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Tag: Israel

  • Tuesday, March 25th 2025 - 14:26 UTC

    Former Paraguayan president attends antisemitism event in Israel

    Cartes was invited to Israel by PM Netanyahu

    Horacio Cartes, president of the ruling National Republican Association (ANR) – also known as Colorado Party - and former president of Paraguay (2013-2018), traveled to Israel on Monday at the invitation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attend the March 26-27 International Conference on Combating Anti-Semitism.

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  • Thursday, March 20th 2025 - 05:25 UTC

    Israel's market opens up to Paraguayan sheep meat

    Paraguay's meat production and consumption keeps growing

    Paraguay's National Animal Health and Quality Service (Senacsa) announced Wednesday the opening of Israel's market to sheep meat exports from the South American country, following approval of a slaughterhouse by Israel's Veterinary and Animal Health Service (IVSAH). This milestone is expected to boost sheep production and create economic opportunities, building on last year's record animal product exports to Israel worth US$ 147.6 million.

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  • Wednesday, February 26th 2025 - 10:25 UTC

    Israel and Hamas agree to renew exchanges

    The f family was buried in a moving ceremony attended only by guests

    Israel and the terrorist group Hamas Tuesday agreed in principle to further exchange Palestinian prison inmates for the bodies of four Israeli hostages as part of the first phase of a Gaza ceasefire, mediated by Egypt. The deal follows tensions over delayed releases and Hamas’s public handling of hostage handovers, which Israel dubbed as humiliating, particularly in the case of a body “mistakenly” passed on as that of dual Argentine national Shiri Bibas, who was murdered alongside her two children Ariel and Kfir.

  • Friday, February 21st 2025 - 10:30 UTC

    Body handed over not that of Shiri Bibas, post mortem reveals

    After the forensics results, the question lingers: Where is Shiri Bibas?

    Israeli authorities reported later Thursday that the body believed to be that of dual Argentine citizen Shiri Bibas (née Silberman) was not hers, while the other three caskets handed over by the pro-Palestine terrorist organization Hamas did contain the cadavers it claimed to hold.

  • Wednesday, February 5th 2025 - 11:27 UTC

    US to take control of Gaza and redevelop it, Trump says

    Netanyahu welcomed Trump's initiative but human rights groups said it meant ethnic cleansing

    US President Donald Trump announced Tuesday during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House that his country intends to seize control of the Gaza Strip and have the local population resettled elsewhere. The Republican leader said rebuilding the enclave was near impossible after it became a “demolition site” following Israel's retaliation for the Oct. 7, 2023, mass murders and abductions from the Gaza-based pro-Palestine terrorist group Hamas.

  • Thursday, January 16th 2025 - 10:13 UTC

    Ceasefire agreed upon between Israel and Hamas

    Only 94 of the hostages are believed to still be alive

    Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas agreed on a 42-day ceasefire to come into effect on Sunday in Gaza, during which some Israeli hostages will be released -dead or alive- in exchange for convicted terrorists serving their sentences in Tel Aviv's correctional system.

  • Thursday, December 5th 2024 - 09:54 UTC

    Chile: “Israel” street renamed in condemnation of ongoing events in Middle East

    The street will recover its old denomination of “Nueva Ñuñoa” which was in use until 1959

    The City Hall of Ñuñoa, one of the municipalities within the Santiago Metropolitan Region, approved a street name change as a response to ongoing international conflicts: the street República de Israel will be renamed in solidarity with Palestine and condemnation of Tel Aviv's military actions in the Gaza Strip against local people. The decision was approved by 7 votes to 1 during Wednesday's council meeting, after a consultation with the neighbors.

  • Friday, November 22nd 2024 - 10:53 UTC

    Milei regrets ICC's measure against Netanyahu

    Israel has an ally in Argentina, insisted Milei

    Argentine President Javier Milei Thursday expressed his “profound disagreement” with the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. In the Libertarian leader's view, the ruling “distorts the spirit of international justice.”

  • Friday, November 8th 2024 - 09:22 UTC

    Pogrom against Israeli football fans in Amsterdam

    The Israeli fans were to be evacuated through rescue flights shortly

    Israeli football fans were ambushed and some of them went missing Thursday evening in Amsterdam in the aftermath of a match between FC Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv. In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent two emergency flights to evacuate Israelis from the Dutch city as observers worldwide concurred on the use of the word “Pogrom,” which historically refers to an organized massacre of a particular ethnic group, particularly that of Jewish people in Russia or eastern Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

  • Tuesday, October 29th 2024 - 09:48 UTC

    UN agency banned in Israel

    “These bills increase the suffering of Palestinians and are nothing more than collective punishment,” UNRWA Chief Lazzarini said

    Israel's Knesset (Parliament) passed bills Monday preventing the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) from working in the country. The agency has been active in the region for 70 years and has around 20,000 employees to provide education, healthcare, social and humanitarian assistance. The measure is expected to hamper the agency's work in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, Agencia Brasil reported.

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