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In The News

Bibas family hopes new video of kidnapped mom and kids ‘shocks world’ into action

Relatives of the Bibas family held captive in Gaza said Tuesday they hoped newly published video of mom Shiri Bibas being hustled through Khan Younis by gunmen as she clutched her toddler and infant would help jar the world and Israel’s leaders into action, expressing outrage that they are still being held hostage.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IDF to begin probe into response to Oct. 7 attack

The Israel Defense Forces in the coming days will start an internal investigation into the military’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas-led massacre and the period preceding the cross-border invasion.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israeli fighter jets strike Hezbollah targets in Lebanon

Israeli fighter jets struck several Hezbollah terrorist targets in Southern Lebanon on Tuesday morning.
Two launch posts were hit in the areas of Yaroun and Marwahin, where the previous day several Hezbollah terrorists were eliminated in an airstrike on “military” infrastructure, the IDF said.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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‘Their fate is sealed’: IDF demolishes tunnel spanning length of Gaza

The IDF’s 646th Reserve Brigade, during its operations over the past months, destroyed a “strategic” subterranean Hamas tunnel route that ran from northern to southern Gaza, the IDF stated on Tuesday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Russia’s worrisome invite to Hamas, PIJ and its implications

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said over the weekend that Russia had invited Palestinian factions to meet in Moscow, according to Al-Ain media in the UAE. Russia’s state news TASS said it could take place from February 29 to March 2. The invitation is the latest Russian move to try to increase its influence in the wake of...

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Judea and Samaria: 350% rise in terrorist attacks

Judea and Samaria saw a dramatic rise in terrorist attacks in 2023 compared to the previous year, with shootings reaching their highest level since the Second Intifada of 2000-05, Israel Defense Forces data shows.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF finds Iranian tech underneath UNRWA headquarters

Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip have found evidence connecting the regime in Tehran with both the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Kan reported on Monday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israel expects up to 8 weeks of intense fighting in Gaza

Jerusalem expects intense fighting to continue in Gaza for another six to eight weeks, including in Rafah city, before scaling back the war effort, Reuters reported on Monday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hamas rejects Israeli proposal to release 1,500 inmates for hostages

Hamas has rejected an Israeli offer to free all hostages taken into the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of 1,500 Palestinians from Israeli prisons, Saudi media outlet Al-Arabiya reported on Thursday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Paratrooper killed in Gaza, as IDF arrests Oct. 7 terrorists in Khan Younis hospital

The Israel Defense Forces announced on Friday that Staff Sgt. Noam Haba, 20, of the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion, from Jerusalem, was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip, raising the IDF’s death toll since the beginning of the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip to 234.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Deputy Iran envoy’s strong statement hollow sans action, experts say

Abram Paley, deputy special envoy for Iran at the U.S. State Department, raised eyebrows when he posted on social media that the Islamic Republic “has brought only violence and corruption at home and abroad,” instead of “embracing peace and prosperity.”

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Terrorist kills two Israelis, wounds four in shooting in southern Israel

A terrorist shot and killed two Israelis and wounded four others on Friday afternoon at a bus stop near the Re’em Masmiya Junction, near Kiryat Malachi in the northern Negev, medical officials said.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF exposes another Al Jazeera reporter as a Hamas terrorist

For the second time in a week, the Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday exposed a Palestinian reporter working for Al Jazeera in the Gaza Strip as a Hamas terrorist operative.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Tlaib ‘present,’ as House votes unanimously to condemn Hamas for rape

The U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously, 418-0, to condemn Hamas terrorists for rape and sexual violence on Oct. 7.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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US says it nabbed vessel carrying arms from Iran to Yemeni rebels

The US military said on Thursday it had seized an Iranian weapons shipment in January that was destined for Yemen’s Houthi rebels who have been attacking vessels in the Red Sea.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IDF kills 15 Hamas terrorists, including Oct. 7 perpetrators

In recent days, Israeli forces in Gaza have carried out targeted killings of around 15 Hamas terrorists, including some who participated in the Oct. 7 massacres, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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‘Hamas is Hitler’s successor’: Hostages’ families head to The Hague to file complaint

A delegation of family members of Israeli hostages being held captive by Hamas in Gaza set off Wednesday morning from Ben Gurion airport to The Hague in the Netherlands, where they will file complaints of war crimes against Hamas leaders at the International Criminal Court.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IAEA: Iran ‘not entirely transparent’ on its nuclear program

Tehran is being less than forthright with the International Atomic Energy Agency regarding its nuclear program, said IAEA Director-General Rafael Mariano Grossi on Tuesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Terrorists in Samaria open fire on northern kibbutz

Palestinian terrorists in Samaria opened fire on Tuesday on the northern Israeli farming community of Meirav, located inside the country’s pre-1967 lines, a spokesperson for the kibbutz said.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hezbollah rocket kills one, wounds eight in Safed

A rocket fired from Lebanon by the Hezbollah terrorist group hit a building in the northern Israeli city of Safed, killing at least one person and wounding eight others.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate