The Times of Israel published Saturday’s occasions as they unfolded.
Qatar’s envoy to the Gaza Strip leaves palestinian enclave over Erez border crossing with Israel, according to local reports.
A social media video shows Mohammed al-Emadi’s convoy in his towards Erez.
Al-Emadi arrived in Gaza before this week, bringing cash to the other 2 million people in the gang and seeking to negotiate a ceasefire.
His journey to Gaza comes amid increased tension between Israel and Hamas-led territory, with Palestinians in Gaza flying waves of incendiary balloons across the border in recent weeks, causing wildfires in southern Israel. There were also occasional rocket fire. The Israel Defense Forces responded to violence with nightly retaliatory movements opposed to Hamas’ objectives.
According to the Walla news site, Al-Emadi spoke today with Israeli security officials about Hamas offers to calm the tensions with Israel.
So today, there have been 23 fires in southern Israel caused by incendiary balloon devices introduced from Gaza, according to Hebrew media.
— Or Heller אור הלר (@OrHeller) August 29, 2020
The Al asked Saudi Arabia to use its airspace when one of its aircraft makes israel’s first passenger flight to the United Arab Emirates on Monday, following the agreement of the countries to normalize relations, according to the Ynet news website.
The request was transmitted on behalf of El Al through the National Security Council and other unspecified mediators, according to the report.
The Saudis have still responded.
ISTANBUL – Turkey is launching new army maneuvers in the Mediterranean that are expected to last two weeks as tensions between Ankara and Athens have rise over maritime borders and fuel drilling rights.
The dispute has rekindled the long-term between Greece and Turkey, with the two neighbors conducting rival naval exercises.
In a message transmitted by NAVTEX, the maritime navigation system by foreign telex, Turkey says it will hold “shooting exercises” until 11 September in a domain off the city of Anamur, in southern Turkey, north of the island of Cyprus.
Ankara had already announced on Thursday that military exercises would take place on Tuesday and Wednesday in a zone further east.
In a sign of the volatile situation, the Turkish Defense Ministry said warplanes intercepted six Greek aircraft approaching a domain where a Turkish search vessel was deployed on Thursday, forcing them to turn around.
It was the deployment of the Turkish research vessel Oruc Reis in Greek waters on 10 August that caused the existing surge of tension.
The European Union warned Turkey that it could face new sanctions, adding difficult economic measures, unless progress is made to reduce emerging tensions.
Turkey angrily warning.
Other irritating factors have marred ties between Ankara and Athens, the factor of migrants moving from Turkey to Greece, Turkey’s conversion of some Byzantine churches and cathedrals into mosques, and Greece’s goal of extending its territorial waters to 12 nautical miles from the six existing ones.
– AFP
Police have closed several roads in Jerusalem around Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s official advance of another night of protests opposed to the prime minister.
This will be the 11th consecutive week that demonstrations over Netanyahu’s indictment on corruption charges and handling of the coronavirus pandemic will be held there.
The protests are also expected to take place near Netanyahu’s home in the coastal city of Caesarea and at overpasses and road crossings throughout Israel.
Prior to the weekly open-air anti-Netanyahu demonstration at the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem, police said there had been calls on social media over clashes with police officers during the demonstration.
“The Israeli police are aware of the various calls of extremists on social media to come and confront the police and turn the demonstration into an insurrection and physically injure police officers,” police said in a subpoena across Channel 12. “We call upon those who take part in the demonstration to chorus manifestations of violence and provocation.”
Protest organization Black Flag rejects the police and calls it “ridiculous” and accuses Jerusalem’s police forces of not resisting pressure from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Public Security Minister Amir Ohana.
“We are here to explain that there are no extremist voices asking [people] to harm the police or the riots. There are voices calling for Netanyahu’s removal as prime minister. Israeli police are beginning to protect the protesters and not the corrupt,” he added. said the organization.
Some protesters have already begun to gather at the Prime Minister and small demonstrations opposed to Netanyahu are taking up positions in overpasses and road crossings throughout Israel.
Qatar’s envoy, Mohammad al-Emadi, is back in southern Gaza, confirms al-Resalah, linked to Hamas, after a fast at the Erez border crossing.
His return to the Hamas-led enclave comes after he reportedly met with Israeli security officials to discuss the terrorist group’s offers to end the recent violence emanating from the Gaza Strip.
Anti-Netanyahu protesters say a guy brandished a gun while driving them at a demonstration in Herzliya, according to Hebrew media.
– Bar Peleg (@bar_peleg) 29 August 2020
Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi welcomes the abolition by the UAE of a law boycotting industry and monetary agreements between Israel and the United Arab Emirates on the basis of the agreement between countries to normalize diplomatic relations.
“A vital step for genuine peace, which will produce economic and publicity achievements for both peoples,” Ashkenazi said in a quoted through the Hebrew media.
He also praised the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “which for two decades worked in secret and established the diplomatic infrastructure of what we are now seeing.”
