(Worthy News) –
Four Palestinians were killed by security forces over the weekend as violence escalated in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
A Border Police officer was moderately wounded when a rioter stabbed him in the shoulder outside of Ramallah.
Riots have broken out every day since US President Donald Trump declared on December 6 that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]
(Worthy News) –
Four Palestinians were killed by security forces over the weekend as violence escalated in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
A Border Police officer was moderately wounded when a rioter stabbed him in the shoulder outside of Ramallah.
Riots have broken out every day since US President Donald Trump declared on December 6 that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital. [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]
(Worthy News) – Following the demand of Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, the leaders of the coalition parties on Sunday evening approved the Yisrael Beytenu party’s bill mandating the death penalty for terrorists.
The bill will be brought to a preliminary vote in the Knesset plenum.
MK Robert Ilatov, Yisrael Beytenu Parliamentary Group Chairman, said, “Today is a historic day in the State of Israel. After years in which the Yisrael Beytenu party has been promoting the death penalty for terrorists and after it was rejected by the Knesset and the government, today the death penalty bill for terrorists has finally been approved by the coalition leaders’ forum.” [ Source: Arutz Sheva (Read More…) ]
(Worthy News) – The United Nations Security Council will vote Monday on a draft resolution that would reject US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, diplomats said.
Egypt on Sunday requested the vote for the next day. On Saturday, it presented the measure that is likely to be vetoed by the United States.
The one-page text, seen by the AFP news agency, does not specifically mention the US or Trump. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]
(Worthy News) – A delegation of church leaders from Jerusalem who met with Jordanian King Abdullah II reiterated their opposition to US recognition of the city as the capital of Israel and censured “attempts to Judaize” it, Jordanian state media said Sunday.
Abdullah convened with Christian clerics and dignitaries from Jordan and Jerusalem ahead of the upcoming Christmas and New Year’s celebrations.
Abdullah, as Jordanian head of state, is considered custodian of Jerusalem’s Muslim and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]
(Worthy News) – In its determination to secure a nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration derailed an ambitious law enforcement campaign targeting drug trafficking by the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, even as it was funneling cocaine into the United States, according to a POLITICO investigation.
The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.
Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah’s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies. [ Source: Politico (Read More…) ]
(Worthy News) – Rocket warning sirens were heard in the Gaza periphery early Monday morning, hours after a rocket fired by a terrorist group struck next to a home in an Israeli community north of the coastal enclave, causing damage but no injuries.
Three sirens were activated in the Hof Ashkelon regional council north of the Strip, sending frightened residents running to shelters.
The army said it was looking into whether the sirens were caused by rocket fire or, as has also been the case on a number of occasions in recent days, false alarms. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]
(Worthy News) – Fusion GPS, the producer of the infamous Trump dossier, is fending off in court three of Russia’s richest oligarchs by painting them as corrupt bankers in bed with President Vladimir Putin.
The three primary investors in Moscow’s Alfa Bank — Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and German Khan — filed a libel lawsuit against Fusion in October. Fusion’s dossier, written by former British spy Christopher Steele, says two of them engineered cash bribes to Mr. Putin. The dossier also implies that the bank colluded with Mr. Putin to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election by hacking Democratic Party computers.
The lawsuit describes the three billionaires as international businessmen who became “collateral damage” in Fusion’s war to destroy the Donald Trump campaign. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]
(Worthy News) – Two suicide bombers attacked a church in Pakistan where hundreds of worshippers were attending service ahead of Christmas, killing at least nine people and injuring dozens of others, officials said.
One of the suicide bombers was shot dead outside Bethel Memorial Methodist Church in Quetta, but the other assailant made it to the church’s entrance hall as Sunday services opened, said Sarfaraz Bugti, home minister for the southwestern Baluchistan province. The gunman — who didn’t gain access to the main building — opened fire at the churchgoers before detonating his explosive vest.
“There were nearly 400 people inside the church, but the attackers couldn’t get inside the services,” provincial police chief Moazzam Jah told Reuters. “We killed one of them, and the other one exploded himself after police wounded him,” he said. [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]
(Worthy News) – Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked President Trump in a phone call Sunday for U.S. intelligence agencies providing a warning that thwarted a major terrorist plot in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The White House said information that the United States provided enabled Russian authorities to capture the terrorists “just prior to an attack that could have killed large numbers of people.”
No Russian lives were lost, and the would-be terrorist attackers were caught and now are incarcerated, the statement said. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]