The IDF deployed its fifth Iron Dome anti-missile battery to protect the Tel Aviv area Saturday, and the battery went into action immediately, intercepting a rocket fired from Gaza. A second rocket fired at the greater Tel Aviv area was not intercepted, however. It struck an empty area, causing no casualties or damage. Terrorists said
Islamic countries must close ranks and respond to Israel’s deadly attacks on the Gaza Strip, Iran’s Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday. “Putting an end to the Zionist (Israeli) regime’s crimes is only possible through a united, revolutionary retaliation by the Muslim world,” Vahidi said in remarks carried by the official IRNA news
Western nations on Friday pushed Egypt to persuade Hamas terrorists to end rocket attacks from Gaza and backed Israel's right to self-defense, AFP reported. The West stressed the onus was on Hamas to halt rocket fire into southern Israel, said the report. "Israel has the right to protect its population from these kinds
More than 50 people, mostly nursery school children, were killed on Saturday when a train slammed into a school bus as it crossed tracks in a city south of Cairo on Saturday, prompting protests and the resignation of the transport minister. All but two of the dead were children, aged around four to eight,
Ahmed Abu Jalal, a senior Hamas terrorist, was killed on Friday evening, along with three of his brothers, in an Israeli air strike in the Maghazi district in central Gaza. According to some reports, Abu Jalal was killed while driving his car, while other reports said the attack was carried out on his home.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan denounced Israeli’s air strikes on Gaza on Friday as a ‘pre-election stunt’ and said he would discuss the crisis with Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi on his Cairo visit on Saturday. Under Erdogan’s Islamist-rooted AK Party, Turkey has sought to use its influence as a rising democratic power in
Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman issued a direct threat to Hamas on Friday, warning the terror group which controls Gaza not to test Israel’s military capabilities. “It is our duty to ensure peace and quiet to residents of the south,” Lieberman told Channel 2 News. “It cannot be that a million people won’t be allowed
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Friday Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza in as a "blatant aggression against humanity," the official MENA news agency said. "Egypt will not leave Gaza on its own, and what is happening is a blatant aggression against humanity," he said, as his prime minister, Hisham Qandil, visited Gaza
The IDF hit roughly 150 terrorist targets in Gaza over Thursday night. Most of the targets hit were rocket launchers used for mid-range missiles. IAF planes also took out several weapons storage sites. A total of 500 Gaza targets have been hit since the beginning of Operation Pillar of Defense. Th
Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem will visit Gaza on Saturday, the presidency said, in a statement denouncing Israel's “barbaric aggression” on the Palestinian enclave. “The presidency of the republic has informed the president of the government in Gaza that a high-level delegation headed by the foreign minister and including the [Tunisian] president’s chief of
