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Ethnic violence rocks Israel, as Arabs cite deep grievances Jacob Simona stands by his burning car during confrontations between Israeli Arabs and police in the Israeli mixed city of Lod, Israel, on May 11. (Heidi Levine / Associated Press) JERUSALEM — As rockets from the Gaza Strip streaked overhead, Arabs and Jews fought each other on the streets below and rioters torched vehicles, a restaurant and a synagogue in one of the worst spasms of communal violence Israel has seen in year...

May. 13, 2021 4:50 AM “Our stage is the street.” “Expressing our solidarity with the residents of Sheikh Jarrah is for me a national obligation, a human and universal one.” “We cannot remain silent any longer.” Before the escalation in the Gaza Strip and the violent events that swept into Israel, thousands of Israeli citizens took to the streets in recent weeks, participating in legal, nonviolent demonstrations in mixed Arab-Jewish cities, Arab towns and at major intersections. In i...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, America, at least, had a dynamic leader (Abraham Lincoln) to end the long tragic civil war. Israel, sadly, has no leader at all. For years, Binyamin Netanyahu has deprived Israeli Arabs of many ...

Barrages since Monday have killed top commanders, including intelligence chief and head of rocket-making Hamas requested ceasefire last night on a mutual basis after launching 1,000 rockets - leaving 7 Israelis dead But Israel has vowed to press on with its military campaign despite outcry from the international community UN has warned of full-scale war as the number of Palestinians killed in airstrikes reached 67 on Thursday The campaign is still far from over, Israeli cabinet minister said l...

Violent clashes between Palestinian Israeli citizens and Israeli Jews have resumed in several Israeli cities The Israeli military continued with airstrikes on the besieged Gaza Strip and Hamas fired rockets at Israel on Tuesday. The crisis, which began with Israel’s efforts to displace Palestinian families in East Israel, has sparked tensions within the community within Israel, and some Palestinian citizens have staged protests in recent days. In Bat Yam, about 13 kilometers south of Tel Aviv...

Photo Credit: pixabay Things in Israel have been unnerving in the last 48 hours. Over 500 rockets have been fired by Hamas into our cities, resulting in several deaths and close to 100 injured. In addition to the rocket attacks, Israeli Arabs have shown their true colors by showing complete support and solidarity with their Hamas brothers. How did they do this? Simple… by attacking Jews in the street, stoning and destroying Jewish cars, burning shuls, children’s religious schools and yes...

Israel Prepares Battle Plan for Gaza Incursion 13 May 2021, 22:35 GMT+10 Israels military commanders have drafted a battle plan for an incursion into Gaza and planned to submit it to military chiefs later Thursday, a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces has confirmed. IDF spokesperson Hidai Zilberman told local media in a briefing that preparations for the possibility of a ground incursion are under way. The IDF has deployed additional ground troops - from the Paratroopers Brigade, Golani I...

The volume and intensity of Hamas attacks has added a new twist to an old and violent story: Foxs Amy Kellogg has the latest When Middle Eastern summer heat coincided earlier this week with Muslim holy days and a long-simmering property dispute in Jerusalem, the result was predictably explosive.  So far, dozens of Palestinians and six Israelis have died in the exchange of the rockets fired at Israeli civilians by Hamas from Gaza and Israel’s retaliatory air strikes on Gazan military targets....

Photo: Yariv Katz IDF soldier seriously hurt in Jaffa, Lod synagogue set ablaze as Jews, Arabs battle across country Police deployed all over the country in effort to stem nationwide riots, but clear lack of sufficient presence of law enforcement in highly volatile localities has led to further civil unrest; Gantz orders more Border Police to maintain order Sivan Hilaie, Nina Fox, Yoav Zitun | Updated: 05.13.21 , 22:45 A 19-year-old IDF soldier was brutally attacked by an Arab mob in Jaffa o...

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