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(AFP) — The blue and white Israeli flag flew on official buildings in Austria on Friday in a sign of “solidarity” with the Jewish state, Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said. “I condemn with the utmost firmness the attacks against Israel from the Gaza Strip,” the conservative leader said a statement sent to AFP. “Israel has the right to defend itself against these attacks. To show our solidarity … we have put up the Israeli flag,” on the chancellery and the foreign ministry, the statement added. “Nothing justifies the more than 1,000 rockets that Hamas and other terrorist groups have fired up...

UPDATED: Israeli Flag Flown on Slovenian Govt Building in Show of Solidarity, Against President's Wishes By STA, 14 May 2021, 17:55 PM Politics Updated at 19:50 with news of the President's disapproval, and gain at 20:30 with news of the protest STA, 14 May 2021 - An Israeli flag has been hoisted along the Slovenian and EU flags on the Slovenian government building as an expression of solidarity with Israel amidst an escalating conflict with armed Palestinian groups. "We condemn the terrorist attacks, and we stand by Israel," says a post on the government's official Twitter account, where photos of...

Israel gave an hour warning and then destroyed the offices of Al Jazeera and Associated Press. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An Israeli airstrike on Saturday targeted and destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City that housed offices of The Associated Press and other media outlets. Hours later, Israel bombed the home of Khalil al-Hayeh, a top leader of Gaza’s ruling militant Hamas group. The Israeli military said Al-Hayeh’s home served as part of what it said was the militant group’s “terrorist infrastructure.” Al-Hayeh is a senior figure in the Hamas political leadership in Gaza, and the attack marked...

Israel is on the brink of war with the terrorist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. This past week, Hamas launched more than 1,600 rockets into Israel — most of which got intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome — after a violent confrontation between Israeli police and Palestinian rioters at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the Temple Mount, near the third-holiest site in Islam. The rioters had protested the eviction of Palestinians who have not paid rent for living on land allegedly owned by Israelis. The riot broke out just before Israel’s Supreme Court could decide the issue. Hamas has claimed...

May 15, 2021 (@haggai_segal) Tweeted: The "press offices" building that was destroyed today in Gaza housed Hamas intelligence on most of its floors. Instead of complaining to the IDF, which collapsed this wasp nest (with generous warning to tenants), the Israeli press should wonder how it is that the AP operated there for years in conjunction with Hamas and in fact allowed the forbidden organization to use it as a human shield

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wrote on Twitter that she "condemns arbitrary attacks by Hamas against Israel." Josep Borrell, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, said Thursday he had "confirmed EU support for Israel's security and condemned Hamas' arbitrary firing of rockets" in a conversation with Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi. French President Emmanuel Macron also expressed sympathy with the victims of attacks by Hamas and other terrorist groups in talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Macron has said Israel had the right to defend itself.