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From PressTV
Israel launches airstrikes against Gaza Strip
Israeli warplanes have targeted several areas in the besieged Gaza Strip.
According to reports, the Israeli jets carried out the airstrikes early on Thursday in retaliation for an alleged earlier rocket attack on southern Israel.
On Wednesday, the Israeli military claimed that two rockets shot from Gaza had landed in Sdot Negev region.
The Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas said the rocket assault was carried out by a Salafi group affiliated with the ISIL, The Associated Press reported.
An explosion was also heard in the vicinity of Gaza following Israel’s aerial aggression. The Palestinian sources, however, said that the blast was not caused by the regime’s airstrikes.
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From PressTV
Israeli troops, Palestinian protesters clash in al-Quds
Israeli troops clash with Palestinian protesters in East al-Quds (Jerusalem), arresting several protesters during a festival of lights.
According to reports on Wednesday, the scuffles erupted outside of the Damascus Gate in East al-Quds, where hundreds of Palestinians had gathered to protest against the inauguration of the Jerusalem Light Festival.
The demonstrators denounced the event as a “Judization festival,” saying it is a sacrilege to the site.
The Israeli forces threw grenades at the protesters, who included women and children, and reportedly detained three of them.
The Tel Aviv regime occupied the West Bank in 1967 and has tried to alter the demographic makeup of the region since then by defiling historical sites, evicting the local Palestinian residents and constructing illegal settlement units.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
ISIS troops 10 miles from Nahum’s Tomb, Iraqi Jewish pilgrimage site
(JTA) — The Iraqi site believed to be the burial place of the biblical prophet Nahum is in danger of being destroyed by the Islamic State, or ISIS.
Nahum’s Tomb in Al Ooosh, an annual pilgrimage spot for generations of Iraqi Jews, is 10 miles from territory controlled by ISIS, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported.
Until the early 1950s, thousands of Jews gathered at the site during the Shavuot holiday, some staying for as long as two weeks.
The tomb, inside an abandoned synagogue, is cared for by Asir Salaam Shajaa, an Assyrian Christian whose father and grandfather also cared for the site at the request of Jewish community leaders who fled, along with the majority of Iraq’s Jews, after the Iraqi government vowed to expel them following the establishment of the state of Israel in 1949.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Two rockets fired from Gaza, no injuries reported
(JTA) — Two rockets fired from Gaza landed in open areas in Israel’s Negev Desert.
No injuries were reported from the rockets fired Wednesday night, the Times of Israel reported.
The attack came eight days after a Grad rocket fired from Gaza landed in the Israeli town of Gan Yavneh. Grad rockets have a longer range than Kassams and had not previously been fired from Gaza.
During last summer’s Israel-Gaza war, Palestinians fired over 4,000 rockets at Israeli towns and cities. Over 2,200 people were killed in the war, the majority of them Palestinians.
From PressTV
Israel tells France to fire ‘anti-Semite’ Orange CEO
An Israeli minister has asked the French government to dismiss the chief executive of the French telecommunications company Orange over its plans for severing business ties with Israeli mobile firm Partner.
Amid the outrage in Israel over the company’s plan, the regime’s Culture Minister Miri Regev on Thursday issued an appeal for the dismissal of Stephane Richard, the chief executive and chairman of Orange.
“The French government must show zero tolerance for anti-Semitism,” the Israeli minister said.
Meanwhile, the top official in Partner said Thursday that he is furious at remarks by Richard regarding the French company’s “intention” to withdraw its brand from the occupied territories.
“I am very, very angry. I think that what he said is the result of very significant pressure from pro-Palestinian (groups),” Isaac Benbenisti told Israeli media.
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From PressTV
Israel set to demolish Palestinian village in West Bank
Hundreds of Palestinian are facing imminent displacement as Israel plans to demolish a village in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian media report says.
Nearly 300 inhabitants of Susiya village are at risk of being displaced after Israel’s high court last month rejected a petition filed by local residents to halt demolition orders for the village, the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency reported on Wednesday.
The ruling by the court means that the Israeli regime could move in and demolish the residential and agricultural structures at any time, the report added.
The village is located just a hundred meters away from an Israeli settlement in southern Hebron (al-Khalil).
The ruling is the latest setback for the Palestinians in a decades-long battle against forced displacement by the Israeli regime.
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From The Times of Israel
White House steps carefully around Obama’s reported ‘closest thing to a Jew’ comment
Spokesman confirms president’s sense of kinship with Jewish people, doesn’t affirm Axelrod’s claim that Obama said he sees himself as nearest thing to a Jew in the Oval Office
The White House on Tuesday partly endorsed comments attributed to US President Barack Obama by a former top adviser, who told Israel’s Channel 2 that the president shares the “common bonds and commons values” of the Jewish community.
However, Spokesman Josh Earnest did not go so far as to confirm ex-Obama senior adviser David Axelrod’s recollection that the president said he considered himself “the closest thing to a Jew” who’s served in the Oval Office.
Earnest was responding to inquiries during a press briefing about remarks made by Axelrod to Channel 2.
“You know, honestly, he said, ‘I think that I am the closest thing to a Jew who’s ever sat in this office. All my values, the people who shape me, and, you know, for people to suggest that somehow I would be anti-Israel or, worse, anti-Semitic, it hurts’,” Axelrod recalled Obama saying in comments which aired on Monday, a day ahead of an extensive interview with Obama broadcast by the station on Tuesday.
