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Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announces the death of lawmaker Hasan Bitmez, local media reports, two days after he collapsed in parliament, suffering a heart attack at the end of a livestreamed parliamentary speech in which he slammed Israel and said it wouldn’t be able to “escape the wrath of Allah.”
Read more: The Times of Israel
White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby suggested Wednesday that some of the steps the Israeli military has taken to prevent civilian casualties in Gaza might go further than what the US would have done if it were in Israel’s place.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel's ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan held a sign showing the phone number of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar’s Hamas office at a UN General Assembly meeting on Tuesday.
"You want a real cease-fire?” Erdan declared, admonishing UNGA members to ask him directly as he held up a sign depicting Sinwar's office phone number, since the terrorist...
The Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen “have crossed a red line in the Red Sea,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Wednesday.
“The US-led international activities against the Houthi terror-pirates must be bolstered and strengthened in the form of a truly international coalition,” the president continued his tweet.
Read more: Jewish News...
The Israel Defense Forces struck Hezbollah terrorists and their infrastructure in Southern Lebanon on Wednesday, the military said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Ten Israeli soldiers fell in battle in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the IDF announced on Wednesday morning. Nine were killed during a Hamas ambush in the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya, according to the military.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Israel Defense Forces struck several terror sites in Lebanon on Tuesday in response to ongoing rocket-fire at the Jewish state.
The military said that two launches were detected, to which it responded by shelling the source of the fire.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The IDF retrieved the bodies of Eden Zechariah and IDF Warrant Officer Ziv Dado, two of the Israelis taken hostage by Hamas on October 7, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said on Tuesday.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
A missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck a Norwegian-flagged tanker in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen near a key maritime chokepoint, authorities said Tuesday.
According to Hebrew-language reports, the tanker was scheduled to anchor at Ashdod’s port early next month.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Israeli Air Force overnight Monday destroyed a launch site in Jabalia from which rockets were being fired toward the western Negev city of Sderot, one of several launch sites attacked over the past 24 hours across the Gaza Strip.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Gilad Erdan, Israel's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), on Monday reacted to the news of anticipated visit by the UN's Security Council (UNSC) delegation to the Rafah border crossing. The Council representatives are said to evaluate the aid provided to the Gaza residents and discuss the ways to improve the humanitarian situation...
Released hostages Maya and and her younger brother Itay Regev spoke about their time in Hamas captivity in Gaza and their desire for their friend, Omer, to be freed, in a video posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday by Bring Them Home Now.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Palestinian terrorists in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley have escalated their campaign against Israeli civilians and security forces in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre in the northwestern Negev, data published by Channel 14 News on Monday shows.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Israel Defense Forces announced the death of seven more soldiers on Monday morning, six of whom were killed during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, bringing the toll of slain troops in the ground offensive against Hamas to 104.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot on Friday spoke with a combination of heartbroken pain and military determination at the funeral of his son, Master Sgt. (res.) Gal Meir Eisenkot, 25, who was killed Thursday fighting in the Gaza Strip.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A man fired shotgun blasts and shouted "Free Palestine" outside a Jewish temple Thursday in Albany, New York, where at least two dozen children — including preschoolers — were inside.
The suspect, a 28-year-old male, fired the shotgun outside Temple Israel around 2 p.m.
Read more: Fox News
The Israel Defense Forces’s 98th Division, under the command of Brig. Gen. Dan Goldfus, is engaged in intense combat operations in the Khan Yunis area, a key stronghold of the Hamas terrorist organization, the military said on Friday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is slated to host an event on “Race, Liberation and Palestine” from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Dec. 7. The seminar will include Noura Erakat, Nick Estes and Marc Lamont Hill, the latter two of whom have been accused of antisemitism.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hamas redirects humanitarian aid deliveries to its tunnels for use by members of the terrorist group, a Gaza woman told an Al Jazeera reporter.
According to the exchange posted to social media on Wednesday night, the elderly woman said that “all aid goes down . The aid does not reach the nation and entire people.”
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
An Israeli civilian was killed after Hezbollah terrorists fired an anti-tank missile at his vehicle near the Lebanese border Thursday.
The 60-year-old man was hit in an agricultural field near Moshav Mattat and was taken by the military to Fasuta Junction where they waited for Magen David Adom paramedics to arrive.
Read more: The Times of...
