The Times of Israel records Tuesday’s occasions as they occur.
Incoming rocket sirens sound in the Israeli city of Ashkelon, in the northern Gaza Strip, and on the nearby Zikim network, sending citizens to anti-aircraft shelters.
The army says it’s investigating what triggered the alarm.
– Judah Ari Gross
Tehran, Iran: Iran denies reports that it paid the Taliban to attack U.S. forces and their allies in Afghanistan.
In a statement released by the Iranian media, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh called the claims “completely false” and said the United States sought to hide its “miscalculations” in Afghanistan by using propaganda.
Yesterday, media reported that U.S. intelligence agencies believed Iran was offering bonuses to Taliban fighters for attacking U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan.
Iran sees the presence of U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq as a risk to its doorstep and calls for his departure.
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An unidentified Emirati official, cited through the Ynet news website, said Prime Minister Netanahu had given the green light to the United States to sell F-35 stealth fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates as a component of the Israel-UAE agreement to Normalize Relations, even though the Prime Minister categorically denied that the agreement included arms sales agreements.
In another report, Walla said Netanyahu had said today in a security locker assembly that he would oppose any U.S. sale of F-35s to the United Arab Emirates and pressure Congress to oppose it.
The Foreign Ministry reacts to the conviction through a UN-backed tribunal of a Member of Hezbollah for his involvement in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The Special Court for Lebanon acquitted 3 members of the Iran-backed terrorist organization and said there is no evidence that Hezbollah or Syria’s leaders were concerned about the 2005 suicide bombing that killed Hariri and 21 others.
“The terrorist organization Hezbollah and its others have been concerned about murders and obstructions of justice,” a ministry said. “Hezbollah has taken the other Lebanese prisoner in the service of foreign interests. The countries of the world will have to act against this terrorist organization to help Lebanon free itself from this threat.”
He added: “The organization’s armament, its efforts to identify an arsenal of precision missiles, and its operations endanger the entire region.”
Prime Minister Netanyahu is talking to local leaders on the Gaza border amid emerging tensions between Israel and the Hamas-led enclave.
In a message from his office, Netanyahu was quoted as saying that the government has followed a policy to respond to chimneys that began through incendiary devices with balloons in the same way it treats the rocket chimneys of the Gaza Strip.
“Unfortunately, we’re preparing, if so, for the option of one or more [fight] series. I hope we don’t get there,” he says.
He also warned Hamas that it would be a “very big mistake” if incendiary attacks continued from the Gaza Strip.
The Ministry of Health has announced seven more deaths from COVID-19 since morning, bringing the figure to 705.
Ministry figures show that 1,064 new cases have been reported to date, bringing the number of infections since the onset of the pandemic to 96,093.
Of the 23,417 active cases, another 404 people are in severe condition, and 117 are added with insufficient ventilation. Another 164 are in a moderate state and the rest have mild or nonexistent symptoms.
Yesterday, 26,038 tests were carried out on the ministry.
BEIRUT – The Lebanese government is pronouncing a new blockade and night curfew to stem the outbreak of coronavirus infections.
The new measures will come into force on Friday and last just over two weeks, the Interior Ministry said, adding that they will not clean up or assist in efforts after the devastating explosion at the port of Beirut on August 4.
– AFP
Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi said comments from a spokesman for the Sudanese Foreign Ministry that he expects normalization with Israel underscore “the ongoing basic replacement in the Middle East,” days after the Jewish state and the United Arab Emirates announced an agreement to identify formal ties.
Ashkenazi points out that Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, was the site of an Arab League assembly in 1967 in which the “three no” were declared: no peace with Israel, without Israel’s popularity and without negotiations with Israel.
“Israeli diplomatic activity led through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs creates vital new opportunities, such as appointments between Israel and Sudan,” Ashkenazi tweeted. “In the near future, we will continue to talk about relations until a peace agreement is signed that respects the interests of both sides.”
A senior PLO official, Hanan Ashrawi, deplores comments through a spokesman for Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Sudan is awaiting a standardization agreement with Israel.
“Where are the other living revolutionary people of Sudan?” Ashrawi wrote on Twitter.
Prime Minister Netanyahu commented on comments through the spokesman for Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs that Khartoum hopes to succeed in an agreement with Israel to normalize relations.
“Israel, Sudan and the entire region will gain advantages from a peace agreement and, combined, build a longer-term long-term for all the peoples of the region. We will do everything we can to make this vision a reality,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Lior Haiat welcomed comments from his Sudanese counterpart that Sudan was expecting a normalization agreement with Israel.
“Israel definitely sees any step towards a normalization procedure and peace agreements with regional states,” Haiat said in a quoted through the Hebrew media.
