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1329 articles tagged "Israel"
DEBKAfile
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August 16, 2007, 9:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that the delay in Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky's scheduled departure as Deputy Chief of Staff, announced by the IDF spokesman Wednesday night, Aug 15, is connected with the war tensions on Israel's northern and Gaza borders and renewed threats from Iran.
Barak inspected the ...
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August 15, 2007, 5:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
More than 100 suspected terrorists detained for questioning, half released later.
The Golani Brigade troops clashed with Palestinian Hamas gunmen who opened fire during a raid on the villages of Qarara and Abassan east of Khan Younes and close to the Israeli border. The force continues to operate in the area, ...
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August 14, 2007, 10:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
They have been identified as Yehiel Rosenfeld, David Cochavi, Yitzhak Hamami and Yehoshua Lustig. The close kin of the fifth soldier has not yet been informed. The remains of the five Israeli soldiers who died in Israel's War of Independence were found at El Arish in northern Sinai.
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August 13, 2007, 2:27 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hatib died in an exchange of fire after he shot and grabbed the sidearm of an Israeli guard who was seriously wounded. Ten people were injured in an exchange of fire as the second guard chased him through the crowded Street of the Christians. Hatib arrived in Jerusalem by a ...
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August 12, 2007, 5:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
Five youngsters were detained, 27 people were injured, after hundreds threw stones and oil at the thousands of police, border guards and soldiers mobilized for the evacuation. The occupants, two families who claimed the two stores were formerly Jewish property, did not resist eviction.
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August 12, 2007, 8:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
Four medals will be awarded posthumously. Thirty-four citations will be conferred by the chief of staff, including 12 Medals for Distinguished Service and 6 Medals of Valor. One posthumous Medal of Valor for exceptional courage will be handed to the family of the late Maj. Roi Klein, 31, from the ...
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July 31, 2007, 9:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Friday, they fired five mortar rounds, then laid an explosive device near Kerem Shalom in the south. IDF fire detonated the device. Two Qassam missiles exploded outside the Sufa crossing. Another two later Friday.
On the West Bank, Palestinian gunmen fired at an Israeli patrol at Beit Jala in southern Jerusalem. ... 
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July 29, 2007, 9:36 AM (GMT+02:00)
His resignation tendered to the chief of staff Thursday, July 26, was formally termed a "request to terminate his term of duty." debkafile notes: Maj. Gen, Bassat never in the year since the Lebanon War assumed responsibility for attack by a Hizballah shore-to-ship C-802 missile which killed four ...
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July 27, 2007, 10:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
The panel of five High Court justices, headed by Supreme Court President Dorit Beinisch, granted the state 21 days to explain how charges of rape included in the original indictment came to be removed from the plea bargain accord negotiated by state attorney Menahem Mazuz. Jail time for Katzav was ...
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July 24, 2007, 5:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Likud MK Gideon Saar criticized the silent posture of defense minister Ehud Barak Sunday. In view of the constant missile attacks from Gaza on Israeli schools, and accumulating Hamas stocks of war materiel, Saar urged swift and effective action against the Palestinian terrorist organizations operating out of Gaza. Thursday, July ...
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July 24, 2007, 9:47 AM (GMT+02:00)
All three missiles exploded after school hours - fortunately because neither school is fortified to withstand missile attack and casualties were light although the damage was heavy. The local council head invited PM Ehud Olmert to come and see for himself why it was necessary to fortify the schools.
At ...
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July 22, 2007, 6:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli prime minister said Friday that unilateral steps and the evacuation of communities are not on the agenda - only negotiations with the Palestinians on an agreed settlement. Negotiations with Arab governments, including Syria, must be direct and not subject to pre-conditions, he said. Olmert rejected the High Court's ...
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July 22, 2007, 2:12 PM (GMT+02:00)
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert freed them in a gesture of support for Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas. Most were Fatah members convicted for terrorist acts. They also included Popular Front deputy leader Abdel Rahum Maloukh, whose organization was responsible for the assassination of Israeli minister Rehavam Zeevi in 2001. One was ...
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July 22, 2007, 9:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
The 600-page report submitted to the Knesset Speaker Wednesday, July 18, finds PM Ehud Olmert, ex-defense minister Amir Peretz, former chief of staff Dan Halutz and homeland security chief Yitzhak Gershon guilty of abandoning to their fate the population of northern Israel.
The controller, retired Judge Micha Lindenstrauss, singled out ... 
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July 17, 2007, 9:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
On the West Bank, Israel has further agreed to suspend arrest operations against 180 wanted terrorists of the Fatah-Al Aqsa Martyrs (Suicide) Brigades and radical Fronts - provided they renounce violence. The Olmert government has approved the two steps for the sake of propping up Mahmoud Abbas and his Ramallah-based ...
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July 14, 2007, 10:29 AM (GMT+02:00)
An inspection carried out by Israel's Antiquities Authority on July 9 discovered a 1.5 m deep trench dug near the Dome of the Rock into the original landfill of the Jewish Second Temple. Remains of an ancient wall possibly dating to Solomon's First Temple have become visible. Heavy earthmoving equipment ...
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July 13, 2007, 9:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that for the first time in the two years since Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip, an Israeli force on a counter-terror mission was hit by a Hamas-Jihad Islami ambush using the tactics employed by Hizballah on Day One of the Lebanon War, July ...
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July 11, 2007, 11:04 PM (GMT+02:00)
One year ago to the day, the Lebanese Shiite terrorist Hizballah sent a unit across the border into Israel and ambushed an Israeli patrol, killing eight of its members and kidnapping two. The raid, followed by a Katyusha rocket attack on northern Israel sparked the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and ...
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July 10, 2007, 7:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
This is the domestic security agency's retort in its dispute with the prime minister over prisoner swaps for kidnapped Israeli soldiers. The Shin Bet reports that any number of Fatah convicts above 120 would set free hardened terrorist murderers dedicated to returning to killing Israelis. Their original list of 250 ...
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July 9, 2007, 9:44 AM (GMT+02:00)
"We need more funds than we receive currently to deal with this threat," said Ephraim Sneh in a radio interview Monday, July 2.
Sneh also dismissed a popular notion: "There is no coordination on an operational level between the Israel and US militaries on Iran," he said. "If sanctions had been ... |
