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Fast Forward Narrow Miss for Tel Aviv as Rocket Nailed in Air
Israel rushed a fifth Iron Dome air defence battery into service in the Tel Aviv area on Saturday, using it within hours to shoot down a rocket fired at the coastal metropolis from the Gaza Strip. But the successful interception, witnessed by a Reuters correspondent, appeared to stretch the capabilities of the unit meant to…
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Israel News Weary Gaza Knows To Expect the Worst
The defiance of Gaza’s armed struggle bombards the senses in the city streets. Shrieks of outgoing rockets from downtown launch pads receive an encore of whistling youths, honking horns and celebratory calls of “God is Great” from mosque loudspeakers. Martial songs blare “Strike Tel Aviv!” from one of the few cars daring to chance the…
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Fast Forward Iron Dome Intercepts Tel Aviv Rocket
Palestinian militants fired a rocket at Tel Aviv on Saturday but it was intercepted in mid-air by a newly deployed Israeli anti-missile battery and caused no casualties or damage, police said. The armed wing of the Islamist Hamas movement said in Gaza that it launched a long-range Fajr-5 rocket at the city, Israel’s commercial centre….
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Fast Forward Hopes for Gaza Truce Dashed as Rockets Fly
Egypt opened a tiny window to emergency peace diplomacy in Gaza on Friday, but hopes for even a brief ceasefire while its prime minister was inside the bombarded enclave to talk to leaders of the Islamist Hamas movement were immediately dashed. A rocket fired from Gaza landed in the sea near Tel Aviv after alarms…
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Fast Forward Rocket Misses Tel Aviv, Lands in Sea
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip towards Tel Aviv on Friday landed in the sea, a police spokesman said. “The rocket landed off the shores of Tel Aviv,” the spokesman said after air raid sirens sounded in Israel’s commercial centre and an explosion was heard.
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Fast Forward Ehud Barak Warns of Harsh Retaliation
Israel Defence Minister Ehud Barak, signaling stronger Israeli military action against Palestinian militants, said on Thursday they would be made to pay a price for firing rockets toward Tel Aviv. “This escalation will exact a price that the other side will have to pay,” Barak said in broadcast remarks after rockets were fired toward Israel’s…
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Fast Forward Israel Vows Retaliation as Rockets Near Tel Aviv
A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed close to Tel Aviv on Thursday, in the first attack on Israel’s biggest city in 20 years, raising the stakes in a military showdown between Israel and the Palestinians that is moving towards all-out war. Earlier, a Hamas rocket killed three Israelis north of the Gaza Strip,…
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Fast Forward Arab Couple Claims Restaurant Shunned Them
An Arab-Israeli couple said an Israeli restaurant refused to give them reservations because they are Arab. Sama and Muhamad Sufri of Tel Aviv said they tried to make a reservation late last week at one of their favorite restaurants, Soho in Rishon Lezion, using the Arab name Walid, but were told that the restaurant was…
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