Aid Ships Israeli authorities have warned that they would block a contingent of aid ships carrying construction materials and humanitarian supplies for the people of Gaza. “Ships that make their own way to Gaza don’t do anything to help the people there,” Yigal Palmor, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, claimed on Tuesday. Israeli authorities said the cargo vessels would... 

Palestinian hospital officials say 15 people were wounded in overnight Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip. The airstrikes came after the Israeli military reported that Palestinian militants on Tuesday had blown up a donkey cart filled with dynamite near the concrete wall that separates Gaza from Israel and fired several mortar rounds into Israel. No Israelis were injured. Officials at the hospital... 

Egyptian Army Egyptian military forces on Sunday concluded maneuvers in the Sinai Peninsula that simulated an invasion of southern Israel. Dubbed “Badr-2010,” the exercise featured an armed crossing of the Suez Canal followed by a deep thrust into “enemy territory,” reported the Middle East News Agency (MENA). The only “enemy” territory west of the Suez Canal is... 

Lebanese earlier this week celebrated the 10th anniversary of Israeli troops' withdrawal from southern Lebanon. The Lebanese army fired anti-aircraft guns on Israeli warplanes Wednesday after what it said were repeated violations of Lebanese airspace, state media reported. According to the National News Agency of Lebanon, the army opened fire after Israeli planes entered Lebanese airspace for a... 

The secret military agreement signed by Shimon Peres, now president of Israel, and P W Botha of South Africa. Exclusive: Secret apartheid-era papers give first official evidence of Israeli nuclear weapons. Secret South African documents reveal that Israel offered to sell nuclear warheads to the apartheid regime, providing the first official documentary evidence of the state’s possession of nuclear... 

This is yet another video of American war criminals surrounding then shooting to death an unarmed old man (video 5 minutes). Notice their fear as they circle around him and hear their shouts to shoot him down even though he is unarmed. Update: We have been notified by our readers that the old Iraqi man was actually not innocent at all. He was holding a grenade in his hand and he refused to put the... 

US is Sending Up To 4 New Carrier Groups In Region Debkafile’s military sources report a decision by the Obama administration to boost US military strength in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf regions in the short term with an extra air and naval strike forces and 6,000 Marine and sea combatants. Carrier Strike Group 10, headed by the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, sails out of the US... 

Israel has halted the flow of government sector mail between Gaza and the West Bank, causing a delay in the receipt of official documents, officials said on Thursday. Maher Abu Ouf, Palestinian director for the Erez crossing between Gaza and Israel, said Israel shut-down all mail services last Wednesday after forces detained Gaza-based postal service official Sufian Abu Zubda. “We do not know... 

Naor Gilon, a high ranking member of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, today announced that he had met with the ambassadors from several European states to demand that they do something to prevent their citizens from sending private aid ships to the Gaza Strip. Gilon warned the ambassadors that Israel considered the aid “provocation” and that they would do whatever was necessary to stop the aid... 

A MiG-29 fighter jet performs a maneuver as the Russian national flag flies in the foreground, during the MAKS-2009 international air show in Zhukovsky, outside Moscow, August 22, 2009. Russia is to supply Syria with warplanes, defense apparatuses and military vehicles in a move that would irk Israel and the United States. Head of Russia’s Federal Agency for Military Cooperation Mikhail Dmitriyev... 

Two Palestinian children have been killed in a collision between an Israeli army jeep and a tractor. In the incident, an Israeli army jeep hit the trailer of a tractor in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank. The children, aged four and five, were on the tractor with two other Palestinians who were seriously injured, AFP reported on Wednesday. Two Israeli soldiers in the jeep were slightly... 

Israeli message: let Gaza starve to death or get shot Israeli troops shot and wounded three Palestinians and a Maltese woman in the Gaza Strip on Saturday during a protest near the border with Israel, witnesses and medical sources said. The four were shot after they entered a 300-metre- (-yard) deep no-go zone previously declared by Israel on the Gaza side of the frontier. The incident occurred when... 

Ring ‘exploited desperate condition of sick people’, say Israel police. Israel has charged five of its citizens, including a retired army general, with operating a nationwide organ trafficking ring that ensnared dozens of potential victims. The charges include human trafficking for the purpose of organ harvesting and money laundering. The indictment says that the ring exploited the desperate... 

WJC President Ronald Lauder World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder has publicly questioned United States President Barack Obama’s commitment to Israel’s security, in a letter he reportedly drafted with the approval of his close friend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Our great country and the tiny State of Israel have long shared the core values of freedom and democracy,”... 

Syria’s foreign minister has said that Israel, with the numerous atomic warheads it has in its stockpile, poses the biggest nuclear threat to the Middle East. Walid al-Muallem made the remark after he arrived in the Iranian capital to take part in the two-day nuclear disarmament conference, dubbed ‘Nuclear Energy for All, Nuclear Weapons for No One.’ “The Tehran conference...