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Four Israel Defense soldiers were killed on Tuesday battling Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip’s southern city of Rafah, the military announced Wednesday morning.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hand-held radios used by Hezbollah detonated on Wednesday across Lebanon’s south and in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a security source and a witness said, further stoking tensions with Israel a day after similar explosions launched via the group’s pagers.
Read more: Reuters
Explosions have been reported by Lebanese media in several other areas of Lebanon in the last few minutes, and not just in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The 2,087 anti-Israel incidents of assault, vandalism, harassment, protests and divestment resolutions that the Anti-Defamation League recorded on U.S. campuses between June 1, 2023, and May 31, 2024 represent a 477% increase over the prior academic year, per a report the nonprofit released on Monday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Shin Bet has managed to foil a Hezbollah plot to assassinate a former senior official in the Israeli defense establishment. The attack, which was set to be executed in the coming days, centered around a Claymore-type charge equipped with a remote activation mechanism.
Read more: Israel Hayom
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi vowed on Monday to keep up Tehran’s “unlimited support” for terror groups throughout the region while avoiding a direct clash with Israel, according to official Iranian media.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
An Israeli aerial strike on Monday killed the head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s rocket and missile unit in the Rafah area of southern Gaza.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel’s Security Cabinet overnight Monday added returning Israelis displaced from their homes in the north to the country’s war goals, bringing a potential major confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon closer to reality.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hundreds of members of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, including fighters and medics, were seriously wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded, a security source told Reuters.
Read more: Reuters
Just weeks after the American Association of University Professors reversed course and dropped its longtime opposition to academic boycotts, faculty members on several campuses, days into the new academic year, have started implementing aspects of a boycott of Israel by not assigning articles written by Israeli scholars, refusing to invite Israeli…
Hamas and the Houthis have recently established offices in Iraq. The offices, which opened in June, testify to Iraq’s shift towards the Iranian camp in Tehran’s conflict with Israel and the United States.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli air defense officials are reviewing the performance of Air Force detection and interception capabilities on Sunday, hours after the Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen fired a surface-to-surface missile that set off sirens across central Israel.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
French Jewry is on the brink of a coordinated attack, with community members in some cases behaving almost like crypto-Jews. In the UK, people avoid wearing a kippah in public, while Australian Jews are experiencing unprecedented levels of antisemitism.
Read more: Israel Hayom
Amid fresh rocket fire from Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday told his American counterpart Lloyd Austin that time was running out for an agreed-upon de-escalation with Hezbollah.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, defines his campaign against Israel as being won as much through economics and psychological coercion as through victories on the battlefield. And nearly a year into the Jewish state’s war with Hamas, Iran’s military proxy in the Gaza Strip, Khamenei’s strategy appears to be advancing—with an assist…
Spain, hosting a high-level meeting on Friday of several Muslim and European countries on ways to end the Gaza war, calls for a clear schedule for the international community to implement a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The World Health Organization chief hails the success of the first phase of a giant polio vaccination campaign in war-ravaged Gaza after more than 560,000 children received a first dose.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Washington Post is reporting that the Iranian government has increased its ties with criminal networks overseas to carry out attacks on its critics in the United States and Europe.
Read more: VOA
