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Israel’s Top Court Rules Army Must Draft Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Students

June 25, 2024 admin

Most Israelis, except the ultra-Orthodox Jewish students, have been law-bound to serve in the military. JERUSALEM: Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the government must draft ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students to the conscript military, a decree likely to send shockwaves through Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition. Netanyahu’s coalition relies for its survival on two…

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Israel maintains a shadowy hospital in the desert for Gaza detainees. Critics allege mistreatment

June 1, 2024 admin

Patients lying shackled and blindfolded on more than a dozen beds inside a white tent in the desert. Surgeries performed without adequate painkillers. Doctors who remain anonymous. These are some of the conditions at Israel’s only hospital dedicated to treating Palestinians detained by the military in the Gaza Strip, three people who have worked there…

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Launched more than 100 rockets at Israeli positions: Lebanon’s Hezbollah

March 12, 2024 admin

People inspect the rubble of a house where a Hezbollah member and his family were killed in Israeli bombardment. | Photo Credit: AFP Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah said on March 12 it launched more than 100 rockets at Israeli military positions in retaliation for a strike on the country’s east that killed one person the day…

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An Unusual Asset Of Hamas Is Complicating Israel’s Retaliation Plan

October 15, 2023 admin

Israeli armoured vehicles advance towards the border with the Gaza Strip today. Though Hamas is no match for the technological sophistication of the Israeli army, the group has one very unusual asset: a vast network of secret subterranean tunnels. Since Israel began to grasp the full extent of the labyrinth in 2014, it has spent…

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Israel Army Says Bodies Of Some Hostages Found In Gaza

October 14, 2023 admin

Israeli military has carried out air raids on thousands of Hamas targets in Gaza. (File) Jerusalem: The Israeli military said Saturday that the bodies of some hostages kidnapped by Hamas group had been found during operations inside Gaza this week. “We have found and located some bodies in the perimeter in the Gaza Strip of…

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U.S. Defence Secretary Antony Blinken in Israel to meet with its leaders, see America’s security assistance

October 13, 2023 admin

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken shake hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, in Amman, Jordan, on October 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived, on October 13, at the Israeli city of Tel Aviv to meet with senior government leaders and see firsthand some of the U.S. weapons and…

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