WASHINGTON – The Senate Intelligence Committee concludes that the Kremlin has introduced a competitive effort to meddle in the 2016 US presidential race on behalf of Donald Trump, while the Republican-led organization publishes its fifth and final report on its investigation into election meddling.
The Senate committee describes its report, which totals more than 1,300 pages, as “the most complete description to date of Russia’s activities and the risk they pose.” Bipartisan research lasted about 3 and a half years, much longer than the other probes.
The report intentionally fails to reach a definitive conclusion, as other reports have done, that there is sufficient evidence that Trump’s crusade coordinated or collaborated with Russia to influence the election for him and move away from Democrat Hillary Clinton, leaving his findings open to partisan interpretation. .
A Republican organization on the panel presented “additional views” to the report, saying it more explicitly states that Trump’s crusade was not coordinated with Russia. But the Democrats on the panel presented their own views, arguing that the report obviously shows such cooperation.
Former Special Suggestive Robert Mueller concluded in a report released last year that Russia intervened in the election through piracy and a covert crusade on social media and that Trump’s crusade had taken aid and hoped it would benefit. But Mueller has accused any of Trump’s affiliates of conspiring with the Russians.
The Senate investigation also looks at spaces of great interest to Trump that have not been explored through Mueller. These come with the FBI’s use of a register of opposition studies compiled through a British ex-opia whose paintings were financed through the Democrats.
Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, acting chairman of the committee, said in a statement that the committee was involved that the FBI had been willing to use the record “without verifying its method or acquisition” while seeking secret surveillance orders opposed to a former Trump. crusader advisor.
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Sudan’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Haidar Badawi Sadiq told Sky News Arabia that Sudan “aspires to a peace agreement with Israel… an equivalent date on Khartoum’s interests.”
“There is no explanation for why hostility continues,” Sadiq said, adding that “we make a dent in communication between the two countries.”
He also stated that “Sudan and Israel will gain advantages from such an agreement if it is signed, late this year or early next year,” according to Intelligence Minister Eli Cohen, that there may be an agreement between Jerusalem and Khartoum. until the end of the year.
There has been speculation about warming ties between the two countries since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Uganda this year with the head of Sudan’s transitional government, General Abdel Fatah al-Burhan.
– Aaron Boxerman
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands – Saad Hariri of Lebanon says he accepted the verdict of a special court on the 2005 murder of his father, former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
“The court has ruled, and on behalf of the circle of relatives of the late Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and on behalf of the families of the martyrs and the victims, we settle for the court’s decision,” he told the court.
– AFP
An unidentified White House official told the Hebrew media that the standardization agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates comes with a secret clause on the sale of arms to Abu Dhabi.
“What is in the agreement is what is in the joint declaration,” the official cited through the Twelfth Channel said, referring to last week’s announcement of the agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to identify diplomatic relations.
The comment follows a report that, as a component of the agreement, Israel gave the green light to the United States to sell F-35 stealth fighters to the United Arab Emirates. Prime Minister Netanyahu denied that the sale of the aircraft was part of the deal.
The Israel Parks and Nature Authority is undertaking the recovery and progression of Shivta National Park in the Negev Desert, near the border with Egypt.
Shivta is part of the UNESCO-recognized Frankincense Route and Negev Desert cities, along with Haluza, Avdat and Mamshit.
One of the main goals of modernization will be to explain how the other people of Shivta controlled the arid desert and exploited the water more than 2000 years ago.
During the first phase, conservation paintings will be held in an old residential building to tell the story of the city’s architecture, and in a water tank in the main square to illustrate the reason for the water.
The Colt Delegation House, a stone building south of the automobile park, built by archaeologists at New York University and the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem between 1934 and 1936, will be located on a front of the site.
Subsequently, paintings will be made on the two magnificent Byzantine-era churches, the North Square and other elements, adding the campsite. A step forward in interpretation will be taken to give visitors a greater life in what has been called the “Pompeya of the Holy Land”.
Shivta was founded around the 1st century BC and was home to a combined population of Romans and Nabataeans. It was abandoned, evidently without a fight, after the Muslim conquest and is well preserved.
– Sue Surkes
President Reuven Rivlin visits the Gaza border amid emerging tensions between Israel and the Hamas-led enclave, warns the terrorist organization to be careful what it wants.
The president’s arrests include the Erez border crossing and the sites where fires occurred through incendiary balloon devices introduced from the Gaza Strip.
“Terrorism that employs comets and incendiary balloons is terrorism like any other,” Rivlin said from his office. “We have nothing to oppose the other people living in Gaza. On the contrary, we need them to be able to live in peace and quiet and raise their children. But they’re being held through Hamas, who also thinks he’s got us. under his control.
