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Ultra-Orthodox military conscription row reignites in Israel

November 29, 2025 admin

A new draft law on conscripting ultra-Orthodox Jews, whose support is crucial for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, has sparked uproar in Israel, with the opposition denouncing it as a special privilege for “draft-dodgers”. Under a ruling established at the time of Israel’s creation in 1948, men who devote themselves full-time to studying sacred Jewish…

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Israeli airstrike kills cleaning worker, relative in southern Lebanon, sources say

September 2, 2024 admin

Civil Defence teams inspect a charred car that was hit by an Israeli drone strike on the road leading to the southern Lebanese on September 2, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP An Israeli airstrike killed two civilians travelling in a car along Lebanon’s southern coast on Monday (September 2, 2024) security sources said, including an…

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Israel Military Says Failed To Stop West Bank Attack That Killed 1 Palestinian

August 28, 2024 admin

Israeli military’s investigation found the troops “needed to act more decisively”. (Representational) Jerusalem: The Israeli military said on Wednesday it had “failed” in its response to a settler attack in the occupied West Bank earlier this month that Palestinian officials said killed one man. The August 15 raid on the northern West Bank village of…

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Israeli defence minister declares 48-hour state of emergency

August 25, 2024 admin

This photo taken from a position in northern Israel shows a Hezbollah UAV intercepted by Israeli air forces over north Israel on August 25, 2024. | Photo Credit: AFP Defence Minister Yoav Gallant announced a 48-hour nationwide state of emergency from 06:00 am Sunday (August 25, 2024), after the Israeli military launched what it called…

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Israel’s military says it will begin sending draft notices to ultra-Orthodox men next week

July 16, 2024 admin

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest an Israeli Supreme Court ruling that requires the state to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students to the military, in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood of Jerusalem, June 30, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Israeli military announced on July 16 it would begin sending draft notices to Jewish ultra-Orthodox men on…

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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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