Posts tagged with "israel"

TCs ‘will respond’ to GC ban for third-country arrivals who plan to go north Cyprus

TCs ‘will respond’ to GC ban for third-country arrivals who plan to go north

January 3rd, 2019 Authorities in the north warned on Thursday they would not sit idly by while the Republic of Cyprus refuses entry to third-country nationals wishing to holiday in the north, after some 30 Israelis were sent back home on arrival at Larnaca airport when it emerged they would cross to the north for New Year. The Turkish Cypriot...
Cyprus and Israel begin two-day military exercise Cyprus

Cyprus and Israel begin two-day military exercise

December 17th, 2018 The armed forces of the Republic of Cyprus and of Israel on Monday begin an exercise in the framework of the annual military cooperation programme between the two countries. The exercise will last until December 19. According to the defence ministry, the exercise is taking place within the Nicosia Flight Information Region (FIR)...
Anastasiades expecting US will participate in Greece-Cyprus-Israel tripartite Cyprus

Anastasiades expecting US will participate in Greece-Cyprus-Israel tripartite

December 4th, 2018   Cyprus is expecting the US to participate in the trilateral cooperation between Greece, Cyprus and Israel in the near future, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Tuesday. In his address to the 6th Energy Symposium, Anastasiades said that cooperation mechanisms with countries in the region had proved to be very successful...
Syria says downs "hostile targets" in suspected Israeli attack Middle East

Syria says downs "hostile targets" in suspected Israeli attack

November 30th, 2018 Syrian air defences shot down "hostile targets" on Thursday, state media said, in an area regional intelligence sources said contains Iran-backed assets, while Russian media said no Israeli jet had been downed as earlier reported. Russia's RIA news agency, citing a Syrian security source, had reported that air defences had shot down...
Israel to turn to US govt over Airbnb removal of settlement listings Middle East

Israel to turn to US govt over Airbnb removal of settlement listings

November 20th, 2018 Israel plans to consult with the US government over a decision by home-renting company <AirBnB Inc> to remove listings in Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, a cabinet minister said on Tuesday. Palestinians who want to establish an independent state in territory including the West Bank that Israel captured in a...
Israeli coalition crisis eases; early election less likely Middle East

Israeli coalition crisis eases; early election less likely

November 19th, 2018 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition crisis eased on Monday when a coalition partner backed off a demand to be given the defence ministry, making an early election less likely. Education Minister Naftali Bennett's U-turn surprised many pundits, who had predicted the leader of the far-right Jewish Home party would opt to quit...
Netanyahu takes over defence job as coalition falters Middle East

Netanyahu takes over defence job as coalition falters

November 16th, 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will take over the defence portfolio in his government after his defence minister resigned this week, a spokesman for his Likud Party said on Friday, fuelling speculation of an early election. Earlier Netanyahu met with key coalition partner Naftali Bennett of the Jewish Home Party, who had...
Israeli fire kills 7 during Gaza raid, Israeli officer killed Middle East

Israeli fire kills 7 during Gaza raid, Israeli officer killed

November 12th, 2018 Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Sunday in air strikes and an undercover raid that Hamas said targeted one of its commanders and the Israeli military said left one of its officers dead. The Israeli incursion and air attacks drew rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled enclave, with sirens sounding in Israeli...
US energy official to tour East Med Cyprus

US energy official to tour East Med

November 10th, 2018 US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Resources Francis Fannon will travel to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Nicosia, and Cairo starting Monday, November 11 to 20, the State Department announced on Friday. During his trip, Fannon will be meeting with government officials and private sector representatives to discuss energy security and...
Three Gaza boys killed in Israeli strike on tinderbox border Middle East

Three Gaza boys killed in Israeli strike on tinderbox border

October 29th, 2018 Three Palestinian boys were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip frontier on Sunday, medical officials in the Hamas-run enclave said, while Israel said it had hit suspected militants trying to blow up part of a border fence. The Gaza health ministry said two of the dead were aged 13 and one aged 14. Gaza medics...
Cyprus, Israel hold joint military exercise Cyprus

