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05/21/2021
In the 11 days of the Israeli Defense Forces’ “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” Israeli forces destroyed some 62 miles of Hamas’s tunnel network in the Gaza Strip, according to IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Hidai Zilberman.
Speaking hours after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire took effect on Friday, Zilberman reported that some 200...
05/21/2021
During a press conference with South Korean President Moon Jae-In on Friday, US President Joe Biden said there had been no shift in the Democratic Party's commitment to the security of the State of Israel, reiterating the party's long-standing support for a "two-state solution" to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
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05/21/2021
A Jewish man who was badly beaten by a pro-Palestinian mob in New York City on Thursday has spoken out about the experience, saying he thought he was “going to die” during the attack.
New York police are conducting a hate crimes investigation into the attack.
Joseph Borgen, 29, was beaten by a group of people shouting...
05/21/2021
A man was arrested and several others were being sought in connection with an attack on a Jewish man in New York’s Times Square that drew the attention of several politicians and is being investigated as a hate crime, police said on Friday.
The attack on Thursday, captured in a video that was shared on social media, followed rival...
05/21/2021
An effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) to block a $735 million arms sale to Israel appears doomed in the Senate.
Progressives are mounting a late effort to try to stop the sale amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas, which entered a cease-fire phase on Thursday evening.
But Sanders’s effort is shaping to be largely...
05/20/2021
After more than a week since Hamas terrorists began launching rockets at Israeli cities, a growing number of non-Jewish Iranian activists, journalists and individuals in Iran and outside the country have been vocal in their support for the people of Israel.
Whether via social-media messages or by demonstrating alongside pro-Israel...
05/21/2021
One person was burned when two fireworks were thrown from a car amid an altercation with anti-Zionist protesters in a heavily Jewish New York City business district, according to police.
The fight came on Thursday evening, on what appeared to be the final day of the conflict between Hamas and Israel, before a ceasefire that took...
05/21/2021
The Israeli security cabinet voted to accept a ceasefire late Thursday as the Israeli South and Gaza remain inflamed.
The security cabinet unanimously agreed to a "mutual and unconditional" cessation of hostilities, according to a statement from the Prime Minister's Office.
A barrage of rockets fired from Gaza into southern...
05/21/2021
IDF says that 225 Gaza terrorists killed, including 25 senior commanders
As the ceasefire between Hamas and Israel held into Friday morning, Israel touted the success of its completed military campaign against terrorist targets in Gaza, dubbed Operation Guardian of the Walls.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it destroyed...
05/18/2021
There have been 86 reports of antisemitic incidents over the past ten days, the Community Security Trust has confirmed.
New statistics published on Monday confirmed a staggering 438 percent rise in such incidents since hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians erupted on May 6.
Of the 86 antisemitic incidents, almost all...
05/21/2021
From New York and California to Illinois and Utah, the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza has generated a disturbing backlash against American Jews – who have found themselves the targets of death threats, hate speech and violent physical attacks.
"Stop telling me this is about Israel and Gaza," said a New Yorker who was...
05/20/2021
Since war broke out in Israel last week, President Joe Biden has walked a fine line. His administration has touted its high-level diplomacy in hopes of reaching a cease-fire, while also defending Israel’s right to defend itself.
On Wednesday, the president mildly increased the pressure on the Israelis, saying he expected to see...
05/20/2021
Hamas's Izzadin Al-Qassam Brigades targeted a bus that had been carrying Israeli soldiers north of the Gaza Strip with an anti-tank missile and subsequently launched a barrage of mortar shells towards the site where the bus allegedly was targeted on Thursday morning.
The IDF reported that the bus was empty and one soldier was...
05/20/2021
The mother of a six-year-old boy from the southern Israeli town of Sderot who was killed in a rocket attack last week expressed her grief on Wednesday to a representative of the World Health Organization, saying her son “absorbed the wound for all of us.”
Ido Avigal was killed on May 12 when a nearby house suffered a direct hit...
05/20/2021
The drone Israel shot down near the border with Jordan on Tuesday was Iranian, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday.
“While we were engaged in these hostilities a few days ago, Iran sent an armed drone from Iraq or from Syria,” Netanyahu told German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who was in Jerusalem. “Iranian forces...
05/19/2021
I was born in the Jordanian-occupied Old City in Jerusalem and lived in a UN refugee camp from 1966 until 1999. During the First Intifada, I worked for B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, and in 1996 I founded the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring group. With my...
05/18/2021
The Israel Defense Forces said Tuesday night that the military conducted an aerial bombardment of Gaza’s terrorist tunnel network.
At around 10 pm, 52 Israeli Air Force planes unloaded 122 bombs on some 40 underground targets that are part of the so-called “Hamas Metro,” focusing their aim on the southern Gaza Strip in Khan Younis...
05/18/2021
The Israel Defense Forces said Hamas and other terrorist groups shot some 3,700 rockets from the Gaza Strip at Israel, as of 7 pm on Thursday.
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad started shooting rockets at Israeli cities on May 10, prompting a swift and ongoing response by the IDF.
The IDF said later on Thursday that its strikes...
05/18/2021
Former Vice President Mike Pence slammed the Biden administration for attempting to create a "false equivalency" between Israel and Hamas, saying he and former President Donald Trump "set the table for lasting peace and an end to the decades-old conflict in the region," but that President Biden has offered "weakness and ambivalence" as...
05/18/2021
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Iran and Hamas sense "weakness" in the Biden administration’s approach to the Middle East, a perception that emboldened the terror group's aggression against Israel.
"These are ideologues who believe deeply in the extermination of the Jewish State," Pompeo said Tuesday at an event hosted...