Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The Hamas regime and its Palestinian militia allies were said to have ordered huge amounts of weapons from Libya. Egyptian officials said security forces have captured a convoy that contained thousands of munitions and missiles bound for the Gaza Strip via the Sinai Peninsula. The officials said the seizure was [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel has raised the prospect of conducting cyber warfare to stop attacks from neighboring Egypt. Officials said the Israeli intelligence community and military have been drafting options to counter Palestinian and Al Qaida-aligned attacks from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The officials said Sinai was becoming a launching pad for Hamas, [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com GAZA CITY — Qatar has sent its first fuel tranfer the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip. Officials said a Qatari fuel tanker arrived at the Egyptian port of Suez in May. They said Israel has approved the transfer of the ship’s 30 million liters of fuel in an effort to ease [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Iran has been pressing to expand its presence in the Gaza Strip. Arab diplomatic sources said the Iranian leadership was urging the Hamas government of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to allow additional military trainers into the Gaza Strip. The sources said Iran, particularly its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, wants to [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Iran has been pressing to expand its presence in the Gaza Strip. Arab diplomatic sources said the Iranian leadership was urging the Hamas government of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to allow additional military trainers into the Gaza Strip. The sources said Iran, particularly its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, wants to [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com GAZA CITY — Hamas has concluded the first phase of leadership elections. The elections were said to have taken place amid increasing tension between the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip and political bureau chief Khaled Masha’al. Hamas sources said the Palestinian Islamic movement has completed elections in the Gaza Strip. They [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Israel’s intelligence community has determined that the Palestinian Authority would avoid a military confrontation with Israel in 2012. Israeli sources have told U.S. officials and analysts that the PA was not interested in what they termed a “third intifada” or uprising, in the West Bank. They said PA Chairman Mahmoud [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Ed Koch In an April 4th New York Times op ed article, Tom Friedman endorsed what he designated to be “non-violent resistance by Palestinians” against Israel. He added that Palestinians need to “accompany every boycott, hunger strike or rock they throw at Israel with a detailed map” delineating their territorial demands. [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — Israel has reported another sharp increase in the Palestinian insurgency. The Israel Security Agency has reported a doubling of Palestinian strikes in March amid the mini-war between the Gaza Strip and the Jewish state. ISA said 229 attacks took place from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and around Israel in [...]
Special to WorldTribune.com GAZA CITY — Three BM-21 Grad rockets were fired from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula toward the neighboring Israeli city of Eilat on April 4. Nobody was reported injured in the late-night rocket salvo. Such attacks on Israel from the increasingly unstable Sinai region have been rare and took place as thousands flocked to [...]
