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Israel has said the blockade is necessary to protect itself from Palestinian political violence and rocket attacks, and to prevent dual use goods from entering Gaza. [16] Israel has been accused of violating or failing to fulfill specific obligations it has under various ceasefire agreements [17] [18] [19] to alleviate or lift the blockade. [20 ...
On September 8, 1974, a Boeing 707-331B (registered N8734 [1]) operating as TWA Flight 841 from Tel Aviv to New York City via Athens and Rome crashed into the Ionian Sea, killing all aboard. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the plane had been destroyed by a bomb hidden in the cargo hold. The detonation of the bomb ...
As a result, Israel's victory in the Six-Day War, Jews could visit the Old City of Jerusalem and pray at the Western Wall (the holiest site in Judaism) for the first time since the end of the British Mandate, to which they had been denied access by the Jordanians in contravention of the 1949 Armistice agreement. The four-meter-wide public alley ...
The Foreign Secretary warned Israel that an attack like that which killed three British aid workers ‘must never happen again’. British support for Israel not unconditional, warns Lord Cameron ...
The state of Israel was nevertheless founded under prime minister David Ben-Gurion on 14 May 1948 with the end of the British Mandate, winning immediate recognition from the US and Soviet Union ...
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the territory of the former Mandatory Palestine. [26] [27] [28] Key aspects of the conflict include the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the status of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, borders, security, water rights, [29] the permit regime, Palestinian ...
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others, calling it a “serious mistake”. Ms Kirby said the families of those who died had not received contact from ...
Channel 8 (Israel), a television channel in Israel; see List of television channels in Israel; Channel 8 (Singaporean TV channel), a Chinese-language television channel in Singapore; Channel 8 (Thai TV channel), a television channel in Thailand; TV8 (Estonia), a television channel in Estonia; TV8 (Italian TV channel), a television channel in Italy