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Palestinian indicted for Ronen Lubarsky murder
5 July, 2018 |
8 years ago
Military prosecutors filed an indictment against Ismail Na’aji, a resident of the al-Am’ari refugee camp near Ramallah, for the death of Staff Sgt. Ronen Lubarsky, a 20-year-old IDF soldier who was killed when he was hit on the head with a large slab of stone during a raid on the camp to arrest terror suspects in late May.
Na’aji was charged with willful manslaughter.
Erdan: Israel Not Prepared for Major Earthquake
5 July, 2018 |
8 years ago
Homeland Security Minister Gilad Erdan spoke to the Ynet News website on Thursday, following several light earthquakes in Israel’s northern region. According to Erdan, should a large scale earthquake occur, as is expected to happen in the region about once a century, Israel is not prepared for such a scenario.
“There is a high probability that once every 90 years, there will be a big earthquake,” said Erdan, “It may happen, and we are unequivocally unprepared,” he added.
Russian FM: Demand for Iranian withdrawal from Syria ‘unrealistic’
4 July, 2018 |
8 years ago
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Iran is one of the key powers in the Middle East, and added that demands for the Islamic Republic to completely pull out of Syria at the conclusion of the civil war in that country would be “absolutely unrealistic.
“(You cannot expect Iran) to expect it to abandon its interests,” Lavrov said.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman as well as opposition leaders including Yesh Atid Party Chairman Yair Lapid have said that Israel would not reconcile itself to a long-term Iranian presence in Syria.
Netanyahu is scheduled to meet Russian Prime Minsiter Vladimir Putin next week, ahead of the latter’s summit the following week with US President Donald Trump, where the situation in southern Syria is expected to be on the agenda.
Leah Goldin: Netanyahu should learn from Abbas how to negotiate
4 July, 2018 |
8 years ago
Dr. Leah Goldin, the mother of fallen soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin, whose remains have been held by Hamas in Gaza since 2014, spoke out against Prime Minister Netanyahu on Wednesday, asserting that he should take a page from Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas in how to negotiate.
Addressing the Committee for the Return of the Soldiers in the Knesset, Goldin said “Over the last week, we have seen that it is actually Abu-Mazen (Abbas) who is setting conditions for the commencement of negotiations to find a solution to the Humanitarian situation in Gaza. However, Netanynahu and the Israeli government are not setting the return of the soldiers as a condition. The UNSC and the European Union already understand this, but the Prime Minister is keeping quiet and doing nothing.”
1.5 year sentence to soldier who accidentally shot and killed fellow soldier
4 July, 2018 |
8 years ago
The Military Court in Yaffo struck a plea bargain with N. who accidentally shot and killed his fellow unit member Shachar Strug in March, while the two were playing with their firearms, practicing their draws.
Per the plea bargain, N. has accepted a sentence of 18 months in prison. During the hearing, N. addressed the Strug family, telling them that Shachar was his best friend, “Whatever i do, I can’t heal the pain of the Strug family. I hope that in the future, they’ll forgive me,” he said.
