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1329 articles tagged "Israel"
DEBKAfile
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June 14, 2007, 8:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
The brainchild of chief of staff Lt. Gen. Gaby Ashkenazi and his predecessor Dan Halutz, the system is designed to stop would-be Palestinian raiders in their tracks before they reach the Gaza-Israel border fence.
Nonetheless, Saturday, heavily armed Palestinian terrorists broke through the fortified fence, threatening this would not be ...
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June 12, 2007, 9:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports: Brig. Gen. Yosi Baidatz reported Monday, June 4, that Hizballah is busy restoring its fortified positions south of the Litani in villages and open ground under the very noses of UNIFIL international observers.
Gen. Baidatz reported that Hamas, which heads the Palestinian government, is satisfied with ... 
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June 10, 2007, 8:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
They have been invited to a Middle East Quartet meeting on June 25.
Eight mortar rounds were fired Wednesday at the Erez crossing manned by Israeli troops shortly after a visit by deputy defense minister Ephraim Sneh. Hamas took responsibility for the attack, announcing the "blows against the enemy" would continue. ... 
DEBKAfile
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June 9, 2007, 9:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
It was not supposed to happen. Three Palestinian terrorist groups broke through Israeli border fortifications from Gaza in broad daylight and raided an Israeli military position near the key Kissufim crossing Saturday, June 9. Their mission: to kill and kidnap Israeli troops.
Their mission failed. The IDF claims the position was ...
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June 8, 2007, 5:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Jewish community members plan a project to identify the victims and fence the site.
Yitzhak Arad from the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem said some 28,000 Jews were brought to the village from surrounding towns.
DEBKAfile
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June 5, 2007, 6:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, up to 10 Israeli soldiers were slightly injured in a similar attack from northern Gaza on the two locations. It was launched minutes after Israeli PM Ehud Olmert told the weekly cabinet meeting that Israeli operations in Gaza had reduced Hamas missile strikes and would continue and there would ...
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June 4, 2007, 9:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
The sixth Qassam missile Wednesday knocked out the electric current in Sderot. The third demolished an apartment ten minutes after its owners went out.
Thousands have fled the daily barrage battering the town of 23,000. The effectiveness of air raids against Hamas operatives running the missile campaign is diminishing. Yet ... 
DEBKAfile
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June 2, 2007, 9:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
The former defense minister warned against harboring illusions that the Lebanese terrorists had been chased away from from northern border area. They are not visible, said Mofaz, because they are dug in very deep. The prime minister claims constantly that pushing Hizballah out of south Lebanon was one of the ...
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June 2, 2007, 9:03 PM (GMT+02:00)
He accused Ehud Olmert's administration of failures in the wars against Hizballah and the Palestinians and idleness in the last year, when the stockpiling of weapons in S. Lebanon and Gaza should have been cut down. If he succeeds, the Likud leader said Wednesday, he will set up a national ...
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June 1, 2007, 9:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
The pilot ejected safely when an engine of the plane caught fire on a training flight over the sea close to Ashdod Thursday.
Two Labor frontrunners in leadership primary Barak and Ayalon face off in second round June 12 <br/>
DEBKAfile
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May 30, 2007, 10:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
Former prime minister Ehud Barak polled 36%, comfortably ahead of former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon's 31% and the incumbent, outgoing defense minister Amir Peretz, who trailed them in third place with 23%. Peretz will hand the defense ministry over to the winner. Nonetheless his political clout is considerable.
DEBKAfile
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May 30, 2007, 8:06 AM (GMT+02:00)
The last two landed north of Sderot and set a cornfield on fire, another landed near the Eretz crossing from Gaza. Monday morning, the town was hit as defense minister Amir Peretz casted his vote in the Labor leadership primary.
Oshri Oz, 35, who is survived by his pregnant wife and ...
DEBKAfile
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May 29, 2007, 7:59 AM (GMT+02:00)
The two front-runners are Ami Ayalon, former Shin Bet chief and Navy commander, and, Ret. General Ehud Barak, former prime minister and retired general. Neither appears to have polled 40% of the vote according to a provisional count which places incumbent defense minister Amir Peretz third. Final results will be ...
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May 26, 2007, 9:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli border police shot the two assailants dead. The attack took place Saturday night at the city's southern border near Armon Hanatziv district.
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May 26, 2007, 10:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas, Jihad Islami and Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades claimed the attack which also struck a storehouse in Sderot's industrial zone. The Palestinians report two dead and 8 injured in an Israeli helicopter attack on a Hamas vehicle in Gaza Strip.
Thursday night, the Israeli air force struck eight Hamas and Jihad ... 
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May 26, 2007, 9:40 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas official Nizhar Riyan repeated Iranian president's mantra Monday, May 21, declaring "Israel must be wiped off the map" and replaced with the state of Palestine. Hamas would fight, he said, until the "last Jew was expelled" - not only from Sderot but also from Ashkelon and "all of Palestine."
To ...
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May 26, 2007, 9:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
He asked the EU foreign affairs executive Tuesday, May 22, Day Seven of the Hamas missile blitz, to inform moderate Arab leaders they had better restrain Hamas before Israel is forced to use more strength.
His deputy, Ephraim Sneh, said there can be no talks with the Palestinians now except ... 
DEBKAfile
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May 26, 2007, 9:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
The pair, Ahmad Jabari, commander of Hamas Executive Forces, and
Abu Obeida, spokesman of Hamas' military wing, are dictating a ruthless pace in the face of low resistance. He has taken matters in his own hands, certain he can count on political, military and financial backing from Tehran and Damascus. Israel ...
DEBKAfile
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May 24, 2007, 9:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
One exploded outside a private home damaging property and vehicles. Fatah's al Aqsa Brigades and Hamas claimed three Qassam missiles fired at Sderot Tuesday night as the Palestinian missile offensive entered its second week. Overnight, two Israeli air raids struck Hamas missile production units in Jebaliya and Gaza City. The ...
DEBKAfile
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May 23, 2007, 9:01 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report Israel is already giving Fatah arms, has been for the last six months and has sent ammo this week to keep Mahmoud Abbas' men supplied in the escalating Palestinian factional violence.
A member of the Israeli cabinet told the London Daily Telegraph Friday: "Time ... |
