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Fast Forward Palestinian Boy Shot Dead During Clashes in the West Bank
A Palestinian boy was shot dead during clashes between Israeli soldiers and stone-throwing protesters in the occupied West Bank on Friday, medics and residents said. Orwah Hammad, 14, was shot in the head in the village of Silwad, north of the Palestinian seat of government in Ramallah. An army spokesman told Reuters Israeli forces “managed…
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Fast Forward Two Israeli Soldiers Injured in Attack Launched From Egypt
Attackers on Egypt’s Sinai peninsula opened fire on Israeli soldiers across the border on Wednesday, wounding two, the Israeli military said. Islamist militants are active in the peninsula, which borders southern Israel, though assaults across the fenced frontier are rare. The attackers fired guns and an anti-tank missile at the Israelis, the military said in…
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Fast Forward IDF Fires On Infiltrators from Lebanon
Israel Defense Forces troops fired on two suspects infiltrating into Israeli territory from Lebanon. The suspects escaped and returned to Lebanon, the IDF Spokesman said. Lebanese security sources told the Daily Star of Lebanon that Israeli soldiers fired on a Lebanese Army patrol in the Sheba Farms area near the border with Israel, wounding one…
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Israel News 3 Israeli Soldiers Commit Suicide After Gaza War
(Haaretz) — Three soldiers who fought in this summer’s war in the Gaza Strip have committed suicide over the last month. In addition, a reservist called up for service in the north during the war to replace regular troops who were sent to Gaza committed suicide during his reserve duty, shortly after arriving at his…
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Opinion Meet the ‘Good Kids’ Who Refuse To Spy for Israel
Thinkstock The refusal of 43 men and women to continue their reserve duty in Israel’s elite 8200 intelligence-gathering unit has taken Israel by storm. The group published a letter on Friday, and it made its way quickly into the Israeli, American, and international headlines. The letter stated that these soldiers and officers are no longer…
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Opinion Israeli Criticism of 43 Refuseniks Couldn’t Be More Natural
Getty Images Forty-three reservists of an elite IDF corps have signed and released a letter setting out their refusal to serve Israeli “military control over the Occupied Territories” anymore. The members of Unit 8200, an intelligence unit often seen as an incubator of Israeli high tech as its soldiers move into civilian life, directly criticized…
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Fast Forward IDF, Fellow Reservists Condemn Refusal Letter
A letter in which dozens of Israeli intelligence corps reservists vowed to stop collecting information on Palestinians was condemned by the Israel Defense Forces. IDF Spokesperson’s Unit head Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz in a statement issued Sunday called the letter an “exploitation of military service in order to express a political position. We see the…
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Fast Forward 43 Intelligence Reservists Vow to Stop Spying on Palestinians
Dozens of intelligence corps reservists vowed to stop collecting information on Palestinians. The letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was signed by 43 reservists, of whom 10 are officers, from the 8200 signal intelligence unit of the Israel Defense Forces’ intelligence corps. It was also Chief of Staff Benny Gantz and Aviv Kochavi, who…
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