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Palestinian kills Israeli in West Bank stabbing attack

Agence France-PresseApril 30, 2013 09:45
An Israeli settler was stabbed to death by a knife-wielding Palestinian in the northern West Bank on Tuesday, in the first fatal anti-Israeli attack in the territory in 18 months, officials said. The attack, which took place near Tapuah junction south of Nablus, prompted clashes between Jewish settlers and Palestinians in a nearby village, security sources said. "The Palestinian suspect stabbed an Israeli sitting at a bus stop. He died," police spokeswoman Luba Samri told AFP.

Israeli military says no exchange of fire on Gaza border

April 11, 2013 04:47
The Israeli army dismissed as " baseless" a media report on Tuesday that its forces exchanged gunfire with Palestinian militants on the border with the Gaza Strip, APA reports.An angry denial was issued hours after the Gaza bureau of a foreign news agency reported earlier in the day that Israeli tanks and bulldozers infiltrated Palestinian territory east of Khan Younis, prompting militants to detonate an explosive device.The Israeli forces then "responded with heavy machine-gun fire, " said the report, citing "eyewitnesses and security sources." It further noted that there we

Israeli military says no exchange of fire on Gaza border

April 10, 2013 13:19
The Israeli army dismissed as "baseless" a media report on Tuesday that its forces exchanged gunfire with Palestinian militants on the border with the Gaza Strip.An angry denial was issued hours after the Gaza bureau of a foreign news agency reported earlier in the day that Israeli tanks and bulldozers infiltrated Palestinian territory east of Khan Younis, prompting militants to detonate an explosive device.The Israeli forces then "responded with heavy machine-gun fire," said the report, citing "eyewitnesses and security sources." It further noted that there were no casualtie

Ocalan calls for ‘bloodless' settlement in birthday message

April 6, 2013 16:35
The imprisoned leader of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, has issued a message for his 64th birthday in which he said the settlement of the Kurdish and terrorism problems should be “bloodless.”"Let not a drop of blood be shed during the settlement process," read the message. Ocalan's message was taken to Kurds celebrating the terrorist head's birthday by a group of Kurdish lawmakers on Thursday.Thousands of Kurds flocked to Omerli village in Sanliurfa's Halfeti district, where Ocalan was born, to mark the PKK head's birthday.

Three Gazans wounded by Israeli gunfire-Palestinian medics

March 1, 2013 15:30
GAZA, March 1 (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers shot and wounded three Palestinians in the Gaza Strip on Friday as a number of violent incidents erupted along the border with Israel, Palestinian medics and an Israeli military source said. The new bout of violence came three days after Palestinian militants launched a rocket from Gaza into southern Israel for the first time since the Nov. 21 truce brokered by Egypt ended eight days of cross-border air strikes and rocket attacks.

Israel calls for calm as militants vow revenge

February 26, 2013 00:15
Israel has called on the Palestinian Authority to rein in unrest as militants vowed revenge over the death of a prisoner whom the Palestinians allege died under Israeli torture. Thousands thronged the West Bank village of Sair on Monday for the funeral of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two and member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades after his death at the weekend. Masked militants fired assault rifles into the air and angry mourners waved Fatah banners and Palestinian flags while Israeli forces stayed away.

Israel calls calm as Palestinian militants vow revenge

February 25, 2013 17:17
Israel on Monday demanded the Palestinian Authority rein in unrest as militants vowed revenge for a prisoner who died allegedly under torture in an Israeli jail. Thousands thronged the West Bank village of Sair for the funeral of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two and member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades group which vowed to avenge him. "This horrific crime will not go unpunished and we promise the Zionist occupation that we will respond to this crime," the militants said in a statement.

Israel calls calm as Palestinian militants vow revenge

February 25, 2013 17:15
Israel on Monday demanded the Palestinian Authority rein in unrest as militants vowed revenge for a prisoner who died allegedly under torture in an Israeli jail. Thousands thronged the West Bank village of Sair for the funeral of Arafat Jaradat, a 30-year-old father of two and member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades group which vowed to avenge him. "This horrific crime will not go unpunished and we promise the Zionist occupation that we will respond to this crime," the militants said in a statement.

Suspected PKK money man charged in Germany

February 12, 2013 08:46
German federal prosecutors on Tuesday pressed charges against a 46-year-old Turkish man suspected of raising money for the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) throughout Europe. Prosecutors charged the man, identified only as Abdullah S., with "membership of a foreign terrorist organisation". They said he worked under the codename "Hamza" in Germany between June 2003 and June 2004 "getting money for the PKK by collecting donations and contributions, running commercial activities and selling propaganda material".
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