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599 articles tagged "Palestinians"
DEBKAfile
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February 27, 2008, 11:29 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports: The Palestinian masses did not rise to the summons for 40,000 individuals to turn out Monday, Feb. 25 and draw a human chain along the 40-km border Gazan-Israel to protest the Israeli blockade. Deterred by determined Israeli military preparations to halt their approach to the border ...
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February 27, 2008, 1:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
According to debkafile's military sources, each of the estimated half a million Gazans in flight, one-third of the total population, received a $300 grant, which accounts for the shopping spree they could suddenly afford. Hamas was therefore willing to spend $150 million on a maneuver for seizing control ...
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February 25, 2008, 6:26 PM (GMT+02:00)
Beefed-up Israeli military and security forces prepare to repulse thousands of Palestinians planning to crash the full length of the Gazan-Israeli border and its crossings at 10:00 a.m. IT Monday, Feb. 25.
Behind the human shield of women, children and elderly leading the assault on Monday, Hamas, Jihad Islami and ... 
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February 24, 2008, 5:52 PM (GMT+02:00)
Senior Palestinian negotiator Yasser Abed Rabbo proposed adopting this course Wed Feb. 20 if Israel continued to mark time in talks for a Palestinian state. He made the suggestion the day after prime minister Ehud Olmert and foreign minister Tzipi Livni held another round of negotiations with Palestinian leaders Mahmoud ...
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February 15, 2008, 12:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian Hamas is turning the screws on terms for the release of the kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit in view of the Olmert government's soft response to its 39- missile barrage, including the attack which gravely injured two Sderot brothers Saturday.
debkafile's military sources reveal that, after ... 
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February 11, 2008, 10:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Friday, Feb. 8, Egyptian troops manning the Gaza-Sinai border were given extra security after Hamas threatened to attack them and stage kidnappings. They were told to stay together in armed groups of three and posted snipers on the rooftops of Rafah. Terrorist groups fired 30 missiles at Israeli civilians, targeting ...
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February 10, 2008, 7:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
Special security measures were imposed Tuesday, Feb. 5, in southern Israel, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, where police guards at crowd centers were reinforced. Wednesday, a special cabinet will discuss the new situation.
A pair of Palestinian suicide bombers murdered Lyubov Razdolsky, 73, and injured 48 people including her husband who is ... 
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February 6, 2008, 10:31 AM (GMT+02:00)
After the Hamas-Jihad Islami terror machine was allowed to build up to formidable proportions, even a large-scale Israel military operation in the Gaza Strip will not easily stifle the missile and mortar campaign grinding down the Israeli population. However, the longer it is delayed, the harder it will be.
In ... 
DEBKAfile
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February 5, 2008, 1:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
Her husband is still in critical condition. The terror alert has been raised in Israel to highest level, focusing on the South, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
The first bomber wore a 5-10 kilo explosive vest and blew it up in Dimona's shopping center. Among the casualties were women and children. ...
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February 3, 2008, 5:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
No one was hurt.
Palestinians lobbed the first device at passing Israeli cars just out of Jerusalem south of Beit Jala. They missed and the device blew up harmlessly on the road. A second device hidden by the roadside then detonated. It was rigged to explode amid the vehicles which ... 
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February 1, 2008, 9:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
Most highways of the southern Negev - which adjoins the unfenced 220-km Egyptian Sinai frontier - were ordered shut to civilian traffic early Saturday, Jan. 26, until further notice. This is Israel's most extensive terror alert ever, debkafile's military sources report. The big Israeli and American air and ...
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February 1, 2008, 9:27 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas bureau chief Khaled Meshaal is holding talks in Riyadh Monday, Jan. 28, while Sunday, a senior Iranian foreign ministry official arrived in Cairo.
Their intervention marks the failure of Egypt and Israel to anticipate the out-of-control exodus of half a million Palestinians from Gaza through a broken border fence and ...
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January 29, 2008, 9:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian for the Liberation of Palestinian, the PLO's second largest group after Fatah, hijacked its first plane, an El Al flight from Rome to Tel Aviv, in 1968. Two years later, it carried out its spectacular three-plane hijack to Jordan. Like Hamas, this Christian left-wing radical, who broke with ...
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January 26, 2008, 12:36 PM (GMT+02:00)
US and Israeli intelligence sources report that the Hamas coup in breaking down the border between Gaza and Egyptian Sinai was timed for the opening Wednesday, Jan. 23 of the Palestinian National Congress in Damascus. This event was organized by Tehran and Damascus to counter the US-promoted Annapolis conference and ...
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January 25, 2008, 5:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
No casualties were reported in Sderot where 10 Qassam missiles exploded or S. Ashkelon which took two hits Tuesday,. Jan. 22. Gaza's power station is working again, powered by Israeli fuel. The UN Security Council meets Tuesday night for a session called by Arab governments to denounce Israel.
Monday night, Barak ... 
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January 23, 2008, 8:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
Hamas carried out its threat, reported by debkafile Sunday, to smash its way through the border from Gaza to Egyptian Sinai. Before dawn, Wednesday, Jan. 23, masked men blew up sections of the concrete border wall at the Rafah crossing. Thousands of Palestinians swarmed through as Egyptian border ...
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January 15, 2008, 7:50 AM (GMT+02:00)
Our military sources report that the Hamas, Jihad Islami and Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades leaders are under no illusion they can stand up to IDF tank columns with air force cover when Israel embarks on a major campaign for capturing sections of Gaza to stamp out Palestinian missile attacks. They are ...
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January 11, 2008, 9:49 AM (GMT+02:00)
The "Aqsa Martyrs", an offshoot of the Al Aqsa Brigades, which belong to Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement, has just threatened "a big surprise" for President George W. Bush's 48 hours in Israel and the Palestinian Authority starting Wednesday, Jan. 9. The new threat has further tightened the security measures already ...
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January 10, 2008, 11:55 AM (GMT+02:00)
Our military sources report that Tuesday noon, Jan. 8, Hamas machine-gun positions in Rafah and on offshore fishing boats 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 ...
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January 8, 2008, 8:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Have something in writing drawn up with Abbas ready to show Bush - even if it means nothing. That in a word was the advice Jordan's King Abdullah II gave Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert when they met in Aqaba Thursday, Jan. 3. Olmert offered to go along with the ...
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