Israeli blockade Has Cost Gaza $16.7 Billion November 26, 2020 Israeli blockade Has Cost Gaza $16.7 Billion2020-11-262020-11-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/gaza-e1606437573234.jpg200px200px Above photo: Palestinian street vendors sell candy in Gaza City. Getty. Israel‘s blockade of the Gaza Strip cost the Palestinian enclave’s economy an estimated $16.7 billion in just over a decade, the United Nations said Wednesday. The coastal enclave has been under an Israeli-enforced blockade since 2007, the year the Islamist […]
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The Israeli Navy took delivery of its new anti-missile ship, Sa’ar 6 corvette, according to a recent service news release. “The Israeli Navy welcomed its newest addition, the Sa’ar 6 Corvette, this week,” said in a statement, “Not only is the 2,000-ton ship the Israeli Navy’s most advanced anti-missile ship yet, it will also be equipped with our latest operating systems to thwart any enemy threat.” […]
Israeli Weapons Fuel The Violence In Azerbaijan By Raul Diego, Mintpress News. October 22, 2020 Israeli Weapons Fuel The Violence In Azerbaijan2020-10-222020-10-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/wars.jpg200px200px Above photo: A man fences off a tail of a multiple rocket after shelling by Azerbaijan’s artillery during a military conflict in Shushi, outside Stepanakert, the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Oct. 18, 2020. AP. With an eye on nearby Iran. Hoping to profit, protect […]
Israel’s Coronavirus National Information and Knowledge Center revealed Monday that vitamin D deficiency might be linked to an increased risk of contracting COVID-19. According to the center’s report, published Monday and reviewed by the Jerusalem Post, research studies have shown a circumstantial link between vitamin D levels and the risk of contracting the novel coronavirus. Despite the lack of a known causal relationship between the vitamin […]
A massive brawl erupted between Israeli troops from two different training companies over who was going to eat first at the canteen. Some 21 soldiers were injured in what the IDF called an “unusual and serious” incident. The confrontation between training companies representing the Bedouin 585th reconnaissance unit and the Shaked Battalion occurred at the Har Keren training base on Sunday. Things became so heated in […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202010121080744753-israeli-cabinet-approves-peace-deal-with-uae-will-sumbit-accord-for-parliamentary-ratification/ Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan said in a tweet earlier in the day that he had had a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss strengthening bilateral ties and the prospects for peace in the region. Source link
US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is an organized crime figure who is furthering the Kosher Nostra extremist Likudnik Israeli agenda, an American political analyst has said. Kevin Barrett, an author, Veterans Today Editor and radio host with a Ph.D. in Islamic and Arabic Studies, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Thursday. Breaking a long-standing tradition of ambassadors being politically neutral, Friedman […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107656/71/1076567179_0:100:1920:1180_1200x675_80_0_0_c57ce6e8bd968897e88c94011d8a1c15.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Daria Bedenko. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/science/202010071080700556-israeli-researches-point-at-breach-in-comcast-remotes-allowing-hackers-to-spy-through-them/ According to the researchers, the remote’s voice control function can be subject to security breaches, allowing hackers to break into the remote and use it as a recording device. Researchers from the Israel-based Guardicore company have discovered what they describe as a possible “security breach” in the XR11 remotes produced by the US-based Comcast telecommunications company, which could […]
For Israel, the second Palestinian uprising was a bloody page in the country’s history. It claimed the lives of more than a thousand people and injured many others. But for the Palestinians, assaults on Israeli targets, even if they were civilian, were necessary simply because they were a tool in the hands of people fighting for their independence. It has been 20 years since the eruption […]
VT: It isn’t just Google Corporation, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. It’s Fox, the NYDaily News, Wall Street Journal and then…everything else as well. Our issue? When Trump blames ‘fake news,’ he is blaming his best friends and allies, fake president, fake news… By Christopher Bollyn – American Free Press Christopher Bollyn is an investigative journalist who has written extensively on the events of September 11, 2001 […]
Israeli bitcoiners take note: a handful of Knesset members are seeking to ease Israel’s hefty taxation of cryptocurrencies. Four Knesset members from the nationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party on Tuesday introduced a draft bill that would effectively end Israel’s 25% capital gains tax on bitcoin by redefining certain “distributed digital currencies” as currency, instead of a taxable asset. Source link
