Steffen Seibert, a former spokesman for Angela Merkel when the latter was German chancellor, has officially assumed the duties of Germany’s ambassador to Israel. Seibert, 62, presented his credentials to Israeli President Isaac Herzog today. “The friendship between Israel and Germany is a treasure and I am honored to work to strengthen it,” Seibert tweeted […]
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Three dead Palestinians in an operation by Israeli forces in the West Bank
LAST UPDATE: 12.15 Three Palestinians, including a high-ranking Fatah commander, were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli military raid on Nablus in the occupied West Bank today, two days after the end of a deadly Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, three Palestinians were killed during the […]
Morocco: Nearly 200 people demonstrate against Israel’s crackdown on the Gaza Strip
About two hundred people demonstrated yesterday Monday in Rabat in solidarity with the Palestinians, after the deadly hostilities between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization in the Gaza Strip, demanding at the same time that the normalization of relations between Rabat and the Jewish state “collapse”. The protesters, who gathered in front of the […]
German Press: Ankara, the favor of authoritarian leaders and NATO
Süddeutsche Zeitung comments on Turkey’s role on the global geopolitical map, observing: “After the new Putin-Erdogan meeting, questions arise. The ‘president of peace’ wants to sell Bayraktar drones to the Kremlin, as well as to Ukraine, to use them in front? Has the Kremlin indirectly given the green light to Ankara’s planned attack on northern […]
Gaza Strip: The Israeli army assures that it respects the truce
The Israeli military confirmed late Sunday that its latest strikes against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group came minutes before the ceasefire took effect, retracting an earlier announcement. It initially said it struck positions of the Palestinian armed group a few minutes after the suspension of hostilities, which took effect at 11:30 p.m. (local and Greek […]
Gaza: Israel carried out raids after ceasefire came into force
LAST UPDATE: 08.08.2022, 00:27 The issue of the truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization, which came into effect at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday after mediation by Egypt, is developing into a thriller. And this is because, as announced by the Israeli army, an alarm was signaled for the launch of rockets in […]
Gaza: Ceasefire deal at 11.30pm – Israel and Islamic Jihad confirm
LAST UPDATE: 23:32 Egypt called for a ceasefire for today at 23.30, according to a security source. Earlier, the Islamic Jihad group confirmed an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal had been reached with Israel today, the third day of hostilities that have killed dozens of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. And Israel officially confirmed the truce coming […]
Israel: Palestinian attack at the Erez border crossing
A mortar attack on the closed Erez border crossing from Israel to Gaza was launched Sunday afternoon by Palestinian forces, according to Israel’s defense ministry, in the third day of fighting between Israeli forces and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group and some hour before the alleged start of the ceasefire between the two sides. “The […]
Gaza: Israel, Palestinian militants agree to truce, according to Egyptian and Palestinian officials
LAST UPDATE: 18:14 Israel and Palestinian militants agreed to observe a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip from Sunday night as proposed by Cairo, sources said, after a weekend of deadly Israeli shelling of Palestinian targets and rocket fire into Israeli territory by Palestinian enclave. An Egyptian security source said Israel had agreed to the truce […]
Gaza Strip sees worst escalation of violence since May 2021
The escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip, where 31 Palestinians, including six children, have been killed since Friday, continues unabated in this conflict between the Islamic Jihad group and Israel, in the most serious crisis since last year. Islamic Jihad said it fired rockets at Jerusalem for the first time since hostilities began on […]