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Gaza rockets strike near Israel’s nuclear reactor
The Israeli military has confirmed that two Palestinian rockets have struck the city of Dimona where Israel has a nuclear reactor.
Palestinian resistance groups in the besieged Gaza Strip fired the rockets in retaliation for Israeli attacks on the coastal enclave on Wednesday.
Tel Aviv said earlier that more than 70 rockets had been fired into Israel’s illegal settlements since the early hours of...
Israeli Prime Minister vows major offensive on Gaza Strip
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has hinted that the Tel Aviv regime is ready to expand its military operations in the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Israeli premier said on Sunday that Tel Aviv was prepared to widen its operations in the besieged enclave.
Netanyahu says the almost-nightly strikes on Gaza could be expanded if need be.
The remarks come as Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called...
Hamas threatens 3rd Intifada to answer massive Israeli crackdown
Hamas is promising to “open the gates of hell” if Netanyahu’s government expels its leaders from the West Bank to Gaza in connection with three missing Israeli teens. The rescue operation resulted in 280 arrests and a death of a Palestinian teen.
With Operation Brother’s Keeper unwinding in the West Bank, the Israeli government and army are set to find Eyal Yifrach, Gilad Shaer and Naftali...
Riots break out in Tel Aviv between Israelis and Sudanese
In the last few days violent racial riots broke out in Tel Aviv, something that has not been mentioned by the Western media. African migrants, mostly Sudanese, marched in the capital of Israel protesting against the government of Netanyahu. The reason for the protest was the demand for refugees to be given asylum in Israel and for the Israelis to stop treating them as second-class human beings.
Israeli...
US set to free convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard
The United States is set to free convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard to save the so-called peace talks between Palestinian Authority (PA) and Tel Aviv, reports in the Israeli news media say.
With the talks on the brink of collapse, US officials have offered to release Pollard, 59, as a carrot to Israel to break the deadlock over a scheduled release of Palestinian prisoners languishing in Israeli...
Israel Budgets Billions for Plan to Attack Iran
Israel believes agreement reached on Iran’s nuclear program presents an existential threat.
Despite what is characterized as substantive progress in talks between Iran, the United States, and the European Union on Iran’s nuclear program, the state of Israel has announced it is allocating in excess of 10 billion shekels for war preparations.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz cites three members of...
Israeli Foreign Minister calls for ‘full reoccupation’ of Gaza Strip
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called for the full reoccupation of the besieged Gaza Strip amid rising tensions in the region.
Lieberman made the remarks on Israel’s Channel 2 television following a retaliatory attack by Palestinian resistance movement, Islamic Jihad, against the Israeli regime earlier on Wednesday.
“Following an attack like this — a barrage of more than...
Thousands of African migrants hold new protest in Israel
Thousands of African migrants in Israel have staged a demonstration to protest against Tel Aviv’s policies towards refugees.
The undocumented African migrants rallied outside Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem for the fourth consecutive day on Wednesday.
Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld put the number of the demonstrators at “more than 10,000.”
In an open letter to Israeli...
Tens of Thousands of Africans hold protest in Tel Aviv against detentions
Tens of thousands of Africans took to the streets of Tel Aviv on Sunday in protest of Israel’s detention of their fellow migrants deemed illegal job-seekers by the nation. The rally is the biggest ever held by migrants in the state.
“More than 30,000 demonstrators marched peacefully in Tel Aviv,” police spokeswoman Lubra Samri told AFP.
The protesters gathered in the capital’s centre Rabin...
Israel’s rhetoric over Iran 'leaves it isolated from world powers'
The deal with Iran is not a “historic mistake”, as claimed by Benjamin Netanyahu, but brings Iran in from the cold and puts the option of military strikes off the table, Gideon Levy, journalist and columnist for the Haaretz newspaper, told RT.
Israel and particularly Netanyahu now stands increasingly isolated, and as the peace talks with the Palestinians go nowhere, it depends on Washington if...
Kerry assures Israel is ‘safer’ after Iran’s nuclear deal
US Secretary of State Kerry assured Israel will be safer over the next six months due to the agreement reached in Geneva concerning Iran’s nuclear program and uranium enrichment plan.
Though “Israel is threatened by what has been going on in Iran”, the deal brokered on Saturday will keep the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program under supervision and control, said John Kerry.
“But I believe...
Netanyahu says world is 'more dangerous place' after Iran deal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has slammed the international deal over Iran’s nuclear program, branding it a “historic mistake.” He accused the P5+1 of allowing Tehran a step further “towards obtaining the world’s most dangerous weapon.”
Netanyahu condemned the deal at a cabinet meeting on Sunday and said the world has become a more dangerous place.
“What was achieved...
Netanyahu to Putin: Resolve Iran like you did Syria
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (R) speaks with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their meeting in Moscow’s Kremlin, on November 20, 2013. Netanyahu arrived today in Moscow.
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested Iran’s nuclear issue should be resolved with the same approach as Russia offered for Syria, saying it will be peaceful for Tehran just like it was...
Obama asks senators to ignore Israel lobby against Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and US President Barack Obama
As Iran and the six world powers resume the next round of nuclear talks in Geneva on Wednesday, US President Barack Obama pleads with American senators to ignore the aggressive lobbying campaign by Israel and hold off on new sanctions against Tehran.
During a two-hour White House meeting on Tuesday, Obama called on senators...
Netanyahu halts Israeli plans for new West Bank settler homes following criticism
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for his housing minister to reconsider long-term plans to construct thousands of new homes in the West Bank and in the contentious E1 area outside Jerusalem.
Netanyahu said in a statement that the plans would make “no contribution” to settlements, AP reports.
He added that they had caused “unnecessary conflict” with the international community....