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Hundreds of Israeli soldiers were quarantined on Wednesday, on suspicion of having been in contact with a soldier who was infected with the coronavirus. The Israel Today newspaper said on its website that all the soldiers of the Nahshon unit were quarantined at an army base in the occupied Golan …

TEHRAN: A leading Arab paper reported that the Palestinian security forces in Gaza have arrested members of an ISIL terrorist group who were operating for the Israeli intelligence. Al-Akhbar quoted a security source as saying on Wednesday that the Palestinian security forces foiled a dangerous plot of the Israeli intelligence …

TEHRAN:  Israel’s public health director quit Tuesday amid a spike in new coronavirus cases, saying it had reopened the economy too rapidly and had lost its way in dealing with the pandemic. Siegal Sadetzki, an epidemiologist, announced her resignation a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Cabinet reimposed a series …

TEHRAN: An Israeli human rights center reported a sharp increase in the number of Palestinian homes demolished by Israel in the occupied West Bank in June, despite the outbreak of coronavirus. “During the past month, Israel escalated the pace of house demolitions in the West Bank,” the Jerusalem-based B’Tselem NGO …

Israel’s former minister of military affairs, who has now turned into an opposition figure, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should gag an unnamed official leaking to the press Tel Aviv’s alleged role in a recent incident at Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility. In an interview with the Israeli Army Radio on …

BERLIN: Egypt, France, Germany and Jordan on Tuesday warned Israel against annexing parts of the Palestinian territories, saying that doing so could have consequences for bilateral relations. In a statement distributed by the German Foreign Ministry, the countries, including Israel’s two leading partners in the Middle East, said their foreign …

The Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements, Hamas and Hezbollah, have censured Israel’s plan to annex large parts of the occupied West Bank as an act of “aggression against the Palestinian people,” calling for a united front against the US-backed land grab bid. In a letter to Secretary General of Hezbollah …

The Israeli foreign minister says the regime considers Iran’s nuclear abilities as an “existential threat” to itself, noting that Tel Aviv is taking any action to stop what he called “Iranian nuclear threat.” Gabi Ashkenazi made the remarks on Sunday, a few days after a shed at Iran’s Natanz nuclear …

The former Israeli Defense Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, said that Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah are pushing Israel to the brink. In an interview with Maariv on Friday, the former Israeli Defense Minister had expressed his concern about Iran possessing enriched uranium, which he said is eight times the permitted amount according …

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) launched a big assault over the Gaza Strip, hitting several areas, including Khan Younis. According to Palestinian activists, the Israeli Defense Forces primarily used heavy artillery and airstrikes to hammer the southern part of the Gaza Strip, with the main focus being the Khan Younis …