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The FBI raided the Chicago apartment of Elias Rodriguez on Thursday, searching for clues in their investigation of the 31-year-old, who is accused of shooting and killing two Israeli embassy employees in Washington on Wednesday night, as they left an American Jewish Committee young professionals event at the Capital Jewish Museum.
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The Israeli Air Force attacked more than 75 enemy targets across the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, the military said on Friday morning.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out on Thursday night at world leaders for spreading “Hamas’s propaganda” that Israel is starving Palestinian children, which culminated in the killing of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C.
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Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign nationals — more than a quarter of the student body — in a dramatic escalation of the US president’s fight against the prestigious university.
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Elias Rodriguez, the man charged with killing two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, DC, approached police on the scene after the shooting and told them, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” according to a court document filed on Thursday.
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Two ballistic missiles launched at Israel by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen on Thursday were intercepted by air defenses, the military said.
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The United Nations and the BBC on Wednesday corrected a dramatic claim that 14,000 infants in the Gaza Strip faced death within 48 hours, clarifying that the figure actually refers to children at risk of severe malnutrition over the course of a full year.
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The deadly shooting outside the Jewish Museum in Washington, DC, on Wednesday appeared to be the first lethal antisemitic attack in the US since 2019, but followed a string of attempted terrorism against Jewish targets in recent years.
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Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Lynn Milgram, two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington, were murdered on Wednesday night at an American Jewish Congress conference in Washington, DC.
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Two Israeli embassy staffers were shot and killed on Wednesday evening outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.
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The European Union will review its agreement with Israel, governing political and economic ties, due to the situation in Gaza, E.U. foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Tuesday after a meeting of E.U. foreign ministers in Brussels.
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The Israel Defense Forces said on Wednesday that more than 115 terror sites in the Gaza Strip had been targeted in airstrikes over the past day.
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Israel’s government on Tuesday facilitated the transfer of 93 United Nations humanitarian aid trucks into the Gaza Strip via the Kerem Shalom Crossing, according to the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).
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An Israel Defense Forces soldier was killed on Tuesday during combat operations in the southern Gaza Strip, the military announced.
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Let’s perform a thought experiment.
Imagine a small nation-state – one with a long history of tribal absolutism, an official religion that doubles as its legal code, and a human rights record that would make 1970s Argentina blush. Imagine that same country hosts the largest U.S. military installation in the Middle East, funds universities like…
Fliers denigrating Jews were strewn around Squirrel Hill, and residents were reportedly targeted with antisemitic epithets, the latest antisemitic incident in the neighborhood that suffered the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting.
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In a statement released on their media outlets, the terrorist group Hamas added: “we welcome the joint statement issued by the leaders of Britain, France, and Canada, rejecting the policy of siege and starvation pursued by the occupation government against our people in the Gaza Strip, and the Zionist plans aimed at genocide and displacement.”
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Yemen’s Houthi terrorist group announced late on Monday that it was expanding its campaign against Israel by imposing a “naval blockade” on the Haifa Port.
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