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The Iranian regime threatens the region Guest Columnist

The Iranian regime threatens the region

August 11th, 2018 By Sammy Revel DURING the trilateral summit between Cyprus, Greece and Israel in May 2018, the leaders of the three countries expressed their commitment to further strengthen their partnership. Major efforts are being made to promote stability, security and prosperity in the Middle East and the Eastern Mediterranean. The Iranian...
Gaza ceasefire holds after two-day flare-up, protests expected Middle East

Gaza ceasefire holds after two-day flare-up, protests expected

August 10th, 2018 The Israel-Gaza border was quiet on Friday after an Egyptian-brokered truce ended a surge in violence that had shaken southern Israel and the Gaza Strip for two days. But the ceasefire will face its first test later in the day, as Palestinians in Gaza planned on resuming weekly border protests, which at times have become...
Apoel game in Israel to go ahead (Update 3)   Cyprus

Apoel game in Israel to go ahead (Update 3)  

August 9th, 2018 Apoel’s Europa League match in Israel on Thursday was going ahead, following uncertainty earlier due to rocket attacks from Gaza, it was announced. At around 5.45pm a post was published on Apoel FC’s official Twitter account. It read: “Following a briefing from Uefa, the match will proceed as scheduled. The team will soon be...
Hamas fires rockets, Israel bombs Gaza despite talk of truce World

Hamas fires rockets, Israel bombs Gaza despite talk of truce

August 9th, 2018 Gaza militants fired rockets into Israel and the Israeli military responded with air strikes on Wednesday despite talk from both sides of progress towards a possible truce to avert a fourth war in a decade. A senior member of Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that controls Gaza, said talks mediated by the United Nations and Egypt...
Israel says US sought Turkish detainee's release, Ankara denies deal Turkey

Israel says US sought Turkish detainee's release, Ankara denies deal

July 27th, 2018 Israel confirmed on Friday a US newspaper report that President Donald Trump had requested its release of a Turkish woman accused of Hamas ties, while Ankara denied ever agreeing to free a detained American pastor in return. Israel deported Ebru Ozkan on July 15, a week after indicting her for smuggling money and goods to the...
Israel 'intercepts' Syrian warplane as Golan frontier heats up Middle East

Israel 'intercepts' Syrian warplane as Golan frontier heats up

July 24th, 2018 Israel said it shot down a Syrian warplane that crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Tuesday, but Damascus said the jet was fired on as it took part in operations against rebels on Syrian territory. The incident added new fuel to weeks of tensions over the Golan, a strategic plateau between the two old enemies and where...
Israel warns Syrians away from frontier as Assad closes in Middle East

Israel warns Syrians away from frontier as Assad closes in

July 17th, 2018 Dozens of Syrians approached the Israeli frontier on the Golan Heights on Tuesday in an apparent attempt to seek help or sanctuary from a Russian-backed Syrian army offensive, before turning back after a warning from Israeli forces. Tens of thousands of Syrians have arrived near the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in...
Israeli navy stops Cyprus-bound Palestinian boat Cyprus

Israeli navy stops Cyprus-bound Palestinian boat

July 11th, 2018 The Israeli navy has intercepted a boat carrying eight Palestinian activists who were sailing from Gaza to Cyprus in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade, it was reported on Wednesday. Citing Palestinian reports, Israel’s Haaretz newspaper said navy vessels surrounded the boat some six miles from the coast. The boat was...
Israel 'not ruling out' eventual ties with Syria's Assad Middle East

Israel 'not ruling out' eventual ties with Syria's Assad

July 10th, 2018 Israel held out the prospect on Tuesday of eventual contacts with Syria under President Bashar al-Assad, in a nod to his regime-consolidating advances in a seven-year-old civil war that Israeli officials had initially predicted would topple him. Assad's Russia-backed forces have advanced in southwest Syria and are on course to reach...
US-Israeli teen convicted in Israel for 2,000 bomb threats Middle East

US-Israeli teen convicted in Israel for 2,000 bomb threats

June 28th, 2018 An Israeli-American teenager was found guilty in Israel on Thursday of making about 2,000 hoax bomb threats against Jewish and other institutions in the United States and elsewhere during Donald Trump's rise to the US presidency in 2016 and 2017. The incidents stoked allegations by some American critics at the time that the...
Israel plans to relieve Gaza isolation by building port in Cyprus (update 2) Cyprus

Israel plans to relieve Gaza isolation by building port in Cyprus (update 2)

June 26th, 2018 The government on Tuesday confirmed that Israel has proposed to build a port for Gaza in Cyprus, but that Nicosia has yet to respond. According to Israeli media, Defence Minister Avigdor Liberman advanced a plan to build a port for Gaza in Cyprus when he was on the island to attend the recent trilateral defence summit. The idea of...
Israeli missiles hit near Damascus Airport Middle East

Israeli missiles hit near Damascus Airport

June 26th, 2018 Syrian state news agency SANA said two Israeli missiles hit in the vicinity of Damascus international airport in the early hours of Tuesday morning, without giving further details. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Syrian air defence systems failed to intercept the missiles. The Britain-based war monitor said an...
Defence ministers look to increase cooperation Cyprus

