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Palestinians load kites and balloons with flammable material in order to fly toward Israel, at the Israel-Gaza border in al-Bureij, central Gaza Strip, on June 14, 2018. (AFP Photo/ Mahmud Hams)
March 19, 2019, 7:35 pm
Israeli planes shoot at Gazans launching incendiary balloons into Israel
No immediate reports of Palestinian casualties in two separate raids; 11 Gazans said injured in border clashes in northern Strip
By TOI staff
A masked Palestinian pulls a burning tire during a night demonstration near the fence along the border with Israel, east of Gaza City, on February 11, 2019. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
March 19, 2019, 2:13 am
Palestinians in Gaza resume nighttime border protests
Images posted on social media show demonstrators setting off small explosions, lighting tires on fire and pointing lasers at Israeli security forces
By Adam Rasgon
Larry Luxner
July 13, 2018, 2:24 pm
Larry Luxner
You CAN be in more than one place at a time
‘Stand under that tree, and put yer left foot in Arkansas, yer right foot in Louisiana, and piss all over Texas!’
Hundreds of activists, including actress Susan Sarandon, center, protest the Trump administration's approach to illegal border crossings and separation of children from immigrant parents, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 28, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
June 29, 2018, 4:36 am
Almost 600 arrested in DC protesting Trump immigration policy
Many protesters wear foil blankets similar to those given to migrants held at US detention facilities
By AP
Soldiers of the Caracal Battalion prepare for a hike as part of their training on September 3, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
February 16, 2017, 10:24 pm
Co-ed battalions to get new home in Border Defense Force
Mixed-gender units, trackers, surveillance monitors and combat intel come together to defend Jordanian, Egyptian borders
By Judah Ari Gross
Journalist, scholar and author Geneive Abdo, director of the Iran Program at the Century Foundation in Washington, DC. (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung/ Flickr, via wikipedia, CC-BY-SA)
February 4, 2017, 1:15 pm
Is the solution to pan-Arabism simply to rethink our concept of borders?
Middle East scholar Geneive Abdo claims that sectarian strife in the world’s most complex region is due to theological rifts — and one fundamental Western misunderstanding
By JP O’ Malley
Nimer Bassem Abu Amar, a 15-year-old Bedouin Israel, who was killed in a shooting on October 25, 2016, near the Egyptian border, where he worked for a subcontractor hired by the Defense Ministry. (Courtesy)
October 26, 2016, 9:46 pm
No Israeli officials present, as teenager killed in cross-border shooting buried
Representatives from Defense Ministry, PM’s office should have ‘paid last respects,’ says relative of Nimer Bassem Abu Amar
By TOI staff
Palestinian fishing boats are seen at the sea port in Gaza City on April 1, 2016. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)
June 18, 2016, 3:43 am
Palestinians say they are negotiating sea border with Egypt
Ambassador to UN says move part of ‘building the structures of a serious, respectable state’; Israel dismisses move as ‘meaningless’
By AP
Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. (photo credit: FLASH90)
April 21, 2015, 3:42 am
Minister: Migrants’ deaths show why fence is necessary
While lamenting drowning of 700 people, Yisrael Katz also praises government’s actions to stop influx via Egypt
By JTA
IDF soldiers at the Israeli–Lebanese border, file photo (Photo credit: Hamad Almakt / Flash 90)
March 15, 2014, 8:36 am
Lebanon says its citizens have right to ‘resist Israel’
Following attack on IDF jeep and Israel’s retaliatory shelling, Beirut effectively recognizes Hezbollah’s role on the border
By Itamar Sharon and TOI staff
A member of the UN observer force on the Israel-Syrian border in the Golan Heights (photo credit: CC BY FreedomHouse, Flickr)
July 26, 2012, 6:29 pm
IDF preparing to thwart influx of Syrian refugees
Bulldozers are operating in the Golan amid concerns over possible rush for the border
By Greg Tepper
A welcome sign at a Syria border crossing. (photo credit: CC-BY Paul Keller, Flickr)
July 25, 2012, 10:51 am
Turkey closing border crossings with Syria as northern tensions flare
Turkish customs official cites worsening security conditions along Syria’s northern border
By Joshua Davidovich and AP
Northern Israeli town of Metulla at night (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)
June 10, 2012, 2:50 am
Israel completes Lebanon border wall around Metulla
Security barrier, aimed at protecting northern town, finished in just over one month
By TOI staff
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