Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — For the first time in decades, an Israeli has been abducted in Egypt. Security sources said two tourists were abducted in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on March 22. They said Bedouin gunmen stopped an Israeli man and Norwegian woman at gunpoint as they drove along southern Sinai. “The fact that he […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — The United Nations has determined that Hamas was firing missiles and rockets from populated areas of the Gaza Strip. A report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said Hamas and Palestinian allies fired from civilian communities during their eight-day war with Israel in November 2012. In a report, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — The Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has been ordering anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles from Libya. “The missiles have been mostly Russian, but we’ve found those apparently produced in France and the United States,” Egyptian security sources said. The sources said several convoys from Libya to the Gaza Strip were intercepted in 2013 […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — The Israel Army has determined it must recruit dozens of trackers to help secure the 200-kilometer border with Egypt. They said the trackers would be required amid concerns that Egypt would no longer have the capability or will to secure its side of the border with Israel. “The tracker […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GAZA CITY — The Hamas regime has closed down the massive tunnel smuggling network amid numerous cave-ins along the Egyptian border. Officials said the Interior Ministry decided to close the estimated 1,200 tunnels that connect the Gaza Strip to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. They said scores of tunnels underneath the divided city of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GAZA CITY — Scores of smuggling tunnels that connect Egypt to the Gaza Strip have collapsed. Palestinian sources said the Hamas regime has been struggling with the collapse of at least 20 tunnels during the storms in the Levant in January 2013. They said many other tunnels have been flooded by some […]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — Israel’s intelligence community has determined that Hamas was using security forces for rocket attacks against Israel. The open-source arm of the intelligence community asserted that many of those killed in Israel Air Force strikes during the mini-war in November 2012 were members of the Hamas security forces. The Intelligence and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — Despite U.S. appeals, Egypt’s new Islamist president has refused to approve high-level security talks with Israel. Officials said Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has rejected U.S. appeals to establish a high-level channel with Israel to coordinate on military and security issues. Over the last three months, they said, several senior members […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has drafted a plan to stop arms smuggling to the Gaza Strip. The announcement came as Egypt was preparing for a summit with the United States. On Jan. 6, U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence Michael Vickers arrived in Cairo for two days of meetings to discuss the security […]
Special to WorldTribune.com NICOSIA — Iran has publicly promised Hamas would receive long-range weapons. Officials said the Teheran regime intends to ship missiles with ranges of several hundreds of kilometers to the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip. They said the missiles would be able to reach anywhere within Israel. “They will receive missiles that […]