He added: “Hamas will have to know that this is not a game. The time will come when they will have to decide, and if they need war, they will have war.”
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands – A UN-backed tribunal convicted a member of the Hezbollah terrorist and acquitted three others in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
The Special Court for Lebanon discovered salim Ayyash as a co-conspirator of five counts similar to his involvement in the suicide bombing. Hariri and 21 others were killed and 226 injured in a massive explosion outdoors at a beachfront hotel in Beirut on 14 February 2005.
“The trial room discovers Mr. Ayyash to blame beyond a moderate doubt as co-author of Rafik Hariri’s murder,” said David Re, president of the court.
However, after an investigation and trial that lasted several years, three other Hezbollah members are acquitted of all the fees they were also concerned about the Hariri murder that touched the Middle East.
– Agencies
Tahnoun bin Zayed, the UAE’s national security adviser, met with Mossad leader Yossi Cohen, said WAM, the official Emirati state news firm.
“His Highness praised the efforts of Mr. Yossi Cohen, who contributed to the good fortunes of the peace treaty between the United Arab Emirates and Israel,” the agency said.
According to the statement, the two discussed collaboration to combat the new coronavirus, as well as “opening new horizons of cooperation between the two countries in areas”.
– Aaron Boxerman
The LeIsraelí LeIserali National Fund Keren Kayemet will invest thousands of shekels in the coming month to create rest and well-being spaces in 24 hospitals.
The concept came from the tsar of the coronavirus, Professor Ronni Gamzu, and the Soroka Hospital in the southern city of Beersheba.
The hospitals on the list include Shaare Zedek and Hadassah Ein Karem in Jerusalem, Kaplan at Rehovot, Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, Ichilov and Asuta in Tel Aviv, Beilinson in Petah Tikva, Hillel Jaffe in Hadera, Laniado in Netanya, Ziv in Safed, Puria in Galilea, Soroka in Beersheba and Barzi
– Sue Surkes
Bank of Israel Governor Amir Yaron publishes revised expansion forecasts for 2020, warns that a worsening of the coronavirus pandemic or new restrictions will lead to even deeper contraction.
Yaron predicts that if the epidemic worsens drastically and there are no significant new restrictions, GDP will be reduced by 4.5% during the year.
However, if a lock is imposed in the fourth quarter, the central bank’s head expects GDP to contract by 7% by 2020.
CONCORD, N.H. – Amer Fakhoury, an American imprisoned for months in Lebanon and then released on charges of murder and torture of decades he denied, died, according to his family. He’s 57.
Fakhoury, a restaurateur in Dover, New Hampshire, died at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He was diagnosed with level four lymphoma while in prison.
He had visited his circle of relatives in Lebanon in September while in detention. The Lebanese government accused him of torturing criminals in the 1990s in a criminal career through the Israeli-backed army of southern Lebanon.
Fakhoury’s circle of relatives and lawyer stated that he was working in the former Khiam prison, but that he had no direct contact with the detainees and had never been involved in any interrogation or torture. They said he stopped him illegally.
In March, a ruling over ruled out the fees after U.S. officials worked to lose him. U.S. officials said Fakhoury’s arrest in September was due to the terrorist organization Hezbollah, which the southern Lebanese military had opposed in the conflict.
In a statement, Fakhoury’s circle of relatives said he tortured “under the hands of Hezbollah.”
“God enjoyed Amer Fakhoury so much that he took it out of the hands of these terrorists and took him to his circle of relatives in America to live his last days,” they say.
Fakhoury became a U.S. citizen last year. His lawyer and circle of relatives said he fled Lebanon in 2001 through Israel, finally to the United States, due to death threats he and many other SLA members won after Israel ended its 18-year profession in southern Lebanon in 2000.
– Agencies
Coronavirus tsar Ronni Gamzu says he opposes blocking measures that can damage the economy to combat the coronavirus pandemic, but says he will propose new restrictions if morbidity rates are high before next month’s main vacation.
“We all fully perceive the difficulty associated with the circle of family outings and meals,” Gamzu said in a briefing, according to news site Ynet. “At this time, it is too early to communicate the main points of the restrictions, but I can introduce greater restrictions on collection and the Settlement”
Devices with incendiary balloons introduced from the Gaza Strip have had 18 fires in southern Israel since morning, according to public broadcaster Kan.
LONDON – The World Health Organization says the world’s population lacks the point of coronavirus immunity needed to induce collective immunity, where other enough people would have antibodies to prevent spread.
