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DEBKAfile
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May 23, 2007, 4:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, Day 2 of the truce, Hamas attempted to assassinate the acting chief of General Intelligence in the Gaza Strip, Gen. Muhammad al Masri. Fatah retaliated by knifing to death a leading Hamas preacher, Sheik Namir Hamad.
In the early hours of the ceasefire Saturday, armed men of both factions began ... 
DEBKAfile
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May 21, 2007, 1:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
As the Hamas-led multiple missile offensive against Israel marked its first week, voices were heard in Israel and overseas, well-meaning or despairing, calling for Israel to start talks with the Palestinian Islamist group's leaders.
Hamas soon knocked that notion on the head. After hurling some 150 missiles against Israel, one ... 
DEBKAfile
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May 20, 2007, 9:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Under the agreement, armed men were to leave their positions in buildings and streets, remove road blocks and release hostages.
Most of the 55 killed in four days of Palestinian factional violence were Fatah adherents or members of Mahmoud Abbas' security services. debkafile reports long pauses in the factional violence ...
DEBKAfile
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May 19, 2007, 11:15 AM (GMT+02:00)
Masseb Bashir, 25, from Deir el-Balakh admitted charges of intelligence-gathering on security arrangements at the prime minister's residence at the Jerusalem district court Thursday. He informed his controllers that security was too tight to breach. The plot's intended victims also included cabinet members Lieberman and Sneh, Labor MK Ofir Pines ...
DEBKAfile
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May 18, 2007, 12:11 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Day 6 of the brutal Palestinian factional war and Day 4 of the Hamas missile offensive against southern Israel, two ruthless figures have emerged as the dominant factors in both conflicts: Ahmad Jabari, commander of Hamas Executive Forces, and Jamal Jarah, better known as Abu Obeida, spokesman of Hamas' ...
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May 15, 2007, 11:25 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hani al-Kawasmeh quits as Palestinian minister of interior for lack of authority to activate the security services for restoring order in Gaza. Palestinian government spokesman Mohammed Barghouti warns that the Gaza Strip is on the verge of degenerating onto a second Somalia. debkafile's Palestinian sources report that the ...
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May 10, 2007, 8:58 AM (GMT+02:00)
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May 9, 2007, 8:53 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile reports: No progress has been made for his release since Palestinian gunmen seized the English correspondent in Gaza City nearly three months ago. Appealing to Haniya is fruitless since he has no control or access to Johnston's fate. The rift between Hamas and al Qaeda-Palestine which holds ...
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May 4, 2007, 12:28 AM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday night, the hard-line Hamas leader said at a Damascus meeting that Israel had rejected the list of jailed prisoners on two counts: most had "blood on their hands" and it included Israeli Arabs. "There is no other list on offer for Gilead Shalit's freedom," said Meshaal. If that is ...
DEBKAfile
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April 28, 2007, 9:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israel lodged a strong protest with the UN Security Council over the Hamas missile-mortar attack and attempted kidnap of another Israeli soldier. debkafile's military sources report the only indication that Hamas was ready for a ground incursion was the heavy direct fire directed at the Israeli positions clustered ...
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April 28, 2007, 9:28 PM (GMT+02:00)
Ten mortar shells struck Sderot's Hadar district by 8:30 a.m. local time; 6 Qassam missiles exploded in other parts of the W. Negev up to Ashkelon causing damage but no casualties. Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida: "This is a message to the Zionist enemy that our strikes will continue. We have ...
DEBKAfile
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April 24, 2007, 9:43 AM (GMT+02:00)
The threat, issued Sat. April 21, is in response to Israel's refusal to bow to the terms for releasing the Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit and BBC correspondent Alan Johnston. Israeli security sources: Lacking networks outside the Gaza Strip and West Bank, Hamas is expected to employ the extensive Lebanese Hizballah ...
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April 24, 2007, 8:46 AM (GMT+02:00)
The gunman opened fire on the Israeli car at the north Jerusalem Hizmeh checkpoint and made off on foot. Two Qassam missiles were fired from the Gaza Strip Sunday, the day after a direct hit on their home left six Israelis injured in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. It ...
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April 22, 2007, 10:35 PM (GMT+02:00)
Two belonged to Fatah-Al Aqsa Brigades, one Jihad Islami. They had joined forces for the attack outside the northern West Bank town.
In an earlier incident near Jenin Saturday, an IDF force killed a Palestinian rooftop sniper shooting at their patrol. Three bombs were hurled first. There were no Israel casualties ...
DEBKAfile
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April 22, 2007, 10:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
A Palestinian Jihad Islami operative was killed. The three Palestinian missiles damaged a home in Sderot and injured its occupants. A fourth missile from Gaza Saturday night exploded near Netiv Ha'Asara to the north
DEBKAfile
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April 21, 2007, 9:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian Jihad Islami boasted Sunday, April 15, to have already tested a two-stage missile Al Quds-3 (Qassam) with new engine and warhead and attained a range of 18 km. The extremist group claimed to have amassed sufficient stocks in the Gaza Strip to fire dozens of missiles a day ...
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April 20, 2007, 1:41 PM (GMT+02:00)
The protest by Palestinian journalists took place outside the Palestinian parliament in Gaza Tuesday, April 17. The BBC reporter has been missing for five weeks since Palestinian gunmen seized him. There has been no word on his fate except for an unverified claim by an al Qaeda-linked Palestinian group that ...
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April 15, 2007, 10:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a combined operation, the Shin Bet and IDF rounded up in the West Bank town of Qalqilya 19 members of a Hamas network which managed to send a truck loaded with 100 kilos of explosives into Greater Tel Aviv on Passover Eve.
For some unknown reason, the truck, which ...
DEBKAfile
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April 14, 2007, 5:20 PM (GMT+02:00)
The British journalist is held by the same Palestinian groups which kidnapped the Israeli soldier Gideon Shalit 10 months ago. No word has been received on the fate of either of the two men.
DEBKAfile
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April 9, 2007, 10:21 AM (GMT+02:00)
The incident occurred when Israeli troops on counter-terror patrol encountered a group of Palestinians about to plant an explosive device in their path. Both began shooting.
In northern Gaza, a band of terrorists was attacked by an Israeli helicopter as they planted an explosive devoice on the Israeli border fence. The ... |
