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Israel Cancels Australian Officials' Visas in Retaliation
MENAFN
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) Israel has rescinded the visas of Australian officials assigned to the Palestinian Authority, escalating diplomatic tensions following Canberra's revocation of an Israeli lawmaker’s visa, officials confirmed Monday. In a post on X,...
Israel Considers Recruiting Jewish Youth from Abroad
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) Israel's defense forces are reportedly contemplating a strategy to recruit Jewish youth from overseas, as part of efforts to alleviate what officials describe as a critical shortage of personnel, according to Army Radio on Monday. The...
Israeli Strike Demands Prisoner Deal, Ending War
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) On Sunday, a massive nationwide strike swept across Israel, with thousands of participants obstructing highways in several major cities. The goal was to increase pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration to negotiate...
Houthis say they attacked Israeli airport as response back
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) Yemen’s Houthi movement announced on Sunday that it had fired a hypersonic ballistic missile at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, describing the attack as retaliation for an Israeli strike on a power facility in the capital, Sanaa. In a...
Ilham Aliyev received credentials of Israel’s newly appointed ambassador
President of Azerbaijan
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August 18, 2025
AZERBAIJAN, August 18 - 18 August 2025, 15:50 On August 18, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev received the credentials of Ronen Krausz, the incoming Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israel to Azerbaijan. The...
Australia Revokes Visa of Israeli MP Over Anti-Palestinian Remarks
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) The Australian government has revoked the visa of far-right Israeli lawmaker Simcha Rothman, citing concerns over inflammatory rhetoric toward Palestinians, media reported Monday. Rothman, a senior figure in Prime Minister Benjamin...
Gaza Bleeds: Israeli Airstrikes Kill Four Civilians
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) Four Palestinians, including a young girl, were killed Monday in a new wave of Israeli airstrikes targeting both the northern and central regions of the Gaza Strip, according to reports from local media. Citing eyewitnesses, a local news...
Australia Revokes Visa of Israeli Politician
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) The Australian government has revoked the visa of Simcha Rothman, a far-right Israeli politician known for endorsing plans to expel Palestinians from Gaza and labeling Palestinian children as Israel's "enemies," according to a report by a...
Trade Exhibition in Italy Excludes Israel
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) The coordinators of the forthcoming Fiera del Levante, an annual global trade exhibition set to be held in Bari, Italy, from September 13 to 21, have resolved not to extend an invitation to Israel. This decision comes in response to...
Illegal Israeli settlers raid Al-Aqsa Mosque under protection of IDF
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) Reports indicate that a group of Israeli settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Monday morning. According to local sources, dozens of settlers conducted Talmudic rituals within the compound while being...
Illegal Israeli Settlers Raid Al-Aqsa Mosque Under Army Protection
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) Dozens of illegal Israeli settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem early Monday, staging religious rituals under the protection of Israeli forces, according to a Palestinian news agency. The news agency...
Egypt, Iran Denounce Israeli Displacement of Palestinians
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) Egypt sharply rejected Israeli intentions to displace Palestinians, declaring on Sunday that such actions represent "a historical injustice with no moral or legal justification" and qualify as "a heinous crime," according to its Foreign...
Four Palestinians get murdered from Israeli attack in Gaza
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) Israeli airstrikes on Monday killed four Palestinians in northern and central Gaza, according to local reports. Among the casualties, three, including a young girl, were killed in Gaza City while sheltering as civilians. In Nuseirat...
Illegal Israeli Settlers Conduct Rituals at Al-Aqsa Mosque
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August 18, 2025
(MENAFN) On Monday morning, a group of unauthorized Israeli settlers carried out a raid on the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex situated in the occupied East Jerusalem, as reported by regional news sources. An official news outlet revealed that several...
Israel attacks power plant in Yemen's capital
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August 17, 2025
(MENAFN) Israel launched a strike on a power plant south of Sanaa on Sunday morning, according to reports from Houthi-controlled media. "The aggression targeted the electricity generators at the power station, causing them to go out of service,"...
Israel warplanes injure two people in new attack on Lebanon
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August 17, 2025
(MENAFN) Two people were injured Thursday night during a series of Israeli airstrikes on Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese official media and security sources. A Lebanese news agency reported that an Israeli drone...
Israel Destroys Hundreds of Homes in Zeitoun
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August 17, 2025
(MENAFN) The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor reported on Saturday that Israeli military operations have demolished approximately 400 houses in the Zeitoun area, located east of Gaza City, over the last six days. This destruction was...
Israeli Navy Attacks Power Station in Sanaa
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August 17, 2025
(MENAFN) In the early hours of Sunday, the Israeli Navy launched attacks on Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, as reported by a Houthi-controlled news agency. The strike targeted the Haziz Central Power Station located in the Sanhan district, south of Sanaa,...
Israeli Navy Attacks Power Station in Yemen’s Capital
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August 17, 2025
(MENAFN) The Israeli Navy launched early Sunday attacks on Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, targeting the Haziz Central Power Station in the Sanhan district, according to media. Describing the operation as “The US-Israeli aggression,” the agency said the...
Gaza Starves: Israeli Blockade Kills Eleven More Palestinians
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August 17, 2025
(MENAFN) At least 11 additional Palestinians have died in Gaza over the past 24 hours due to malnutrition and the ongoing Israeli-imposed starvation, raising the death toll to 251 since March, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry on...