Tue May 14, 2013
93 articles tagged "Gaza War Diary"
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 31, 2009, 6:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Hamas delegation to the long-term truce talks for Gaza in Cairo Sunday, Jan. 25, was given no leeway by Egyptian intelligence minster Gen. Omar Suleiman, Cairo's senior negotiator, debkafile's military sources disclose.
Either accept our terms, he told them with exceptional brusqueness, or wait two-three months and take ... 
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 31, 2009, 6:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Iranian ship boarded by a US Navy Coast Guard team on the Red Sea last week before it could smuggle arms to Hamas is now disclosed by debkafile's military sources to have tried to trick the search team by enclosing its rocket cargo in secret compartments behind ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 31, 2009, 2:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
On orders from Tehran, the Palestinian Hamas used the cover of the 22-day Gaza conflict to aim rockets at the American Forward-Based X-band Transportable (FBX-T) anti-missile radar system lodged at Israel's big Nevatim air base east of the Negev capital Beersheba, DEBKA-Net-Weekly disclosed. They missed.
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 31, 2009, 10:33 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli air raids struck a Hamas target in Khan Younes, inflicting at least 10 Palestinian casualties, Thursday, Jan. 29, after two missiles aimed at Sderot from Gaza early that morning hit the Shear Hanegev region. debkafile's military circles report that in the 48 hours since a roadside bomb ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 29, 2009, 10:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Widely acclaimed a military success, Israel's Operation Cast Lead may not be over as long as the badly hammered Hamas is still capable of resuming attacks. This not-too-bright prospect is surveyed in debkafile's Exclusive Analysis below.
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 29, 2009, 9:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that a US Navy Coast Guard team this week boarded an Iranian arms ship in the Red Sea and found weapons in its hold.
The incident activated the new US-Israel Memo of Understanding on actions to halt the flow of Iranian arms to Hamas ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 29, 2009, 9:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli towns and communities within rocket and missile range of the Gaza Strip were on tense alert after the Israeli air force struck the Philadekphi corridor border tunnels before dawn Wednesday, Jan. 28. Punishment was promised Hamas after a large roadside bomb blew up an Israel border patrol jeep outside ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 27, 2009, 10:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
US and Egyptian warships were scouring the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea Tuesday, Jan. 20 to waylay an Iranian freighter carrying scores of heavy rockets for delivery to Hamas. debkafile's exclusive sources report they were acting on intelligence that a ship loaded with an estimated 60 tons ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 27, 2009, 9:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Israel air force demolished two key Hamas war systems in the first 4 minutes of its massive offensive on Gaza Saturday morning, Dec. 27, debkafile's military sources report. The bombers destroyed six mosques in Gaza City which held the terrorists' biggest weapons arsenals and scores of "beehives" ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 26, 2009, 5:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report that Israel relayed a warning to Hamas through Egypt that any more Iranian or Syrian attempts to smuggle rockets or other heavy weapons into Gaza by land or by sea would be deemed a breach of the ceasefire and generate Israeli military action to ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 24, 2009, 8:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Hamas declaration of a ceasefire Sunday, Jan. 18, came in response to Israel's unilateral cessation of fire at 0200 hours. Hamas leader Mussa Abu Marzuk said in Damascus on behalf of all the Palestinian organizations that the cessation was contingent on Israeli forces withdrawing from the Gaza Strip within ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 24, 2009, 8:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
The USS San Antonio amphibian warship, heading the Combined Task Force (CTF) 151 patrolling the Gulf of Aden for pirates, has been assigned with hunting down the Iranian cargo vessel carrying 60 tons of rockets and other arms for smuggling into Gaza.
This is revealed by debkafile's exclusive military ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 24, 2009, 8:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli's foreign minister Tzipi Livni refrained from receiving UN secretary Ban Ki-moon in Jerusalem Tuesday, Jan 20, over his decision to visit Gaza. He met the foreign ministry's director-general Aharon Abramovitch instead.
While amending the purpose of his trip later to calling on UN institutions in the war-damaged Strip, More... 
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 22, 2009, 10:18 AM (GMT+02:00)
After the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shemona sustained a rocket salvo Wednesday, Jan. 14, the Israeli Air Force has stepped up its reconnaissance overflights in an effort to seek out launchers in Southern Lebanon.
Israel's Northern Command is preparing for Hizballah to fire more rockets in sync with its terrorist ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 22, 2009, 10:17 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's sources reveal the outline of an evolving ceasefire accord, dismissed as farcical by a furious Israeli military command: Israel has promised the US and Egypt to start pulling its troops out of the Gaza Strip within days and, at some point, open the six border crossings. Israeli ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 22, 2009, 10:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli patrols along the Israel-Gaza border fence came under fire from Gaza three times Tuesday, Jan. 20, two days after the Gaza ceasefire was declared first by Israel then Hamas. Eight mortar rounds fired across the border next. No one was hurt in these attacks. Israel responded with air strikes ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 20, 2009, 11:37 AM (GMT+02:00)
The shell was aimed at Nahal Oz, Tuesday, Jan. 20, two days after the Gaza ceasefire was declared first by Israel then Hamas. It exploded harmlessly on open ground. debkafile's military sources report the attack occurred shortly after the withdrawal of small Israeli units remaining at vantage points ...
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 20, 2009, 10:33 AM (GMT+02:00)
Cairo disavowed Saturday, Jan. 17 any understandings with Israel and the US on collaboration for ending the flow of weapons to Hamas and launched a fierce attack on Israel.
In a televised speech to the nation, hours before the Israeli defense cabinet was to announce a unilateral ceasefire ending the ... 
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 20, 2009, 10:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak decided to send his son Gemal (Jimmy) to see for himself the true situation on the strategic Philadelphi Corridor running along the Gazan-Sinai border, debkafile's intelligence sources reveal.
DEBKAfile
Exclusive Report
January 18, 2009, 9:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
The move cleared the way for his administration's coming dialogue with Iran.
Sensing the reprieve ahead, Hamas stepped up its rocket assault on Israel. Read more about Barack Obama's Middle East opener and its impact in the coming DEBKA-Net-Weekly out this Friday. To subscribe to DEBKA-Net-Weekly click DEBKA-Net-Weekly.com?ref=001">HERE. |
