CAIRO: Israel’s leading communications satellite company Spacecom, which operates the AMOS satellites across the world, hopes that recent discussions with South Sudan will help boost its role in the young country’s communications and telecommunications industry. According to a statement from South Sudan’s Ministry of Telecommunications, officials met and discussed potential cooperation on future communications projects [...]
Gaza City (dpa) – Gaza’s only power plant has stopped producing electricity due to a severe fuel shortage, cutting off “major and vital” supplies to the strip, its Energy and Natural Resources Authority announced Tuesday. “Now that the power station has stopped, we won’t be able to fulfill the needs of hospitals as well as [...]
In the conclusion to a lengthy and hard-fought lawsuit that was filed by Guayama citizens and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the Puerto Rico Supreme Court has upheld previous decisions by lower courts and determined that Bioculture Inc.’s monkey-breeding facility in Guayama—owned by Israel’s controversial Bioculture Group, which operates a monkey-breeding [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – An Israeli military court rejected Monday an appeal from a Palestinian who has been on hunger strike to protest his detention in Israel without trial, a Palestinian prisoner support group said. The court ruled that Khader Adnan must serve his full term, which ends on May 8, the Adameer Prisoner Support [...]
CAIRO: Egypt member of Parliament Essam el-Erian, a leading member of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood, who heads the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee, said that American aid to Egypt is “connected and conditioned” with the Camp David agreement, signed by Egypt and Israel under American auspices in [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israel on Monday blamed Iran for two attacks that targeted its diplomatic missions in India and Georgia. “In recent months we have witnessed several attempts to attack Israeli citizens and Jews in several countries, including Azerbaijan, Thailand and others,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Today we have witnessed two additional [...]
CAIRO: The new Israeli Ambassador to Egypt Yaakov Amitai arrived back in Cairo on Monday after he left last Thursday due to the general strike and civil disobedience calls in the country. Amitai flew Air Sinai back from Tel Aviv to resume working from his home in Maadi, a upper-class suburb of Cairo. He was [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday accused Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas of having “turned his back on peace.” Abbas, in a speech to the Arab League Council on Sunday, said he would not continue direct talks unless Israel stopped settlement activity, including in East Jerusalem, accepts a two-state solution based [...]
16 people were injured by rubber-coated bullets shot by Israeli forces and four were arrested during protests in solidarity with administrative detainee, Khader Adnan, who has been on a hunger strike for the past 56 days. Among those injured are 3 journalists and an ambulance driver. Hundreds gathered today at the entrance to the Ofer [...]
Tehran (dpa) – Hamas would never acknowledge the Israeli state, said Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian movement in Gaza, on Friday in Tehran. “They (West) want from us to stop resistance and acknowledge Israel but I herewith announce that this will never happen,” Haniyeh said though an interpreter at a ceremony marking the [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Documents yellowed with age, a scuffed black briefcase with a hole in it, enabling the camera displayed next to it to take photographs, bogus passports. On their own, these are perhaps nothing more than testimony of how simple, almost – at least compared to the present day – primitive, spying and [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israel entered its third day of a countrywide national strike Friday, after trade unions and the Finance Ministry failed to reach an agreement to end the disruptions. The open-ended strike was called by the Histadrut Trade Union Federation, to demand better conditions for contract workers with poor job security. Late Thursday, [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – A Palestinian who has been on hunger strike in Israel to protest his detention without trial has entered a critical stage after 54 days without food, a human rights group warned Thursday. Khader Adnan, a senior leader of the Islamic Jihad organization, was detained in mid-December and placed under administrative detention. [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s presidential hopeful Amr Moussa, a former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Secretary General of the Arab League, said that if he wins the presidential election, he “pledges to boost the country’s stumbling economy and fight corruption and also maintain strong ties with the United States and peace treaty with Israel.” He also said [...]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – Israel’s federation of trade unions declared a general strike Wednesday, demanding better conditions for contract workers with poor job security. Government offices, city councils, trains, banks, post offices and the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange came to a standstill. Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv also shut down. A court [...]
Los Angeles (dpa) – Madonna announced the dates of her 2012 world tour on Tuesday, kicking off the six-month global jaunt with a May 29 concert in Tel Aviv, Israel. It is unknown whether that decision has anything to do with the pop superstar’s devotion to the Jewish mystical teaching of the Kabala, but no [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Committee of Foreign Relations of the People’s Assembly decided on Monday that it would boycott any parliamentary events and activities if any Israelis official is one of the participants, describing their neighbor as a “Zionist entity.” This came in response to an inquiry by MP Helal el-Dandarawi concerning the Parliament’s position towards the [...]
The Israeli authorities must release a Palestinian detainee or charge him with a recognizable criminal offence and promptly try him, Amnesty International said today amid fears the man could die in detention after more than 50 days on hunger strike. Khader Adnan, 33, was arrested on 17 December 2011 at his home in the village [...]
Gaza City (dpa) – President Mahmoud Abbas will become prime minister of a Palestinian unity government between his Fatah party and the rival Hamas movement, Palestinian officials said on Monday. The agreement was sealed in Doha after talks between Abbas and exiled Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal. The two movements agreed on a unity deal in [...]
CAIRO: Gunmen set off an explosion at a gas pipeline in Egypt in the 12th such attack on the pipeline that transports gas to Israel and Jordan since former president Hosni Mubarak was ousted in popular street protests one-year ago. Witnesses told German press agency dpa that the fire along the pipeline at al-Masaid, west [...]
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