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| January 11, 2013
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Gazan Shot Dead Near Border Fence

A male Palestinian Authority Arab shot dead by IDF troops after damaging the Gaza border fence.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

A Palestinian Authority Arab man was shot dead by IDF troops in northern Gaza on Friday, medics told the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency.

Gaza health ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qidra told Ma’an that Anwar Muhammad al-Mamlouk, 22, was killed by Israeli fire. He said another man was seriously wounded and taken to the a local hospital by paramedics.

In response to the reports, the IDF told Channel 10 News, “In the afternoon, dozens of Palestinians gathered near the security fence in northern Gaza. Continue Reading »

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| December 24, 2012
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National Poll: 45% of Israelis support unilateral withdrawal from most of the West Bank

Rafi Smith poll: 80% of Israelis support IDF presence in West Bank in the case of unilateral (civilian) withdrawal until ‘peace agreement’ is signed.

 

Almost half of the Israeli population supports a unilateral withdrawal from large sections of the Palestinian territories based on the pre-1967 lines, according to a poll conducted by Rafi Smith for the Blue White Future movement.

Foreign tourists on trip to W. Bank settlements - Photo: REUTERS

Foreign tourists on trip to W. Bank settlements – Photo: REUTERS

The poll was released ahead of an election debate between the “Zionist parties” hosted by the movement at Tel Aviv University on Sunday.

Forty-five percent of respondents answered they would back a unilateral withdrawal while maintaining the large settlement blocs including western Samaria, Kedumim, Jerusalem, Ma’aleh Adumim and Gush Etzion.

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| November 25, 2012
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East Jerusalem resident charged with spying for Hezbollah

Azam Mash’hara is charged with informing Lebanese terrorist organization on major sites in the capital, including the Knesset & gov’t complexes.

By Gili Cohen

 

Israeli security forces arrested a resident of East Jerusalem over suspicions that he handed over intelligence concerning major sites in the capital to Hezbollah agents, a lifted gag order revealed on Sunday.

Abdullah Shama

Milad Khatib before the hearing at the Haifa District Court. – Photo: Abdullah Shama

According to newly revealed information, Azam Mash’hara, who resides in the village of Jabel Mukaber, passed on material concerning the Knesset, the Hebrew University campuses, Jerusalem’s government complex, as well as the capital’s hospitals. Continue Reading »

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| November 5, 2012
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IDF Kills Suspicious Palestinian Approaching Gaza Border Fence

IDF reports unidentified man failed to obey warning shots and orders to turn around to exit buffer zone.
Palestinians say victim was unarmed & mentally unfit.

By Reuters

 

Israeli soldiers have shot and killed a Palestinian man who approached a fence near the border with Israel, medics said on Monday.

IDF soldiers near Gaza.

IDF soldiers during maintenance work at the security fence with Gaza – Photo by Eliyahu Hershkovitz

An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed the shooting took place after darkness fell on Sunday, saying troops opened warning shots when a man walking west of the border in a riverbed failed to heed orders to leave the buffer area Israel maintains to try and prevent cross-border attacks. Continue Reading »

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| October 27, 2012
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Panicking cow kills Palestinian for Muslim feast

Man trying to slaughter beast for Muslim holiday killed instead

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A Gaza health official says that a panicking cow has killed a Palestinian man who was trying slaughter the beast during the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Adha.

Panicking Beast Archive photo: Reuters

Panicking Beast Archive – Photo: Reuters

Muslims around the world slaughter sheep, cows and goats during the four-day holiday to commemorate the sacrifice by their forefather Abraham. But accidents are comment as people frequently buy animals to slaughter at home instead of relying on professional butchers.

Official Ashraf al-Kidra said Saturday that another 150 more people were hospitalized in Gaza with knife wounds or other injuries caused by animals attacking butchers or bystanders. Continue Reading »

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| October 8, 2012
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Palestinian attempts smuggling 3 snakes into Israel from Jordan

Border guards discover rare snakes in Palestinian’s luggage

Smuggler taken into custody, snakes transferred to Parks Authority

By Noam (Dabul) Dvir

 

Security guards on the Israeli border with Jordan were surprised on Sunday during a routine security check, when the X-ray machine used to check luggage, suddenly revealed three snakes that were hidden in the bag of a Palestinian man from Ramallah.

הנחשים שנמצאו בתוך התיק (צילום: משטרת ישראל)

Snakes found in Palestinian’s bag – Photo: Israel Police

The guards asked the man to open his luggage, and in it they found a plastic box with three rare snakes. The man attempted to smuggle the snakes into Israel. Continue Reading »

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| September 29, 2012
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Muslim Brotherhood says it will not meet with Israel

Brotherhood official says that they support Palestinian statehood bid & progress must first be made prior to any official meeting with Israel.

By Roi Kais

 

Two days after Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi spoke before the UN General Assembly and urged action on the Palestinian statehood bid, the Muslim Brotherhood stated that until a breakthrough is made in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, senior Egyptian officials will not meet with their Israeli counterparts.

Morsi at the UN Photo: AP

Morsi at the UN – Photo: AP

Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo Mahmoud Hussein told the Egyptian daily Al-Masri Al-Youm Friday that “Any meeting between the two countries’ top officials prior to the full restoration of the Palestinian people’s rights is a reproachable ideological luxury.” Continue Reading »

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| September 11, 2012
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Police discover a weapons cache in East Jerusalem

Jerusalem Police find Guns & explosives hidden in vegetable shop near Damascus Gate

 

Jerusalem police announced on Tuesday that over they past month they uncovered a massive weapons cache hidden inside a vegetable shop in east Jerusalem, with dozens of weapons, ammunition, pipe bombs, Hamas literature, and a quarter of a million shekels.

Seized Weapons cache - Photo: Courtesy Jerusalem Police

Seized Weapons cache – Photo: Courtesy Jerusalem Police

Police arrested a number of Israeli Arabs and illegal infiltrators from the West Bank over the past month, though the investigation is still ongoing so details are under a media gag order.

Two brothers, the central suspects, were indicted over the weekend in the Jerusalem Magistrate Court and will be in detention until the end of proceedings.

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| August 14, 2012
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Hamas inmate has a son after sneaking out a sperm sample to his wife

A Palestinian  prisoner serving 32 life sentences fathers 3rd child after smuggling sperm sample out of Hadarim prison

By AFP

 

A baby boy was born by Caesarian section on Monday, the product of a successful smuggling attempt by a Palestinian prisoner who managed to sneak out a sperm sample to his wife.

No conjugal visits (archive) Photo: Moti Kimhi

No conjugal visits – Photo: Moti Kimhi

Baby Muhammad was born in a Nablus hospital to Dallal Ziben, a 32-year-old mother-of-two from a village in the northern West Bank, whose husband Ammar is currently serving 32 life sentences in an Israeli prison.

Palestinians are not permitted to receive conjugal visits, and although Dallal Ziben has not set eyes on her husband for 15 years, she says she fell pregnant after being artificially inseminated by sperm her 37-year-old husband managed to sneak out of Hadarim prison in central Israel. Continue Reading »

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| May 30, 2012
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Palestinian woman: I’ll be killed if deported to territories

West Bank woman tells Tel Aviv court she will be murdered for ‘disgracing’ her family after refusing to marry her cousin at young age

 

 

A 23-year-old Palestinian woman who was arrested more than a week ago for residing in Israel illegally said she would be killed if sent back to the Palestinian Authority for “disgracing” her family.

'Tough times.' The woman Photo: Gilad Morag

'Tough times.' The woman Photo: Gilad Morag

“I’m originally from the West Bank, but I’ve been living in Israel for the past three years,” she told the Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. “I refused to wed, and I tarnished the family’s honor by running away. Continue Reading »

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| May 2, 2012
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Meshal loses control of Hamas military wing as authority moves to Gaza leadership

Hamas denies Haaretz report on results of a secret election but senior officials confirm Ismail Haniyeh won by significant margin; Khaled Meshal expected to keep post but lose control of budget, military.

Hamas political bureau head Khaled Meshal, who now resides in Qatar, is expected to keep his post after an internal vote by the organization’s leadership later this month. But sources have told Haaretz that Hamas leaders have decided to transfer some of Meshal’s critical areas of authority to the leadership in the Gaza Strip, including control of the organization’s budget and of its military wing.

Hamas political bureau head Khaled Meshal

Hamas political bureau head Khaled Meshal - Photo by AP

Meshal’s sole control of Hamas’ purse strings has effectively given him control over Iz al-Din al-Qassam, the Gaza-based military wing of Hamas.

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| March 30, 2012
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Land Day: Lebanon on high alert

Lebanese army boosts security in south in effort to prevent repetition of last year’s border clashes. Haniyeh: Processions herald looming liberation of al-Aqsa mosque from defilement of occupation’

Israel’s neighbors gearing up for Land Day– Lebanese newspaper Daily Star on Friday reported that the country has raised its alert level ahead of Land Day protests planned by Palestinians living in Lebanon. Earlier this week, the newspaper reported that some 30,000 people are scheduled to participate in processions across the country.

According to the report, the Lebanese army set up two central checkpoints – one on the main road near the village of Zahrani, and another one on an inner road leading to southern Lebanon. Continue Reading »

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| March 30, 2012
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Global Loser’s March to Jerusalem

This Friday, March 30, 2012, a motley collection of leftists, aging anti-colonialists and assorted other anti-semites intend to storm Israel’s borders (non-violently) from all directions in a “Global March to Jerusalem (GM2J),” Israel’s capital.

The idea is to stage a massive media stunt to demonstrate international solidarity with the Arabs who live in what formerly was known as Jewish Palestine and now aspire to yet another nation state of their own. Not surprisingly, the GM2J is sponsored by the Iranian regime in conjunction with its long-time terror proxies HAMAS and Hizbollah.

There’s been no word yet on whether Iran’s other major terror affiliate—Al-Qaeda—intends to take part. Continue Reading »

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| March 17, 2012
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IMF: Palestinians may face cuts without more aid

Report estimates financing gap of about $500 million, urges PA to cut expenditures; Aid donors meeting in Brussels next week

 

WASHINGTON – The International Monetary Fund on Saturday urged donors to meet their aid pledges to the Palestinian Authority, warning that unless funding was forthcoming it would be forced to cut public wages and social benefits to address a deepening fiscal crisis.

The IMF said the aid-dependent Palestinian economy had entered a “difficult phase” with a severe liquidity crunch worsening since last year due to a drop in aid from Western backers and wealthy Gulf states and Israeli restrictions on trade.

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| March 7, 2012
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Jordanian Ex-intel chief: Jordan can’t take in Syrian refugees

 General Abu Rashid visits J’lem, says that Israel must think carefully about having so many Palestinians on its border.

 

Jordan is fearful of receiving Palestinian refugees from Syria, as it has neither the resources nor the infrastructure to accommodate them, Gen.

Mansour Abu Rashid, chairman of the Amman Center for Peace and Development, said in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

Jordan Muslim Brotherhood supporters

Jordan Muslim Brotherhood supporters - Photo By Reuters/Muhammad Hamed

Abu Rashid, a former head of Jordanian intelligence, was participating in a symposium hosted by the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Israeli Council on Foreign Relations to honor the memory of Dave Kimche, who had been a central figure in the Mossad and a Foreign Ministry director-general.

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