Author: Jmedia Manager
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Israel-Palestine conflict spreads across borders
Gaza City: A Gaza tower block housing the offices of Associated Press and Al Jazeera journalists collapsed on Saturday afternoon after being struck by Israeli missiles as violence between Israel and Hamas escalated. The owner of the building had been warned in advance of an impending Israeli missile strike, a Reuters reporter said, and the building…
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‘At least 33’ killed in Gaza airstrike
Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City have flattened three buildings and killed at least 33 people, medics say, making it the deadliest single attack since heavy fighting broke out between Israel and the territory’s militant Hamas rulers nearly a week ago. The Gaza Health Ministry said 12 women and eight children were among those killed on…
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Israel Palestine conflict: ‘Fake’ tweet lures Palestinian troops to their deaths
A misleading statement tweeted by the Israel Defense Forces appears to have been a decoy intended to lure Hamas troops into tunnels that were later bombarded by the Israeli army. The Israeli Defence Force appeared to lure Hamas fighters to their deaths within a misleading social media statement that IDF ground troops were entering Gaza.…
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No end in sight as Gaza conflict rages on
Israel has pummelled Gaza with air strikes and Palestinian militants launched rocket barrages at Tel Aviv and other cities on Saturday, with no sign yet of an end to the worst escalation in years in the region, almost a week into the conflict. US and Arab diplomats are seeking to calm the situation. Violence overnight…
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Israel’s deceptive ‘surprise attack’ an ‘absolute body blow’ to Hamas
Retired British Army colonel Richard Kemp says in his entire military career he’s never known of such an “extraordinary” surprise attack triggered by “deception” like the Israelis conducted in Gaza by duping the world. On Friday the Israel Defence Forces sent out a tweet which said air and ground troops were “currently attacking in the…
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The photo which tells all you should know about the Israel-Gaza conflict
Sky News host Rowan Dean says everything people need to know about the history and future of the current conflict in Gaza and Israel can be condensed into a single photo. The conflict in the Middle East has continued to broaden with violent clashes between Palestinians and Israelis spreading across the West Bank. “On the…
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‘We were good neighbours’: Mixed Israeli cities baffled by sudden street fighting
Lod, Israel: The Arabs and Jews of Lod, one of the most closely mixed cities in Israel, have been through many upheavals. But they had never before seen the kind of inter-community violence that unfolded here over the past three days. Angry Arab youths rioted this week after police violence at al-Aqsa mosque in Old Jerusalem spilt over…
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Can anything end the eternal Middle Eastern ‘doom loop’?
It’s easy to sigh and dismiss the violence in Israel and Gaza as just another flare-up in an endless and insoluble conflict. Palestinian militants in Gaza have fired dozens of rockets at Israel. Israeli airstrikes destroyed a tower block in Gaza. The Israel Defence Forces said about 1500 rockets had been fired into Israeli cities.…
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Palestinians in Jerusalem live in a strange limbo
Thomas Friedman has a lot to answer for. The New York Times’s oracle has ruined, through overuse in his columns, the best source of local knowledge for journalists: the cab driver. No other hack can now quote his driver for fear of colleagues’ ridicule. Which is a pity, because the cab drivers in Jerusalem are those…
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Response Commended
I wish to commend the director of the Qbank gallery and acting mayor of the West Coast Council for their condemnation of the anti-Semitic hate speech painted on the wall of the gallery in Queenstown and the prompt action to remove it. Anti-Semitism is an ancient evil that has targeted Jews over centuries and because…