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Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel s diplomatic reporter
The Austrian Federal Chancellery raised the Israeli flag as a sign of solidarity, in Vienna on May 14, 2021. (HELMUT FOHRINGER / APA / AFP)
Amid a series of protests and condemnations in the Arab world as Israel and Hamas continue to fight, and anti-Israel rallies in some western cities too, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi on Friday thanked their leadership counterparts in the US and Europe for their support.
“I would like to say a word of appreciation to our friend President [Joe] Biden and to other friends,” said Netanyahu in a Friday afternoon video message, citing “the president of France, the British prime minister, the chancellor of Austria, the chancellor of Germany and others.
Egypt reached out to Israel over tensions to no avail: FM
By AFP
MAY 11, 2021
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (pictured March 2021) said Egypt had urged Israel to exert all possible efforts to prevent the deterioration of the situation in Jerusalem but was met with indifference. By Ludovic MARIN (POOL/AFP/File)
Egypt reached out to Israel to calm tensions in Jerusalem but was met with indifference, its top diplomat told an emergency Arab League meeting Tuesday on the crisis.
Israel and Gaza s Islamist rulers Hamas exchanged heavy fire Tuesday, killing at least 26 Palestinians and two Israelis, in an escalation sparked by violent unrest at Jerusalem s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
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Smoke billows from an Israeli air strike on the Hanadi compound in Gaza City, controlled by the Palestinian Hamas terror group on May 11, 2021. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
Egypt has reached out to Israel to help calm ongoing tensions amid days of unrest in Jerusalem and rocket fire from Gaza, but has yet to receive a response, its foreign minister told an emergency Arab League meeting Tuesday.
The Israel Defense Forces expanded its airstrikes in the Gaza Strip Tuesday afternoon in retaliation for the firing of hundreds of rockets at Israeli cities, in an escalation sparked by violent unrest at Jerusalem’s flashpoint Temple Mount compound.