Month: June 2020

Annexation will not happen on July 1 – US sources

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Alternate PM and Defense Minister Benny Gantz says fighting coronavirus, unemployment higher priority than peace plan; Netanyahu still talking about sovereignty over all settlements and Jordan Valley LAHAV HARKOV JUNE 29, 2020 12:22 Israel will not take steps to extend its sovereignty in the West Bank this week, multiple American sources with knowledge of the […]

Explosion in a secret underground Iranian nuclear weapons factory

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MOSCOW, (BM) – A gas explosion occurred in a mountainous area near Tehran last Friday night, thundered in the area east of the Iranian capital, where the secret underground rocket factory is located, the Associated Press [AP] reported on Sunday, citing data from the US Center for Strategic and International research, learned BulgarianMilitary.com. Read more: […]

IDF Hits Hamas Targets After Two Rockets Are Launched at Israel From Gaza

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An explosion is seen following an Israeli air strike in the southern Gaza Strip, July 20, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Ibraheem Abu Mustafa. JNS.org – Israel hit multiple Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early Saturday morning after two rockets were launched at Israel from the coastal enclave on Friday evening, according to the Israeli […]

Southern Syria is a center of new instability and military activity

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A review of incidents in southern Syria in recent weeks points to the area becoming an increasing flash point as many issues are now in flux. SETH J. FRANTZMAN JUNE 28, 2020 20:39  A review of incidents in southern Syria in recent weeks points to the area becoming an increasing flash point as many issues […]

71–Judgment on the Nations

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This prophecy initially seems to apply to the Assyrian nation in the near term from Isaiah’s day. It is better understood as a prefigurement, type, shadow or model of all the nations that defy the Lord culminating with the last beast of the Times of the Gentiles. The final end of the last days of […]

Iraq: Hezbollah Brigades threaten PM

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Iraqi Hezbollah Brigades threatened on Friday the new Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kazemi over the detention of brigades’ leaders, Al-Watan Voice reported. Abu Ali Al-Askari, security leader of the brigades, accused Al-Kazemi of “hiding his partnership in the crime” of the assassinations of Qasem Soleimani and the deputy commander of Al-Hashd Al-Sha’bi, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis. Al-Askari […]

Iran ‘mystery’ explosion may have been at a secret ballistic missile site

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Regional media is now speculating that something worse may have happened when a massive explosion caused light in the skies over Iran last week. SETH J. FRANTZMAN Iran may have been up to more than it claims after mysterious explosions ripped apart an area near secretive missile factories in the hills east of Tehran. The […]

UK Labour calls to ban settlement imports in response to annexation

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Banning settlement products is a “major step,” foreign secretary Lisa Nandy added, but said that “such a blatant breach of international law must have consequences.” By LAHAV HARKOV JUNE 28, 2020 13:10 UK Labour’s leadership called for a ban on imported goods from settlements if Israel applies its sovereignty to parts of the West Bank. […]

Explosion Reported in Iran Near Suspected Missile Site: Satellite Image

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The Associated PressJune 28, 2020 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—An explosion that rattled Iran’s capital came from an area in its eastern mountains that analysts believe hides an underground tunnel system and missile production sites, satellite photographs showed Saturday. What exploded in the incident early Friday that sent a massive fireball into the sky near Tehran […]

Six pro-Iranian militiamen killed in airstrike near Syrian-Iraq border

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The six militiamen died in a raid conducted Saturday night, June 27, on a Syrian base that hosted pro-Iranian militiamen at a village outside Abu Kamal near the Iraqi border. Syrian official sources did not blame Israel this time. Syrian opposition sources in London, however, initially attributed the air strike to “American coalition aircraft.”  DEBKAfile […]

EU prepares response to US sanctions against Nord Stream 2

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EU prepares response to US sanctions against Nord Stream 2  Saturday, June 27, 2020 10:00:00 AM       The European Commission is preparing a response to Washington’s sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, as stated in the written response of the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell […]

Ahead of possible Israeli annexation, Abbas said to refuse call from Pompeo

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PA threatens to gather weapons from security forces, hand them over to Israel if plan goes ahead By TOI staff Today, 11:47 pm Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly refused a phone call this week from US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and threatened to gather weapons from the PA security forces and turn them […]