LAST UPDATE 16.49 Israel today condemned remarks by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who hinted that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler had Jewish roots, and demanded an apology from Moscow. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it had summoned the Russian ambassador using “harsh language” to Lavrov’s comments Sunday in an interview with Italian television. Israeli Foreign […]
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West Bank: Palestinian shot dead by Israeli soldiers after gun attack on Jewish settlement
A Palestinian was killed in the early hours of Saturday morning during clashes with Israeli troops in the northern part of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. The Palestinian, about 20 years old, was shot in the chest during an Israeli army operation in the Azun community, the Palestinian Ministry […]
Annual anti-Israel protests have resumed in Tehran
The annual anti-Israel protests in Iran resumed today after a two-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. In what Iran calls “Al-Quds Day” (Jerusalem Day), hundreds of thousands of Iranians took part in rallies in the capital, Tehran, chanting anti-Israel slogans, according to the state-run IRIB television network. The demonstrations took place in support of […]
Israel: US tourists pick up a grenade as a souvenir – Panic at Tel Aviv airport
U.S. tourists panicked at Tel Aviv’s David-Ben-Gurion Airport when officials discovered an unexploded ordnance in their luggage that they intended to take home as a holiday souvenir. Airport security officials immediately ordered the luggage control area to be evacuated after the shelling was located on Thursday, according to the Israeli airport management service (IAA). The […]
Israel: Clashes between Palestinians and Israeli police in Temen Square – At least 42 injured
Clashes broke out today between Palestinians and Israeli police in Temen Square in East Jerusalem, injuring 42 people, but none seriously. “There are 42 wounded from clashes with the occupying forces” in Temenon Square, the Palestinian Red Crescent announced. An earlier report said 12 people had been injured. Of those 42 people, 22 were taken […]
Israel: Two minutes of silence in memory of the 6,000,000 Jewish victims of the Holocaust
At the sound of sirens, life stopped for two minutes in Israel today, the day of the Holocaust, in memory of the 6,000,000 Jewish victims of Nazism during World War II. When the hands of the clock showed 10.00, the Israelis remained motionless on the streets, on the balconies, outside the shops and offices. They […]
Syria: Israeli attack near Damascus – Four soldiers killed
Four Syrian soldiers were killed and three others wounded in an Israeli rocket attack overnight near Damascus, a source close to the armed forces told the official SANA news agency. “The Israeli enemy carried out an air strike in the early hours of the morning, firing several rockets from Tiberias, targeting several targets on the […]
Middle East: Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces in West Bank
LAST UPDATE: 10.37 A Palestinian who was wounded in the early hours of this morning by Israeli army bullets in the occupied West Bank has succumbed to his injuries, the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced. Ibrahim Uweidat, 20, was shot in the head in the Akabat Jaber refugee camp near the Palestinian city of Jericho, […]
Israel: Active coronavirus cases are at their lowest level this year
The so-called active cases of the new coronavirus in Israel fell yesterday Monday to 27,477 (-2,833 in 24 hours), a level that is the lowest this year, the Ministry of Health announced. The ministry also said that 3,759 cases of SARS-CoV-2 had been confirmed in the past 24 hours, and that no patients had succumbed […]
Rare escalation of violence on the Israeli-Lebanese border after the incidents in Jerusalem
A rocket fired from Lebanese territory landed in an empty field in Israel today and the Israeli artillery retaliated by firing against the area from where it came from, the Israeli armed forces announced. The rare escalation of violence on the two countries’ borders follows repeated incidents over the past fortnight between Palestinians and Israeli […]