Defence ministers look to increase cooperation

June 22nd, 2018 The defence ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Israel said on Friday they look forward to further developing and enhancing trilateral defence collaboration. After the second Trilateral Defence Meeting held in Larnaca, the ministers of the three countries issued a joint statement saying that Cyprus, Greece and Israel share a close and...
Kammenos: Cyprus and Greece jointly building the future of the region Cyprus

Kammenos: Cyprus and Greece jointly building the future of the region

June 21st, 2018 Cyprus, Greece and Israel “share values” and are keen on promoting “security and stability” in the region, Greece’s Defence Minister Panos Kammenos said on Thursday. “Cyprus and Greece are jointly building the future of the region. Hellenism has never been aggressive,” Kammenos added after meeting his Cypriot counterpart...
Israeli PM Netanyahu's wife charged with fraud, Justice Ministry says Middle East

Israeli PM Netanyahu's wife charged with fraud, Justice Ministry says

June 21st, 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara, was charged on Thursday with fraud over the alleged misuse of state funds in ordering catered meals at their official residence, the Justice Ministry said. The indictment charged that Netanyahu, along with a government employee, fraudulently obtained more than $100,000 for...
Militants' rockets, Israeli air strikes heat up Gaza border Middle East

Militants' rockets, Israeli air strikes heat up Gaza border

June 20th, 2018 Several dozen rockets and mortar bombs launched atIsrael by Palestinians in Gaza, and Israeli air strikes on the enclave's dominant Hamas militant group, raised the heat along the border on Wednesday. Despite the biggest flare-up in weeks in the area, no deaths were reported. But pledges byIsrael and Palestinian militants to...
Trilateral meeting with defence ministers of Israel and Greece on Friday Cyprus

Trilateral meeting with defence ministers of Israel and Greece on Friday

June 20th, 2018 Regional security, the further enhancement of military cooperation and the promotion of maritime and energy security will be the focus of a trilateral meeting of the defence ministers of Cyprus, Greece and Israel in Larnaca on Friday, Defence Minister Savvas Angelides said on Wednesday. Cyprus will host the second trilateral meeting...
Israel has bombed Iranian-backed militias in Syria - Netanyahu Middle East

Israel has bombed Iranian-backed militias in Syria - Netanyahu

June 14th, 2018 Israel has attacked Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim militias in Syria, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, casting such actions as potentially helping to stem a Syrian Sunni Muslim refugee exodus to Europe. Israeli officials have previously disclosed scores of air strikes within Syria to prevent suspected arms transfers...
Israeli forces evict settlers in West Bank land dispute case Middle East

Israeli forces evict settlers in West Bank land dispute case

June 12th, 2018 Israeli security forces on Tuesday began evicting Jewish settlers from 15 homes which Israel's highest court ruled were built illegally on privately-owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank. Under a Supreme Court order, the 15 dwellings are to be demolished within the next few days. Hundreds of young pro-settlement activists...
Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians as Gaza protest resumes Middle East

Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians as Gaza protest resumes

June 8th, 2018 Israeli troops shot dead three Palestinians and wounded at least 618 others on Friday with live fire or tear gas used against protesters at the Gaza Strip border, medics said. The army said it took action to disperse around 10,000 Palestinians, some of whom threw rocks at the troops and burned tyres, and prevent any breach of the...
Argentina cancels friendly with Israel Middle East

Argentina cancels friendly with Israel

June 6th, 2018 Argentina have cancelled their final World Cup warmup match against Israel, striker Gonzalo Higuain said on Tuesday, as political pressure grew ahead of Saturday's scheduled fixture in Jerusalem. "They've finally done the right thing," Higuain said in an interview with ESPN, confirming reports the game had been cancelled. The...
Red Cross sends war surgeons, supplies to Gaza 'a sinking ship' Middle East

Red Cross sends war surgeons, supplies to Gaza 'a sinking ship'

May 31st, 2018 The International Committee of the Red Cross is sending two teams of war surgeons to Gaza and setting up a surgical unit in the enclave's main hospital to treat heavy casualties from clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians. Since protests on the Gaza-Israel border began on March 30, Israeli troops have killed 115 Palestinians...
Israel stops Gaza flotilla heading to Cyprus Cyprus

Israel stops Gaza flotilla heading to Cyprus

May 30th, 2018 The Israeli navy stopped a flotilla from Gaza that was heading for Cyprus to highlight the ongoing blockade, Israeli paper Haaretz reported on Wednesday. The flotilla of activists with 17 Palestinians in small boats set sail from Gaza on Tuesday in an attempt to break the Israeli blockade on the strip but they were stopped six...
Roman Abramovich, an Israeli citizen as of yesterday World

Roman Abramovich, an Israeli citizen as of yesterday

May 29th, 2018 Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich, the owner of Chelsea soccer club who has found himself without a visa to Britain, took Israeli citizenship on Monday and will move to Tel Aviv where he has bought a property, an Israeli media report said. Abramovich has been counted as one of the richest men in Britain since he bought the English...
Israeli defense system shoots down Gaza mortar fire Middle East

Israeli defense system shoots down Gaza mortar fire

May 29th, 2018 Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile shield shot down a barrage of mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after sirens sounded in southern Israel, warning residents to find shelter. "A barrage of 25 mortar shells were launched towards several sites in Israeli territory. Most of the launches were intercepted by the IDF's (Israel...
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