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France bans Israeli companies from prestigious defense trade show

France is canceling the participation of Israeli companies in the Eurosatory defense exhibition, the organizer said Friday.

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House committee asks SJP for its funding documents

National Students for Justice in Palestine has until June 12 to provide the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability with documentation of its communications related to Oct. 7 and its funding sources, according to a letter sent by the committee chair on Wednesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Biden faces new break with pro-Israel Democrats

A group of 19 pro-Israel House Democrats is pushing back on the White House’s opposition to sanctions against the International Criminal Court for its top prosecutor’s decision to seek arrest warrants against senior Israeli officials.

Read more: Axios

Two soldiers killed in Gaza as IDF leaves Jabaliya, presses into center of Rafah

Israeli soldiers pulled out of the Jabaliya refugee camp Friday, wrapping up an operation to clear out Hamas-led fighters who had re-entrenched in northern Gaza, as troops pushed a pinpoint offensive deeper into the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the military said Friday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Hamas: No hostage talks unless Israel ends war

The Hamas terror organization reiterated on Thursday night that it intends to end ongoing negotiations with Israel, which would see the hostages being held in the Gaza Strip released in exchange for a ceasefire and the release of terrorists in Israeli custody, unless the Jewish state first ends the war in Gaza.
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Fetterman gets standing ovation at Yeshiva graduation for removing Harvard robe hood

Addressing graduates at Yeshiva University’s commencement on Wednesday, Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) noted that he was last at a graduation “literally a quarter century ago,” when he graduated from Harvard University.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

IDF downs cruise missile over Golan Heights

The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday afternoon confirmed that earlier in the day “a cruise missile coming from the east” had been shot down over the Golan Heights.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

European powers seek action against Iran at IAEA meeting despite US concerns

Britain, France and Germany have circulated a draft resolution against Iran ahead of the U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board meeting next week and appear determined to push it despite opposition from their U.S. ally, three diplomats said on Wednesday.

Read more: Reuters

Mossad: Iran-backed criminal networks behind attacks on Israeli embassies in Europe

Iran is behind a string of terror attacks by criminal networks on Israeli embassies in Europe since October 7, the Mossad intelligence agency said in a rare statement on Thursday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Two IDF soldiers die of wounds from Samaria terror attack

Two Israeli soldiers have died after being seriously wounded in a terrorist vehicular assault near the city of Nablus (Shechem) in Samaria on Wednesday night, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday morning.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

IDF takes control of key Gaza-Egypt border road, locating at least 20 tunnels

The Israeli military announced on Wednesday that it had established “operational control” over the entire so-called Philadelphi Route along the Gaza-Egypt border, discovering dozens of rocket launchers and at least 20 cross-border smuggling tunnels there so far.

Read more: The Times of Israel

3 soldiers killed in blast in booby-trapped building in Gaza’s Rafah

The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday announced the deaths of three soldiers during fighting in Gaza a day earlier, as it continued major military operations in Rafah in the southern Strip and Jabaliya in the north.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Hezbollah prepared to continue war for up to a year, may carry out operations inside Israel – Lebanese media

Hezbollah is prepared to continue the war until the US elections and possibly until next spring, according to unnamed “sources” quoted by the Lebanese news agency El-Nashra.

Read more: The Times of Israel

White House: No policy change after Rafah strike

The Biden administration has made no policy changes in the wake of Israel’s airstrike in Rafah on Sunday night, U.S. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said on Tuesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

‘Damaged’ Gaza pier to be removed for at least a week for repairs, Pentagon says

The U.S. Department of Defense announced that it will remove a temporary pier off the Gazan coast for at least a week for repairs, after the top of the T-shaped pier separated and drifted into the coast on Tuesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Fighting escalates in Rafah as Israel pushes ahead with its offensive

Palestinian residents of the southern Gaza city of Rafah have reported an escalation of fighting Tuesday as Israeli forces pressed their assault on the border town once seen as the territory’s last refuge.

Read more: Israel Hayom

Shrapnel from Israeli strike may have ignited fuel tank near Rafah tents — report

Israeli officials have told the US that they believe tents housing displaced Gazans went up in flames after a fuel tank was set alight following an airstrike on top Hamas terrorists nearby, according to a report Monday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Iran respects strength, takes advantage of weakness, says fmr. US CENTCOM commander

The US’s assassination of then IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020 shows that Iran respects strength and takes advantage of weakness, warned General Kenneth F. McKenzie, the former head of US CENTCOM, the command responsible for US operations in the Middle East.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post