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BICOM 14th May 2021 The Guardian report that Israel has intensified attacks on the Gaza Strip as the conflict enters its fifth day. The papers report that Israeli air and ground forces were involved in the latest attacks, while noting that ground forces have not entered Gaza. The Times reports that Israel destroyed a major tunnel network used by Hamas militants overnight. The Telegraph examines the causes for the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas. The paper notes that “For weeks, Palestinian protesters and Israeli police have clashed daily ...

May 11, 2021 Weeks of rising tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in Jerusalem broke into large-scale violence on Friday, May 7. When Israeli police moved on Palestinian Muslims gathered at a site holy to Jews and Muslims alike in the midst of Ramadan, more than 200 Palestinians were injured. Hamas launched a barrage of rockets toward Jerusalem in response, and Israel responded with an air attack on Gaza that killed more than 20 Palestinians. Several Israelis were killed in the subsequent exchange of fire. Q1: Why now? A1: Tensions had been rising over the impending eviction of some Pa...

 December 24, 2020: The West Bank Fatah government calls for war against Israel still produces a lot of attacks in the West bank. In the last year there have been nearly 600 rock throwing incidents, 90 stabbing attempts and twenty firebomb attacks. Fatah, the political party that has ruled all Palestinians until 2007 (when Hamas gained control of Gaza), and the West Bank since the 1990s, openly calls for the destruction of Israel. Hamas won the last Palestinian elections in 2006 because they were seen as less corrupt than Fatah. Hamas was also muc...

 December 14, 2020: In the north, across the border in Saudi Arabia a tanker off the coast near the oil export facility at Jeddah, an explosion occurred on a Singaporean tanker. The crew of 22 got off safely and there was some oil leakage. While fighting the fire it was obvious that the cause of the explosion was external, not internal. This is the latest of several successful Shia rebel attacks on Red Sea shipping. These attacks are the result of Iran changing its tactics in Yemen. The Shia rebels are slowly losing territory to more numerous gover...