JERUSALEM: A key security operative of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas was under arrest in Syria tonight on suspicion of having helped an alleged Israeli hit squad identify Mahmoud al-Mabhouh before he was assassinated in Dubai. Palestinian sources in the Gulf confirmed Nahro Massoud, a Hamas security official, was in detention and under interrogation in [...]
February 18, 2010 | Posted in
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LONDON: Britain last night fired the first shot in a potentially explosive diplomatic row with Israel by calling in the country’s ambassador to explain the use of faked British passports by a hit squad who targeted a Hamas official in Dubai. The Israeli ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Office to “share information” about [...]
February 18, 2010 | Posted in
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LONDON: Gordon Brown stepped into the growing international row over the alleged use of fake passports by the assassins of a Hamas leader in Dubai by promising a full investigation. As demands were made for the Israeli ambassador to be summoned to the Foreign Office to answer allegations that the Mossad security service was behind [...]
February 17, 2010 | Posted in
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JERUSALEM: British authorities are investigating how six British nationals apparently had their identities stolen by suspected Mossad agents on a mission to assassinate a Hamas leader in Dubai. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office confirmed that the identities used by six members of the 11-strong hit squad were those of real British passport holders living in [...]
February 17, 2010 | Posted in
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DUBAI: The Dubai police department today released photos of the 11 people allegedly responsible for assassinating Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh last month — and the chief of police says he’s close to issuing arrest warrants for the group. Everyone in the group held European passports, according to police: six British, three Irish, one French and [...]
February 16, 2010 | Posted in
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JERUSALEM: Israel is waging a covert assassination campaign across the Middle East in an effort to stop its key enemies co-ordinating their activities. Israeli agents have been targeting meetings between members of Hamas and the leadership of the militant Hezbollah group, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. They are also suspected of recent killings in Dubai, [...]
February 13, 2010 | Posted in
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan assured Palestinian people on Friday of its continued unequivocal support for an independent and sovereign Palestinian state with Al Quds as its capital. The pledge was conveyed to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who was in Islamabad for a daylong visit during which he met President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza [...]
GAZA: Hamas, in an unusual move that seems unlikely to herald a change in tactics by the Islamist group, has expressed regret for the deaths of Israeli civilians in Palestinian rocket attacks during fighting in Gaza a year ago. Israel, where Hamas suicide bombers have killed hundreds of civilians over two decades, dismissed any apology [...]
JERUSALEM: Israel has reprimanded two senior army officers who were responsible for firing white phosphorus artillery shells at a UN compound during last year’s offensive in Gaza. In the first admission of any wrongdoing the Israeli military found that Brigadier-General Eyal Eisenberg and Colonel Ilan Malka were guilty “of exceeding their authority in a manner [...]
February 2, 2010 | Posted in
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DUBAI: Dubai’s police chief said that Israel’s spy agency, MOSSAD, could be behind the murder of a top Hamas leader at a Dubai hotel room. “It could be MOSSAD, or another party,” police chief Dhahi Khalfan told AFP. “Personally, I don’t exclude any possibility. I don’t exclude any party that has an interest in the [...]
The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas accused Israel yesterday of assassinating one of its military chiefs in Dubai — a man who helped to found the group’s armed wing and who was behind the kidnapping and killing of two Israeli soldiers in the first intifada 21 years ago. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who was a key to the [...]
Israel’s spy agency Mossad and the country’s special forces have carried out a number of assassinations of Palestinian militants in the past and have also been blamed for killings which the Jewish state has never publicly taken responsibility for. In addition, the army and air force have carried out so-called ‘targeted killings’ of numerous Palestinian [...]
Following is a list of United Nations Security Council resolutions directly critical of Israel for violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions, the U.N. Charter, the Geneva Conventions, international terrorism, or other violations of international law. Res. 57 (Sep. 18, 1948) – Expresses deep shock at the assassination of the U.N. Mediator in Palestine, Count Folke [...]
Ynet reports: Peres in Berlin, Netanyahu in Auschwitz, Lieberman in Budapest and Edelstein at the UN headquarters in New York all plan to attack the Goldstone report into the Gaza war on International Holocaust Day this Wednesday. Israel’s political echelon will once again try to divert attention from the fact that the Israeli crime is [...]
January 28, 2010 | Posted in
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Israel has a long history in the creation and promotion of terrorism. That history was prominent in the role of the Zionist gangs, the Irgun Zwei Leumi, the Stern and the Haganah, before the creation of the state of Israel, as in the well-known stories of the assassination of Count Folke Bernadotte, amongst others, and [...]
January 25, 2010 | Posted in
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JERUSALEM: Israel’s prime minister declared on Sunday that his country would retain parts of the West Bank forever a statement that infuriated Palestinians and could complicate the year-old peace mission of a visiting US envoy. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu laid claim to disputed territory just hours after meeting with George Mitchell, the Obama administration’s Middle [...]
TEL AVIV: The Israeli military is completing a rebuttal to a United Nations report accusing it of grave violations of international and humanitarian law in its Gaza invasion a year ago. Its central aim is to dispel the report’s harsh conclusion — that the death of noncombatants and destruction of civilian infrastructure were part of [...]
اسرائیل، ترک حکومت کے آگے جھکنے پر مجبور ہوگیا جبکہ پاکستان امریکا سے اپنے جائز مطالبات تک نہ منوا سکا۔ اپنے قومی تشخص اور وقار کے بارے میں حساس ملک ترکی نے اسرائیل جیسے مغرور اور ضدی ملک کو الٹی میٹم دیکر گزشتہ 36/ گھنٹوں میں 2/ بار معافی مانگنے پر مجبور کردیا،جبکہ رچرڈ ہالبروک [...]
January 15, 2010 | Posted in
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JERUSALEM: Residents of Tel Aviv’s quiet Hatikva neighbourhood were shocked yesterday to discover a self-styled Jewish sage living in their midst with a harem of 30 women kept as “slaves” in squalid apartments. Goel Ratzon (harem messiah), 60, is accused of fathering 37 children since 1993 with his “wives” and daughters. Mr Ratzon, who was [...]
January 15, 2010 | Posted in
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JERUSALEM: Israel’s deputy foreign minister issued a formal apology to the Turkish ambassador on Wednesday after ostentatiously humiliating him earlier in the week and aggravating strains in a complex and increasingly troubled relationship between Israel and Turkey, its closest Muslim ally. Turkey’s president, Abdullah Gul, had threatened to withdraw the ambassador if no apology had [...]
January 14, 2010 | Posted in
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