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In The News

Senate passes bill to identify Jewish US soldiers buried under incorrect religious markers

The U.S. Senate recently approved legislation that would create a 10-year program to identify deceased Jewish American soldiers buried abroad with gravemakers that do not accurately reflect their religion and heritage, the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs announced on Monday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Palestinian Islamic Jihad building growing armed presence in Syria with regime’s approval

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror organization has started to build a growing military presence in Syria, according to a Wednesday report from Israeli public broadcaster KAN News.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Slain Hezbollah army chief led terror group’s effort to rebuild in south Lebanon

Haytham Ali Tabatabai, the Hezbollah military chief of staff killed by Israel on Sunday in a Beirut airstrike, was a key part of the terror group’s efforts to rebuild following the devastating losses it suffered in its recent war with the Jewish state.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Over 16,000 aid trucks have entered Gaza since Oct. 10 truce

Some 16,600 aid trucks have entered the Gaza Strip since the U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect on Oct. 10, the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) said on Wednesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hostage’s body identified as that of Dror Or

The body returned to Israel on Tuesday from Gaza has been identified as that of Dror Or, the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said on Wednesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Flooding collapses West Bank security fence section near Hebron, causing security breach ris

A section of the security fence in the Hebron area of the West Bank collapsed earlier on Tuesday morning due to severe weather and flooding.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Israeli forces kill Nablus terrorist after 18-month manhunt

The Israel Defense Forces announced on Monday night that it had eliminated a terrorist wanted in connection with the murder of two IDF soldiers in a car-ramming attack near Nablus (Shechem) in Samaria 18 months ago.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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US backs Israel’s right to defend itself after IDF strike on Hezbollah army chief

The White House on Monday expressed support for Israel’s right to defend itself following an IDF strike a day earlier in Lebanon that killed Hezbollah’s military chief of staff.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Trump directs Treasury, State to consider Muslim Brotherhood terror designation

U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday directing the U.S. secretaries of state and the treasury to consider designating chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Red Cross in Gaza receives body said to belong to hostage

Red Cross personnel in Gaza received from terrorists a coffin containing what was said to be the body of a deceased hostage from Israel, the IDF said on Tuesday afternoon.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Iran’s missile arsenal already approaching pre-June levels

Iran has rebuilt most of its missile arsenal and is approaching pre–“Operation Rising Lion” levels, according to Israeli security officials.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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WATCH: Senior Hamas leader vows terror group will not disarm

Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan said last week that the terrorist group had never agreed to lay down its weapons as part of President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for the Gaza Strip.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF on alert as Hezbollah weighs response to military chief’s killing

In the wake of the killing of Hezbollah’s military chief in Beirut on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces geared up for a potential response by the Iran-backed group, though there was no change in the guidelines for civilians.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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X’s new location feature unmasks pro-Hamas disinformation network

In recent weeks, a new transparency feature released by Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), has triggered one of the most dramatic shake-ups in online discourse since the Gaza war began on Oct. 7, 2023.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Netanyahu renews appeal for Beirut to disarm Hezbollah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday urged Beirut to disarm Hezbollah, speaking after an Israel Defense Forces strike in the Lebanese capital killed the Iran-backed terror group’s “chief of staff.”

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Anti-Israel org. places bounties on heads of Israeli academics for assassination

Bounties for the murder of Israeli academics are being offered on an anti-Zionist group's website, with profiles and personal details of targets also provided to potential contract killers.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Fighting terrorists on the northern front: IDF strikes Hamas training compound in southern Lebanon

The IDF killed 13 Hamas terrorists in an airstrike on southern Lebanon on Tuesday, the IDF announced on Friday afternoon.

The terrorists were killed in a precise strike targeting a Hamas training compound in Ain al-Hilweh, the military stated.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Minnesota tax dollars reportedly helped fund Somali terror group Al-Shabaab

Fraudulent programs that claimed to feed needy children and to support kids with autism in Minnesota stole billions of dollars in recent years, with some of the funding going overseas to Somalia and helping fund the Al-Shabaab Islamist terror group, according to a new report from City Journal, a Manhattan Institute publication.
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IDF uncovers ‘complex’ 4.3-mile Hamas tunnel network in Gaza’s south

The Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday it had uncovered one of the largest and most complex Hamas tunnel networks found so far in Gaza, a route stretching more than 4.3 miles and descending roughly 82 feet.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Trump hosts captives he helped free from Gaza: ‘You’re not hostages anymore, you’re heroes’

US President Donald Trump hosted a delegation at the White House on Thursday of nearly all the hostages freed through as part of the Gaza ceasefire deal he brokered last month.

Read more: The Times of Israel