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599 articles tagged "Palestinians"
DEBKAfile
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December 14, 2009, 8:39 AM (GMT+02:00)
Unlike Hamas' homemade primitive Qassams, the two advanced C5K anti-tank missiles fired at Israeli forces on guard duty outside Kibbutz Alumim Sunday, Dec. 6, are of foreign manufacture and must have been smuggled into the Gaza Strip very recently.
debkafile's military sources note a repetition of the history ... 
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December 2, 2009, 1:09 PM (GMT+02:00)
Information reached debkafile's counter-terror sources Wednesday, Dec. 2, of the discovery by Egyptian intelligence and security units of a large cache of bomb vests and 15-kilo explosive devices - some with built-in detonators, others attached to timers - in the Gaza-Egyptian border town of Rafah. They were smuggled ...
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November 22, 2009, 10:45 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Obama administration and Netanyahu government are bending over backward to dissuade Mahmoud Abbas from going through with his decision to retire from public life both as chairman of the Palestinian Authority and head of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which he now says is final, debkafile's Washington and ...
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October 21, 2009, 12:55 PM (GMT+02:00)
On Sept. 17, a Shin Bet-undercover police unit detained three Palestinians fabricating bombs and using pipes as components for rockets in a covert workshop in the Abu Dis village of Jerusalem, debkafile's counter-terror sources report. They worked in the grocery storehouse under the direction of an engineer. The ...
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October 12, 2009, 3:02 PM (GMT+02:00)
Israeli security forces are on high alert for a fresh round of Muslim unrest centering on Temple Mount on Friday, Oct. 9.
The arrest Tuesday night, Oct. 6, of the Israeli Islamic leader Raed Salah on charges of inciting the four-day Muslim rampage on Temple Mount - and sedition - was ... 
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October 11, 2009, 8:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
Raed Salah, head of the Islamic movement of Israeli Arabs, was placed under arrest Tuesday, Oct. 6, on charges of incitement and sedition for launching a joint violent campaign with Hamas to exclude Jews from Temple Mount. Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch appealed to the heads of all three faiths ...
DEBKAfile
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October 9, 2009, 10:35 AM (GMT+02:00)
Hundreds of radical Muslims, Palestinian and Israeli, rioted on Jerusalem's Temple Mount Sunday, Oct. 4, for the third day in a row, forcing Israeli police, battling flying bottles and rocks, to shut the shrine down. Temple Mount remains sealed off Monday to prevent Muslims hurling rocks on the Jewish Priests ...
DEBKAfile
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September 5, 2009, 10:13 AM (GMT+02:00)
Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a timely statement Sunday, Aug. 30, dismissing the torrent of press reports from various foreign sources claiming that a prisoner swap for the release of the kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit was imminent.
debkafile's Middle East sources disclose the real object of Hamas leaders' ... 
DEBKAfile
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August 31, 2009, 4:25 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Middle East sources reveal here a comprehensive scheme cooked up by the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on the advice of US and British friends for deposing the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip and drawing president Barack Obama over to his side against Israeli prime minister Binyamin ...
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August 18, 2009, 8:52 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's analysts note that while fervently promoting the "right of return" for the 1948 refugees, the 2,300 delegates to the Fatah conference elected only one overseas member; Fatah delegates from Jordan, Syria, the Persian Gulf, Yemen, North Africa - and even the Gaza Strip absentees - did not ...
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August 8, 2009, 8:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
To meet a US demand, Israel has permitted the entire Fatah leaderships of Syria, Lebanon and Jordan - some 500 functionaries - to enter the country for the first Fatah general conference in 25 years which opens Tuesday, Aug. 4 in Bethlehem. Among them are notorious terrorists responsible for multiple-murder ...
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August 1, 2009, 4:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
The Palestinian Islamist Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip have enacted a new law obliging all women to cover their hair with the Muslim hijab. Sunday, July 26, "modesty patrols" were out on the streets and beaches of the Gaza Strip enforcing the new edict.
The Gaza Strip's slide into ... 
DEBKAfile
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July 20, 2009, 10:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
The conversation Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas held at Sharm e-Sheikh Tuesday July 14 was more like a shouting match, debkafile's Middle East sources disclose. Abbas refused to listen to an Egyptian plan which accepted the Palestinian schism and partition between two territories.
DEBKAfile
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June 22, 2009, 7:40 AM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources confirm that the Army of Islam, the Palestinian al Qaeda cell in Gaza tried to assassinate former US president Jimmy Carter by planting a 200-kilo bomb in the path of his exit through the Erez crossing after he held sympathetic talks with its Hamas rulers.
Nevertheless, ... 
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June 21, 2009, 4:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Senior Palestinian officials in Ramallah, enraged by the Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu's conditional offer of a Palestinian state Sunday, June 14 - and even more by what they see as US president Barack Obama's perfidious welcome - are weighing extreme options for reprisal, debkafile's military sources report.
Some ... 
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June 17, 2009, 12:48 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Palestinian sources report that 500 Palestinian women in Nablus are providing wanted Palestinians with sanctuary and permitting their bank accounts to be used to whitewash Hamas revenues.
One of the Hamas operatives detained this week was found in possession of one-and-half million euros for establishing a stronghold in ...
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June 16, 2009, 7:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
The roadside bombs, planted near a crossing between Israel and Gaza, were intended to hit the former US president Jimmy Carter as he exited the Palestinian territory after sympathetic talks with its Hamas rulers.
Carter "held back tears" at the sight of living conditions there for which he held Israel wholly ... 
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June 14, 2009, 9:17 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources report at least four Palestinians killed after Israeli air force helicopters went into action against Palestinian gunmen who mounted coordinated assaults at several points on the border early Monday, June 8. At least three Palestinian organizations, Hamas, Jihad Islami and Fatah-al Aksa Brigades plus the ...
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June 7, 2009, 12:42 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's military sources disclose that Sunday night, May 31, Hamas commanders in Damascus and Gaza ordered all West Bank cells to unleash a terrorist assault on the West Bank with bomb cars, roadside bombs, snipers and missiles. They were told to set their sights on all Palestinian Authority ...
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May 31, 2009, 9:54 PM (GMT+02:00)
Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas will produce a thick sheaf of pre-conditions for talks with Israel when he meets US president Barack Obama at the White House Thursday, May 28, primarily heavy US pressure to force the Netanyahu government to stop all construction activity in the West Bank and Jerusalem ...
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