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Senior officials from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party have reportedly been working behind the scenes to bring him down following his indictment on corruption charges. After three years of investigations, Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit charged Netanyahu with fraud, breach of trust and bribery in three different scandals …

Israel said its aircraft struck dozens of Syrian military targets in Syria on Wednesday in retaliation for rockets fired towards Israel a day earlier. Syrian state media reported two civilians were killed and several others injured in the attacks but said Syria’s air defenses destroyed most of the missiles fired …

Israeli airstrikes killed 13 Palestinians in Gaza on Wednesday, medical officials said, raising the Palestinian death toll to 23 over a two-day escalation in violence since Israel launched strikes to kill an Islamic Jihad commander. From early morning Gaza militants fired rockets into Israel and the Israeli military struck from …

Israel’s Supreme Court has upheld a decision by the Tel Aviv regime to expel Omar Shakir, Israel and Palestine Director at Human Rights Watch (HRW), over his alleged support for a pro-Palestine boycott campaign against Tel Aviv. The ruling published on the court’s website on Tuesday rejected an appeal by …

WhatsApp is suing an Israeli company that it claims was behind a cyberattack that installed spyware on users’ phones and targeted human rights defenders, journalists, political dissidents, diplomats, and government officials. The Facebook-owned messaging service filed the complaint against NSO Group in the US federal court on Tuesday. “This should …

Two prominent human rights defenders in Morocco have been targeted using surveillance technology developed by the Israeli-based company NSO Group, according to new research published by Amnesty Tech. Maati Monjib, an academic and human rights activist, and Abdessadak El Bouchattaoui, a human rights lawyer who has represented protesters from the …

These statements, which were revealed by a documentary presented by PBS network, on Saturday, in the TV programme Frontline, were made by Bin Salman in a meeting with US President Donald Trump during his famous visit to Riyadh in May 2017. Martin Smith, the presenter of the documentary, entitled The …

Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has accused Israel of being behind attacks on Iranian-backed militia positions in Iraq, the first time Baghdad has directly blamed Israel on Monday. “Investigations into the targeting of some Popular Mobilization Forces positions indicate that Israel carried it out. The Shi’ite militias, known as …

Iraq’s pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) have come under an airstrike by an unidentified aircraft near an airfield in the western province of Anbar. An informed source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the aircraft struck the outskirts of an al-Marsanat military camp, which lies 70 kilometers west of …

Vladimir Lenin is said to have opined that the only thing certain about British elections is who is going to lose. He meant the British working class, at a time when they were effectively unrepresented in the political system. Equally, whatever the outcome of the Israeli elections, the Palestinians will …

The Iraqi Foreign Ministry has condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s controversial pledge to annex the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank if re-elected in the September 17 snap polls, describing it as aggressive electoral propaganda. “Iraq categorically rejects the statement made by Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the …

Facebook has sanctioned Benjamin Netanyahu’s official page after a post called on voters to oppose a government composed of “Arabs who want to destroy us all – women, children and men.” The social media company said the post violated its hate speech policy. Facebook consequently disabled the page’s automatic chat …

The US government has concluded within the past two years that Israel has been placing surveillance devices near the White House and other sensitive locations around Washington, DC, according to a US media outlet. In contrast to other instances of foreign spying, however, President Donald Trump’s administration has not rebuked …

The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has summoned Israeli Ambassador to the country, Amir Weisbrod, to express the Amman government’s resentment over the detention of two Jordanian civilians of Palestinian descent in the occupied territories, demanding their immediate release. Sufyan al-Qudah, a spokesman for the ministry, said on …

A US military jet unexpectedly released a rocket during what was supposed to be a routine training flight near Tucson, Arizona, according to military officials quick to add that the white phosphorus munition hit a deserted area.​ An A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft flying a training mission between Tucson and Phoenix …

Al-Manar Arabic TV broadcast footage of Hezbollah Avivim attack in a short time.

The Lebanese military said an Israeli drone, which violated Lebanon’s airspace, dropped incendiary material and sparked a fire in a pine forest by the border on Sunday. The fires near the border in Lebanon “originate with operations by our forces in the area,” the Israeli military said in a statement …

Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah says it has targeted an Israeli military vehicle near the border with the occupied Palestinian lands, killing and injuring all forces on board. According to the Lebanese resistance group, the operation was carried out by two fighter groups, who targeted two Israeli vehicles. One of the …

An Iraqi parliamentarian says the Baghdad government is preparing a complaint to the United Nations after investigations revealed that the Israeli regime is “certainly” behind several attacks on the bases of pro-government Popular Mobilization Forces, known as Hashd al-Sha’abi. Ahmad al-Assadi, the spokesman of the Fatah Alliance, told journalists on …

The Israeli military is being mocked for positioning mannequins of soldiers in jeeps along the occupied territories’ border with Lebanon, as it prepares itself for a retaliatory attack by the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah. The mannequins in the jeeps were first spotted in photos released by Ali Shoeib, a correspondent …