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February 10, 2014

Bennett calls for annexing parts of the West Bank and describes negotiations as 'a joke'

Israel’s Economy Minister Naftali Bennett has called for Israel to annex parts of the occupied West Bank. In an interview on Sunday with Israel radio, the leader of the...

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February 10, 2014

Egypt's foreign exchange reserves lose $825m in November

Egypt’s faltering economy sustained yet another blow when the Egyptian Central Bank announced on its web site on Sunday that the country’s foreign exchange reserves declined from $18.59 billion...

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February 10, 2014

Israel refuses Dutch-donated security scanner at Karem Abu Salem border crossing

Israel and the Netherlands are at loggerheads after Israel turned down a request to install a new security scanner donated by the Netherlands at the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem...

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February 10, 2014

Prominent Israeli politician praises General Al-Sisi for tightening siege on Gaza

The chairman of Israel’s Labour Party, Isaac Herzog, has praised Egypt’s Defence Minister General Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for pressuring the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas by imposing a stricter siege...

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February 10, 2014

Female Palestinian detainees suffer diseases in Israel's Hasharon prison

Ahrar Centre for Prisoners Studies and Human Rights in the Palestinian territories has said that most of the female Palestinian prisoners detained in the Hasharon Israeli prison are suffering...

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February 10, 2014

Israeli authorities raze 40 olive trees in occupied West Bank

Israeli occupation authorities uprooted 40 olive trees from Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank on Monday morning. Witnesses reported that Israeli bulldozers razed the trees to clear the...

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February 10, 2014

Israeli PM cancels trip to South Africa for Mandela's funeral over 'high costs'

According to the Los Angeles Times newspaper, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be attending Tuesday’s funeral for the former leader of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, due to...

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February 10, 2014

Why did Netanyahu and Peres not attend the Mandela memorial service?

Although the Israelis have cited cost and security problems as the reasons for the absence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres from the Mandela memorial service...

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February 10, 2014

Iran rejects the participation of Gulf States in nuclear talks

Iran rejected on Tuesday a request by a senior Saudi official that certain Arab Gulf states take part in the nuclear negotiations between Tehran and the P5+1 group of...

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February 10, 2014

IDF admits to new threat in occupied West Bank

An Israel Defence Forces commander has admitted that his soldiers in the occupied West Bank are facing a “new operational reality”. It can be described as a threat to...

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