Collective immunity is sometimes achieved through vaccination and scientists estimate that at least 70% of the population will have to have antibodies to prevent an epidemic. But some experts have warned that even if a part of the population is immune, there may be a protective effect.
WHO emergency chief, Dr Michael Ryan, largely refuted this theory today at a press convention, saying that we do not live “in the hope” of obtaining collective immunity.
“As a global population, we are far from the degrees of immunity needed to prevent transmission of this disease,” he says. “This is not a solution or a solution we are looking for.”
Most studies to date have indicated that between 10% and 20% of others have antibodies.
Dr Bruce Aylward, Senior Advisor to the Director-General of WHO, adds that any mass vaccination crusade with a COVID-19 vaccine would cover more than 50% of the world’s population.
“We don’t need to have a hard time,” he says. “It is necessary to plan the top policy and not be fooled by a dangerously exciting suggestion that [the threshold of collective immunity] could be low.”
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LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands – There is sufficient evidence to link two members of the terrorist organization Hezbollah to cell phones allegedly in the murder of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in 2005, foreign judges say as the verdicts of a UN-backed court read.
Special Court judges for Lebanon, however, say there is enough evidence to link two other suspects to the cellular network that prosecutors say were used to plan the massive suicide bombing in Beirut that killed Sunni billionaire Hariri.
The judges also say that there is no evidence linking Syria, the former army leader in Lebanon, or Hezbollah leaders to the attack.
The final verdicts will be delivered later in the day to a court just outside The Hague in the Netherlands, where the 4 alleged Hezbollah members are being prosecuted in absentia.
– AFP
The Gaza Strip power plant ceased operations this morning at 10 a.m., the Gaza Energy Authority announced.
The diesel-powered plant, which Israel has banned from entering the strip through the Kerem Shalom ad crossing due to the large number of incendiary devices carried by balloons and several rockets recently introduced through Groups in Gaza on Israeli territory.
Israel has tightened restrictions in Gaza in an attempt to pressure Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization that controls the coastal enclave, to repress balloon launchers.
Gazans live on low rations of electricity, about 12 hours a day. Without a power plant running, the daily electrical power source can drop for as little as 3 or 4 hours.
According to Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesman for the Hamas-led Ministry of Health, lack of strength can have serious repercussions on premature toddlers in day care, intensive care patients, and those in need of dialysis or emergency surgery.
– Aaron Boxerman
Israel and Ukraine are asking Israelis not to go to Ouman next month for the annual hah Hashana pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
“The epidemiological scenario in Ukraine and Israel, as in the rest of the world, unfortunately does not allow us to mark the holiday as the same as this year,” the countries said in a set issued through the Prime Minister’s Office.
He added: “We ask the pilgrims who make plans to participate in this year’s Rosh Hashanah festivities to avoid visiting Ouman because of the menacing epidemiological situation.”
Jerusalem and Kiev strain all Israelis who say the rules of social estrangement will be implemented at any public meeting.
“We look forward to perceiving and believing that next year we will be able to celebrate Rosh Hashaná, like other celebrations, in combination and without restrictions,” he said.
Coronavirus cases among Palestinians have reached a new record of 612 infections, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health.
East Jerusalem, which is part of a new center of the Palestinian coronavirus epidemic, has recorded 312 new cases, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Health, although there are considerations on the under-registration of infections.
Due to insufficient testing, 41% of tests in East Jerusalem tested positive last week, the Hebrew media reportedly. The Jerusalem Municipality sought to build by opening a new station in the Sheikh Jarrah community in East Jerusalem, led through the IDF Internal Front Command.
Another 140 new instances are registered in hebron governorate, which still has the number of active instances in the West Bank.
The biggest fear is the geographical spread of new cases of coronavirus. The earlier stages of the wave of moments in the West Bank have noticed that the vast majority of cases are concentrated in Hebron governorate, with a maximum of other regions having only single-digit increases.
However, over the next week, other governorates have begun reporting dozens of cases. Today, Nablus governorate registers 57 and Bethlehem Governorate 45, while the provinces of Ramallah and Al-Bireh record 40.
– Aaron Boxerman
The head of the Ministry of Defence’s Biological Research Institute said the purpose of the Ness Ziona-based laboratory is to produce an effective coronavirus vaccine, to be the first to expand it.
“I think our purpose is to be the first to bring a smart vaccine to the citizens of the State of Israel,” Shmuel Shapira told the Knesset Scientific and Technological Committee, according to the Ynet news website.
The institute announced earlier this month that it would begin human trials in mid-October for the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing.
“We hope the moment is over towards the end of the year,” Shapira says. “The third is much more confusing and requires more time.”
