The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

News of the Israeli-Palestinian Confrontation February 12-19, 2008

Rocket and mortar shell fire targeting western Negev towns and villages continued this past week. In Judea and Samaria there was an increase in stabbings, shootings, rock throwing and Molotov cocktails. On February 12 Imad Moughnieh, mastermind Hezbollah terrorist operative, was killed in Damascus by a bomb planted in his car. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah
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News of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict February 5-12, 2008

The week ended with a five-day escalation of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. More than 60 hits were identified in Israel territory, most of them in Sderot. Tension increased between Hamas and Egypt, even after the border fence was resealed. The Egyptians regard the recent events as a threat to national security and an
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Recently the second stage of the July 2007 amnesty plan for wanted terrorists ended.

The stage concluded successfully, with most of the more than 200 wanted terrorists having kept to its terms. The Palestinian security services’ contribution to the plan’s success was limited.
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Renewed escalation of Hamas rocket fire at western Negev towns and villages (Summary of events, February 5-7)

Two weeks after the last escalation in the fighting between Hamas and Israel, a new one began. Hamas carried out a suicide bombing attack in Dimona using a squad of terrorist operatives from Hebron and stepped up the rocket fire at Ashqelon, Sderot and the western Negev towns and villages .
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A group called “Army of the Nation, Jerusalem” is yet another global jihad offshoot in the Gaza Strip

A group called “Army of the Nation, Jerusalem” is yet another global jihad offshoot in the Gaza Strip. Since the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip, there has been an increase in the propaganda and terrorist activities carried out by radical Islamic groups associated with Al-Qaeda and the global jihad
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Israeli Embassy attacked by gunmen in Mauritania.

The shots were apparently fired by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a branch of the global jihad. The attack was carried out on the background of Islamist pressures on Mauritania’s government to sever diplomatic relations with Israel.
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