Country: Israel

Israel-GCC Ties

The Levant News -- by Simon Henderson for inFocus Quarterly - Fall 2015 -- How does one write 2,000 words about links between Israel and the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which no official of any of the seven countries is publicly prepared to admit exist? The answer is "with difficulty." And […]

Two Palestinians shot dead after attacks on Israeli soldiers

The Levant News -- Israeli security forces shot dead two Palestinian assailants in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, police and the army said, as a month-long spate of stabbing attacks showed no signs of abating. The latest assaults, like other recent stabbings, took place in Hebron, a city in the West Bank, signaling that […]

How Dangerous is ISIS to Israel?

By Efraim Inbar for BESA -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: It is misplaced to view ISIS as posing an independent serious strategic challenge. While ISIS has ignited immense passion among many young and frustrated Muslims all over the world, on its own ISIS is capable of only limited damage. Suggestions that ISIS may constitute a bigger threat […]

UNRWA fires Palestinian aid workers over incitement claims

The Levant News --The Times of Israel's Daily reported that several employees of the UN’s aid agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) have been disciplined, including “suspension and loss of pay,” over expressions of sympathy for attacks against Israelis. The UN Watch organization, which first raised the concerns about United Nations Relief and Works Agency workers’ […]

US cuts aid to Palestinians by $80 million as a "message" to Abbas

The Levant News -- Al-monitor reported that the Obama administration is cutting aid to the Palestinians by $80 million in what congressional sources describe as a "message" to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The State Department notified lawmakers on Sept. 25 of its intention to reduce economic aid for the West Bank and Gaza Strip […]

Palestinian Protests Continue Against Israeli Occupation

The Levant News -- Stone-throwing Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip during "Day of Rage" protests on Friday while diplomats tried to end more than three weeks of bloodshed. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he was cautiously optimistic there was a way to defuse […]

Netanyahu: ‘Palestinians Killed The Dinosaurs’

The Levant News -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed today that Palestinians were responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs. In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper this morning, the hardline conservative leader was asked to defend his recent comments which claimed Palestinians were responsible for the Holocaust. “Well it wouldn’t be the first […]

Netanyahu falsifies history by linking late Palestinian leader to Holocaust

The Levant News -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked a Holocaust controversy on Wednesday, hours before a visit to Germany, by saying that the Muslim elder in Jerusalem during the 1940s convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate the Jews. In a speech to the Zionist Congress late on Tuesday, Netanyahu referred to a series of […]

Palestinians make fresh 'revolution' calls, unrest deepens

The Levant News -- Palestinians torched a site revered by Jews in the West Bank overnight, Israeli and Palestinian sources said Friday, amid calls for fresh protests after more than two weeks of deadly unrest. Video showed what looked like an extensive blaze at the site in the northern city of Nablus known as Joseph's […]

3 Palestinian youths killed by Israeli forces in 24 hours

The Levant News -- Three Palestinian teenagers, including a 13-year-old Palestinian boy, have been killed in West Bank clashes with Israeli soldiers in the past 24 hours. More than 450 Palestinians have also been injured in the violence. Abdel-Rahman Abeidallah, 13, died of a gunshot wound to the heart on Monday, a source at Bethlehem Hospital […]

Israeli jets strike Gaza after rocket fire pinned on Hamas

The Levant News -- Israeli warplanes launched airstrikes on targets in Gaza overnight in retaliation to rocket fire directed at Israeli territory earlier in the day. Although an ISIS-affiliated group claimed responsibility for the attack, Israel holds Hamas responsible. Witnesses reported at least four airstrikes in the Gaza strip early Monday, conducted by Israeli F-16 jets […]

Palestinian photographer says shot during West Bank demo

The Levant News -- A Palestinian photographer said he was shot in the leg Friday as he covered a demonstration in the occupied West Bank suppressed by Israeli troops. Independent cameraman Ahmed Talaat, speaking to AFP by telephone as he was being evacuated by ambulance, said he had been shot in the thigh by a .22 […]

Israeli Blockade Slow Reconstruction Of Bombarded Gaza Homes

The Levant- - The Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip continues to hinder the reconstruction process in the Palestinian territory, leaving thousands of families homeless. During the recent war on Gaza, Israeli forces killed over 22-hundred Palestinians and destroyed the territory’s infrastructure. Our correspondent Ashraf Shanon explains how Israel’s control on the flow of goods into […]

Solidarity With Al-Aqsa Mosque Against Recent Israeli assault

The Levant- – The forum was organized by The Alliance of Palestinian Resistance forces, on Saturday in Damascus, to express solidarity with al-Aqsa Mosque and the prisoners in the Israeli jails. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of the Israeli occupation entity, broke into the holy mosque on Wednesday amid brutal assault against Palestinians at the site […]

Israel population hits 8.4 million

THE LEVANT NEWS -- Israel’s population will stand at 8.4 million Sunday, with 158,000 people added to the rolls from last September, including the highest number of immigrants in over a decade, according to figures released by the government Tuesday. The numbers, which show the country’s populace expected to exceed 10 million within the next […]

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