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September 22, 2009, 11:03 AM (GMT+02:00)
A UN investigation led by former South African judge Richard Goldstone accused Israel of "war crimes and possible crimes against humanity" in its 33-day Gaza Strip campaign against Hamas which ended late January. <br/>Although the panel found evidence that Palestinian armed groups, by firing rockets and mortars into Israel civilian ...</br/>
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March 2, 2009, 12:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli leaders insist that Israel's armed forces left Hamas seriously crippled - which is undeniable; but the second half of the proposition, especially when it is articulated by defense minister Ehud Barak, that Hamas had "lost its appetite to strike Israel targets for a very long time" - is over-optimistic, give ...
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February 26, 2009, 11:51 AM (GMT+02:00)
Saturday, Jan. 10, Day 15 of Israel's Gaza Strip offensive against Hamas, top Palestinian leaders gathered in Cairo for ceasefire talks with Egyptian officials. <br/><span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources report that Jemal Abu Hashem, who rarely appears on public, Salah Bardaweel, leader of Hamas parliament faction, and Heiman Ta ...</br/>
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February 19, 2009, 10:40 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Saudi and Egyptian intelligence chiefs launched a dramatic bid Sunday night, Feb. 15, to maneuver Hamas into accepting Egyptian-Israel terms for an extended ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Middle East sources disclose. In an unannounced visit to Damascus, Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the head ...
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February 18, 2009, 12:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem issued its first ever official announcement on Saturday, Feb. 14, the Jewish Sabbath, registering its exceptionally high importance. <br/>The statement said: "No Gaza crossings will be opened unless Gilead Shalit (the Israeli soldier held captive by Hamas since his June 2006 abduction) is ...</br/>
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February 15, 2009, 9:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
Barak: More Iranian ships bound for Gaza
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February 14, 2009, 9:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
A deep crisis in Turkish-Israel relations appears to be the first strategic casualty of Israel's offensive to suppress Hamas' rocket campaign. <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s Ankara sources report that Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is seriously planning to freeze the long-standing military ties between the US's foremost defense ...
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February 13, 2009, 12:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
Saturday, Feb. 7, Cypriot divers armed with sensors and infrared gear began exploring the Cypriot-flagged Iranian arms ship docked at Limassol, on orders from the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources report. A Cypriot source said the ship appears to be carrying banned weapon-related material from ...
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February 11, 2009, 12:24 PM (GMT+02:00)
Disclosures appear this week in Hamas' internal publications of an alleged spy ring of 181 Fatah members said to have passed intelligence to the Israeli enemy during last month's hostilities, <span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s exclusive sources report. <br/>Hamas fighters are said to have executed some of the alleged spies during ...</br/>
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February 8, 2009, 11:41 AM (GMT+02:00)
On the third day of his talks with Iranian leaders in Tehran, Hamas' supreme leader Khaled Meshaal urged Iranian students to join his Islamist movement in helping liberate all of Palestine, secure the return of all Palestinians and retake Jerusalem so that "we can pray together."<br/>He was addressing students ...</br/>
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February 8, 2009, 11:40 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israel's defense minister Ehud Barak held off responding to ten days of missile-mortar salvoes from Gaza in the hope of Cairo successfully negotiating a long-term truce deal with Hamas. <br/><span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources report that Egypt's announcement Wednesday, Feb. 4, that as of Thursday, its only border ...</br/>
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February 5, 2009, 11:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
DEBKA file's military sources report that the Cypriot-flagged <em>Monchegorsk</em> renamed <em>Iran Hedayt</em> held at Limassol since last week was carrying 10 containers of Iranian rockets and other weapons for rearming Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Cyprus has reported to the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on its findings in ...
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February 5, 2009, 11:32 AM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinian long-range Grad rocket hits Ashkelon center<br/>
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February 4, 2009, 4:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military sources reveal a formidable addition to Hamas' arsenal: The missile fired from Gaza out to the Mediterranean last week was not a Qassam as reported but a C-802, the Iranian shore-to-ship <em>Nur</em> C-802 missile, which is based on the Chinese "Silkworm." <br/>It was launched by Iranian ...</br/>
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February 3, 2009, 10:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Cyprus searches ship carrying banned Iranian arms destined for Hamas
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February 2, 2009, 9:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
<span class="debka">debka</span><span class="file">file</span>'s military and intelligence sources report that the aid ship <em>Iran Shahed</em>, which the Israel embargo of the Gaza Strip forced to stay 42 km from the coast, took delivery Monday, Jan. 26 of sophisticated communications equipment from Cyprus for maintaining contact with Hamas leaders who remain in ...
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February 2, 2009, 9:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel air raids hit Gaza after Palestinian missile-mortar salvoes
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February 1, 2009, 6:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israeli soldier was killed and three others were injured, one seriously, Tuesday, Jan. 27, when Palestinians detonated a large explosive device against a routine Israeli military patrol near the Kissufim crossing a week after Israeli troops exited the Gaza Strip. Eight hours later, an Israeli air strike killed a ...
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January 31, 2009, 11:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen said Jan. 28 the US Navy had intercepted a Cypriot-flagged ship in the Red Sea last week and searched it with the captain's permission for Iranian arms bound for the Gaza Strip. <br/>This Iranian arms ship was first ...</br/>
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