General Information

On July 19 Israeli naval commandos took control of the French boat Dignité/Al Karama,. This past week there was an increase in rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into the western Negev. The Palestinian Authority continued promoting its September appeal to the United Nations for recognition of a Palestinian state. Read more...

This past week sporadic rocket fire attacks continued targeting the western Negev. This past week another propaganda display, part of the campaign to delegitimize Israel, was prevented. Read more...

This past week sporadic rocket fire and mortar shell attacks continued from the Gaza Strip. The organizers of the flotilla face increasing difficulties, the most consequential of which is the ban Greece placed on their sailing to the Gaza Strip. Dozens of anti-Israeli organizations and activists, most of them Palestinian and a few of them Read more...

This week sporadic rocket fire continued from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. In response IDF aircraft struck a Hamas attack tunnel in the central Gaza Strip. On June 27 the organizers of the flotilla held a press conference in Athens and announced they would set sail within a few days. Read more...

Disagreements continue between Egypt and Hamas regarding the operation of the Rafah crossing. An editorial in the Egyptian weekly newspaper Akhbar Al-Yawm criticized the attitude of the de facto Hamas administration, claiming its final objective was to have the Rafah crossing open without oversight or established procedures. The editorial stressed that it was an international Read more...

This past week relative quiet prevailed in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. A mosque in the village of Al-Mughayyir (near Ramallah) was torched and vandalized. “Price tag” was painted in Hebrew on one of the external walls, indicating the arson was the work of extremist settlers. Read more...