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Fast Forward 45 Rockets And Mortars Fired From Gaza On Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Residents of southern Israel spent the night running to bomb shelters and safe rooms as some 45 rockets and mortar shells were fired from Gaza. The rockets were fired early Wednesday morning beginning about an hour after Israel Air Force jets fired on three military targets in a Hamas compound in the…
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Fast Forward ‘Large And Active’ Hamas Cell Uncovered In West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli security forces uncovered an “extraordinarily large and active Hamas infrastructure” operating in the West Bank. The terror cell located near Nablus in the West Bank was active from October 2017 until April 2018, when the cell was detained, the Israel Security Agency, also known as the Shin Bet, said Sunday in…
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Community We Live Near The Border With Gaza, And We Want The Violence To End
An Open Letter to Israeli Leadership Dear Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, We, members of Other Voice — residents of the Western Negev who live close to the border with the Gaza Strip — are writing to you, yet again, in our call for a long-term political program to end the…
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Fast Forward Israel Destroyed Hamas Terror Tunnel That Stretched Out To Sea
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s military destroyed a Hamas terror tunnel that reached several yards into the sea, which would have allowed the group’s naval commandos to launch an attack on Israel from its coast. The tunnel was destroyed by the Air Force on June 3, when Israel carried out several airstrikes on Gaza in retaliation…
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Fast Forward No World Cup For Hamas Prisoners In Israeli Jails
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Hamas prisoners in Israeli jails will not be permitted to watch the FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan reportedly ordered the Israel Prisons Service to block the Hamas prisoners from watching the matches. The 2018 World Cup tournament begins next month in Russia. “I have no intention to…
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Fast Forward IDF Strikes Southern Gaza Military Targets With Tanks
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Defense Forces struck a Hamas target in the southern Gaza Strip with tank fire. The attack early on Sunday morning was in response to a bomb placed near the border fence between Israel and Gaza, the IDF said in a statement. Three Gazans were killed in the attack, according to…
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Fast Forward Trump Peace Envoy: Hamas Uses Gaza Protests ‘As Cover To Attack Israeli Troops’
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jason Greenblatt, President Trump’s chief Middle East negotiator, said Hamas uses protests at Israel’s border with Gaza to attack the Jewish state. “Hamas and other terrorist groups have spent their energy and resources encouraging Palestinians in Gaza to stage protests and throw rocks and Molotov cocktails at the border fence,” Greenblatt…
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Opinion Hamas, Not Israel, Is Responsible For Deaths In Gaza
It’s now been a month. An entire month of Palestinian organized, initiated and funded violence at the border with Gaza. What began with a promise of non-violence has cost some 35 Palestinian lives and hundreds of reported casualties. But the leaders of Hamas keep promising us that the worst is still ahead. Indeed, we are…
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