Special to WorldTribune.com GAZA CITY — Gazan militias, despite a 50-day war with Israel, were said to have retained their missile and rocket arsenal. A leading Palestinian militia commander said the missile and rocket stockpile in the Gaza Strip was far from depleted. The commander said Hamas, Jihad and other Palestinian forces maintained weapons production […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GAZA CITY — The Hamas regime has been bracing for massive Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said the Hamas military has evacuated all of its bases in the Gaza Strip amid intense rocket fire by the Iranian-sponsored Islamic Jihad. The sources said Hamas was not trying to stop […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s military, amid daily attacks from the Gaza Strip, has resumed targeting suspected Palestinian rocket commanders. On Feb. 9, the Israel Air Force targeted a leading Palestinian rocket commander in the Gaza Strip. The commander, said to have been seriously injured, was identified as Abdullah Al Kharti, a member […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — Egypt has reinforced its military presence to block the infiltration of Palestinian fighters from the Gaza Strip. Security sources said Egypt’s military and Central Security Forces have been bolstered in wake of the ouster of President Mohammed Morsi. The sources said the military assessed that Hamas and other Islamist fighters […]
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 LONDON — Iran has been pressing to expand its presence in the Gaza Strip. Arab diplomatic sources said the Iranian leadership was urging the Hamas government of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to allow additional military trainers into the Gaza Strip. The sources said Iran, particularly its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, wants to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Iran has been pressing to expand its presence in the Gaza Strip. Arab diplomatic sources said the Iranian leadership was urging the Hamas government of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to allow additional military trainers into the Gaza Strip. The sources said Iran, particularly its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, wants to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — Israel has warned of an imminent attack in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The Counter-Terrorism Bureau, part of the prime minister’s office, said that Palestinian insurgency groups were planning an attack on Israelis in Sinai. The bureau called on the estimated 3,000 Israelis in Sinai to leave immediately. “Based on information in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com CAIRO — In the first such attack in 2012, Bedouin gunmen have killed Egyptian police officers in the Sinai Peninsula. Security sources said at least two police officers were killed and three others injured in a Bedouin assault of a police checkpoint near the northern provincial capital of El Arish. They said […]
Special to WorldTribune.com GAZA CITY — Three BM-21 Grad rockets were fired from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula toward the neighboring Israeli city of Eilat on April 4. Nobody was reported injured in the late-night rocket salvo. Such attacks on Israel from the increasingly unstable Sinai region have been rare and took place as thousands flocked to […]