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JERUSALEM, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Israel on Tuesday announced the completion of a sensor-equipped underground wall on its side of the Gaza border, a counter-measure developed after Hamas militants used tunnels to blindside its troops in a 2014 war.

Israel went public with the project, which also includes an above-ground fence, a naval barrier, radar systems and command and control rooms, in 2016.

07 Dec 2021; MEMO: The Israeli occupation Municipality of Jerusalem yesterday froze plans to build a large Jewish-only settlement on the land of an old Palestinian airport in occupied East Jerusalem, local media reported.

06 Dec 2021; MEMO: Israel's policy towards Iran since the signing of the nuclear deal in 2015 has been nothing but a failure, former Prime Minister and Defence Minister Ehud Barak said yesterday.

In an article published by Ynet News, Barak said: "Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was right when he addressed the unbearable gap between the rhetoric of the former government led by Benjamin Netanyahu and its actions."

JERUSALEM, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager who rammed a car into a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank early on Monday, seriously injuring an Israeli guard, Israel's defence ministry said.

There was no immediate Palestinian comment on the incident, which occurred at a roadblock between Israel and the central West Bank, near the city of Tulkarem.

The injured Israeli guard was being treated at Sheba Medical Center, in Tel Aviv, and was expected to survive, the defence ministry said in a statement.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s Justice Ministry said Sunday that two police officers were brought in for questioning following the shooting death of a Palestinian who had stabbed an Israeli man in east Jerusalem.

03 Dec 2021; MEMO: Israel's ministerial committee that oversees defence procurement on Sunday approved a deal that will allow the air force to purchase Lockheed Martin's CH-53k helicopters at a cost of $2.4 billion as part of preparations for an anticipated attack on Iran, Ynet News reported.

03 Dec 2021; MEMO: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett yesterday asked the United States to "immediately halt" ongoing talks on Iran's nuclear programme taking place in Vienna, his office said in a statement.

The statement said Bennett spoke with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and told him that Iran was utilising "nuclear blackmail" as a tactic and therefore the United States should initiate "an immediate cessation of negotiations."

JERUSALEM, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Israel on Thursday urged world powers to halt nuclear talks with Iran immediately, citing a U.N. watchdog's announcement that Tehran has started producing enriched uranium with more advanced centrifuges.

"Iran is carrying out nuclear blackmail as a negotiating tactic, and this should be answered by the immediate halt to negotiations and the implementation of tough steps by the world powers," Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office quoted him as saying in a call with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Rights groups said Thursday that Israel failed to investigate shootings that killed more than 200 Palestinians and wounded thousands at violent protests along the Gaza frontier in recent years, strengthening the case for the International Criminal Court to intervene.

The Israeli military rejected the findings, saying the “mass riots” organized by Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers were aimed at providing cover for cross-border attacks. The military said alleged abuses were thoroughly investigated, with soldiers held accountable.

01 Dec 2021; MEMO: Spokesperson of the Israeli Army, Brigadier-General Ran Kochav, said yesterday that the occupation state's army is preparing for all possible scenarios to strike Iran.

"I won't go into policy details, but as we have said in the past, we are preparing for all eventualities," Kochav told Israeli radio Kan Bet.