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BBC News, Rome The story of a boat that sank on Lake Maggiore on 28 May has elements of a spy novel. Four people tragically drowned on the picturesque and popular lake south of the Swiss Alps. One was a former agent from Israel's spy agency Mossad, two were Italian intelligence officers and the fourth victim was a Russian woman.

The other day I was thinking of a lingering question I had about the Erez tree harbinger. While I may not be assured of every single last word Jonathan Cahn says about the connections between Isaiah 9 and 9/11, I do believe the basic ones are plainly there. I've researched their background myself, so I'm convinced of that, and of the Isaiah9-9/11 connection's significance. The only harbinger that I didn't feel I'd looked into far enough was the Erez tree, though the evidence of the others I believed was so strong, that I haven't concerned about that. I'd partly looked...

A Palestinian truck bomber attacked a key border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel early Thursday morning, the Palestinian militant group Hamas said. Army Radio reports that there were no injuries in the explosion at the Erez crossing on the northern end of the Gaza-Israel border. A spokesman for the Islamic Jihad group said they carried out the attack in cooperation with the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's more secular Fatah faction. Jihad described the attack as a successful martyrdom operation. ~ snip

Excerpt - JERUSALEM: Israel's defense minister has ordered the army to allow an unspecified number of Palestinians fleeing the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to enter Israel, the Defense Ministry announced Wednesday. Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed officials to let in "humanitarian cases," according to the announcement. That apparently meant people needing urgent medical treatment. ~ snip ~

GAZA, June 19 (Reuters) - Israeli tanks crossed into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday near a key crossing point where some 150 Palestinians trying to flee the enclave have been trapped, witnesses said. The Israeli army had no immediate comment on the operation near Erez Crossing.

A huge explosion was heard at the Erez crossing near the Gaza Strip when a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up. Magen David Adom personnel at the scene of the explosion said they have treated four injured; one critically, one moderately, and two lightly. The two lightly injured were transported to the Barzilai hospital in Ashkelon, and the seriously injured were flown by helicopter to the Soroka hospital in Beer Sheva. Fatah and Hamas jointly claimed responsibility for the attack. Fadi Al-Amoudi, 22, from Beit Lahiyah, blew himself up near the Magen 12 terminal, an army position adjacent to the...

On Tuesday afternoon, Palestinian workers and Israelis were evacuated from the Erez industrial zone in the northern Gaza following intelligence reports of possible terror attacks. Security forces are combing the area. Last Friday, the zone was closed owing to similar warnings. Earlier, a weapons smuggling tunnel was discovered between Egypt and the Gaza Strip by soldiers and blown up, the army said. The tunnel was 8 meters underground and 30 meters long. Its opening was in an empty storeroom. This is the second such tunnel found this week, the previous one 600 meters long, and the seventh such tunnel to...

Using jeeps disguised to look like IDF vehicles and rigged with explosives, Palestinians launched an attack on Israeli positions around the Erez Crossing at Gaza on Saturday. No Israelis were injured, but six Palestinians were killed and at least 15 wounded. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah's Al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it a joint "self-sacrifice operation" in a message posted on the Hamas Web site. At about 10 AM Saturday morning, a Palestinian taxi rigged with explosives blew up near an IDF post located at the edge of the entrance to the Erez industrial zone and...

Arab terrorists intended on launching a Qassam rocket at an IDF position at Erez Crossing, Gaza. Due to the fact it was such a close range, they missed their target, instead hitting a PLO "police" position near the Erez Crossing. Three Arab "policeman" were killed, one was injured. Erez Crossing, Gaza, is where Palestinian Authority Arabs have to go through in order to get to Israel for work.

Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Amir Zimmerman, 25, of Kfar Monash in Emek Hefer, was killed in a battle with two Fatah gunmen who infiltrated the Erez industrial zone in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday morning. The gunmen, armed with Kalashnikov rifles and grenades, were shot and killed shortly after. Zimmerman will be buried Friday at 1 p.m. in the military section of the Kfar Monash Cemetery. Erez Battalion commander Lt.-Col. Yossi Hadad told The Jerusalem Post that the terrorists either infiltrated the industrial zone via a tunnel linked to a sewerage manhole or climbed over the fence. "Both options are being...

Two Palestinian gunmen killed an Israeli at an industrial zone on the Gaza Strip border before being shot dead by Israeli security personnel. The zone is a rare example of Israeli-Palestinian cooperation amid conflict. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed group in Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, claimed responsibility for what it called a "martyrdom operation" at the Erez border crossing. At least two other Israelis were wounded in the early morning clash, an Israeli security source said. Since a woman suicide bomber from the Islamic group Hamas killed four people at Erez last month, the Israeli military has stepped...

A female suicide bomber blew herself up early Wednesday at one of the entrances to Gaza Strip's main Erez crossing terminal to Israel, killing four Israelis and injuring 12, five of them in critical condition. The sharp explosion ripped through a building at the terminal entrance to the Gaza Strip Wednesday. A senior Fatah official said the object of the bombing was to prompt Israel to declare a closure over the Gaza Strip and cut off access to jobs within Israel, measures that act to boost grass-roots Palestinian support for Hamas and other militant movements. The terminal, where thousands...

IDF soldiers shot and killed an armed Palestinian terrorist wearing an IDF uniform Monday morning after he was spotted approaching an IDF position near the Erez crossing. The army said the soldiers, who spotted the armed gunman in a restricted area near the border fence that encompasses Israeli settlements, fired shots at him. The gunmen returned fire. The IDF Spokesman said that the soldiers found a Kalashnikov rifle and ammunition clips near the man's body. Later Monday, a bomb was detonated near troops deployed at the Erez crossing. Overnight Sunday, six mortar shells were fired at an Israeli settlement in...