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Drone attack damages navy base building in Eilat

A naval base building in the southern Israeli city of Eilat was lightly damaged by a drone attack overnight Sunday.
The UAV was launched from Iraq and entered Israeli territory from Jordan.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF ends Shifa Hospital raid, says it killed 200 terror operatives, arrested 500 more

The Israel Defense Forces withdrew early Monday from the Gaza City complex housing the Shifa Hospital, after a two-week raid in which the military said it detained or killed hundreds of terror suspects.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Iranian army chief to Hamas’s Haniyeh: Israel’s invincible image ‘shattered’

Head of Hamas’s political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, met with Iranian Chief of Staff Mohammed Bagheri in Tehran, according to Iranian media.

In the meeting, Bagheri said that the Palestinian issue has been one of the Islamic Republic’s “main strategies and goals” since the revolution.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Alone in cell guarded by terrorists: Mother of teen recounts ‘horror’ of his captivity

Four months after he was freed from captivity in Gaza, Eitan Yahalomi celebrated his bar mitzvah, but his coming-of-age last week was far from a joyous occasion, his mother told AFP.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Gazan terrorist confesses to raping Israeli girl on Oct. 7

The Israel Defense Forces’ Military Intelligence Directorate released footage on Thursday of a captured Palestinian terrorist admitting to interrogators that he violently raped an Israeli girl on Oct. 7.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israeli strikes on Aleppo kill dozens of Syrian soldiers, Hezbollah terrorists

Israeli airstrikes targeting Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo early on Friday killed more than three dozen people, mainly Syrian soldiers and at least five members of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terror group, according to Reuters.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF strike on Lebanon terror squad thwarted cross-border attack

A terrorist squad eliminated by Israeli forces in Southern Lebanon on Tuesday night planned to cross the border and carry out an attack in the Mount Dov area, Channel 12 reported on Wednesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hezbollah fires 10-rocket barrage at northern Israel

Hezbollah launched 10 rockets at Shlomi in northern Israel on Thursday morning, triggering air-raid sirens in the Western Galilee for the second time within hours.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Three Israelis wounded in Jordan Valley terror shooting

Three Israelis were wounded on Thursday morning in a terrorist attack in the Jordan Valley.
A Palestinian gunman opened fire on a school bus and several cars traveling along Route 90, near Al-Auja, north of Jericho.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Joe Lieberman, longtime senator and first Jewish-American VP candidate, dies at 82

Former Sen. Joe Lieberman died on Wednesday afternoon at the age of 82 after complications from a fall, according to a statement from his family.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Released hostage: ‘I was forced to commit sexual acts with a gun pointed at me’

Released Gaza hostage Amit Soussana gave her personal testimony of the sexual violence and physical abuse she endured in Hamas captivity in an eight-hour interview with The New York Times that was published on Tuesday. She is the first released hostage to give direct testimony of sexual atrocities committed by Hamas.

Read more: The Jerusalem…

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IDF kills 3 Palestinian terrorists in Jenin op

Three Palestinian terrorists were killed during an overnight raid of Jenin in northern Samaria, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed on Wednesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF strikes Iran-linked operatives, assets in eastern Syria; more than 15 said killed

The Israeli Air Force carried out airstrikes in the predawn hours of Tuesday morning in eastern Syria, targeting Iranian assets and operatives involved in a recent plot to smuggle advanced arms to West Bank terrorists, The Times of Israel has learned.
Read more: The Times of Israel

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Israeli killed in Hezbollah rocket barrage on Kiryat Shmona

A 25-year-old Israeli man was killed in the Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona on Wednesday by a Hezbollah rocket barrage from Lebanon.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hamas will do anything to stop Gazans leaving Rafah

The presence of over a million Gazan civilians in the Rafah area serves as a kind of “armor” for Hamas’s remaining battalions in southern Gaza, which is why any Israel Defense Forces operation aimed at taking control of this last bastion of the terror group must begin with the evacuation of civilians.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Up to 30 said dead in Syria strikes, including 8 Iran Guards fighters, top commander

Some 30 people were killed, among them at least nine pro-Iranian fighters including a commander, in overnight strikes on a villa taken over by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday morning.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Israeli officials decry UNSC ceasefire resolution, US abstention

Israeli government officials were near-unanimous on Monday in their condemnation of a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a two-week halt to the war against Hamas, with Prime Minister Netanyahu slamming the U.S. decision to refrain from exercising its veto power.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hezbollah targets Israeli air base, winery in latest attacks

A Hezbollah anti-tank missile barrage scored a direct hit on a winery in Moshav Avivim in Israel’s Upper Galilee region on Tuesday, setting it on fire. There was heavy damage to the winery, but no injuries were reported. Two fire crews extinguished the blaze.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate