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DEBKAfile
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January 17, 2008, 9:22 AM (GMT+02:00)
The son of Hamas' Gaza bureau chief Mahmoud a-Zahar was one of 20 armed Palestinians killed in IDF counter-terror operations in Zeitun and Sejaiya, Gaza Tuesday, Jan. 15. More than 40 injured. His vehicle was struck from the air in Zeitun.
Israeli forces engaged two Palestinian terrorist cells, including a ...
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January 8, 2008, 12:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
Our military sources report that Tuesday noon, Jan. 8, Hamas positions in Rafah opened fire on Israeli Navy vessels patrolling Mediterranean waters off the Gaza Strip. The ships' guns returned fire. When it continued and Hamas brought in reinforcements, Israeli Air Force helicopters were summoned to stop the shooting.
Monday night, ...
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January 4, 2008, 9:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Defense minister Ehud Barak said Wednesday, Jan. 2: If the Palestinian Authority lets them walk, Israel will track them down. debkafile Reported that two of the Fatah murderers were members of Mahmoud Abbas' security services.
Amihai and Rubin were on a hike when they were stalked and shot ... 
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January 4, 2008, 5:47 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports: This drastic security deterioration on two Palestinian fronts occurred Thursday, Jan. 3 A large Israeli force of several battalions uncovered the first West Bank Qassam workshop in Nablus in an operation which left 20 armed Palestinians injured. Its presence brings central Israel within range of Palestinian ...
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January 3, 2008, 9:08 PM (GMT+02:00)
Four were Hamas operatives and two members of the umbrella Popular Resistance Committees. A Palestinian heavy machine gun was also hit. Israel launched the pre-dawn air and ground strikes in Sejaya outside Gaza City after Palestinian gunmen fired anti-tank missiles at patrolling Israeli troops.
At least eight Palestinians were killed in ...
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January 2, 2008, 9:42 AM (GMT+02:00)
Seven hundred Palestinians, allowed last week to leave for the hajj in Mecca through Jordan, mobbed the Israeli position at the Erez crossing when they returned to Gaza Sunday night, Dec. 30. The soldiers ordered them to halt. When they kept coming, the Israeli troops fired "warning shots," one of ...
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December 31, 2007, 10:38 AM (GMT+02:00)
Three hikers, Pvt Ahikam Amihai, 20 and Sgt. David Rubin, 21, from Kiryat Arba and an Israeli girl, were stalked by a group of armed Palestinians, who attacked them in a wadi northwest of Hebron Friday afternoon, Dec. 8. The girl ran away and raised the alarm. The two hikers, ...
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December 28, 2007, 6:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
The agency report that the Egyptian president handed the Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak a note from Bashar Assad to Ehud Olmert when they met at Sharm el-Sheikh Wednesday, Dec. 26, drew a "no comment" from Israeli officials.
debkafile's sources report that in recent private conversations, Olmert confided ...
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December 26, 2007, 8:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Brigadier Avihai Mandelblit, the IDF's advocate general, ruled that there were no grounds to prosecute Israel commanders who ordered the use of cluster bombs in the Second Lebanon War in 2006. His decision, released Dec. 24, was based on a special investigation ordered by the Israel chief of staff after ...
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December 26, 2007, 2:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
Former dep. defense minister Moshe Sneh (Labor) and ex-General Effie Eytam (National Union) voted against the (NIS51 bn) bill, arguing it made no provision for Israel to counter the nuclear threat from Iran. Sneh said another billion shekels was needed to fund the necessary resources. Eytam said Israel was left ...
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December 24, 2007, 10:40 PM (GMT+02:00)
One of the Israeli soldiers is in serious condition.
debkafile's military sources: The force of the explosion which damaged buildings indicates the Palestinians have developed an extra-powerful missile charge. During the day, an Israeli Golani force operated in the Marazi camp in central Gaza demolishing terrorist facilities. Five Palestinian ... 
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December 21, 2007, 8:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
Internal security minister and former Shin Bet head Avi Dichter was the first government member to publicly and harshly question the US National Intelligence Estimate which says Tehran no longer develops nuclear weapons. "We know the threat to be ongoing and palpable."
debkafile reports: Dichter voiced concerns which other ...
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December 19, 2007, 5:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
Two economists in a report submitted to the Knesset award a failed mark to the resettlement project for the 8,500 Israelis evacuated from Gaza in 2005 as part of the Sharon government's unilateral withdrawal. From being successfully employed, business owners and farmers in Gaza, the evacuees today move around between ...
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December 18, 2007, 10:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
Member of ruling Kadima party, MK Maj. Gen. (Res) Yizhak Ben-Israel, said Saturday, Dec. 15, that the Arrow anti-missile missile system is capable of intercepting a nuclear missile fired from Iran before it leaves Iranian air space. Ben Israel said Israel would have 12 minutes to hit the attacking missile. ...
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December 17, 2007, 9:11 AM (GMT+02:00)
The current reality cannot go on much longer, he said, referring to the steep upsurge of Palestinian missile and mortar attacks on Israel from Gaza - 23 Qassams aimed at Sderot on Wednesday.
DEBKAfile
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December 10, 2007, 12:49 PM (GMT+02:00)
Senior Israel security and intelligence officials report: Washington is refusing to heed the intelligence Israel has gathered on Iran's covert military nuclear program which refutes its latest estimate, denies Israel access to authentic US intelligence and has embarked on steps detrimental to Israel in relation to Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria ...
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December 9, 2007, 4:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Defense minister Ehud Barak argued that Iran had in fact restarted its program.
"It's apparently true that in 2003 Iran stopped its military nuclear program for a time. But in our opinion, since then, it has apparently continued that program," Barak told Israel army radio. "We cannot afford to rest just ... 
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December 3, 2007, 11:16 AM (GMT+02:00)
Twenty mortar rounds struck the Kibbutz Nahal Oz area Sunday night, Dec. 2. Earlier, Defense minister Ehud Barak informed the cabinet meeting in Jerusalem that he had ordered the expansion of IDF operations in the Gaza Strip, from which 25 missiles and 70 mortar rounds were fired in the past ...
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December 2, 2007, 9:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, says the former chief of military intelligence, has not the slightest chance of honoring even one of the security commitments he undertook.
Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert faces assorted critics of his role at the Middle East conference of Nov. 27, mainly on the grounds of ... 
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December 2, 2007, 4:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Twenty armed Palestinians were killed this week before they reached firing positions on the border or managed to cross over. Among them was a three-man Hamas mortar crew on its way to shell Kerem Shalom.
Hamas has been massing mortar units at the northern and southern ends of the Gaza Strip ... |