BERLIN – German and Israeli Air Force aircraft fly over the former Nazi concentration camp in Dachau in tribute to Jews and others killed there during the Holocaust.
Two Israeli F-16s and two German Eurofighters escort an Israeli Air Force Gulfstream G-550 that takes the commanders of the two air forces over the camp monument to the outskirts of Munich, while a third Eurofighter films the formation from the sky.
They also flew near Fuerstenfeldbruck airfield to pay tribute to the 11 Israeli athletes killed in the Munich bloodbath attack at the 1972 Summer Olympics.
Two athletes were killed and nine others were taken hostage through the Palestinian black September organization of the Olympic Village on September 5, 1972. In a failed rescue through German police, the other athletes, along with five of their captors and a German policeman, were delicate.
The Israeli aircraft is a component of a six F-16, two Gulfstream and two Boeing 707 source aircraft that arrived in Germany for two weeks of exercise.
Operating from a German airbase in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, they will conduct training with the German Air Force in the first week, and more Hungarian Air Force aircraft in the same week.
This is the first time that the Israeli Air Force has participated in such trainings in Germany. In total, about 180 Israeli workers participate.
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BERLIN – The German government is arresting a Syrian citizen suspected of belonging to two militant teams that fought against Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government at the start of the confrontation in Syria.
The suspect, named solely as Khaled A. for reasons of confidentiality, was arrested in the city of Potsdam, southwest Berlin, on club charges of a terrorist organization, war crimes and gun violations, prosecutors said in a statement.
A. is suspected of having been a member of Ahrar al-Tabqa from January to August 2013, documenting the expulsion of civilians into space with other militants. The organization, one of many insurgent teams that emerged from the Syrian confrontation, was founded in the northern city of Tabqa.
He is accused of later joining Major Ahrar al-Sham and acting as one of his spokesmen until at least October 2013.
Both teams sought to overthrow the Syrian government and update it with an Islamist system. They are foreign terrorist organizations across Germany.
Prosecutors say they say the suspect among the thousands of Syrians who applied for asylum in Germany since 2015.
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Defense Minister Benny Gantz warned that the proliferation of the F-35 fighter jet is “not smart for Israel” following reports that the United States is promoting the complex aircraft in the United Arab Emirates.
“It is smart for Israel for the plane to fly elsewhere. We want to communicate with Emirati, Americans and make sure our security interests are respected,” Gantz told reporters at a news conference.
Gantz criticizes the fact that he remained in the dark about the standardization agreement until it was announced last Thursday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israel Hayom newspaper that Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi had not been informed of the agreement to prevent you from disclosing the information.
“The Prime Minister informed me after the resolution taken, so from the beginning I couldn’t know what was going on,” Gantz says.
“I don’t think it was general that we hadn’t been updated. I know I’ve never revealed it in my life. When I need to do a briefing, I call them [journalists]. Leaks are everyone else’s game,” he added. he says.
– Judah Ari Gross
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands – The president of a UN-backed court in the Netherlands is beginning to issue verdicts in the trial in the absence of 4 members of the terrorist organization Hezbollah accused of being involved in the death of former Lebanese prime minister with a Rafik Hariri truck, saying that the evidence against them is “almost entirely circumstantial.”
The verdicts were delayed for nearly two weeks as a sign of respect for those who suffered another devastating explosion: the destruction of nearly 3,000 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in the port of Beirut. The August 4th explosion killed some 180 people, injured more than 6,000, left a quarter of a million homes in bad homes for life, and further plunged a country already shaken by economic and social unrest in the crisis.
Presiding Judge David Re asked for a minute’s silence to open the hearing in tribute to those who suffered the explosion and their families, as well as those who were left homeless by the harbor explosion.
He said the written sentence at the long-term trial has more than 2,600 pages with some 13,000 footnotes.
Outzing the complex political context of the assassination, Re says that in the months leading up to his death, Hariri was in favor of cutting off the influence of Syria and Hezbollah in Syria.
The judges “believed that Syria and Hezbollah would possibly have an explanation of the motive for Mr. Hariri and some of his political allies,” Re said. But he added that “there was no evidence” that the leaders of Hezbollah or Syria were concerned about the truck attack.
Guilty verdicts can exacerbate tensions in this small country. Hariri Lebanon’s top prominent Sunni politician at the time of his assassination on February 14, 2005, while Iran-backed Hezbollah is a Shia Muslim terrorist group.
The trial focused on the alleged role of 4 Hezbollah members in the suicide truck bombing that killed Hariri and injured 21 others and injured 226 people. Prosecutors largely based their argument on the knowledge of cell phones allegedly used by the conspirators to plan and execute the attack.
– Agencies