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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meeting in Ankara on Oct. 17, 2019. Source: Screenshot.

Trump’s ‘impulsive’ decision to leave Syria undermines Israel’s interests, according to experts

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The abrupt decision by U.S. President Donald Trump last week to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria has led to a major foreign-policy crisis in the region and worldwide. Equally as important are the changing roles...
Smoke trails rise as a rocket is launched from the southern Gaza Strip towards Israel on May 4, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Report: Israel and Hamas agree on six-month ceasefire

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Israel and the terrorist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, have reportedly agreed to a six-month ceasefire in the aftermath of the latter launching hundreds of rockets earlier this month into the Jewish...
Israel Defense Forces and tanks seen gathering near the border with Gaza in southern Israel on Nov. 13, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Did Israel-Hamas ceasefire strengthen Hamas for the next round of fighting?

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The ongoing violence perpetrated by the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and the recent barrage of rocket fire—more than 450 rockets and mortars in less than 48 hours—pointed at Israel’s south had an unintended consequence. In...
Israeli Minister of Defense Avigdor Lieberman announces his resignation at a press conference in the Israeli parliament on Nov. 14, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman resigns over opposition to Gaza ceasefire

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Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman abruptly resigned his post and removed his Yisrael Beytenu Party from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition less than a day after Israel reportedly agreed to a ceasefire...
IDF forces seen gathering near the border with Gaza in Southern Israel on November 13, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90

Israel and Hamas reach ceasefire after rocket barrage

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A senior Israeli official indicated that an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire has been reached between Israel and Hamas, and other Gaza terrorist groups, amid the latter launching more than 400 rockets into Israel since Monday. Some 27...
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general debate of the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 20, 2017. Credit: U.N. Photo/Cia Pak.

Accusing Abbas of derailing Gaza talks, Egypt may end mediation

Amid mounting tensions between Israel and Hamas along the Gaza border, Egyptian intelligence officials are considering withdrawing from the delicate diplomatic efforts to restore calm to the Gaza Strip and to mediate inter-Palestinian reconciliation. Efforts to...
Fires in the Negev Desert in Israel as a result of arson terrorism from Palestinians in Gaza. July 2018. Photo by Tom Oren-Denenberg.

‘Israel will negotiate with Hamas only when there is complete calm’

Israel will only agree to engage in indirect negotiations with Hamas about easing the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip only when attacks on southern Israel, particularly the areas adjacent to Gaza, stop completely...
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the Munich Security Conference in 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Israeli defense minister: Any truce with Hamas must include return of Jewish ‎captives

Any ceasefire deal with Hamas must include the ‎return of the two Israeli captives and the bodies of ‎two Israeli soldiers held by the terrorist group ‎ruling the Gaza Strip, Defense Minister Avigdor ‎Lieberman...
The late Hadar Goldin (left) with his father, Simcha. Credit: Courtesy of the Goldin family.

Hadar Goldin’s parents say any agreement with Hamas must include son’s remains

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Wanting back the remains of their killed son in order to have a proper Jewish burial, the parents of slain Israel Defense Forces Lt. Hadar Goldin slammed the chance of a ceasefire with the...
Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman

Israel defense minister: Jewish state prefers to see Gazans ‎topple Hamas regime ‎

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman ‎dismissed criticism leveled at him on Wednesday over Israel’s ‎attempts to negotiate a long-term ceasefire with ‎Hamas.‎ ‎“My strategy is to talk directly to the Palestinian ‎public, not with Hamas...