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Hamas leader calls for suicide attacks in Judea and Samaria

Hamas leader abroad Khaled Mashaal on Wednesday called for a return to suicide terror attacks against Israelis in Judea and Samaria.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

UNSC omits Hezbollah from resolution renewing peacekeepers mandate

The United Nations Security Council omitted any mention of Hezbollah as it extended the annual mandate of its peacekeeping force along Israel’s northern border, who are tasked with monitoring compliance with Resolution 1701.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

5 Palestinian gunmen, including top commander, killed by IDF at West Bank mosque

Israeli forces killed five Palestinian gunmen overnight who were hiding in a mosque in the West Bank city of Tulkarem, including a local terror leader, the Israel Defense Forces, police and Shin Bet security agency said on Thursday morning.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Rescued Israeli hostage ‘spoke about the darkness, not being able to see’

Qaid Farhan Alkadi, who was rescued from Gaza by Israeli forces on Tuesday after 326 days in Hamas captivity, was released from Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center on Wednesday afternoon.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Biden administration throws cold water on prospect of renewed Iran nuclear talks

After the supreme leader of Iran signaled a willingness to return to nuclear negotiations with the United States, the Biden administration cast doubt on the likelihood of resuming talks in the near future.

Read more: ABC News

German company 3W linked to Hezbollah drones used in attack on Israel

The Lebanese terrorist movement Hezbollah fired a drone at Israel on Sunday that contained technology from the German company 3W-International, according to video footage obtained of the fired aerial device that landed near Kibbutz Dan.

Read more: i24 News

Israel’s new ambassador issues stark warning to UN over Hezbollah, Iran inaction

FIRST ON FOX: The new Israeli ambassador to the United Nations has issued a stern warning to the international body amid escalating tensions with Hezbollah and concerns that Iran could be close to obtaining a nuclear weapon.
Read more: Fox News

Hamas leader Sinwar, surrounded by 22 handcuffed hostages’

The Jewish Chronicle reports that out of the 108 hostages believed to be still held in Gaza, only about 20 are alive and under Hamas's control. These captives are reportedly being used to surround Sinwar, providing protection for the Hamas leader who remains in hiding underground.
Read more: Israel Hayom

IDF launches large counterterror op in northern Samaria

The Israel Defense Forces launched a large-scale counterterrorism operation in the Jenin and Tulkarem areas of northern Samaria overnight Tuesday, involving hundreds of troops and air support.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Yahya Sinwar reportedly hiding in plain sight ‘dressed as a woman’

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has left tunnels under the Gaza Strip and is now walking around "dressed as a woman," according to a report Monday in the UK's Daily Express.

Shalom Ben Hanan, a former Shin Bet security agency official involved in the hunt for Sinwar, said that he likely is not staying in tunnels for more than 24 hours to 36 hours at...

Already under multi-state probe, MSCI allegedly penalizes Israeli banks that operate in Judea, Samaria

The state-owned Bank of China operates a branch in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, where Washington has assessed that China is committing genocide against the ethnic Uyghur population. Still, the major U.S. investment advisory firm MSCI gives the bank a “green” score in its social and human-rights categories, meaning it “is not involved in...

IDF: 90% of Hezbollah rockets, drones fired from civilian areas

Nearly all of the hundreds of rockets and drones Hezbollah fired at Israel early Sunday were positioned in civilian areas of Lebanon near mosques, schools, gas stations and United Nations sites, the Israel Defense Forces said on Monday night.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Halevi hosts US army chief Brown in north; Gallant says must be ready to thwart Iran nukes

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi on Monday said the military was working to return displaced residents of northern Israel to their homes “as quickly as possible,” given daily attacks by Hezbollah.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Massive number of college students are afraid to admit they’re Jewish as antisemitism soars on campuses

A whopping 44% of college students and recent graduates said they “rarely” or “never” feel safe identifying as Jewish on campus as antisemitism soars, according to an eye-opening new survey.

Some 81% of college students and 69% of alums surveyed by the advocacy group Alums for Campus Fairness said they avoid certain places, events and...

Hostage Qaid Farhan al-Qadi, 52, rescued by IDF from tunnel in Gaza

An Israeli hostage was rescued by IDF troops from a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip earlier today, the military announces.

The rescued hostage is Qaid Farhan al-Qadi, 52, from a Bedouin community near the southern city of Rahat, who was working as a guard at a packing factory in Kibbutz Magen on October 7. Al-Qadi was abducted by Hamas...

The battle over Iran’s terror financing

It’s the Middle East’s quiet war.  How can you cut Hezbollah off from its lifeblood — Iranian petrodollars?

While the world’s attention has been focused on Gaza and the intensifying skirmishes farther north between Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which diplomats fear could trigger a broader war, a battle over Iranian terror financing has been...

Man arrested in France synagogue arson, as ISIS claims German stabbing attack ‘to avenge Muslims in Palestine’

A man has been arrested in France after a synagogue there was set ablaze early Saturday morning, in at least the second French synagogue arson in recent months.

And police in Germany said they had taken into custody a 26-year-old Syrian man in connection a stabbing rampage at a music festival that left three dead.

Read more: Jewish...

Israel receives 500th aircraft with military supplies from US

Israel on Monday received its 500th aerial shipment of weapons and military supplies from the United States as part of a large-scale logistical effort that began with the outbreak of the war following Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

Israel’s economy in grave danger as Gaza war drags on, economists warn

In Jerusalem’s Old City, nearly all souvenir shops are closed. In Haifa’s flea market, forlorn merchants polish their wares on empty streets. Airlines are canceling flights, businesses are failing and luxury hotels are half empty.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Cairo negotiations break down as Israel, Hamas fail to reach compromise

The latest round of hostage negotiations ended without results as the Israeli delegation led by Mossad chief David Barnea returned home from Cairo on Sunday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate