Posts Tagged ‘ Gaza ’

Tonight, at 8:05 local time, Mayor Nir Barkat will turn off the lights around the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem as a show of solidarity with Gilad Shalit. Friday marks four years since Iran-backed Hamas took Israeli-French soldier Gilad Shalit hostage.
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OPINION - Many Israelis and Israel supporters across the political spectrum were stunned by the recent hostile reaction of most of the world regarding Israel’s basic right to have a blockade against Hamas-dominated Gaza. They realized that the main focus of the hostile international reaction was not on improving the procedures of this security-motivated...
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Jerusalem Dispatch presents the full text of a statement by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu explaining Israel's stance on the Gaza-bound flotillas.
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IDF forces unloaded the humanitarian cargo from the Gaza flotilla on Tuesday and transfered the aid into the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing. An average of 10,000 tons of aid are imported into the Gaza Strip weekly in coordination with international organizations through the land crossings from Israel.
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Our Navy commandos fell right into the hands of the Gaza mission members. A few minutes before the takeover attempt aboard the Marmara got underway, the operation commander was told that 20 people were waiting on the deck where a helicopter was to deploy the first team of the elite Flotilla 13 unit. The...
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BREAKING NEWS – The IDF has released an aerial video from this morning’s predawn clash between Navy forces and demonstrators taking part in the flotilla from Istanbul to Gaza. The footage shows various acts of violence against soldiers boarding the Mavi Marmara using metal poles, firebombs, tear gas, pepper spray, knives, broken bottles and other...
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BREAKING NEWS - Dozens of protestors arrived at the Kalandiya Checkpoint north of Jerusalem in protest of the death of at least 10 participants in the Gaza-bound flotilla that clashed with Israeli Navy forces this morning. IDF forces were reportedly dispatched to the area. There have been no reports of clashes so far. A large...
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Overnight, the Israel Air Force struck a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip, which the IDF says was dug to infiltrate into Israel and execute terror attacks against soldiers and civilians. The strike came in response to the two Qassam rockets fired at Israel on Saturday evening. One the rockets reportedly exploded in the...
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A Thai agricultural worker was killed on Thursday morning by a mortar shell that hit a greenhouse in a kibbutz neighboring the Gaza Strip. Speaking to reporters near the impact site, Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon said Israel would not allow the Goldstone Report, which accused both Israel and Hamas of war crimes during...
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A total of 550 trucks containing 13,144 tons of humanitarian aid were transferred into the Gaza Strip from Israel via the various crossings over the past week, according to the Coordinator for Government Activities in the Territories. Nine truckloads of carnations were exported from Gaza to Europe.
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