Move comes days after two rockets shake the Red Sea resort city, apparently fired from the Sinai Peninsula; IDF spokesmen says deployment is part of national plan to test anti-rocket system around the country.
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood reignited Israeli fears of a rupture of its peace accord with the Islamist country Tuesday, after newly-appointed Information Minister Salakh Abd al-Maksud claimed Egyptians relations with Israel would not be upgraded “until occupied Palestinian land is freed”.
The White House invigorated the international row over Lebanese Hezbollah’s links to terrorism last week as US Treasury and State Department officials accused the group of working in league with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to train and advise Syrian government forces.
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has urged United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to make clear that he does not intend to travel to Iran later this month to attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit.
Israeli President Shimon Peres drew criticism from across the political spectrum, after claiming Israel “cannot go it alone” in striking Iran, in an interview on Thursday.
Nasrallah addresses crowd at Al-Quds Day celebration, anti-Zionist event calling for the liberation of Palestine; protesters hold massive rallies in cities across Iran; Ahmadinejad: Zionist regime an insult to humanity.
Mayor of Brussels Freddy Thielemans has recalled plans for a planned September memorial to “Brussels deportees” during WWII, after a Holocaust educational organisation drew attention to the complicity of the Brussels wartime administration in the deportation of Jews.
