Tag: Blockade of the Gaza Strip

The Lapid-Bennett government must be challenged to show that it's not just code for cash to pay Hamas employees.

Now, remember, all they have to do to get their electricity back is stop trying to burn down Israeli fields and kill Israeli civilians.

There isn't even one singular word of sympathy for their fellow Jews in Israel who are engaged in a battle for their lives even as we speak – nothing.

Meanwhile, to keep things in perspective, Arab terrorists fired a number of rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israel's southern communities this week.

Until 1991, near the end of the first Intifada, the Israeli economy provided jobs to tens of thousands of workers from the Gaza Strip.

Dual-use items have a primary commercial/civil application but also have the potential for weapons-making applications.

On May 11, Israel's security forces foiled an attempt to smuggle materials intended for the manufacture of missiles by the Hamas terrorist organization in...

Israel has already begun to implement the understandings with Hamas by extending the Gaza fishing zone to 15 nautical miles last Friday and opening the border crossings.

The Hamas-affiliated Employees' Union members held banners in the park of the Unknown Soldier's Memorial in Gaza City, demanding that the government pay their salaries.

After the ship arrived at Ashdod, the passengers were transferred for further treatment by Israeli officials.

"Hamas' goal is to punish Israeli farmers, and the fact that the Gazans would be deprived of fruits as a result is not its concern, let them not eat fruit."

The Lavi organization, which disclosed the data, is calling on Defense Minister Liberman to order a halt on exports from Gaza to the State of Israel.

Al-Akhbar cites sources in Hamas that reject the free harbor idea if it includes continued Israeli inspections.

The barrier – a breakwater – will consist of three layers: one below sea level, above it a layer of armor stone, and above that a barbed wire fence.

In other words, since Mahmoud Abbas is freezing payments to Egypt and Israel for fuel and electric supply, Israel should make up the difference out of its own pocket.

We should note that in order for everything to start getting better, the Gaza Strip Hamas government needs to announce that it has abandoned its plans to push the Jews of Israel into the sea, and agree to the effective demilitarization of Gaza.

Is the world's largest food program unable to find $6 million in a $6 billion budget, or is this a ploy to use the Gaza and PA needy to squeeze just a little more out of the donor nations?

The PA initially notified Israel it stopped paying for electricity from the Jewish State to Gaza altogether, but later statements appear to mention a reduction rather than a full stop.

'If the residents of Gaza want to think about their future, and not just about liberating Palestine – an artificial island is definitely the answer'

According to Human Rights Watch, the Egyptian authorities demolished at least 3,255 residential, commercial, administrative, and community buildings along the border, forcibly evicting thousands of people.

We went looking for those items that best reflect how the report turns facts and figures on their heads to come up with the preconceived conclusion: it's all the fault of the Israeli occupation, and once Israel is out of the picture you'll see how those Palestinians will become Switzerland of the Middle East.

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said earlier this month that Jerusalem had met all of Ankara’s preconditions for normalizing ties, which were degraded in 2010.

The current president of the İHH, Fehmi Bülent Yıldırım, has been under investigation by specially authorized prosecutors in Istanbul and Diyarbakır for financing al-Qaeda through his organization.

The Israeli security cabinet approved a reconciliation deal with Turkey on Wednesday by a vote of 7-3.

On Monday afternoon Prime Minister Netanyahu and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan are expected to announce a reconciliation agreement between their two countries.

Read the transcript and watch the video of the Israel portion of the Sanders-Clinton debate.

The boat was boarded by Israel's Shayetet 13 special forces after it refused to turn away from breaching the blockade on Gaza.