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A rocket is launched from the northern Gaza Strip towards Israel. (photo credit: REUTERS)

Fears of a New War in Gaza

by Kifah Ziboun | Jun 28, 2017 | Middle East

Ramallah – Tensions escalated in Gaza after Israeli army launched series of strikes in response to rockets fired from the strip. Israeli warplanes launched retaliatory intensified airstrikes on Hamas targets in Gaza early Tuesday. Security forces in Gaza reported F16...

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Raed Salah, centre. Reuters photo

Shin Bet Arrests Members of Islamic Movement

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 18, 2017 | Middle East

Tel Aviv – Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) has arrested Arab-Israeli citizens from Beersheba and Kseifa in the south and central Kalansua for plotting attacks against Israeli security officers. The cell’s members were planning the attack in November 2015 in...

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Reuters file photo of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heading a special cabinet meeting.

Israel Budgets of Shin Bet, Mossad Have Grown under Netanyahu

by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 6, 2017 | Middle East

Tel Aviv- The Israeli finance ministry has said that the annual combined budget for the Shin Bet security service and the Mossad espionage agency will be 8.6 billion shekels ($2.4 billion) in 2018, double what the two intelligence entities received 12 years ago. A...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office on March 13, 2016. AFP / GALI TIBBON

Shin Bet Expects Renewed Attacks in Israeli Cities, Accuses Hezbollah and Hamas

by Nazir Majli | Aug 19, 2016 | Middle East

Tel Aviv-The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has issued a statement released by Shin Bet security service announcing a possible return of bombings to Israeli cities and accusing Lebanon’s so-called Hezbollah and the Palestinian Hamas Movement of...