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Mediterranean Another terrible explosion, another alleged Hezbollah deposit in the crosshairs, another suspicion that it is an Israeli attack on Lebanon. On the afternoon of Tuesday 22 September, a devastating explosion was seen and heard in the south of the country, according to local sources. The news was promptly picked up by Middle East Eye (below) but also by […]
26 September is commemorated as international day for the total elimination of nuclear weapons, reminding the global community that 75 years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, atomic bombs still pose a threat to global stability. Over the years, the realisation of how risky nuclear energy can be has prompted some governments to shut down their reactors. Such was the case in Germany, which decided to phase out […]
…from SouthFront.org The Ansar Allah movement (also known as the Houthis) continues pounding Saudi Arabia with drones and missiles. Late on September 17, the Yemeni Air Force loyal to the Houthi government struck Abha International Airport in the Saudi province of Asir with Samad 3 combat drones, which can be used as loitering munitions. The Houthis claimed that the strike hit a military section of the […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/107819/81/1078198199_0:322:3070:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_33e7e80faa6629c265635ccb7c703196.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009171080494590-israeli-security-forces-accuse-palestinian-woman-of-spying-recruiting-for-hezbollah/ Israeli authorities have arrested a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem, accusing her of spying for Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. According to Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, Yasmin Jaber was arrested last month under suspicion of trying to recruit “Israeli and Palestinian civilians and residents to carry out terrorist activities in Israel,” the Times of Israel reported. Jaber was recruited […]
Occupation Of UK Factory Involved In Israeli Drone Manufacture By Joe Gill, Middle East Eye. September 17, 2020 Occupation Of UK Factory Involved In Israeli Drone Manufacture2020-09-172020-09-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/pal-laction-occupation-e1600354079762.jpg200px200px Above photo: Activists scaled the building at UAV Engines factory, where engines for Elbit Systems drones are built in Shenstone, near Birmingham. Palestine Action. A direct action group is pushing to end the UK’s military complicity with Israel’s human rights […]
Israel has celebrated the deal with the UAE and Bahrain but Prime Minister Netanyahu has also faced a barrage of criticism, with tweeps accusing him of failing to handle the raging coronavirus and the threat emanating from Hamas. On Tuesday, it finally happened. After 26 years when the Middle East saw few glimpses of hope for a normalisation of Arab relations with Israel, the United Arab […]
TEL AVIV (Sputnik) – A total of 1,000 Israeli police officers will monitor the compliance with the total quarantine regime imposed to tackle the spread of COVID-19, police spokesman Mikhail Zingerman said, adding that there will be fines for those people who blatantly violate it. “It would be similar to what happened in the first lockdown [in the spring of 2020]. One thousand police officers – […]
Israel continues to violate Syria’s sovereignty, invoking the large military presence of Iranian forces and proxy militias in Syrian territory as an excuse, especially under the rule of the regime’s president “Bashar Al-Assad”. It is worth noting that Israeli strikes started to escalate greatly since 2018, as Israel vowed to block Iran’s entrenchment in Syria and force it out of the region. According to Syrian Observatory […]
Through its main investors, SoftBank and Lockheed Martin, Cybereason not only has ties to the Trump administration but has its software running on some of the U.S. government’s most classified and secretive networks. – Originally published on VT 15 January 2020 – by Whitney Webb, Mint Press If the networks of the U.S. military, the U.S. intelligence community and a slew of other U.S. federal agencies were […]
Syria’s air defenses thwarted an Israeli attack on Aleppo city early Friday morning, as multiple missiles were intercepted before reaching their targets, Syrian state-run television reported. The strikes occurred around 1:30am local time on Friday, the Syrian Arab News Agency reported, citing a military source who noted the country’s air defenses had repelled “most of the enemy missiles.” The source pinned the attack on Israel, however […]
Trump in February with Chad Wolf, the acting homeland security chief. Wolf reportedly told Murphy his Russia assessment should be ‘held … [because it] made the president look bad’. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters VT: Daily Beast, which normally jumps on such stories censored this one as it threatens to expose Israel as driving the RussiaGate narrative which has led back to them. Trump has been the Kosher Nostra’s […]