Hezbollah-affiliated broadcaster Al-Mayadeen transmits photographs showing what appears to be a doll of an IDF soldier displaced through a robot device along the border fence between Israel and Lebanon.
The video shows the moving doll before being enveloped by smoke from smoke grenades thrown from the Israeli side of the fence, while a pair of IDF tanks are parked next door.
Al-Mayadeen claims that the style was an Israeli ploy to make Hezbollah a genuine target.
Hezbollah has promised to avenge the death of one of its fighters, killed in an airstrike on the outskirts of Damascus on 20 July attributed to Israel, exacerbating tensions along the border.
On Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said Hezbollah snipers fired on Israeli troops operating near an Israeli network along the border, prompting Israeli airstrikes on various posts in the terrorist group.
– August 29, @AlMayadeenNews 2020
Another 36 of the new coronavirus has been detected in the Gaza Strip, reports the Hamas-led Gaza Ministry of Health.
Gaza has 182 active infections. While 37 cases were put under control when they arrived in the Gaza Strip at designated quarantine centres, the remaining 145 infections were discovered in residential spaces in the following week.
Hamas fitness officials have warned that if the number of active infections exceeds 2000, the number of cases can overcome the fragile fitness formula of the coastal enclave, which has already been weakened through repeated wars and 15 years of Israeli-Egyptian blockade. The blockade aims to prevent weapons from reaching Gaza and being used through local terrorist groups, of which Hamas is the largest.
The Hamas Interior Ministry lasted a total of 48 overtime hours. The closure was announced Monday night, when the first cases were discovered in residential areas.
– Aaron Boxerman
Thousands of anti-Netanyahu protesters march down Jerusalem’s Jaffa Street toward the city centre, asking the prime minister to resign his corruption charges.
Protesters began marching from the Settlement Bridge at the front to the capital and headed to the Prime Minister’s apartment for the weekly rally.
Police said they allowed the march to take a stand “even if it was not coordinated as needed.”
“In accordance with a situational assessment conducted Thursday the police prepared barricades along the route of the march to keep the protesters’s safe,” a police statement says, adding light rail service was halted as the march progressed along the train line on Jaffa Street.
New figures from the Ministry of Health show that 1337 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Shabbat, bringing the number of cases from the start of the pandemic to 113337.
The ministry reports 12 more deaths, bringing the national number to 906.
Of the 20,331 active cases, another 438 people are in severe condition, and 116 are under-ventilated. Another 191 are in a moderate state and the rest have mild or nonexistent symptoms.
The ministry says 23,263 tests were conducted yesterday.
Prime Minister Netanyahu also welcomes the United Arab Emirates’ resolve to end its economic boycott of Israel after countries agreed to normalize diplomatic relations.
“This is a step to sell peace and prosperity in the region,” he said in a statement.
A few dozen members of the Bratslav Hasidic Sect demonstrate on Strauss Street in Jerusalem after Ukraine announced its borders to foreigners in November, preventing Israeli pilgrims from traveling to Ouman for Rosh Hashanah.
Protesters are expected to march towards Prime Minister Netanyahu’s official in Jerusalem, where a giant demonstration against the prime minister is taking place.
Braztlav Hasidim has fulminantly opposed Netanyahu after Ukraine’s decision, promising never to return to him again.
Rabbi Najman of Bratslav, the founder of the sect, is in Uman.
– עקיבא Akiva Weisz (@AkivaWeisz) 29 August 2020
In what appears to be the largest anti-Netanyahu demonstration in Jerusalem to date, thousands of protesters marching in the city centre joined the grand demonstration at the prime minister’s residence.
Protesters are crammed into Paris Square and on the streets of Keren Hayessod and Agron. Protesters bring symptoms that say “Enough division!” and “it’s not political, it’s just criminal.”
Although Jerusalem police have announced in the past that they will enforce noise regulations starting at 9:30 p.m., it doesn’t look like they’re doing so.
– Aaron Boxerman
Israelis are holding small demonstrations in 17 cities around the world in solidarity with protests in Israel that oppose Prime Minister Netanyahu, public broadcaster Kan reports.
Among the sites where Israelis demonstrate is the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin and the open-air Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York.
– 29 August 2020 (@kann_news)
Israel is expected to designate the United Arab Emirates as a “green” country, the news said. Walla quotes senior officials concerned about the case, which means that travelers there won’t have to be quarantined on arrival.
Israel’s first flight to the United Arab Emirates will depart on Monday, following the agreement between countries to normalize relations. A U.S. delegation led by Chief White House Adviser Jared Kushner and an Israeli delegation led by national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat will be on the flight.
Prime Minister Netanyahu announces the formation of a ministerial team to read on the option of allowing pilgrims to go to Ouman for the feast of Rosh Hashanah, amid Bratslav Hasidim’s anger against the prime minister after Ukraine banned foreign citizens from entering the country in September.
