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IAF destroys Jabalia launch site firing rockets at Sderot

The Israeli Air Force overnight Monday destroyed a launch site in Jabalia from which rockets were being fired toward the western Negev city of Sderot, one of several launch sites attacked over the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israel UN envoy calls Security Council’s visit to Rafah ‘a disgrace’

Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), on Monday reacted to the news of anticipated visit by the UN’s Security Council (UNSC) delegation to the Rafah border crossing. The Council representatives are said to evaluate the aid provided to the Gaza residents and discuss the ways to improve the humanitarian situation…

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Former Hamas hostages Maya and Itay Regev speak out

Released hostages Maya and and her younger brother Itay Regev spoke about their time in Hamas captivity in Gaza and their desire for their friend, Omer, to be freed, in a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday by Bring Them Home Now.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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1,300-plus terror attacks in Judea and Samaria since Oct. 7

Palestinian terrorists in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley have escalated their campaign against Israeli civilians and security forces in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in the northwestern Negev, data published by Channel 14 News on Monday shows.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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7 soldiers killed, pushing Gaza ground op toll to 104; fighting rages in Khan Younis

The Israel Defense Forces announced the death of seven more soldiers on Monday morning, six of whom were killed during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, bringing the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas to 104.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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‘Your loss will not be in vain’: War minister, ex-IDF chief Eisenkot eulogizes slain son

Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot on Friday spoke with a combination of heartbroken pain and military determination at the funeral of his son, Master Sgt. (res.) Gal Meir Eisenkot, 25, who was killed Thursday fighting in the Gaza Strip.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Man fires shotgun, shouts ‘Free Palestine’ outside Jewish temple with preschoolers inside

A man fired shotgun blasts and shouted “Free Palestine” outside a Jewish temple Thursday in Albany, New York, where at least two dozen children — including preschoolers — were inside.

The suspect, a 28-year-old male, fired the shotgun outside Temple Israel around 2 p.m.

Read more: Fox News

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‘We are in Khan Yunis city center,’ 98th Division commander says

The Israel Defense Forces’s 98th Division, under the command of Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus,  is engaged in intense combat operations in the Khan Yunis area, a key stronghold of the Hamas terrorist organization, the military said on Friday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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‘Potential for violence’ due to Rutgers Dec. 7 ‘antisemitic, anti-Israel’ seminar, Gottheimer says

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is slated to host an event on “Race, Liberation and Palestine” from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Dec. 7. The seminar will include Noura Erakat, Nick Estes and Marc Lamont Hill, the latter two of whom have been accused of antisemitism.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Gaza woman tells Al Jazeera reporter Hamas steals aid

Hamas redirects humanitarian aid deliveries to its tunnels for use by members of the terrorist group, a Gaza woman told an Al Jazeera reporter.
According to the exchange posted to social media on Wednesday night, the elderly woman said that “all aid goes down . The aid does not reach the nation and entire people.”
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israeli civilian killed by anti-tank missile in north as Hezbollah attacks continue

An Israeli civilian was killed after Hezbollah terrorists fired an anti-tank missile at his vehicle near the Lebanese border Thursday.

The 60-year-old man was hit in an agricultural field near Moshav Mattat and was taken by the military to Fasuta Junction where they waited for Magen David Adom paramedics to arrive.

Read more: The Times of…

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IDF says Hamas firing rockets from Gaza safe zones as civilian scramble for shelter

Rockets fired at Israel on Wednesday were launched from within humanitarian zones set up in Gaza to allow civilians a safe haven, Israel’s military charged Thursday, as troops pressed into major Hamas strongholds in northern and southern Gaza amid heavy fighting.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Israeli boy orphaned by Hamas attack to mark bar mitzvah

An Israeli boy whose parents, two sisters and grandfather were murdered in the Hamas attack on his kibbutz will celebrate his bar mitzvah on Thursday.
Ariel Zohar of Kibbutz Nahal Oz was saved from the Oct. 7 massacre because he went out for a run.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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At least 10 freed hostages were sexually abused in Hamas captivity, doctor says

At least 10 of the Israeli civilians released by Hamas, both men and women, were sexually assaulted or abused while in captivity, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

In a report detailing allegations of severe and widespread sexual abuse by Hamas terrorists during their October 7 onslaught and later against hostages, a doctor who treated…

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Israel intercepts missile over Red Sea targeting Eilat

Israel’s Arrow air-defense system on Wednesday intercepted a surface-to-surface missile heading towards the country’s southern coastal city of Eilat, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Cohen slams US college heads’ failure to condemn calls for genocide

Israel’s Foreign Minister Eli Cohen on Wednesday criticized the refusal of elite American university presidents on Dec. 5 to say that calling for the genocide of Jews is against the rules of their institutions.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Now-freed hostage seen in video fighting against her 7 Hamas kidnappers on October 7

Newly released footage of a former hostage held by Hamas shows her fighting against seven Palestinian terrorists dragging her to the Gaza Strip on October 7, during their unprecedented attack on Israel.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IDF: Troops fight in center of Khan Younis, raid Hamas general security HQ in Jabaliya

The Israel Defense Forces said it pushed deeper into Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, with the 551st Reserve Brigade and the Navy’s Shayetet 13 commando unit raiding Hamas’s general security headquarters in the area.

Read more: The Times of Israel