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Breaking News Israel Scraps Talks as Palestinians Forge Unity
Israel on Wednesday canceled a planned session of peace negotiations with the Palestinians shortly after a unity deal was signed in Gaza between Hamas Islamists and President Mahmoud Abbas’s Palestine Liberation Organisation. A statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said: “Israel has cancelled a negotiations meeting that was expected to be held this evening,”…
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Breaking News Benjamin Netanyahu Warns Mahmoud Abbas: It’s Israel or Hamas
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cautioned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday over just-revived unity talks with Hamas, saying he had to choose between peace with Israel or its Islamist enemy. Delegates from Abbas’s Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and Hamas representatives held a fence-mending session on Tuesday in the Gaza Strip, their first since a…
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Breaking News Palestinian College Chief Resigns After Hamas Rally on West Bank Campus
Sari Nusseibeh, the president of the Palestinian Al-Quds University, resigned three days after a rally in support of Hamas at its eastern Jerusalem campus. Nusseibeh will step down at the end of the academic year, according to an announcement on the university’s website. The announcement said that Nusseibeh announced his decision on Wednesday at a…
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Breaking News Hamas Sends Threatening Texts to Israeli Cell Phones
Israel cell phone owners received threatening text messages from Hamas. The text messages were delivered on Saturday evening, and threatened rocket attacks and kidnapping. “A warning to Zionists. Kassam rockets are waiting with you. If you want the life then leave our country,” said one message in Hebrew. “Al-qassam has chosen you to be The…
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Breaking News Netanyahu Praises Jenin Raid To Arrest Terrorist That Left 3 Palestinians Dead
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the security forces that took part in an operation in Jenin to arrest a Hamas terrorist, which left the suspect and at least two others dead. “Our policy is to attack those who attack us and who are planning to attack us. Both were applicable in this case,” Netanyahu…
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Breaking News Israel Kills 3 Militants in West Bank Raid
Israeli forces shot three Palestinian militants dead on Saturday in a raid on a home in the occupied West Bank to capture a wanted Hamas Islamist militant, Israeli military and Palestinian officials said. The Palestinian Authority denounced the violence that it said threatened U.S.-brokered peace talks ahead of a looming April deadline set by Secretary…
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Breaking News Avigdor Lieberman Accuses Israeli Lawmakers of Being Hamas Members
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman wrote on his Facebook page that some members of Knesset represent Hamas, the terrorist organization that governs Gaza. The comment, reported by Haaretz, came following an Egyptian court ruling outlawing Hamas and shutting its offices in the country. “We still have Hamas representatives sitting in the Knesset,” Lieberman wrote, according…
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Breaking News Amputee Soldier Proposes to Girlfriend on Stage of IDF Gala
An Israeli soldier who lost his arm in a Hamas terror attack proposed to his girlfriend from the stage of a Friends of the IDF event in Florida. Capt. Ziv Shilon proposed on Thursday in front of about 1,000 people at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces’ Greater Miami Chapter Solidarity Gala in Hollywood….
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