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The United States on Wednesday announced a sweeping set of new sanctions against Iran and entities linked to its oil trade, including companies, organizations and vessels involved in the transport and sale of petroleum and petrochemical products.
Read More: Y Net News
Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun called on Hezbollah and other political parties on Thursday to hand over their weapons to the army, a move the powerful terror group is resisting as Washington ramps up pressures for it to remove its arsenal.
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The U.S. administration of Donald Trump has taken a first step toward declaring that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the Hamas-linked aid agency, represents a serious impediment to any peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and must be disbanded, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Friday.
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Israel was reportedly evacuating most of its diplomatic mission staff in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday after the National Security Council sharpened its travel warning for Israelis staying in the Gulf country.
Read More: The Times of Israel
Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Thursday night released a propaganda video of Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski, whom the terrorist group has held in Gaza since the Hamas-led massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
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Iran is “directly engaging criminal networks abroad to carry out attacks against Jewish targets and make Jews in Europe unsafe,” according to the July Iran report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
The United States will impose sanctions on several members of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the State Department said on Thursday.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Israel claimed Thursday that a viral image of 14-year-old Palestinian boy Abdul Qader al-Fayoumi, who reportedly died of starvation in Gaza, is misleading, saying the teen suffered from a genetic neurological disorder and was treated in Israel in 2018.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday it had delivered some 2 million shekels ($450,000) worth of humanitarian aid to the embattled Druze population of Sweida in southern Syria.
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Canada’s intention to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September will only serve to embolden Hamas terrorists, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel told JNS on Thursday.
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Europe’s dark history of antisemitism is rearing its head once again, this time cloaked in the language of political correctness and moral hypocrisy, Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi told JNS on Wednesday.
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The Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen fired a ballistic missile at Israel on Tuesday, which the Israel Defense Forces successfully intercepted, the military said.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Arab and Muslim countries, including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, signed a declaration Tuesday condemning for the first time Hamas’s onslaught of October 7, 2023, and calling on the Palestinian terror group to release all the hostages it is holding, disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the...
Former Hamas hostage Emily Damari said on Wednesday that British Prime Minister Keir Starmer‘s intention to recognize a Palestinian state “does not advance peace—it risks rewarding terror.”
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Five days after it published a story titled “Gazans are dying of starvation,” The New York Times added an editor’s note on Tuesday stating that “this article has been updated to include information about Mohammed Zakaria al-Mutawaq, a child in Gaza suffering from severe malnutrition.”
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An 85-year-old man who sustained moderate injuries in an Iranian missile attack during the 12-day war with the Islamic Republic in June has succumbed to his wounds, local media reported on Monday night.
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The IDF has said that it will continue regular attacks on Hezbollah – despite the November 2024 ceasefire – until it disarms, even if this leads to another war.
A significant part of this calculation is the ongoing substantial harm that the IDF has caused to Hezbollah’s ability to threaten Israel to date.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Since the devastating July 4 floods, Texas has received support from across the U.S. and Mexico. Recently, a group from Israel also joined the recovery effort.
Marnix Van Ede, director of international relations with ZAKA Search and Rescue, was 7,000 miles away when he heard about the deadly flooding in the Hill Country.
Read more: KSAT News
Monday’s United Nations conference on the subject of a two-state solution offers “a rare and indispensable opportunity” that “can and must serve as a decisive turning point,” António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general, said at the opening of the two-day event.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Freed Hamas captive Ofer Kalderon joined the final stage of the 2025 Tour de France in Paris on Sunday as the special guest of the Israeli cycling team, Israel-Premier Tech (IPT).
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate