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Israel admits to killing 5 children in a raid on a cemetery in Gaza

16 August 2022; MEMO: Israel admitted responsibility for killing five  Palestinian children in an air strike on the Fallujah cemetery in the town of Jabalia, in the northern Gaza Strip, on 7 August, after it had initially claimed they were killed as a result of a missile fired by Islamic Jihad.

Israel incurred $92m in losses from latest war on Gaza

16 August 2022; MEMO: Israel has incurred 300 million shekels (about $92 million) in losses as a result of its recent aggression on the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Maariv newspaper.

The paper said the Knesset Finance Committee held a meeting on the damages resulting from the recent military aggression in Gaza and concluded that the value of damages to Israeli properties amounted to about 300 million Israeli shekels.

Israel's ex-army chief joins Gantz-led alliance for elections

JERUSALEM, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- The former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot announced on Sunday that he has joined the alliance of two government ministers to run for the November parliamentary elections.

Eisenkot said in a statement that he has teamed up with an alliance led by Benny Gantz, Israel's defense minister and leader of the centrist alliance Blue and White, and Gideon Sa'ar, the justice minister and leader of the right-wing New Hope party.

The new three-way alliance will be headed by Gantz, with Sa'ar as his second and Eisenkot in the third place.

Palestinian gunman wounds 8 in late-night Jerusalem shooting

JERUSALEM (AP) — A Palestinian gunman opened fire at a bus near Jerusalem’s Old City early Sunday, wounding eight Israelis in an attack that came a week after violence flared up between Israel and militants in Gaza, police and medics said.

Two of the victims were in serious condition, including a pregnant woman with abdominal injuries and a man with gunshot wounds to the head and neck, according to Israeli hospitals treating them.

Israel: Bus Accident Killed Two, Injured Six In Jerusalem

JERUSALEM, Aug 12 (NNN-PNA) – Two people were killed and six others injured, after a bus in Jerusalem, went out of control and crashed into a station, last night.

The two killed in the accident were a 30-year-old woman and a three-year-old girl, and one of the injured was in a serious condition, according to the Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency medical service.

Policemen, firefighters and medical staff were sent to the site of the accident, local media reported.

EU diplomats visit West Bank school slated for demolition

KAFR MALIK, West Bank (AP) — European representatives on Friday visited a small schoolhouse serving an impoverished Bedouin community in the occupied West Bank that is under threat of demolition by Israel.

The EU funds such construction in order to help Palestinians maintain their presence in the 60% of the West Bank under full Israeli control, known as Area C, where the military routinely demolishes homes and other structures built without hard-to-obtain permits.

Israel: Russia-Iran space project may reduce our ability to spy

11 August 2022; MEMO: Iran's latest space cooperation project with Russia could give Tehran the capacity to launch intercontinental ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads in the future, Israeli officials fear.

According to the Jerusalem Post, officials believe the partnership could also help Iran monitor targets throughout the region and reduce Israeli spies' ability to penetrate the Islamic Republic's border with operations which hold back its nuclear progress.

50 Palestinians thrown out of Israeli bus after 3 Jewish settlers refused to travel with non-Jews

10 August 2022; MEMO: Dozens of Palestinians were thrown out of a bus in Tel Aviv after three Jewish passengers got on and refused to travel with non-Jews on board. The incident, which is the latest of many racist practices exposing the crime of apartheid committed by Israel, happened on Thursday last week on a number 288 bus, which travels from the Israeli capital to the Jewish-only illegal settlement in occupied West Bank.

Jewish Agency ready to close its doors in Russia, operate online

11 August 2022; MEMO: The Jewish Agency might end its physical presence in Russia and start working online and via telephone, a senior official was reported by Israeli media saying yesterday.

A meeting took place at the agency's headquarters in Jerusalem yesterday to discuss how to move the operation from Russia to Israel.

"We are examining all the options for a rainy day," the Times of Israel reported a Jewish Agency official saying, speaking on condition of anonymity.

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