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BERLIN, Oct 7, 2023 (AFP) – Germany and France on Saturday moved to reinforce security around Jewish temples, schools and monuments after the surprise attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas against Israel. Germany tightened police protection of Jewish and Israeli institutions, as some supporters of the Palestinians took to the streets of Berlin to celebrate the attack. France focussed on Jewish temples and schools in cities across the country, as one Jewish leader expressed concern […]
By Oren Ziv with AFP bureaus in Israel and the Palestinian Territories SDEROT, Israel, Oct 7, 2023 (AFP) – At least 200 Israelis died in a surprise large-scale attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas on Saturday, the army said, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to reduce the group’s Gaza hideouts to “rubble”. Intense air strikes on the coastal enclave brought the Palestinian death toll to at least 232, Gaza officials said, following Hamas’s […]
By Maria DANILOVA WASHINGTON, Oct 7, 2023 (AFP) – The United States on Saturday condemned the attacks by “Hamas terrorists” against Israel and vowed to ensure the key US ally has the means to defend itself. President Joe Biden described the assault as “a terrible tragedy on a human level” and said he had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to underline his support. “I told him the United States stands with the people […]
By Shaun Tandon with Robbie Corey-Boulet in Riyadh WASHINGTON, Oct 7, 2023 (AFP) – With its surprise attack against Israel, Hamas has violently shifted the world’s eyes back to the Palestinians and dealt a severe blow to momentum to secure a landmark US-brokered deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. The Iranian-backed Islamist militants who run the impoverished, blockaded Gaza Strip on Saturday fired thousands of rockets and infiltrated forces into Israel, 50 years after Arab […]
Countries around the world have reacted to a wave of Palestinian attacks by land, sea and air that Israel says has claimed more than 600 lives. The statements by world leaders ranged from outright condemnation of the Palestinian attacks and strong support for Israel from Western nations, to support from some Middle Eastern countries. Many have called for a de-escalation of the conflict, after Israel launched air strikes and other military operations targeting Gaza that […]
By Ahmad Gharabli, with Adel Zaanoun and Mai Yaghi in Gaza City ASHKELON, Israel, Oct 7, 2023 (AFP) – Palestinian militants had begun a “war” against Israel which they infiltrated by air, sea and land from the blockaded Gaza Strip on Saturday, Israeli officials said, a major escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israeli medics reported 22 people killed. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said “we are at war” and vowed severe retaliation after ordering an extensive […]
By W.G. DUNLOP WASHINGTON, Oct 5, 2023 (AFP) – US warplanes on Thursday shot down a Turkish drone that was deemed a threat to American forces in Syria, the Pentagon said — an incident likely to raise tensions between the NATO allies. The shootdown came as Turkey targeted Kurdish forces in Syria following a suicide bombing in Ankara that was claimed by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). US troops observed drones carrying out strikes early […]
WASHINGTON, Sept 29, 2023 (AFP) – Israel and Saudi Arabia are moving towards the outline of a historic US-brokered deal to normalize relations after decades of hostility, the White House said on Friday. President Joe Biden is hoping to transform the Middle East — and score an election-year diplomatic victory — by securing recognition of the Jewish state by Saudi Arabia, the guardian of Islam’s two holiest sites. “All sides have hammered out, I think, […]
By Robbie COREY-BOULET RIYADH, Sept 26, 2023 (AFP) – Recent bullish statements by Saudi and Israeli leaders have fuelled speculation that a landmark normalisation deal is in the offing, despite daunting hurdles that have yet to be cleared. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Gulf kingdom’s de facto ruler, said in a rare interview last week with Fox News that talks were progressing and “every day we get closer” to a breakthrough that could […]
By Hossam EZZEDINE with Rosie SCAMMELL in Jerusalem RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories, Sept 26, 2023 (AFP) – Saudi Arabia on Tuesday sent its first delegation in three decades to the occupied West Bank to reassure Palestinians that it will defend their cause even as it forges closer ties with Israel. In a sign of the thaw, Israel’s Tourism Minister Haim Katz visited Riyadh on the same day, for the first such high-level public mission to the […]
UNITED NATIONS, United States, Sept 22, 2023 (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday warned Iran at the United Nations of a “nuclear threat” in what his office quickly walked back as a slip of the tongue. The hawkish prime minister said that alarm over Tehran’s clerical leaders was driving Israel closer to the Arab world, with his government on the “cusp” of a historic breakthrough with Saudi Arabia. Netanyahu, who has repeatedly […]
