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Hizballah terror teams fan out in six countries prompting maximum Israeli alert DEBKAfile Special Report February 2, 2009, 8:18 AM (GMT+02:00) Hassan Nasrallah DEBKAfile's counter-terror sources report that last week the Lebanese Hizballah put together a large number of terrorist teams and deployed them in six countries for attacks on Israeli targets. This intelligence prompted the counter-terror bureau in Jerusalem to publish Sunday, Feb. 1, an exceptionally high alert for traveling Israelis to be on the lookout for terrorist attacks including abductions. Security is also high in Israel and at embassies and Jewish institutions worldwide.  More...

Israel air raids hit Gaza after Palestinian missile-mortar salvoes DEBKAfile Special Report February 2, 2009, 8:40 AM (GMT+02:00) After 14 missiles and mortar rounds were fired into Israel during Sunday, Feb. 1, Israel launched air strikes against a Hamas building in central Gaza and six out of the hundreds of smuggling tunnels running under the southern Gazan border corridor with Egypt. DEBKAfile's military sources report that although attacks on southern Israel have been building up despite the Hamas ceasefire of Jan. 17, defense minister Ehud Barak stands out against demands for a major reprisal from prime minster Ehud Olmert and most ministers.  More...

Hamas' Meshaal arrives in Tehran - Egypt's Gaza ceasefire proposals up in the air

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

February 1, 2009, 4:34 PM (GMT+02:00)

Gaza ceasefire? Decision in Tehran

Hamas is nowhere near signing off on Egypt's proposals for a long-term ceasefire in Gaza on Feb. 5, as claimed in a flurry of Arab media reports Sunday, Feb. 1, DEBKAfile's Middle East sources report. A large Hamas delegation from Damascus headed by Khaled Meshaal landed in Tehran Sunday for separate briefings from supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on how to respond to the Egyptian initiative 
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