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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
JERUSALEM: Israel may lack the military means for successful pre-emptive strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, its former top general said on Saturday. While endorsing international efforts to pressure Tehran into curbing sensitive nuclear technologies, Israel has hinted it could resort to force. But some analysts say Israeli jets would be stymied by the distance to [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
BEIRUT: Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri voiced concern about Israeli threats and escalating military activity in a BBC interview broadcast Wednesday. Israeli officials have warned repeatedly in recent weeks that any attack by Lebanon’s Syrian-backed Hezbollah will spark a tough response, and have been locked in a war of words with Syrian leaders. “We hear [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
GAZA CITY: Dozens of homes and farms south of Gaza City were inundated by flood waters as heavy rains drenched parts of the Middle East, Palestinian officials and witnesses said on Tuesday. The rising waters destroyed more than 100 homes in Wadi Gaza, a low-lying farming area south of Gaza City mostly inhabited by Bedouins, [...]
JERUSALEM: Israel has announced the successful testing of its Iron Dome anti-missile system, said to be capable of intercepting rockets launched by militants in Gaza and South Lebanon. The shield, which fires missiles at incoming threats that it identifies by radar, is being called a “gamechanger” in the way that Israel can conduct its defences. [...]
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