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For first time, Indian airliner uses Saudi Arabia to reach Israel
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Saudi Arabia has opened its airspace to Air India flights to and from the Israeli-occupied territories, adding concrete evidence to the long-running reports of warming Riyadh-Tel Aviv relations.
On Thursday night, an…
Israeli premier calls Pompeo over his candidacy for US secy of state
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called the current director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Mike Pompeo, over the new job he has been offered as the US secretary of state.
In their phone…
Friedman lashes out at Abbas over his speech on Israel settlements
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US ambassador to Israel David Friedman has lambasted Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s furious remarks about the Israeli regime’s illegal land grab,
Speaking at the so-called Global Forum for Combating…
Israeli parole board orders early release of soldier jailed for fatal shooting
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The Israeli military says a parole board has granted early release to an imprisoned soldier convicted of manslaughter for shooting dead a wounded Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank back in March 2016.
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Knesset agrees on terms of apartheid ‘Israel for Jews’ bill: Report
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Parties in the Knesset have reached an agreement on the terms of an apartheid bill which would define Israel as exclusively for Jews and makes it easier for the Tel Aviv regime to push ahead with its land grab…
Israel has destroyed 5,000 Palestinian homes in al-Quds since 1967: Report
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A new report shows that Israeli forces have destroyed some 5,000 Palestinian houses in Jerusalem al-Quds since the Tel Aviv regime’s occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967.
The Palestinian Land Research…
Palestinians boycott White House meeting on Gaza
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The Palestinian Authority has refused to take part in a meeting hosted by the White House on the situation in the Gaza Strip, with officials from Israel and Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, in attendance.
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UN describes Israeli settlements as “war crimes”
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Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, the UN’s ‘High Commissioner for Human Rights’, has slammed Israel’s settlement activity in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, as “war crimes”.
Al-Hussein’s remarks were reportedly a warning to the…
Israeli, Saudi officials hold Egypt-mediated meetings in Cairo: Report
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An official with the Palestinian Authority (PA) says top Israeli and Saudi officials held a series of secret Egypt-brokered meetings in Cairo, last week, as more signs emerge of warming relations between the two…
Israel holding joint military drill with US amid threats of new war on Lebanon
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Thousands of American and Israeli military forces are holding a month-long joint military exercise in the occupied territories amid the Tel Aviv regime’s rising threats of a new war against Lebanon.
US and Israeli…