Author: Jmedia Manager
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Iran blames US for warning-shots incident
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have accused a US Coast Guard ship of “provocation” after it fired warning shots against Iranian military boats that approached it in the Gulf. The Pentagon on Monday said the US Coast Guard ship Maui fired about 30 warning shots after 13 fast boats from the Revolutionary Guards’ navy came close to…
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Fears of ‘full-scale war’ as Israel-Palestinian clashes kill 40
The worst Israeli-Palestinian violence since 2014 saw 1,000 rockets fired at the Jewish state by Wednesday, the Gaza Strip pounded by relentless air strikes and at least 40 people killed, fuelling fears of a descent into “full-scale war”. In another night of escalating conflict, Palestinian militants attacked Israel’s commercial centre of Tel Aviv and other…
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Israeli PM flags possibility of more airstrikes after attack on Gaza kills 20
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested he may order more attacks on Gaza following an airstrike which killed at least 20 people. The incident followed a Hamas-led rocket attack which was launched in response to Israel’s crackdown on Palestinian protests. Watch the video on Sky News.
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Israel attacks Gaza after Jerusalem defeat
Twenty Palestinians, nine of them children, were killed in Israeli bombing attacks in the Gaza Strip on Monday night. This came at the end of a day of violence that began in occupied East Jerusalem, where Israeli forces assaulted worshippers at the al-Aqsa mosque compound, injuring hundreds. Scenes of brutality in Jerusalem generated outrage and…
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Andrew Bolt: Truth dies fast when Israel is under attack
Despite hundreds of rockets being fired into Israel, it is still seen as the aggressor and Palestinians the victim. The truth can’t get in the way of that narrative. In all wars, truth is the first casualty. And with missiles now falling on Jerusalem we’re reminded truth dies fastest when it’s Israel under attack. Again…
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Netanyahu says air strikes on Gaza could ‘continue for some time’
Gaza City: Israel unleashed new air strikes on Gaza on Tuesday, hitting the high-rise home of a Hamas field commander and two border tunnels dug by militants, as Hamas and other armed groups fired dozens of rockets toward Israel. Since sundown on Monday (Tuesday AEDT) when the cross-border fighting erupted, 24 Palestinians – including nine children…
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The latest cycle of violence between Israelis and Palestinians will be hard to stop
Moscow: There comes a point in every conflict where violence takes on a logic of its own – the critical juncture where if rising tensions are not defused, they can lead only to all-out war. With two Israeli women and 31 Palestinians including nine children killed by Hamas rocket fire on Israeli towns and Israeli airstrikes…
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Death and destruction spreads across Israel and the Palestinian territories
Jerusalem: A day of upheaval at the holy sites of this contested city quickly widened into a night of warlike violence on Tuesday as hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip resulted in the deaths of at least two Israelis and retaliatory air strikes killed at least 22 Gazans. Clashes also broke out in the West…
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Dozens dead as Israel, Hamas escalate aerial bombardments
Gaza/Jerusalem: Hostilities between Israel and Hamas escalated on Tuesday, raising the death toll in two days to 30 Palestinians and three Israelis, with Israel carrying out multiple air strikes in Gaza and the Islamist militant group firing rockets at Tel Aviv. A 13-story residential Gaza block collapsed after one of several dozen air strikes. Late into…
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Jerusalem is not safe’ as conflict flares up in the Middle East
The Times columnist Melanie Phillips says has told Sky News “Jerusalem is not safe” as conflict flares up in the Middle East. Ms Phillips, who spoke with Sky News host Andrew Bolt from Jerusalem, said “more than a thousand rockets” came in overnight. “Which is quite unprecedented,” she said. “But what’s going on in Jerusalem…