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23 shares Avi Korkas examines the damage to a municipality office that was torched in a night of violence between Arab Israeli protesters and Israel Police in the city of Lod, May 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Heidi Levine) President Reuven Rivlin urged Arab Israeli leaders on Tuesday to speak out against an outburst of violence by rioters in Arab-Jewish cities overnight. “I just made an urgent phone call to Mudar Younes, chair of the Arab Councils Mayors Committee, and passed on a sharp message ...

Israel, Hamas escalate heavy fighting with no end in sight Associated Press 5/11/2021 By JOSEF FEDERMAN and FARES AKRAM, Associated Press © Provided by Associated Press Jacob Simona stands by his burning car during clashes with Israeli Arabs and police in the Israeli mixed city of Lod, Israel Tuesday, May 11,2021. (AP Photo/Heidi Levine) JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel stepped up its attacks on the Gaza Strip, flattening a high-rise building used by the Hamas militant group and k...

“Both sides were acting violently, throwing stones at each other, cursing and yelling,” he said. The pro-Palestinian demonstrators were apparently protesting against the pending evictions in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, eyewitnesses told The Times of Israel. Four East Jerusalem Palestinian families — over 70 people — are facing eviction in the neighborhood per a court order, which will be reviewed by the Supreme Court. They are at risk of being displaced by right-wi...

Washington’s agenda is completely wrong—and incendiary U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan needs to get his facts right and his priorities straight. (May 11, 2021 / JNS) Throughout the month of Ramadan, the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority and Hamas have been inciting Arab Israelis in Jerusalem and throughout the country to attack Jews. And so it happened that at the outset of the month, Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa and beyond found themselves beset by gangs of Arab thugs who bea...

Israeli Civilians Under Rocket Fire as Palestinians Launch More Than 500 Missiles Air force responds with strikes on Hamas, Islamic Jihad infrastructure, personnel in Gaza, ground incursion seen as unlikely (The Media Line) Two civilians were killed and more than 80 wounded by Gazan rockets raining down on Israeli cities and towns on Monday and Tuesday, with no end in sight. The Israel Defense Forces estimated that Palestinian organizations in Gaza had fired more than 500 projectiles. The vast ...

Dozens of rockets were fired Tuesday evening from Gaza in the direction of Tel Aviv and its suburbs, killing one woman and wounding several others in a further escalation of a three-day fire exchange between Israel and Hamas. The fatality on the Israeli side was in Rishon Lezion, a southern suburb of Tel Aviv. Two people also were injured there. Eight people were wounded in Holon, further north, and two are in critical condition, Ynet reported. Four were injured in Givataim, east of Tel Aviv. A...

Tel Aviv targeting Gaza rocket attacks The militant group Hamas led Tel Aviv with ten rockets on Tuesday evening, after increasing the intensity of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, threatening to turn a two-day return of enemies into a wider conflict. The flights were refocused when the sky in central Tel Aviv cleared following dozens of rockets by Israel’s Iron Dome defenses at once. One hit an empty bus in Holon south of Tel Aviv. At least six people received medical attention and more...

Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio The violence was at its worst in Lod and Ramle, but it did not pass over Jaffa, Haifa and many other locations. Arab residents threw stones at Jewish homes, part of the new cemetery in Ramle was torched, and several synagogues were pelted with stones. During the night between Monday and Tuesday, Lod became a war zone: Young men vandalized everything they came upon and major roads in the city were blocked. The protest spread to Shamir Medi...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Tuesday stepped up its attacks on the Gaza Strip, flattening a high-rise building used by the Hamas militant group and killing at least three militants in their hideouts as Palestinian rockets rained down almost nonstop on parts of Israel. It was the heaviest fighting between the two bitter enemies since 2014, and it showed no signs of slowing. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to expand the offensive, while Gaza militants unleashed a fierce late-ni...

0 shares An Arab Israeli man was shot and killed and two others wounded during protests and riots early this morning in the central city of Lod in solidarity with Palestinians clashing with Israeli forces in Jerusalem. Reports say the victims were part of a mob throwing stones and fire-bombs at Jewish-owned homes in the mixed Arab-Jewish city in central Israel and were apparently shot by Jewish residents. “The Arab mob tried to storm our neighborhood,” Lod resident Meir Liush tells Ha...