Just because Israel’s Jewish Agency says anti-Semitic incidents have reached a record high not seen since World War II doesn’t mean that it isn’t true.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced plans for construction of a fence along Israel’s border with Egypt “to close Israel’s southern border to infiltrators and terrorists.”
Israel is conducting tests of a short-range missile-defense system to fend off rockets from the Gaza Strip, dubbed the “Iron Dome,” and says the system is nearly ready to be deployed.
Last year’s Israeli bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip has left a high concentration of toxic metals in the soil, according to a study by the New Weapons Research Committee (NWRC).
Medical aid and 500 activists entered Gaza after protests against Egypt’s refusal to admit the group lead to clashes at the Rafah crossing in which one Egyptain solider was killed.
Israeli officials said a military delegation has canceled a trip to the UK over fears that they would be arrested on war crimes charges for their involvement in last year’s Gaza offensive.
Barack Obama pledges $2.77 billion for Israel in 2010, and $30 billion over the next decade. Israel is for the first time bound to use 75% of the aid to buy military material from the US.
The Israeli daily Ha’aretz reports that construction in West Bank settlements is “booming” despite the declared freeze, with expansion underway at more than 50 settlements and two industrial zones.
Several international activists were injured by Egyptian riot police during demonstrations with the Gaza Freedom March in Cairo. Egypt has denied the march access to the besieged Strip.
In a move heralded by human rights groups, Israel’s supreme court ordered the military to allow Palestinians to travel on part of a major highway that runs through the West Bank.
Egypt has informed organizers of the Gaza Freedom March that the Rafah border will be closed over the coming weeks. Organizers are calling for pressure on Egyptian authorities.
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades pledged that “the Israeli occupation has thrown open the doors of its own inferno” following an IDF raid on Nablus that left three youth dead.
