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Netanyahu says hoping hostage deal will be finalized ‘in a few days’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed optimism on Thursday that a hostage release deal with Hamas could be sealed in the near future.

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Senior Israeli official: Intel shows enriched uranium was at Iran sites when bombed

A senior Israeli official said Thursday that Israeli intelligence shows that Iran’s stockpile of enriched uranium had not been removed from Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan before the three nuclear sites were struck by the US last month amid Israel’s 12-day war with Iran, and has not been moved since.

Read more: The Times of Israel

IDF soldier Abraham Azulay killed in Khan Yunis during attempted abduction

Staff-Sergeant-Major (res.) Abraham Azulay was killed in Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip after terrorists emerging from a tunnel attempted to abduct him, the military said on Wednesday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

PM says he’s in sync with Trump on hostage deal, won’t agree to one ‘at any price’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that he and US President Donald Trump were in lock-step with their efforts to secure a hostage deal.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Watchdog backs Rubio’s sanctions on UN official over ‘shameful efforts’ targeting US, Israel

The Biden-era kid gloves are off.

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the United States is imposing sanctions on Francesca Albanese, the controversial United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on Palestinian rights.

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Israeli murdered in Gush Etzion terrorist attack

Palestinian terrorists killed an Israeli man at the Gush Etzion Junction in Judea on Thursday afternoon, in a combined shooting and stabbing attack, medical authorities said.

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Son of couple held in Iran: ‘They aren’t spies, they’re Mum and Dad’

The son of a British couple detained in Iran has said he broke down in tears when he learned of their arrest and has not heard from them in six months.

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Trump targeted by Iranian death fatwas as watchdog group demands immediate sanctions response

A new report by United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI) is urging the U.S. government to impose sanctions on senior Iranian clerics and regime-controlled institutions that have issued or promoted Islamic legal rulings — known as fatwas — calling for the torture and assassination of President Donald Trump, other American citizens and Israeli Prime…

Troops destroy Hezbollah arms in rare southern Lebanon ground raids, IDF says

Israeli ground troops raided several sites inside Lebanon in recent days, destroying Hezbollah weapon depots and other infrastructure, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Iran, Hezbollah implicated in Ireland’s largest drug bust

An Irish court on July 4 sentenced two Iranian nationals in connection with a transnational drug trafficking operation involving more than 2.2 tons of cocaine, as authorities investigate suspected links to Hezbollah and the Iranian regime, Irish media reported.

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Netanyahu talks hostage deal in second Trump meet in 24 hours

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met at the White House on Tuesday for a second time in 24 hours, to discuss the possible ceasefire deal in Gaza.

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‘They held a gun to her head’: Released hostage shares new details of Hamas abuse

Released Israeli-American hostage Keith Siegel on Tuesday gave harrowing new testimony from his time in Hamas captivity, saying he witnessed severe violence and abuse of a female hostage  he was held with.

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Israel says breakthrough on Gaza talks near after Trump-Netanyahu meeting

Following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting Monday evening with United States President Donald Trump, senior Israeli officials said negotiations for a hostage release and ceasefire deal with Hamas are at a near-breakthrough, while touting the supreme coordination between Jerusalem and Washington on Gaza, Iran, and broader regional…

IDF eliminates Hamas commander who raided gas station on Oct. 7

The Israel Defense Forces had eliminated the Hamas terrorist who led the Oct. 7, 2023 infiltration of a gas station near Kibbutz Magen, the military said on Tuesday.

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Netanyahu to meet VP Vance, House and Senate leaders

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was set to continue his diplomatic visit to Washington on Tuesday by meeting with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance.

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Five IDF soldiers killed, 14 wounded in northern Gaza

Five Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and 14 others wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED) in the Beit Hanoun area of the northern Gaza Strip, the military announced on Tuesday morning.

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Iranian spy arrested after spying on German Jewish targets for Quds Force handler

An Iranian spy who was likely planning attacks on Jewish people in Germany has been arrested after a lengthy multi-national intelligence operation.

German Federal Prosecutor General Jens Rommel announced last week that Afghan-Danish national Ali S., 53, had been arrested under strong suspicion of “having worked for a secret service of a…

GHF slams Reuters over ‘false, so-called’ document of Gazan relocation, ‘deradicalization plan’

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) slammed Reuters for its report that claimed it proposed building camps called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” inside – and possibly outside – Gaza to house the Palestinian population, outlining its vision of “replacing Hamas’s control over the population in Gaza.”

Read more: The Jerusalem Post