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Rubio expedites $4 billion in military assistance to Israel

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Saturday signed a declaration to expedite $4 billion in military assistance to Israel.

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US backs Israel’s aid suspension after Hamas rejects ceasefire extension

The United States has given its support to Israel’s announcement on Sunday morning that it is suspending all humanitarian aid to Gaza after the Hamas terrorist organization rejected a ceasefire extension proposed by Washington.
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One killed, four wounded in Haifa terror attack

One person was killed and four others wounded, three seriously, in a suspected terrorist stabbing attack in the Haifa area in northern Israel on Monday morning, according to Hebrew media reports.

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Recently released hostage recounts extreme hunger, gut-wrenching farewell to still-held captive

Recently freed hostage Eli Sharabi has described being chained, beaten and starved by Hamas terrorists throughout his 16 months of captivity, with the abuse getting worse when his captors perceived Israel to be worsening the conditions of captured Hamas operatives, in a lengthy TV interview broadcast Thursday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

IDF eliminates senior Hezbollah arms smuggler in airstrike

The IDF said Friday it had killed Mohammed Mahdi Ali Shaheen, a Hezbollah operative, in a targeted strike in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley.

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Slain Israeli hostage Tsachi Idan laid to rest beside daughter killed on Oct. 7

“The unbearable journey our family has been through to bring our beloved Tsachi back from hell in Gaza has come to an end,” his family said in a statement.

Idan had been held captive for 510 days. Signs of life from him had been received, and he was known to be alive as recently as November 2023. His name was included in an initial hostage…

Turkey: Israel’s next big threat?

“Recent events in our region, especially in Syria, remind us of an important fact: Turkey is bigger than Turkey itself,” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a speech at the Turkish Academy of Sciences on Dec. 18.

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Hamas stoking flames in Jerusalem as Ramadan gets underway

With Ramadan set to begin at sundown on Friday, Hamas is aiming to spark a wave of terrorist attacks in Jerusalem, including on the Temple Mount.

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Pay-for-slay to continue, ‘even if we have [only] one penny left,’ Abbas vows

The Palestinian Authority will not deduct a single penny from its “pay-for-slay” fund that rewards terrorists and their families for their attacks, P.A. chief Mahmoud Abbas told members of his ruling Fatah faction last week, according to translated remarks Palestinian Media Watch published on Thursday.
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Car-ramming attack at Karkur junction

10 people were injured in a car-ramming attack on Thursday afternoon at Karkur Junction, near Route 65 in northern Israel. Among the victims, 1 is in critical condition, 2 are seriously wounded, 1 sustained moderate injuries, and 6 others suffered minor wounds. All were evacuated to Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera.

Read more: Israel Hayom

Blinken wanted sanctions on IDF Unit 504, Israel prevented it at last minute

Former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken wanted to impose sanctions on one of the IDF’s most secret and elite intelligence units, Unit 504, former Israeli Ambassador to the US, Michael Herzog, told Ariel Kahana in an interview with Israel Hayom on Wednesday night.

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Harvard Poll: 77% of Americans support Israel against Hamas

Americans’ support for Israel over Hamas in the Gaza conflict remains high, with 77% of voters supporting the Jewish state, according to poll results released on Feb. 24.

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Israeli official: We will not leave the Philadelphi Corridor

The IDF will not pull out of the Philadelphi Corridor that separates the Gaza Strip from Egypt, an Israeli official told reporters on Thursday, saying Jerusalem would refuse to allow Hamas terrorists regroup and again attack Israeli communities.

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Mast directs Foreign Affairs Committee to replace ‘West Bank’ with ‘Judea and Samaria’

U.S. Representative Brian Mast (R-Fla.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, instructed committee staff on Feb. 25 to refer to the West Bank as Judea and Samaria in “all formal correspondence, communication and documentation.”

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IDF seizes Hamas plans for mass attack in Judea, Samaria and central Israel

Defense Minister Israel Katz revealed on Thursday that security forces recently discovered Hamas files proving the terrorist group had plans to carry out a large-scale assault on communities in Judea and Samaria and along the Seam Line security barrier.
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Itzik Elgarat, Ohad Yahalomi, Shlomo Mantzur, Tsachi Idan murdered by Hamas

The Prime Minister’s Office announced on Thursday that the deaths of Ohad Yahalomi, Tsachi Idan, Shlomo Mantzur, and Itzik Elgarat have been confirmed following forensic analyses.
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IDF strikes Hezbollah ‘strategic weapons’ facility in Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday struck a Hezbollah production and storage facility for “strategic weapons” in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley, 30 miles east of Beirut.
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Israeli victims sue Al-Jazeera for ‘serving as Hamas agents’

For the first time since the outbreak of the war, Israelis are suing the Al-Jazeera network for its role in echoing the horrors of October 7 and its sympathetic coverage toward Hamas. The lawsuit was filed by dozens of victims of the massacre, including Morris Schneider, the uncle of Shiri Bibas, who was murdered in Hamas captivity after being…