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05/09/2021
The IDF launched the largest military exercise in Israel’s history Sunday, which is expected to run throughout the month of May.
Participating units will train for combat and emergency scenarios on Israel’s most hostile fronts, while Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi has decided to conduct the training as originally planned,…
05/08/2021
Incendiary balloons launched from Gaza caused numerous fires throughout southern Israel on Friday and Saturday amid rising tensions surrounding West Bank settlements.
Five fires were detected at the Kisufim forest and three others were detected at the Beeri and Besor forests on Friday.
Teams of volunteers and professionals from…
05/08/2021
Israeli security forces killed 2 of the attackers, critically wounding the third
The Palestinian terrorists gunned down by Israeli security forces on Friday were set out to perpetrate a “major” terrorist attack within Israel, security officials said.
The firefight broke outside a Border Police base near the West Bank-Israel…
05/08/2021
A drone packed with explosives hit an Iraqi base housing US troops early Saturday causing damage but no casualties, the US military said.
The attack on the Ain Al-Asad airbase was the fourth in Iraq in less than a week.
“Each attack… undermines the authority of Iraqi institutions, the rule of law, and Iraqi national…
05/07/2021
Iran is using tensions over Jerusalem as an excuse to lead other extremist groups in the region to push for terror attacks against Israel.
It is important to understand the timeline here. The tensions in Jerusalem go back to late April, when Ramadan began, Israeli police restricted access to Damascus Gate and a series of TikTok…
05/07/2021
Three Palestinians who opened fire at Border Police soldiers near a military base in the northern West Bank on Friday initially planned to commit a “major attack” against civilians in central Israel, army and police officials said on Friday.
The three attackers, all in their early 20s, were traveling on a bus with illegal…
05/06/2021
At least six fires were lit in southern Israel on Thursday after balloons carryingincendiary were launched from the Gaza Strip, according to an Israeli Fire and Rescue Services statement.
Two of the fires started in Be’eri Forest and four others in Kissufim Forest, two nature reserves located on the border of Israel and Gaza.
Slight…
05/07/2021
State Dept describes Vienna talks as ‘serious and constructive,’ says nuclear accord is ‘a deal that worked’
If the Vienna talks on the US rejoining the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran yield no results, Washington is read “to do whatever needed to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons,” a senior State Department official told…
05/07/2021
Iran’s supreme leader declares that fighting Israel is a ‘collective responsibility’
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei branded Israel a “terrorist camp” in his speech on the Quds Day.
In his speech, as cited by Iran’s state media, Khamenei proclaimed that the Jewish state “usurped Palestine” to convert the area into a…
05/05/2021
Jerusalem, the city of peace, has been the most treasured city of the Jewish people for centuries. However, until 1967, Jews had been barred from entering the city and visiting their holiest sites. When Israel miraculously won the Six Day War, Jerusalem was captured and reunited under Israel’s sovereignty. Since then, people of all…
05/05/2021
In recent days, conflicting reports have emerged over the ongoing negotiations in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, leading to questions over to what extent the United States will undo Trump-era sanctions against Tehran.
Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, as well as an expert on…
05/05/2021
19-year-old Yehuda Guetta died after succumbing to his injuries sustained in a drive-by terror attack Sunday
A student critically injured in a drive-by terror attack carried out earlier this week in the West Bank has died of his wounds.
A spokesperson at Rabin Medical Center said Wednesday evening that 19-year-old Yehuda Guetta…
05/05/2021
Reported strike follows attack on previous night that allegedly left 1 dead, 6 wounded
Israel carried out an airstrike on Hezbollah posts early Thursday in Syria’s Quneitra, near the Israeli Golan Heights, according to Syrian media agencies.
The Israeli air force allegedly struck targets with helicopters. Syrian state TV SANA…
05/06/2021
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Maj.-Gen. Hossein Salami said that Israel “security” has been eroded, and its safety “bubble” burst in the last few months in a wide-ranging television interview.
He bragged at length about how the “Zionist regime” is supposedly in the midst of security, political and social…
05/04/2021
Israeli aircraft reportedly carried out airstrikes in northern Syria early Wednesday, Syrian state media said, killing one person and wounding six, in the first alleged attacks since raids last month that saw an errant Syrian anti-aircraft missile explode in the Negev desert.
Syrian state media SANA reported that Syrian air…
05/05/2021
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani denounced Israel as “the enemy” of the Middle East in comments leading up to World Al Quds Day, which Iran inaugurated after the 1979 Islamic Revolution to protest the existence of the Jewish state.
“The Zionists are the enemies of the region and of the security of the Palestinian people. They are the…
05/05/2021
A damning new report authored by the Netherlands’ General Intelligence and Security Service (AIVD) asserts that the Islamic Republic of Iran attempted to obtain technology in 2020 for weapons of mass destruction.
The Dutch intelligence document, which was published in April, says the security service “investigated networks that…
05/05/2021
According to Swedish, German, and Dutch reports, Iran is still pursuing nuclear weapons. This comes as the Biden administration and many NATO allies are intent on restarting the Iran nuclear deal, or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as it is formally called.
Former President Trump withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal in…
