PreOccupied Territory The News In Advance. Barely.

Jerusalem, October 13 – Few police forces must consistently straddle the line between civilian law enforcement and defense against external terrorist threats as Israel’s does, challenging them to develop methods to effectively avoid all potential incidents taking place at a ...

Ramat Hasharon, Israel, October 6 – Tensions over a proposed increase in military spending as part of the 2015 government budget have forced the Ministry of Defense and Israel Defense Force to seek revenue outside the standard military budget, leading ...

Gaza City, September 30 – The bevy of supply restrictions facing residents of this coastal territory has taken their toll on various civil services, including paramedics, who, in the absence of dummies, must now resort to injuring people in order ...

Tel Aviv, September 20 – The congestion and delays inherent in the system of tunnels connecting Manhattan with New Jersey and the outer boros of New York lies at the center of a new Israeli strategy for neutralizing the threat of ...

Tel Aviv, September 14 – A letter from a group of disgruntled intelligence corps reservists refusing further participation in duties that they claim treat Palestinians with unnecessary harshness has prompted a public outcry and caused the Israeli military to call ...

Jerusalem, September 7 – Israel’s High Court of Justice approved a draft law intended to impose harsher penalties on defendants convicted of terrorist activity, a bill that would condemn them to moderating the insipid, ignorant, spammy, or downright incomprehensible comments ...

Tel Aviv, September 1 – Casualty figures from the latest round of violence between Hamas and Israel have led the United Nations to impose oversight on Israeli military targeting systems, requiring the latter to have a feature that whenever it ...

Tel Aviv, August 26 – Officials in Israel’s security apparatus are noting that in the ongoing conflict with Palestinian terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip, the Unpopular Front for the Liberation of Palestine has been silent. While Hamas, Islamic Jihad, ...

Gaza City, Gaza Strip, August 20 – A Fajr-5 missile struck the Mediterranean Sea off Tel Aviv today, in an attack Hamas says was aimed at Jews living in the water. It is but the latest move by the militant ...

Washington, DC, August 16 – President Obama took the case for a limited strike against ISIS targets to Congress this week, arguing that a contentious, politically fraught process an and uncertain outcome were the only way to ensure that no ...