Following a threat Thursday by Hamas that it would launch 5,000 fire kites into Israel to mark the end of Ramadan, Israeli Police found and detonated an incendiary balloon that landed in Israel, The Times of Israel reported Friday. Photographs show that the balloon was marked with the message “I...
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For the first time, a plurality of United Nations General Assembly members supported an amendment to a resolution that condemned Hamas by a vote of 62 to 58, The Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. The United States-sponsored condemnation was an amendment to a resolution that condemned Israel for the deaths of...
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A powerful Iranian general said that Hezbollah, which with its allies controls 74 seats in parliament after last month’s vote, has turned Lebanon into a “Resistance state,” Iran’s semi-official Mehr News reported Tuesday. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)- Qods Force, said, “Hezbollah for the...
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The IDF destroyed an underwater Hamas attack tunnel earlier this month, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. Israel struck at numerous Hamas targets on June 3 associated with Hamas’s elite naval forces. At the time the IDF said that it had struck “a military compound belonging to the naval force...
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Israel accused Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group based in Lebanon, of arming and training Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip bordering southern Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The Post cited a report that appeared in the Lebanese paper Al Joumhouria that said that Israel had sent a letter to the United...
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Following the exit of the United States from the nuclear deal and reimposition of sanctions, airplane manufacturer Boeing announced that it would not deliver any planes to Iran, Agence France-Presse reported Wednesday. The announcement effectively ends the highly controversial multi-billion dollar deals Boeing made with Iran in the wake of...
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An estimated 10,000 Gazans rioted at five different locations on the border with Israel, as of 5 PM on Friday, The Times of Israel reported. Though the violence was reported to be “low-level,” prior to the riots, kites carrying a threat to “slaughter” Jews appeared on social media. The Hamas-run Gaza...
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The Israeli security service Shin Bet foiled a “number of significant terror attacks,” including a plan to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jerusalem’s Mayor Nir Barkat, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Shin Bet arrested Muhammad Jamal Rashdeh who is a 30-year-old Israeli-Arab man and two suspected accomplices. The security...
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The main United States umbrella organization promoting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign has financial ties to Middle East terrorist organizations, an investigative article published Friday in Tablet magazine charged. The article written by Armin Rosen and Liel Leibovitz showed that the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a...
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An Argentine federal appeals court ruled that Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered as a “direct consequence” of his accusations of former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of covering up Iran’s role in the AMIA terror attack, The Times of Israel reported Saturday. Nisman was investigating the ties between Tehran and the...
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