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Rocket fire from Gaza continue despite reported ceasefire: Israel
Jerusalem: Israel said militants in the Gaza Strip continued on Sunday night to fire rockets at southern Israel despite a reported Egypt-brokered cease-fire. Israel’s Home Front Command said in a notice that…
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UNSC to hold emergency meet to discuss escalation across Gaza Strip
New York: United Nations Security Council will hold an emergency closed-door meeting on Monday to discuss the latest escalation between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in the Gaza Strip, media reports…
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Rocket alert in Jerusalem, with residents reporting explosions
Jerusalem: For the first time since the beginning of the Israeli military operation in the Gaza Strip, there was also a rocket alarm in Jerusalem on Sunday. According to military reports, warning…
- Middle East
Israeli strikes on Gaza kill 8 people, 40 injured
Gaza City: Israel unleashed a wave of airstrikes in Gaza on Friday, killing at least eight people, including a senior militant, and wounding another 40, according to Palestinian officials. Israel said it…
- Middle East
In a first, flight to Israel crosses Saudi airspace
A commercial flight bound for Israel entered Saudi airspace on Thursday for the first time since Saudi Arabia opened its airspace to all flights in July 2022, local media reported. The airlines…
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Israel sends more troops near Gaza amid possibility of attack
Jerusalem: Israel’s military has announced that it was sending more troops to the area near Gaza in case there were possible reprisal attacks following the arrest of a senior militant in the…
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Israel to open southern Ramon Airport to Palestinians: Report
Jerusalem: Israel has approved a plan to allow Palestinian passengers to use Ramon International Airport in southern Israel, a local news site reported. The first charter flight for Palestinian passengers under the…
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Israel police exceeded their powers to wiretaps
Jerusalem: An Israeli government investigation into the use of powerful eavesdropping technology by the police found that they only used it after securing a judicial warrant but that the flood of information…
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‘Forced to work as sex slave in prison’, claims ex-Israeli guard
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Sunday, July 31, vowed to investigate allegations by a former Gilboa prison guard that she was repeatedly raped by a Palestinian prisoner, and forced into sex…
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Saudi family investment office becomes biggest shareholder in Israel’s Ontonomo
Riyadh: Saudi family investment office Mithaq Capital SPC become the largest shareholder in Israeli mobility intelligence company Otonomo Technologies Ltd. Its share in the company increased to 20.41 percent as per July…
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Israel decides to cut $176 million from Palestinian tax revenues
Tel Aviv: Israel has decided to withhold 600 million shekels ($176 million) in tax revenues it has collected for the Palestinian Authority to offset the latter’s compensation for “attackers” against the Jewish…
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Iran arrests Swedish citizen over ‘espionage’ charges
Tehran: The Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that it recently arrested a Swedish citizen over “espionage” charges. The detainee had some “suspicious behaviour and communication during his previous multiple trips to Iran”, Xinhua news…
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Palestine seeks full UN membership to protect 2-state solution
Ramallah: Riyad Mansour, Palestine’s envoy to the UN, said that it is “making all possible efforts” to obtain full membership of the world body to protect the two-state solution. The Palestinian mission…
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Palestinian children denied medical care outside Gaza doubled in 2021
Israeli human rights organization on Wednesday revealed that the number of minors that Israel prevented from leaving the Gaza Strip to receive medical care has doubled during 2021. Israel-based Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)…
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South African govt calls for Israel to be declared ‘apartheid state’
The South African minister called on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to classify Israel as an apartheid state and to hold it responsible for its violations against the Palestinians. Speaking at…
