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In Brief: Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander visits Syria

Posted 26 September, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Middle East
IRGC Parade in Tehran. Image Credit: YPA, CC-BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ elite Quds Force, Esmail Ghaani, visited Syria last week to oversee a joint military drill, according to Iranian media reports. Ghaani, who was appointed following a US drone strike against his predecessor, Qassem Soleimani, in 2020, reportedly…

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In Brief: Eight Palestinian students arrested on terror charges

Posted 26 September, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Hamas, Incitement, Palestinian Territories
Palestinian militant with rifle > atphalix, CC BY SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli security forces on Sunday arrested eight Palestinian students suspected of planning an imminent terror attack. The students, from Birzeit University near Ramallah, were arrested following an investigation into Hamas cells in Palestinian education institutions, the IDF said. The students were allegedly recruited by Hamas…

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In Brief: Palestinian terrorists better armed than PA security forces

Posted 18 September, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Palestinian Territories
Children at PIJ summer camp in Khan Younis > SAID KHATIB / AFP, via Times of Israel The UN's special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Tor Wennesland, reported that terror groups in the West Bank are currently better armed than the Palestinian Authority security forces. He told the World Summit of Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya that…

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In Brief: Israeli man seriously injured in West Bank terror shooting

Posted 18 July, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
MDA armoured ambulance > Tewfik, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons An Israeli man was shot and seriously wounded in a terror shooting attack in the West Bank on Sunday morning. His two daughters were also lightly hurt in the attack. According to the IDF, a Palestinian gunman opened fire from a passing vehicle at the victim’s car…

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Luciana Berger joins LFI parliamentary candidates delegation in meeting President Herzog

Posted 18 July, 2023 in Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Politics, Labour Party, Middle East, News, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
LFI PPC delegation meets President Herzog The first Labour Friends of Israel delegation of prospective parliamentary candidates (PPCs) since 2014 last week met with the Israeli president, Isaac Herzog. What happened The delegation, led by LFI chair Steve McCabe MP and joined by Luciana Berger – who rejoined the Labour party in February this year - included…

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Yvette Cooper sets out plans to proscribe Iranian Revolutionary Guards

Posted 17 July, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Labour Party, News
Shadow Home Secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter Yvette Cooper MP Shadow Home Secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter Yvette Cooper MP has reiterated Labour's intention to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation should it come to government after the next election. In a speech today at the Royal United Services Institute, Yvette set…

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David Lammy sets out Labour’s concerns on IRGC and Iran’s nuclear programme

Posted 6 July, 2023 in Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Labour Party, Middle East, News
Shadow Foreign Secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter David Lammy MP In his response to this afternoon's statement on Iran, Shadow Foreign Secretary and LFI parliamentary supporter David Lammy MP made clear that the government must go further to deal with the threats posed to the UK and Israel by the Iranian regime. Lammy set out the case…

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In Brief: Palestinian Islamic Jihad chief boasts of presence in West Bank

Posted 4 July, 2023 in Hamas, Iran, Israel, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Ziyad al-Nakhleh > Tasnim News Agency, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed terror group based in Gaza, has boasted in an interview that his group was working to establish cells of fighters in the West Bank. In an interview released on Saturday, Ziad Nakhaleh said that Iran’s head of…

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In Brief: Seven hurt in car ramming Palestinian terror attack in Tel Aviv

Posted 4 July, 2023 in Analysis, Antisemitism, Coexistence, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
MDA armoured ambulance > Tewfik, CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons Israeli medics are responding to reports of a car-ramming attack in Tel Aviv on Tuesday afternoon. The attack took place on Pinkhas Rosen Street in the northeast of the city, in the residential neighbourhood of Neve Dan. Magen David Adom, Israel’s emergency ambulance service, said its medics…

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Analysis: Israel launches largest West Bank counter-terror operation in two decades

Posted 4 July, 2023 in Analysis, Hamas, Incitement, Israel, Israeli Politics, Middle East, Palestinian Territories, Peace process
Israeli troops Jenin in 2002 > IDF Spokesperson's Unit / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Israeli forces launched the largest counter-terror operation in the West Bank in twenty years yesterday as they seek to counter terrorist activity in Jenin. What happened Starting on Monday, the IDF is targeting armed groups in the city of Jenin in…

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