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From Ynet News
MK Ghattas to Netanyahu: Keep security forces away from flotilla
Arab MK warns PM, defense minister that the flotilla is quickly approaching and should be allowed into Gaza.
Joint Arab List MK Basel Ghattas sent a written message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on Sunday, warning to keep security forces away from the flotilla in which he is taking part, meant to break the Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza Strip.
“Command the security forces to allow us to enter Gaza and avoid the use of force,” read the letter from Ghattas.
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From PressTV
Israeli soldiers shoot, injure Palestinian teenager in West Bank
A Palestinian teenager has been shot and injured by Israeli military forces attempting to disperse a group of Palestinian protesters in the occupied West Bank.
A local official, Murad Shteiwi, said hundreds of Palestinians staged a rally in the town of Kafr Qaddum, located 17 kilometers (10.5 miles) east of Qalqilya, following Saturday afternoon prayers to protest against an Israeli barricade that closes off the main entrance on the southern side of the town.
Scuffles broke out when Israeli troops attacked the protesters, firing live bullets and tear gas canisters to break up the protest.
A 14-year-old Palestinian boy, identified as Mohammad Abdul Ilah, sustained gunshot wounds in the thigh, and was shifted to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus to receive medical treatment.
Last Sunday, Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian teenager in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood of East al-Quds (Jerusalem). Video footage showed the boy was shot by the Israeli forces while he posed no danger to them.
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From PressTV
Palestinian inmate on hunger strike close to death, his lawyer says
Lawyer of Palestinian inmate Khader Adnan, who has been on a long hunger strike in protest at the conditions of his imprisonment, has warned that the prisoner could die “any moment.”
“Khader Adnan may suddenly die at any moment, doctors have confirmed to me,” said Jawad Boulos, legal counsel for the Ramallah-based Prisoners Club, on Saturday.
He issued the warning after “the doctors at the Israeli hospital, where Khadar Adnan is currently held,” called him and said they were “on alert due to the deterioration of his condition.”
Boulos added that he visited Adnan on Saturday morning and found him “in a more critical condition, incapable of moving.” The Palestinian prisoner has been refusing food for 53 days.
Israel Prisons Service spokeswoman Sivan Weizman, meanwhile, said Adnan has been transferred to a hospital near Tel Aviv, but refrained from commenting on his medical condition.
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From PressTV
Foreign investment in Israel down by near 50%: UNCTAD
Foreign investment in Israel has dropped by nearly 50 percent, a new UN report says, with the 2014 Israeli war on Gaza and international boycott efforts against the regime cited as key factors for the sharp decline.
According to the World Investment Report 2014 by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), which tracks changes in foreign direct investments worldwide, only $6.4 billion were invested in Israel last year in contrast to $11.8 billion in 2013, pointing to an almost 46-percent decline.
The report further said Israel’s foreign direct investments (FDI) also plunged from $4.67 billion in 2013 to $3.97 billion last year, a 15-percent drop.
This is while one of the authors of the UN report, Ronny Manos, attributed the sharp FDI decline to the Israeli regime’s 50-day Gaza onslaught that began in July 2014 as well as global boycott and divestment efforts against the regime for its flagrant violations of Palestinian rights in occupied territories.
“We believe that what led to the drop in investment in Israel are Operation Protective Edge [against the besieged Gaza Strip] and the boycotts Israel is facing,” said Manos.
From Russia Today
‘We don’t need EU permission’: Greek parliament ratifies bailout referendum
Edited time: June 28, 2015 07:50
As an equal member of the EU, Greece does not need to ask permissions from anyone to let the Greek people speak and have their voices heard, PM Tsipras told his parliament, promising that the state’s sovereignty and future will be decided via referendum.
Referendums have been used all across Europe as a way for people to directly express their will and have their voices heard, and Greece is fully in its right to conduct one PM Alexis Tsipras said during a late-night debate in parliament.
With Tsipras’ ruling coalition holding 163 seats in the 300-seat parliament, the body has backed Tsipras’ motion to hold a referendum.
From Ynet News
IDF: Golan sirens result of Syria battles
Alerts of possible incoming fire comes after sirens already sounded Sunday in southern Israel where a rocket possibly fell inside the Gaza Strip.
Yoav Zitun
Latest Update: 06.28.15, 15:22
Code red sirens sounded twice in the Golan Heights Sunday afternoon, suggesting possible misfire from Syria as has occurred several times since the beginning of the Civil War in Syria.
From The Times of Israel
Bomb blasts in Baghdad leave 10 dead, dozens injured
Three separate bombings target busy marketplaces in Iraqi capital
June 27, 2015, 4:08 pm
BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities said bombs targeting public places have killed 10 people in the capital, Baghdad.
Police officials said a car bomb went off about noon Saturday near shops selling car parts in southeastern Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 13 others.
Another bomb blast at an outdoor market killed three shoppers and wounded eight in the city’s eastern suburbs. Also, police said a bomb exploded near a row of shops in the capital’s western neighborhood of Baiyaa, killing two and wounding 10.
Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attacks. Iraq sees near-daily attacks that are claimed by the Islamic State group.
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From The Times of Israel
Kurds drive Islamic State out of Syria’s Kobani
Militia regains control of border town two days after jihadists stormed positions, killing almost 200 civilians
June 27, 2015, 1:16 pm
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Kurdish fighters ousted the Islamic State group from the Syrian border town of Kobani on Saturday, two days after the jihadists had seized several neighborhoods, a monitor and activists said.
IS’s bloody attack on the town had left at least 174 civilians dead as well as 70 combatants, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
“The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) took back control of IS positions in Kobani,” the Britain-based group said.
“The YPG were able to take back the town’s boys’ high school, where the last of the IS fighters were holed up, after setting off explosions.”
The jihadist group entered Kobani at dawn on Thursday, seizing several buildings in the town’s south and southwest.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Future Berlin Philharmonic conductor stops interviews after anti-Semitic descriptions
BERLIN (JTA) — The newly announced future conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic reportedly has refused to give further interviews after two major German media outlets published anti-Semitic comments
about him.
Kirill Petrenko, 43, a Russian-born Jew, was elected chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra on June 21. Currently director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, he will replace conductor Sir Simon Rattle in September 2018.
In two commentaries, one from Northern German Radio (NDR) and another in Welt Online, anti-Semitic stereotypes were used to describe the conductor. The offending material has since been removed.
Petrenko has refused to give further interviews, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Shots fired at Israeli ambulance on West Bank road
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Shots were fired at an Israeli ambulance traveling near the West Bank settlement of Beit El.
A burst of at least 15 shots were fired at the Magen David Adom ambulance overnight on Sunday. Several of the bullets hit the ambulance, but no injuries were reported.
The gunfire came from a new road connecting the Palestinian town of Beitin to Ramallah. Israeli soldiers reportedly were searching the area near Beitin for the shooter or shooters, Ynet reported.
MDA Director General Eli Bean said in response: “Magen David Adom, the national rescue organization of Israel, considers this incident to be a grave one, which represents a crossing of the red line in an attempt to purposefully attack a vehicle meant to care for and evacuate the sick and wounded.”.
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From Ynet News
IDF: Golan sirens result of Syria battles
Alerts of possible incoming fire comes after sirens already sounded Sunday in southern Israel where a rocket possibly fell inside the Gaza Strip.
Code red sirens sounded twice in the Golan Heights Sunday afternoon, suggesting possible misfire from Syria as has occurred several times since the beginning of the Civil War in Syria.
The IDF said the sirens were seemingly turned on due to fire in on-going combat across the border in Syria. No injuries or damage was reported. Security forces were said to be searching the area.
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