Jotam Confino
Middle East Correspondent at Freelance
Middle East correspondent. Author of Netanyahu’s Israel: Rise of the Far-Right. Work in: @telegraph @BBCWorld @CBSNews @usatoday [email protected]
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Jotam Confino
Credit: X/@sentdefenderIsrael’s international airport was hit by a ballistic missile from Yemen on Sunday morning, leaving six people wounded. Images of the rare strike showed a projectile falling by a road near a Terminal 3 car park, leaving a giant crater and a plume of smoke visible from a passenger terminal. The IDF said that the air defence system made “several attempts” to intercept the missile launched from Yemen but failed to do so.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Jotam Confino
Israel’s “largest ever” wildfires are rapidly closing in on Jerusalem, prompting Benjamin Netanyahu to declare a national emergency and the country’s foreign minister to call for international assistance. Firefighters and the Israeli military continued to battle the inferno raging on the outskirts of the city on Thursday morning, with fire crews working almost without a break for more than 24 hours.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Jotam Confino
Israel's "largest ever" wildfires are rapidly closing in on Jerusalem, prompting Benjamin Netanyahu to declare a national emergency and the foreign minister to call for international assistance. Firefighters and the Israeli military continued to battle the inferno raging on the outskirts of the city on Thursday morning, with fire crews had working almost without a break for over 24 hours.
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2 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Jotam Confino
Israel carried out air strikes on an “extremist group” in Syria that was preparing to attack a Druze community on the outskirts of Damascus, Benjamin Netanyahu said. The Israeli prime minister said Wednesday’s “warning operation” was meant to send a “serious message” to Syria’s new leadership that Israel, which has a sizeable Druze population, would not allow the minority to be targeted.
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2 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Jotam Confino
Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December, Israel has launched hundreds of attacks across Syria aimed at destroying the Assad regime's stockpile of military hardware and chemical weapons to prevent them falling into the hands of the country's new leadership. The Israeli military has also taken control of Syria's Mount Meron, and sent troops to occupy a buffer zone established in 1974 separating the two countries.
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