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The Rafah Border Crossing on the Egypt–Gaza border was closed by Egypt after the start of the conflict. [83] Egypt urged Israel to allow safe passage for Palestinian civilians from the Gaza Strip instead of forcing them to flee towards Sinai. [84] El-Remal aera in Gaza City on 9 October 2023
Because of the widespread violence within Israel during the Second Intifada that began in September 2000, Israel closed all entry points between Israel and the Palestinian territories, including the Gaza Strip, and closed the Gaza International Airport. On 9 October 2001, all movement of people and goods between Israel and the Palestinian ...
The Lebanese Armed Forces abandoned positions close to the border, withdrawing more than 5km away from the border with Israel. [ 73 ] Multiple sources described an "imminent" ground invasion of Lebanon, with tanks massing on the border, heavy shelling of border villagers and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant telling troops that Israel would use ...
According to The Times of Israel, the statement published in newspapers by the 100+ German companies included the phrase "Never again is now", but directly condemned only Hamas's attack on Israel, without condemning Israel's actions in Gaza, “We all condemn Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel and we see with horror the suffering of civilians ...
The Palestinian Authority claims all of these territories (including East Jerusalem) for a future Palestinian State, and its position is supported by the Arab League in the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative which calls for the return by Israel to "the 1967 borders". While Israel has expressed desire to annex the border settlement blocs and keep East ...
During the Israel–Hamas war, the Israeli military ordered mass evacuations in Gaza, resulting in one of the largest displacements of Palestinians since 1948. [4] [5] [a] On 13 October 2023, just one week after Hamas' attack on Israel, Israel instructed 1.1 million Gazans north of the Wadi Gaza, including those in Gaza City, to evacuate within 24 hours. [7]
In 1952, Israel and West Germany signed an agreement and over the next 14 years, West Germany paid Israel 3 billion marks (around US$714 million according to 1953-1955 conversion rates). [27] The reparations became a decisive part of Israel's income, comprising as high as 87.5% of Israel's income in 1956. [28]
Adolf Eichmann (inside glass booth) is sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of Israel at the conclusion of the trial. West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer attempted to influence the trial of Nazi war criminal and Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann in Israel because he feared that the Nazi past of some senior West German officials, including Hans Globke, [22] would come to light during the ...