Palestinian terrorism

An El Al flight bound for Tel Aviv made an emergency landing at Athens International Airport on Wednesday at 8.27 a.m. after its fire indicator signal was activated.

The aircraft, a Boeing 744 traveling from Lithuania, landed safely and no injuries were reported.

No more details were immediately available.

Palestinian Islamist group Hamas said on Dec. 17 a Tunisian engineer murdered in the North African country was one of its leaders, accused Israel of the killing and vowed to avenge him.

Mohamed Zaouari, a 49-year-old engineer, was murdered at the wheel of his car outside his house in Tunisia's second city, Sfax, on Dec. 15.

Smoke and fire from the explosion of an Israeli strike rise over Gaza City, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Israel escalated its military campaign against Hamas on Tuesday, striking symbols of the group's control in Gaza and firing tank shells that shut down the strip's only power plant in the heaviest bombardment in the fighting so far.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has spoken by phone to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in a bid to calm Washington's anger over new Israeli settlement plans, an official said yesterday.

At least eight people were shot and injured in a shooting attack near Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem Sunday morning, police and emergency medical officials said.
Police described the incident as a terror attack. One woman, approximately 60 years old, was shot in the upper body and critically wounded in the attack, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance service.

Israeli air strikes hit four targets in Gaza overnight, wounding four people, three of them children, medical and security sources said on May 5, as violence surged on the border.
 

Israel freed 12-year-old Palestinian Dima al-Wawi from prison on April 24, more than two months after jailing her for an attempted stabbing attack.

An explosion aboard a bus in Jerusalem caused around 20 casualties on April 18, Israeli media said, and police said it may have been a militant attack or the result of a fire from other causes. 

In his speeches to Turkish audiences but addressing world leaders, President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an often says that "there should be no good terrorists and bad terrorists" and that "terrorists are terrorists." He's right. But he is not realistic at all if he is seriously expecting the entire world to agree on his own definition of who is a terrorist and who is not. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu noted on Sunday a "significant decline" in Palestinian attacks on Israelis, after six months of near-daily violence that has cost more than 200 lives.