A security Israeli delegation met on Sunday Egyptian officials in Cairo, on top of whom was the head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, Khaled Fawzi, for discussing the security coordination between the two sides [ More … ]
Israel plans to build a massive concrete wall along its border with the blockaded Gaza Strip with the stated aim of destroying cross-border tunnels dug by Gaza-based resistance groups, the Israeli press reported Wednesday, Anadolu [ More … ]
During an hour of questions in the Israeli Knesset, Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said “Egypt is the most important and serious ally we have in the Middle East and among Arab states.” When Yoel [ More … ]
A senior Israeli army officer has said, as reported by Safa news agency, that the Egyptian authorities are “closer to Israel than Hamas” and they “put more pressure” on the besieged Gaza Strip “than is needed,” reported Middle [ More … ]
In an interview with Masr Al-Arabia, the first Egyptian Ambassador to the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Karim stated that the Camp David peace treaty provides the opening of the Rafah crossing 24 hours a day throughout the [ More … ]
The Egyptian foreign minister’s latest visit to Israel was portrayed by the media as a Sadat-like foreign policy agenda – shunting the Palestinian issue down the priority list, writes Mohamed ElMeshad as reported by Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed. It [ More … ]
The Palestinian Ministry of Social Affairs began on Tuesday to distribute Turkish humanitarian aid to poor families in the blockaded Gaza Strip. “The aid will be disbursed on several stages as we target poor families, [ More … ]
Five Palestinians were reportedly injured with live fire on Friday during clashes with Israeli forces across the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Four Palestinians were injured in clashes with Israeli forces in the Aida [ More … ]
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas said Friday that it would allow municipal elections to be held in the Gaza Strip and work for the success of local Palestinian elections set for October, according to Anadolu Agency. [ More … ]
Israeli warplanes carried out late Wednesday an airstrike against the Gaza Strip in yet another act of aggression against the besieged Palestinian enclave. Israeli aircraft fired at least two missiles at an open area near [ More … ]
Turkey will ready another aid ship to Gaza before the Eid-al-Adha (Corban feast) holiday in September, Deputy Prime Minister Veysi Kaynak said on Thursday. Turkey’s Deputy PM Veysi Kaynak says the new shipment will deliver [ More … ]
The Israeli authorities on Wednesday allowed several buses and trucks carrying Palestinian passengers and cargo into the Gaza Strip for the first time since 2007, Anadolu Agency reported. The move comes as part of a [ More … ]
Turkey has started mending its foreign relations with neighboring countries, including Israel and Russia after deterioration for a period of time. In this context, many observers predicted that Egypt would be one of the countries that [ More … ]
A Palestinian citizen of Israel crossed the borderline between Israel and the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the Israeli army said. An Israeli army spokesperson said that an Israeli citizen, who she said was a [ More … ]
A former senior Israeli official unveiled that Israel has conducted numerous drone strikes against different sites related to what he described as terrorists in Sinai in recent years, reported Bloomberg. In the same context, Haaretz-Israeli newspaper- [ More … ]
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