In a statement released on Thursday, the trio condemned Israel for continuing to carry out airstrikes in Syria, despite the actions endangering stability and security within the region. The three nations were meeting in Kazakhstan’s capital for the 16th round of the Astana Process talks, which have been held since …
Read More »Israel to send 700k expiring vaccine doses to South Korea in swap deal after Palestinians reject offer
Announced by Bennett’s office early on Tuesday, the deal will see Tel Aviv ship out hundreds of thousands of nearly expired doses immediately, while Seoul, which is currently running low on vaccines, agreed to return the same number by September or October, after its future orders are fulfilled. “We continue …
Read More »Israel negotiates vaccine swap with ‘another country’ after Palestinians reject expiring Pfizer jabs
“We have contacts with another country that I hope will come to fruition in the next few days,” Israeli health minister Nitzan Horowitz told local Channel 13 News on Sunday. The health minister didn’t name the country in question, saying that it could undermine the ongoing negotiations on the vaccine …
Read More »‘Why’s she on any committee?’ Ilhan Omar ‘doesn’t regret’ Israel remarks, attracts more anti-Semitism claims as she blasts critics
Appearing on CNN’s The Lead with Jake Tapper, Omar was confronted about a series of comments her critics have pointed to recently to accuse her of anti-Semitism, as well as to call for her removal from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Tapper cited multiple tweets by Omar, one from 2019 …
Read More »Eco-study warns Israel’s open spaces will SHRINK as its population grows – and the settlement question is the elephant in the room
If Israel’s current birth rates continue, the Jewish state’s population will almost double by 2050, going from nine million to 17.6 million by the middle of the century. Given that the country’s population density has quadrupled since the 1960s, and is on track to outstrip even the tightly-packed Netherlands in …
Read More »With growing international pro-Palestinian support, illegal settlers may drag Israel into a war it cannot handle
Currently, roughly 700,000 illegal Israeli settlers live in the occupied Palestinian West Bank and East Jerusalem. Although Israel’s ever-growing settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT) are in violation of international humanitarian law, causing great strife in the United Nations, the state continues to support expansion activities in the OPT. …
Read More »Israel’s defense ministry claims success in downing drones using plane-mounted laser (VIDEO)
During the interception trials last week, a laser system was installed on a civilian Cessna aircraft, tasked with locating and destroying drones with the aid of an autonomous detection and tracking system, the ministry said. “We successfully intercepted several UAVs in the air, within a range of more than one …
Read More »Israel insists near-expired vaccines rejected by PA ‘perfectly sound’ as Palestinian groups demand probe into deal
Earlier this week, the sides agreed that Israel would transfer its short-dated doses of the US-made jab to the occupied West Bank so that PA could accelerate its lagging vaccination campaign. In exchange, the Jewish state was to receive the fresh ampules of the vaccine that Pfizer had been scheduled …
Read More »Israel to transfer more than 1 million Covid-19 shots which are due to expire to Palestinian Authority
In a joint statement on Friday, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s office and that of the health and defense ministries said that an agreement had been reached with the PA to share more than a million short-dated shots. The jabs, which Israel no longer needs as it has sufficient supplies already, …
Read More »Israel bombs Gaza for 2nd day straight in response to cross-border attacks as shaky truce falters (VIDEOS)
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said they targeted a “military compound and a rocket launch site” allegedly operated by Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip. The strikes were carried out Thursday night in retaliation to incendiary balloons launched from Gaza, the IDF said. The missiles reportedly hit the city of …
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