As of today, Israel is abolishing the “green pass” for entering some public places, further easing the restrictions it had imposed as there is a reduction in the number of new cases of covid-19. The peak of the epidemic wave due to the highly contagious variant strain Omicron of the coronavirus came around the end […]
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Israel strikes south of Damascus
Israel launched a rocket attack on a city south of Damascus late Wednesday night, causing property damage, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported. “The Israeli enemy carried out a strike with several surface-to-surface missiles” from the occupied Golan Heights, which Israel has annexed, against the city of Zakia at 23:35 (Greek time and time), […]
Signing of a Greek-Israeli defense cooperation program for 2022
The signing of the “Greece-Israel Defense Cooperation Program” for the year 2022 took place today, Tuesday 15 February, by the Director of the International Relations Directorate of the General Staff, Brigadier General Nikolaos Holevas and the Head of the International Affairs Department Israeli Colonel Gil Dolov. More specifically, the cooperation program includes, among others: – […]
Palestine: 19-year-old killed by Israeli gunfire in occupied West Bank
A young Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces today during clashes in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Ministry of Health and eyewitnesses said. A civilian was shot dead by Israeli forces in the village of Nabi Saleh, near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, the ministry said in a statement, without elaborating on […]
First official visit of an Israeli Prime Minister to Bahrain
Naftali Bennett, the first Israeli prime minister to visit Bahrain, begins a series of meetings today with senior officials of the Gulf monarchy. On Monday night, Bennett was received by Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdelatif al-Zayani, and Manama Airport was decorated with the flags of the two countries on this occasion. Today he will meet with […]
Turkish media: Iran-led nucleus seeks to kill Israeli businessman in Turkey
Turkey’s intelligence service has uncovered an assassination attempt on Turkish-Israeli businessman Yair Geller and arrested several suspects last autumn, Turkish media reported today. MIT arrested a group of eight people under the guidance of Iranian agents after months of investigation and surveillance, media reported. The Turkish daily Sabah reported on Friday that Ankara had informed […]
Israeli attack on Syrian air defense arrays
The Israeli army announced today that it had targeted Syrian air defenses after a surface-to-air missile was fired at Israel during what the Syrian state media reported was a series of rocket-propelled grenade launchers from the area. Damascus. An Israeli army spokesman declined to comment on the initial attack in Damascus, which according to Syrian […]
Turkey will not ‘sacrifice’ Palestinians to tighten ties with Israel
Turkey will not abandon its commitment to a Palestinian state in order to forge closer ties with Israel, Mevlüt ÇavuÅŸoλουlu said on Tuesday, ahead of Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s scheduled visit to Turkey next month. Ankara, which supports a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has condemned Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and its […]
Israel: State probe into allegations of wiretapping of public figures
LAST UPDATE: 14.15 Israel announced today that it is setting up a state commission of inquiry following a newspaper report that police had illegally used spyware against members of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s entourage and other public figures. Israeli police have largely intercepted the telephone communications of public figures, journalists and members of the […]
Israeli media: Police charged with large-scale interception of public telephone communications
Israeli police have cracked down on telephone communications of public figures, journalists and members of former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s environment thanks to Pegasus software, according to new revelations published today by an Israeli newspaper. Following the first revelations of the financial newspaper Calcalist, which led to the investigation on January 20, the police admitted […]
