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BREAKING: Hamas & Islamic Jihad have fired nearly 300 rockets at Israel today. Meanwhile, Saudis invite Jewish delegation to visit & a senior Saudi Muslim leader is going to visit Auschwitz.

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(Jerusalem, Israel) — We’re seeing both bad news and good in the Middle East tonight. Let’s start with the bad. As of 11:30pm local time, here are the latest developments in today’s terrible rocket war: Nearly 300 rockets were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Saturday. Three rockets have just hit Beersheba, Israel’s […]

The Vanishing: Report Exposes Persecution of Middle East Christians as ‘Close to Genocide’

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Organized persecution of minority Christians in their traditional Middle East homelands is approaching genocide and has driven an exodus in the past two decades,  a report commissioned by the British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, warned Thursday. Millions of Christians in the region have been uprooted from their homes, and many have been killed, kidnapped, imprisoned […]

Hamas Demands $30 Million Ransom as Israel Cancels School

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By Jewish Press News Desk – 30 Nisan 5779 – May 4, 2019 0 Schools has been cancelled all throughout Israel’s south, starting from along the Gaza border, central Negev, Lachish, and Be’er Sheva, even as far as Rechovot, following the hundreds of rocket attacks on Saturday. Hamas is demanding Israel pay a $30 million […]

Iran’s National Oil Company to Open Office in Iraq: Report

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04/05/2019 – 16:17 ERBIL — The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) will open a new office in Iraq to facilitate the cooperation in the oil industry while US is increasing pressure to cripple Tehran’s oil exports. “The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) will open a new office in Iraq to further ease the two countries’ […]

Video shows the moment rocket hits Kiryat Gat, injuring 80-year-old woman

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Woman can be seen trying to reach bus shelter as sirens wail, but is knocked to the floor and sustains serious head injuries By TOI STAFFToday, 9:11 pm  0 6shares Security footage shows the moment a rocket hits the town of Kiryat Gat, May 4, 2019 (Screen grab via Channel 13 news) Security footage released Saturday showed […]

PA calls for halting Israeli ‘aggression’

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The PA government condemned the Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip that came in response to the rocket attacks against Israel over the weekend. Khaled Abu Toameh May 4, 2019 21:12 The Palestinian Authority on Saturday called on the United Nations to immediately intervene to halt the Israeli “aggression” on the Palestinians in the […]

Netanyahu said to tell IDF to ‘deal a hard blow’ to Gaza terror groups

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Senior official says expectation is of ‘at least two to three days of fighting’; IDF says Hamas and Islamic Jihad are working together By TOI STAFFToday, 7:36 pm  0 21shares Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds consultations with the IDF’s Chief of Staff, the directors of the ISA & NSC and security officials at the Kiriya in Tel […]

IDF says prepared for rocket fire at Tel Aviv, will call up some reservists

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IDF spokesman Ronen Manelis says the military has air defense systems in place in case of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip toward the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. Asked by Channel 13 if the IDF is interested in quickly ending the current round of fighting with Palestinian terror groups in light of the upcoming Eurovision […]

IDF destroys cross-border Islamic Jihad tunnel, warns of further strikes on Gaza

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Army says terror group was ‘accelerating’ work on underground passage to launch attack; Israel closes border crossings, fishing area off Strip in response to attacks 3min ago Eurovision event in Modiin canceled amid Gaza violence 23min ago Rocket sirens sound in southern cities of Ashkelon, Netivot 28min ago IDF releases video of strike on Islamic […]

Islamic Jihad threatens attacks on Dimona nuclear facility, Ben Gurion Airport

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Gaza-based, Iran-backed terror group issues video showing members loading projectiles into a rocket launcher, as well as footage of Ashdod port and Haifa refineries By TOI STAFFToday, 6:27 pm  0 67shares Volume 90% The military wing of the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad terror group on Saturday released a video threatening rocket attacks on the nuclear facility in Dimona […]

Egypt insists that Israel stop air raids in Gaza

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By JERUSALEM POST STAFF May 4, 2019 17:21   Breaking news. (photo credit: JPOST STAFF) Egypt released a statement demanding that Israel stop the air raids in the Gaza Strip after IDF tanks and helicopters began attacking terrorist targets belonging to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza strip.