A member of the Prime Minister’s Office said the team would “assess the option of a draft [proposal] to travel to Ulaman, under the strict restrictions of the Ukrainian authorities.”
The team will be led by Likud Minister Ze’ev Elkin and will come with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi, Interior Minister Aryeh Deri and Minister of Science Izhar Shay.
He said the resolution to appoint Elkin to head the committee was taken in coordination with Edelstein and the tsar of the coronavirus, Professor Ronni Gamzu, who strongly opposed the pilgrimage, warning that returning travellers can propagate COVID-19.
Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox allies have angered Gamzu over his opposition to the robberies, and Health Minister Yaakov Litzman asked him to resign. The Jasidic sect Bratzlav, whose burial position of the founder, Rabbi Nachman, is in Faced, has vowed never to return to Netanyahu.
An organization of Hasidic Jews did not allow the Ukrainian city of Ouman for Rosh Hashanah to register for the open-air anti-Netanyahu demonstration in the prime minister’s Jerusalem apartment.
Some of them sing “Netanyahu, resign.”
– 29 August 2020 (@kann_news)
Police report two arrests of the protest opposed to Prime Minister Netanyahu outdoors from his official apartment in Jerusalem.
Police said one user was arrested for disturbing public order and the other for allegedly throwing a bottle at police, according to public broadcaster Kan.
Hasidic Jews protesting against Ukraine’s ban on hajj to Ulaan, which is now being demonstrated in Jerusalem at the intersection of Jaffa and King George streets, blocking tram tracks.
The video shows police officers to transparent the organization of the tracks.
קרדיט צילום: ‘הקיצונים pic.twitter.com/Jn2012XkaZ
– Bar Peleg (@bar_peleg) 29 August 2020
Several opposition lawmakers criticize Prime Minister Netanyahu’s resolve to appoint a ministerial team that allows Israelis to travel to Uman for Rosh Hashanah.
Ukraine banned foreign nationals from entering the country in September, which prevented pilgrims from arriving in Ouman, and the crownvirus tsar, Ronni Gamzu, called for the suspension of flights, infuriating Netanyahu’s ultra-Orthodox political allies.
“Netanyau proves once again that he cares about Israeli citizens and works to defeat the coronavirus, cares about ultra-Orthodox parties and acts within the interests of the coalition,” said MP Avigdor Liberman, leader of the right-wing lay party. Yisrael Beytenu wrote on Twitter.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid, a critic of the ultra-Orthodox partners, also criticized the decision.
“There is no equipment for a team of ministers for the OumanArray factor … it only takes a general government to make a resolution in accordance with the recommendations of pro leaders and face the consequences,” tweeted Lapid, who heads the Yesh. Atid’s party.
He added: “It’s not political, [you] bunch of cowards, it’s health.”
After showing unusually moderate behavior in tonight’s anti-Netanyahu demonstration in front of the prime minister in Jerusalem, police announced that they were looking to open the streets to traffic and called on protesters to leave the road and go out on the sidewalk.
Protesters remain in the streets and shout “you will not be chief of police” to Jerusalem police commander Doron Yedid, who will run wide for the post of commissioner.
Thousands of protesters in Paris Square
– Anat Peled
The IDF arrested tonight a suspect who entered Israel from Lebanon, according to the army.
The suspect was nabbed immediately after entering Israel and was returned to Lebanon after being questioned, according to the IDF.
It’s not given about the identity of the person.
The incident comes amid increased tension on the border between Israel and the terrorist group Hezbollah. There have also been several recent cases of migrants seeking to enter Israel Lebanon.
Prime Minister Netanyahu will meet at 12:30 p.m. with senior U.S. President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, Jared Kushner, and national security adviser Robert O’Brien, at his jerusalem official, according to his office.
Police appear to need to drive anti-Netanyahu protesters off the streets outside the prime minister’s apartment in Jerusalem, warning that those remaining on the road will be fined.
Police opened Agron Street to traffic, but many protesters sat on the street by Paris Square.
Officers now enter the protesters’ seat.
– Anat Peled
Police are now an anti-Netanyahu protester on the streets of Jerusalem by using or escorting them. «
The police seem to be more measured than the usual as they do as they clear the demonstration.
– Anat Peled
The police have finished dispersing the demonstration in Jerusalem, largely without violence, it seems.
At a press conference at the end of the demonstration, police officers told reporters that protesters had generally heard police commands from the march and demonstration and at 11 p.m. they stopped making noise according to court decisions, so that the police would not have to use force.
A police officer said “a small number” of protesters were arrested, did not have an exact number.
New figures from the Ministry of Health show that 1337 new cases of coronavirus were recorded in Shabbat, bringing the number of cases from the start of the pandemic to 113337.
The ministry reported 12 more deaths, bringing the national death toll to 906.
Of the 20,331 active cases, another 438 people are in severe condition, and 116 are under-ventilated. Another 191 are in a moderate state and the rest have mild or nonexistent symptoms.
The ministry says 23,263 tests were conducted yesterday.