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Israel’s annual state torch-lighting ceremony aired Monday night in a radically atypical format, as the country began marking a bleak 76th Independence Day, the first since Hamas’s October 7 terror massacre in southern Israel.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on Wednesday on a bill that would compel the Biden administration to approve arms sales to Israel.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that more than 1,000 members of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas were being treated in hospitals across Turkey as he reiterated his stance that it was a “resistance movement.”
Read more: Jerusalem Post
Anti-Israel protests are starting to dwindle on US campuses as universities wrap up the semester and adjourn for summer break, but the sentiments that drove the protests over the past few weeks still remain, with many college students taking advantage of graduation ceremonies to publicly oppose Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.
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Four Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers were wounded by anti-tank missiles fired from Lebanon into northern Israel, the IDF reported on Monday.
Read more: i24 News
Recent data published by the United Nations indicates a significant revision in the estimated number of women and children killed during the conflict in Gaza.
Read more: i24 News
Diplomatic shockwaves have been traveling between Washington and Jerusalem in the aftermath of a paused weapons shipment that was due to arrive in Israel last week.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel began marking a uniquely somber Memorial Day on Sunday evening, the first since Hamas’s brutal October 7 massacre in southern Israel, as the country commemorated the deadliest year in five decades for those killed in war and terror.
Read more: The Times of Israel
As the world’s attention is diverted to Gaza where Israel is waging a war against Hamas, Iran is working assiduously to develop its nuclear capability.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Israel Defense Forces asserted Thursday that the military had enough munitions for its planned missions, after United States President Joe Biden threatened that some arms shipments would be frozen if Israel launched a planned offensive in southern Gaza’s Rafah.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The United Nations General Assembly on Friday is set to back a Palestinian bid to become a full U.N. member by recognizing it as qualified to join and sending the application back to the U.N. Security Council to “reconsider the matter favorably.”
Read more: Ynetnews
Israel continues a missile strike on the city of Rafah, Hamas’ last stronghold in Gaza, after ceasefire talks with the terrorist regime once again fell apart.
Read more: Fox News
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to submit a report to Congress as early as Friday on Israel’s conduct in Gaza that criticizes the IDF’s conduct but stops short of concluding it has violated international law, according to a report presented by Axios on Thursday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
An Israeli soldier was killed in a Hezbollah-claimed mortar and missile attack on an army position in the area of the northern community of Malkia on Wednesday, the military announced Thursday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel carried out heavy airstrikes in south Lebanon and Hezbollah said it had launched explosive drones and rockets at Israeli targets on Wednesday as Israel’s defence minister warned of a “hot summer” in the border region.
Read more: Reuters
Israeli tanks and warplanes bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday, Palestinian residents said, after U.S. President Joe Biden vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces launch a major invasion of the southern Gaza city.
Read more: Reuters
President Joe Biden’s CNN interview threatening to cut off offensive weapons transfers to Israel if Israel invades Rafah drew quick criticism from Israel-backing Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill, and from mainstream Jewish and pro-Israel organizations across the country.
Read more: Jewish Insider
Amid the Biden administration’s decision to withhold arms from Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday reaffirmed Jerusalem’s resolve to defeat Hamas, even if it has to fight without U.S. backing.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate