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Israel shoots down Hezbollah drones over Mediterranean
The Israeli military on Saturday said it shot down three unmanned aircraft launched by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah heading toward an area where an Israeli gas platform was recently installed in the Mediterranean Sea.
As Israel heads back to elections, Lapid stakes out vision
Israel's parliament voted Thursday to dissolve itself, triggering the country's fifth election in just over three years and thrusting veteran politician Yair Lapid into the role of interim prime minister as he tries to persuade a deeply polarized nation to embrace his centrist vision.
Iranian hitmen planned ‘two-stage attack’ on Israelis
Members of an Iranian team, caught on June 17 in Istanbul, were going to implement a two-stage plan to attack and kidnap Israeli diplomats and tourists, the daily Milliyet has reported.
Israel lowers Türkiye travel warning after ’attacks thwarted’
Israel's National Security Council on June 28 lowered its travel warning for Istanbul from the highest level, after the government said Iranian assassination plots targeting Israelis in the city had been thwarted.
Turkey’s opposition promises to target Israel, Saudi Arabia & Greece
CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu said Saudi Arabia & Israel would be made to pay for their actions & that a reckoning awaited Greece
Rich heritage buried under impoverished Gaza Strip
While workers labored on a large construction site in the Gaza Strip, a security guard noticed a strange piece of stone sticking out of the earth.
"I thought it was a tunnel," said Ahmad, the young guard, referring to secret passages dug by the Islamist group Hamas to help it battle Israel.
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CHP leader vows to reopen Khashoggi case if party comes to power
Main opposition Republican People's Party leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu has vowed that if his party comes to power in the upcoming elections, they will reopen the case of Jamal Khashoggi, a dissident Saudi journalist who was killed on the premises of the Saudi Arabia's General Consulate in Istanbul, which was transferred to Saudi legal institutions.
UN says Israeli fire killed Al Jazeera journalist
The United Nations said on June 24 it found that Israeli forces fired the shot that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, with Israel swiftly branding the UN's findings unfounded.
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Gazans savor a cleaner sea
Palestinians in the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip are rediscovering the pleasures of the Mediterranean Sea, after authorities declared the end of a long period of hazardous marine pollution.
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Turkish intelligence busts Iranian plans to kidnap, attack Israelis
Türkiye's National Intelligence Organization (MİT) and police busted the Iranian intelligence service SAVAMA in Istanbul on June 17.
They were allegedly preparing to kidnap and attack Israeli diplomats and tourist groups in Istanbul.
They have determined that the shooters who planned to take part in the attacks were in Istanbul.