Cyprus, Israel hold joint military exercise

October 29th, 2018 Air and land military exercises with the involvement of the Israeli air force will be taking place in Cyprus from Monday to Thursday, the defence ministry announced. The exercises are part of a military cooperation agreement between the two countries. They will be taking place in the Cypriot FIR and a large section of the...
Israeli police officers in Cyprus as part of exchange programme Cyprus

Israeli police officers in Cyprus as part of exchange programme

October 24th, 2018 An Israeli police delegation is in Cyprus as part of an exchange programme between the two countries’ forces. A police Statement said the Israeli delegation is being informed on the way the island’s crime-fighting departments operated. The 10-member team is led by Major General Alon Levavi, head of the policing directorate in...
Israeli jets strike Gaza after rocket lands in Beersheba-army Middle East

Israeli jets strike Gaza after rocket lands in Beersheba-army

October 17th, 2018 Israeli jets struck targets in the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants enclave struck a house in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, the Israeli military said. A medical official told Israel Radio that three people were taken to hospital after the rocket struck the house. Residents in the...
Kammenos speaks of broadening Greece-Cyprus-Israel cooperation to include US Cyprus

Kammenos speaks of broadening Greece-Cyprus-Israel cooperation to include US

October 10th, 2018 Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos has referred to the broadening of the trilateral agreement between Greece, Cyprus and Israel, to include the United States. Kammenos was speaking after separate meetings on Tuesday with US Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis at the Pentagon and Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan at the State...
Cyprus to host one of the Eurovision news conferences in 2019 Cyprus

Cyprus to host one of the Eurovision news conferences in 2019

September 21st, 2018 One of the largest media conferences being hosted ahead of the Eurovision song contest next year will be taking place in Cyprus in April 2019, the Cybc reported on Friday. Over 100 journalists from at least 30 countries covering the song contest in Tel Aviv, Israel, will be attending the news conference in Limassol, according to the...
Paphos sees great prospects for Israeli visitors  Cyprus

Paphos sees great prospects for Israeli visitors 

September 15th, 2018   Paphos is preparing to welcome hundreds of Israeli tourism professionals in November for an annual conference as tourism from Israel is showing huge prospects for the coastal resort. The Israeli market has seen considerable growth over the last two years and concerted efforts are being made to expand this segment further by...
Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians in Gaza protests -medics World

Israeli troops kill 3 Palestinians in Gaza protests -medics

September 14th, 2018 Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinians and wounded at least 30 others taking part on Friday in weekly protests at the fortified Gaza Strip border, Palestinian medical officials said. The Israeli military said it used force necessary to prevent border breaches by some 12,000 Palestinians who massed at several points near the fence,...
Foreign ministers to meet in Israel, Gaza pier issue resurfaces Cyprus

Foreign ministers to meet in Israel, Gaza pier issue resurfaces

August 18th, 2018 By George Psyllides The foreign ministers of Cyprus and Greece, Nicos Christodoulides and Nicos Kotzias, will have a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on September 13 in Israel, it was announced on Friday. The Cyprus News Agency said the meeting had been arranged a long time ago and it will focus on the ongoing...
Netanyahu questioned again in long-running corruption probe Middle East

Netanyahu questioned again in long-running corruption probe

August 17th, 2018 Israeli police questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuon Friday over what local media said was a case involving the country's largest telecoms firm, one of three corruption probes in which he has been named as a suspect. Netanyahu, a conservative premier now in his fourth term, has denied any wrongdoing in all the cases. He has...
Egypt ‘finalising details of long-term Hamas-Israel truce’ Middle East

Egypt ‘finalising details of long-term Hamas-Israel truce’

August 17th, 2018 Egypt is finalising details of a long-term truce deal between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, an Egyptian security source said on Thursday, amid easing tensions on the border of the enclave where some two million Palestinians live. Cairo has brokered an interim truce that has allowed commercial goods into Gaza ahead of the...
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...
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