago.

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| March 10, 2014
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Hamas promises Gaza rockets will land in northern Israel

 

Before Israel televised their captured advanced rockets bound for Gaza, Hamas’ armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigade said bloodshed will not end until ‘owners of Palestine recover their rights.’

By AFP

 

GAZA – Hamas’ armed wing threatened Monday to shoot rockets that would reach northern Israel during its next confrontation with the IDF.

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Members of Hamas’s armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, stand in front of M-75 monument at the al-Jalaa square on March 10, 2014 in Gaza City. – Photo: AFP photo/Mahmud Hams

During the 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense, Gaza terror organizations for the first time fired rockets that reached Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Continue Reading »

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| March 9, 2014
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Hamas: Bomb-making training blows up in their face

Hamas ‘Work Accident’ during bomb-making training kills local Hamas commander and injures nine others, according to Palestinian sources.

By Ari Soffer

 

An explosion Saturday in the southern Gaza Strip killed at least one terrorist and wounded nine more, medical sources said.

“The explosion occurred during a training session in bomb-making,” said a statement from the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamist Hamas movement that controls Gaza.

Source have identified the dead man as Ibrahim al-Ghoul, a local Hamas commander.

The blast took place at a house in the southern town of Rafah, on the Egyptian border.

Witnesses had previously described most of the injured, including two seriously hurt, as “activists” – a term often used by Palestinian Arab sources to describe members of terrorist groups operating in the Islamist-controlled territory. Continue Reading »

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| March 7, 2014
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Egypt Detained 100 Female European & American Activists On Way to Gaza

American & European activists who had planned to spend Int’l Women’s Day in Gaza, are being held due to the Egyptian crackdown on Hamas, for “the timing was not appropriate…”

By Ari Yashar

 

A group of 100 European and American activist women were stopped by Egypt on Thursday, as they attempted to cross Sinai to spend International Women’s Day on Saturday in Gaza.

Egyptian soldiers (Illustration) – Reuters

Egyptian authorities stopped the women at the Cairo airport. Among the group, Northern Irish Nobel Laureate and anti-Israel activist Mairead Maguire was already deported on Wednesday; the same happened to American activist Medea Benjamin on Tuesday. Continue Reading »

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| March 4, 2014
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Egyptian court Blacklists Hamas as terrorist organization, banning activities

 

Cairo court ruling bans activities by Hamas in Egypt, branding it a terrorist organization, ordering all Hamas offices in the country shut down & all dealings with the group be suspended.

By The Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff

 

An Egyptian court ruled on Tuesday to ban Hamas activities in the country, branding the group a terrorist organization.

A Hamas rally in Gaza [Archive] – Photo: AP

The Cairo court ordered the closure of Hamas offices in Egypt and the suspension of all dealings with the group.

Egypt’s relations with Hamas have sharply deteriorated since the Egyptian military overthrew the Islamist president Mohammed Morsi last July.

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| February 26, 2014
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Hamas Thinks It Found Gas Field Off Gaza’s Shore

MP in Hamas gov’t claims gas was found just off Gaza’s coast, but Hamas deputy PM isn’t convinced.

By Ari Yashar

 

 

An MP in the terror organization Hamas’s Gaza government reported Tuesday that a natural gas field has potentially been found off the Gaza coast.

Salem Salama, chair of Hamas’s economic committee, said “preliminary tests carried out by experts from the Islamic University suggest that there is a natural gas field near the coast,” reports AFP.

In recent weeks the test were conducted by Hamas after fishermen reported large bubbles in the water roughly 300 meters (just under 1,000 feet) off the coast, reported Salama. Continue Reading »

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| February 22, 2014
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Palestinians arrests former Hamas spokesman, confiscate property over alleged corruption


Hamas says former spokesman Ayman Taha, known in Gaza for his extravagant lifestyle, was not suspected of working with foreign powers such as Israel or Egypt.

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Hamas, the Islamist movement ruling the Gaza Strip, announced that Ayman Taha, a senior member of the organization and former spokesman, was arrested several days ago and interrogated by the authorities for alleged corruption charges.

Hundreds of Palestinian Hamas policemen march

Hundreds of Palestinian Hamas policemen march during their graduation ceremony at the Arafat Police Academy in Gaza City, Wednesday, January 29, 2014 – Photo: AP

A statement issued by the organization on Friday explicitly stated that Taha was not suspected of working with foreign powers such as Israel or Egypt.

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| February 22, 2014
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NY Jewish Museum Cancels BDS Speaker

Decision to invite BDS activist Judith Butler, a noted academic & extremely anti-Israel activist, sparked heated debate and anger among Jewish community. 

By Tova Dvorin

 

Anti-Israel activist Judith Butler’s scheduled speaking event at the New York Jewish Museum has been cancelled, according to the Forward.

Anti-Israel demonstration in Istanbul – Photo: Reuters

Butler, a literary professor and sociolinguistics expert, is a high-profile supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. While the scheduled event was due to be about Franz Kafka – not the Jewish state – the museum faced a strong backlash over the choice of speaker, initiated by public relations executive Ronn Torossian’s op-ed on Arutz Sheva and continued by mainstream Jewish groups. Continue Reading »

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