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Netanyahu: Conflict is over Israel’s existence, not land

Netanyahu: Conflict is over Israel’s existence, not land

Israel-PA conflict is over Israel’s very existence, PM says. PM Binyamin Netanyahu Israel news photo: Flash 90 PM Binyamin Netanyahu The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is not over land, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday, speaking in a meeting with senior officials in the Foreign Ministry. The conflict, he said, is over Israel’s very existence. In proof, he pointed to the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, which included the forced removal of thousands of Jewish residents of the area.

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Israel launches first air strike against Gaza since truce

Israel launches first air strike against Gaza since truce

Israel launched its first airstrike on Gaza since the Egyptian-mediated truce ended November’s eight-day bout of fighting. IAF air strike in Gaza Israel launched its first airstrike on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday since the Egyptian-mediated truce ended November’s eight-day bout of fighting. “Occupation planes bombarded an open area in northern Gaza, there were no wounded,” the Hamas Interior Ministry said in a statement. An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed there had been a strike in Gaza, but gave no further details. The airstrike came in response to the firing of a projectile from Gaza, which exploded on Tuesday in an…

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No Passover Seder at Sderot family’s rocket-hit home

No Passover Seder at Sderot family’s rocket-hit home

It’s 7:30 am and Sarah Haziza is beginning the day, like countless other Jewish mothers in households across the world, with Passover cleaning. The floor is full of soapy water, when suddenly the 47-year-old Sderot mother hears the rocket siren warning of an incoming Gaza rocket. “My youngest daughter was still sleeping so I ran to get her,” Haziza told Tazpit News Agency. “I picked her up and was careful not to slip on the water, as we headed out to our shelter.” It was during the second rocket alarm that Haziza hesitated whether to go into the shelter again.…

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New Obama schedule: Bethlehem yes, Iron Dome no

New Obama schedule: Bethlehem yes, Iron Dome no

An updated schedule for U.S. President Obama's visit to Israel indicates that he will visit the PA twice, but not an Iron Dome field unit By David Lev Obama warned of the effect steep cuts would have on the economy AFP photo An updated schedule for U.S. President Barak H. Obama's visit to Israel next week indicates that he will visit Palestinian Authority-controlled areas twice – but that he will apparently not visit an Iron Dome installation in the field, as had been planned. The Iron Dome visit had been set for Friday morning. A schedule released by the White…

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Pounding Gaza rockets leave Israeli city with first-time fatalities

Pounding Gaza rockets leave Israeli city with first-time fatalities

By Anav Silverman Tazpit News Agency It’s Thursday evening in Kiryat Malachi and the city of nearly 21,000 residents is strangely quiet. The usually busy city center is empty of people—most of the stores and restaurants have been shut down. There are no high school students loitering around, and no elderly folks smoking hooka or drinking black coffee in the kiosks. No music blasting anywhere. Signs that indicate a recent rocket attack has occurred. Earlier in the morning, a Gaza rocket slammed into the city, hitting an apartment building and killing three civilians fleeing for cover in the stairwell of…

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Iron Dome deployed in central Israel

Anti-missile battery to remain in Tel Aviv metropolitan area for several days for training purposes Yoav Zitun Israel's Air Force deployed an Iron Dome battery near the Tel Aviv Metropolitan area on Wednesday. Previously deployed in the Gaza vicinity area and Eilat, the battery has been placed in the area for training purposes. The innovative anti-missile system, whose developers recently won the Israel Defense Prize, continues to travel the country. After being deployed in more volatile regions such as Sderot, Ashkelon and Ashdod, it is now arriving at central Israel. Recently, it has been exposed that despite the great praise…

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Israel’s farming communities bear brunt of Gaza’s rockets and snipers

Israel’s farming communities bear brunt of Gaza’s rockets and snipers

Anav Silverman Tazpit News Agency Over 100 rockets fired from Gaza struck southern Israel this past week, with 65 of those rockets clobbering Israeli communities in the northwestern Negev in a single day, on Wednesday. In the worst of the rocket escalations, a home in the Sdot Negev Regional Council was directly hit by a rocket on Wednesday, with the mother and her child home at the time. Miraculously, they were able to make it to the bomb shelter within seconds of the rocket striking their home and were not injured. “My wife and son were saved by a miracle,”…

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Palestinian authority is corrupt

Palestinian authority is corrupt

By Aryeh Savir Tazpit News Agency Photo credit: Ehud Amiton/ Tazpit News Agency. A poll recently published by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) reveals that the majority of Palestinian Arabs believe their government is corrupt, that there is no freedom of press under the Palestinian Authority and that Arabs living under Palestinian rule cannot freely criticize the Authority without fear of retribution. The poll was conducted separately among Arabs living in Gaza and Judea and Samaria. A total of 72.9% answered that there is corruption in PA institutions under the control of President Abu Mazin. 61.6%…

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IDF official: Army ready for ground op in Gaza

IDF official: Army ready for ground op in Gaza

Iran encouraging Islamic Jihad to fire rockets at Israel, escalation could prompt ground incursion, senior officer says. IDF hasn’t used all measures at its disposal, he says Yoav Zitun Is Gaza war in cards? The current round of fighting between Israel and Palestinian terror groups could prompt Israel to launch a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, a senior IDF official said Monday. The comments were made as Gaza terror groups continued to shell southern Israel communities with dozens of rockets and mortar shells Monday. Two such rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system over Ashkelon Monday…

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Cyber attack shuts down Israeli government sites

Cyber attack shuts down Israeli government sites

TEL AVIV — Israel has come under the biggest cyber attack in its history. Israel’s military and intelligence community have been shut down by a cyber attack. On Nov. 6, the Web sites of the Israel Defense Forces, Israel Security Agency and the Mossad were hacked by suspected pro-Palestinian activists. “Due to a systematic malfunction of the [government] servers, some of the government Web sites and services have not been accessible in the last few hours.” Carmela Avner, director of the Israeli government Web site system, said. “This is a technical problem that is being handled by all relevant means…

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