Robert David Steele is the conceptualizer of integrated election reform (#UNRIG) and the integration of holistic analytics, true cost economics, and Open Source Everything Engineering (OSEE) such that we can achieve a prosperous world at peace at 10-20% the cost of the failed Western economic model burdened by banks and lawyers. A former US spy and co-founder of the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, he is today […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/world/202009081080401562-trump-will-attend-signing-ceremony-of-israel-uae-peace-deal-at-white-house-israeli-media-says/ Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi agreed to normalize ties last month in a deal brokered by Washington. Palestinian leaders slammed the agreement, calling it a betrayal. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the UAE’s decision, saying it showed that Arab countries will not be “held hostage by the Palestinians” in dealing with Israel. US President Donald Trump will personally […]
Kfar Gaza, a community located just a few kilometres from the Gaza Strip, has seen emergency situations before but the outbreak of COVID-19 is now presenting new challenges, the primary one being a full lockdown, set to be imposed on Monday. Only a month ago Kfar Gaza, a southern Israeli community located just five kilometres from the Gaza Strip, was associated with rockets emanating from the […]
At least 12 people have been arrested and 2 police officers injured in sporadic clashes in Jerusalem during a weekly anti-government protest over PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s alleged corruption and botched Covid-19 pandemic response. Thousands have hit the streets of Jerusalem on Saturday night, as the protests against Netanyahu continue for the 11th consecutive weekend, although failing to reach last week’s record numbers. As one group gathered […]
…from SouthFront.org The Israeli Air Force conducted a second round of missiles strikes on Syria in less than a week. Late on September 2, Israeli warplanes launched missiles at the T4 airport in the province of Homs. According to Syria’s state media, the strikes were conducted from the direction of the US-controlled zone of al-Tanf on the Syrian-Iraqi border. Syrian pro-government sources claimed that a large […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo-itemprop.png Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202009021080351871-syria-intercepts-israeli-strike-on-central-air-base—state-media/ According to Syrian state media, several missiles fired at the T-4 air base were intercepted on Wednesday. According to the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA), Syrian air defenses over the city of Homs engaged a barrage of “rockets” allegedly fired by an Israeli aircraft at the T4 air base. The report notes the missiles came from the direction of […]
From Middle East Monitor Palestinian-Jordanian cartoonist, Emad Hajjaj, was arrested in Jordan three days ago after publishing a caricature insulting Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed. The CEO of the Centre for Defending Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ), Nidal Mansour, said that Hajjaj was arrested in connection with a case published under the Cybercrime Law. The cartoon which was published on his Al-Araby Al-Jadeed […]
Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) claimed on Wednesday that Hezbollah had attacked the country from between two UN positions in southern Lebanon, a move described as a violation of UN resolution 1701 that calls for a ceasefire between the two countries. The Lebanese Al-Mayadeen broadcaster released a video of what it described as an Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) soldier dummy placed on the country’s border with southern […]
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio for VT Mediterranean There is no peace for Lebanon. After the alleged nuclear attack on the port of Beirut which caused more than 200 deaths and thousands of injured by destroying an important part of the city and also devastating an Italian military base, Israel is still targeting the border areas with the territories occupied by the Zionists. Beirut: Deep State […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/106475/08/1064750847_318:0:2177:1046_1200x675_80_0_0_54bea1cab4fcfb8ee384e4dbab675bc5.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/202008241080257459-israeli-minister-tests-positive-for-coronavirus-knesset-members-quarantined—reports/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Israel’s Aliyah and Integration Minister Pinina Tamano-Shata has tested positive for the coronavirus, local media reported. Tamano-Shata tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, the Haaretz newspaper cited a Knesset spokesperson as saying. Some Knesset members, including Walid Taha and Ayelet Shaked, will now have to enter quarantine, having come into contact with Tamano-Shata. On Sunday, Israel registered […]