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Iran has started up new cascades of advanced centrifuges and plans to install others in the coming weeks after facing criticism over its nuclear program, the United Nations’ atomic watchdog said Friday. The U.S. called the moves “nuclear escalations.”
Read more: NBC News
Hezbollah claims responsibility for launching dozens of Katyusha and Falaq rockets at the northern city of Kiryat Shmona and the nearby town of Kfar Szold.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The US Navy prepared for decades to potentially fight the Soviet Union, then later Russia and China, on the world’s waterways. But instead of a global power, the Navy finds itself locked in combat with a shadowy, Iran-backed rebel group based in Yemen.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The fate of the 120 remaining hostages in Gaza is crucial to any deal to end the protracted and bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas. But a senior Hamas official has told CNN that “no one has an idea” how many of them are alive, and that any deal to release them must include guarantees of a permanent ceasefire and the complete withdrawal of…
The Palestinians’ satisfaction with Hamas’s performance in the war against Israel has reached its highest point since the terror group’s Oct. 7 massacre, while support for the Palestinian Authority and its ruling Fatah faction has plummeted, according to a poll published on Wednesday by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research.
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Anti-Israel protesters continued to run wild across New York as masked agitators on a city subway car Monday demanded to know if there were any Zionists on board, while elsewhere in the city vandals attacked the home of the Jewish director of the Brooklyn Museum.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has been operating an international network entitled the “Global Network on Question of Palestine” (GNQP) aimed at targeting Israel, according to a UN Watch report earlier this week.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Israel’s top general met this week in Bahrain with counterparts from several Arab militaries to discuss security coordination, Axios reported on Wednesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hamas’s official response to Israel’s hostages-for-ceasefire proposal included modifications that are not workable, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli fighter jets destroyed some 45 terrorist targets across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the military said on Thursday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Two Israelis sustained light wounds on Thursday when rocket shrapnel fell in Katzrin, the largest Israeli community in the Golan Heights.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
An Israeli official says that Jerusalem has received Hamas’s response to the hostage release and ceasefire deal offer presented by US President Joe Biden late last month, and that the reply from the terror group effectively rejects the proposal.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Moscow and Tehran are continuing their work on a comprehensive bilateral cooperation agreement, although the schedule of specific events may shift, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday, adding Russia intended to develop ties with Iran.
Read more: Reuters
Three hostages rescued by the army over the weekend suffered repeated physical and psychological abuse during eight months in Hamas captivity in Gaza, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing the abductees’ relatives as well as Israeli security and medical officials.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Israeli military confirms it carried out last night’s airstrike in southern Lebanon’s Jouaiyya, killing senior Hezbollah commander Taleb Abdullah.
Abdullah commanded Hezbollah’s Nasr unit, one of three regional divisions in south Lebanon. The unit is responsible for the region between Mount Dov and the Bint Jbeil area.
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Following the assassination of its most senior commander to date overnight, Hezbollah on Wednesday launched its largest rocket barrage since October 7, setting off sirens in Tiberias for the first time since October.
Read more: Ynetnews
An American nonprofit that published the writings of a Hamas affiliate who held three Israelis hostage has ties to the Iranian regime and Al Jazeera, the Qatari-funded outlet that has served as a leading mouthpiece for Hamas, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.
Read more: The Washington Free Beacon
The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a U.S.-drafted resolution aimed at reaching a three-phase ceasefire deal to end the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate