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Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip came down in the sea off the Gush Dan coast • Suspect arrested in connection with attempted stabbing near Ariel.
“It has the appearance of being run by judges, like a court case. That’s the effect, and that’s why it can be so troubling for Israel in the eyes of the global public,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch.
The victim, an Israeli civilian, was apparently shot by a Palestinian sniper while working on the Gaza security fence.
As part of the exercise, the second of its kind, the terrorist groups practiced rushing Israeli troops and outposts.
The “Gas for Gaza” initiative seeks to see natural gas pumped from Israel’s Leviathan gas field into the Gaza Strip, according to Arab media.
Col. (res.) David Hacham tells JNS that Israel “must not agree to the double game” in which Hamas continually seeks to orchestrate terrorism beyond the Strip and into the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem.
Save a Child’s Heart works to improve pediatric cardiac care in developing countries. 50 percent of its patients are Palestinian children from the Gaza Strip and West Bank.
“The Egyptians are mediators, the conveyor of messages. No one’s paying attention to what’s not happening. There has not been one incendiary balloon for a month. Sometimes, what doesn’t happen is a very important thing,” said Eran Lerman, vice president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security.
It’s equipped with sensors, radar systems, advanced cameras, a naval barrier, and command-and-control rooms.
It will enable the Gulf state to send fuel to Gaza via Egypt; Hamas can then resell the fuel to cover its expenses.
Maj. Gen. (res.) Eitan Dangot, Israel’s former Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, tells JNS that the terror organization that rules the Gaza Strip “has not budged from its ideological commitment to Israel’s destruction.”
The suspect, a Palestinian resident of Jenin, stabbed a 67-year-old man on the street before fleeing, and was found by police in a nearby building.