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Terror victims sue UNRWA in US for alleged Hamas complicity

Victims of Hamas and Hezbollah terrorist attacks, and their relatives, on Thursday sued the United Nations agency dedicated to Palestinians, allegedly for aiding the armed groups and fueling terrorism.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Sa’ar to raise plight of hostages in UN Security Council session

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar will fly to New York on Monday night to attend a special U.N. Security Council meeting that he initiated about the situation of the hostages held in Gaza.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Kosher meals labeled ‘Free Palestine’ served on Iberia flight

Jewish passengers aboard a flight from Buenos Aires to Madrid had the phrase “Free Palestine” scribbled on their kosher meals on Tuesday, according to an Argentine Jewish group.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF intercepts missile from Yemen, 68th launched by Houthis since March

The Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen fired a ballistic missile at Israel early Tuesday morning, causing sirens to sound in central Israel and in Jerusalem-area towns.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Oct. 7 families sue Meta for $1 billion for allowing atrocity footage on Facebook

Families of victims of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas invasion of southern Israel have filed a class-action suit against Facebook parent Meta for failing to block the distribution of footage of the murder, abduction and torment of their loved ones.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Netanyahu: cabinet to convene this week to direct IDF on war goals

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday that he will convene the Israeli cabinet later this week to formally guide the IDF on how to achieve the three central objectives of the war: defeating Hamas, securing the release of Israeli hostages, and ensuring that Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel.

Read more: i24 News

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Dutch nurse under investigation after threatening to kill Zionist patients

A Muslim nurse in the Netherlands is being investigated for threatening on social media to kill Israeli patients.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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House speaker prays at Western Wall for US to ‘always stand with Israel’

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) offered a prayer at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on Sunday that America should always stand with Israel.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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US officials haven’t seen evidence of genocide in Gaza, Trump says

U.S. President Donald Trump was asked in a press gaggle in Allentown, Pa., on Sunday night whether U.S. officials, including Steve Witkoff, U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, saw evidence of genocide in Gaza.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hamas starving hostages ‘like the Nazis starved the Jews,’ Netanyahu says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday evening accused Palestinian terrorists of starving the hostages they have held in the Gaza Strip for 668 days “like the Nazis starved the Jews.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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US imposes new sanctions on Iran, harshest since leaving nuclear deal in 2018

The United States on Wednesday announced a sweeping set of new sanctions against Iran and entities linked to its oil trade, including companies, organizations and vessels involved in the transport and sale of petroleum and petrochemical products.

Read More: Y Net News

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Lebanese president orders Hezbollah to disarm, says weapons belong ‘exclusively’ to army

Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun called on Hezbollah and other political parties on Thursday to hand over their weapons to the army, a move the powerful terror group is resisting as Washington ramps up pressures for it to remove its arsenal.

Read More: Y Net News

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Report: Trump admin determines UNRWA is ‘irredeemably compromised,’ must be dismantled

The U.S. administration of Donald Trump has taken a first step toward declaring that the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the Hamas-linked aid agency, represents a serious impediment to any peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and must be disbanded, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Friday.

Read More: i24 News

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Israel evacuates diplomats from UAE after identifying heightened security risk

Israel was reportedly evacuating most of its diplomatic mission staff in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday after the National Security Council sharpened its travel warning for Israelis staying in the Gulf country.

Read More: The Times of Israel

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PIJ releases propaganda video of hostage Rom Braslavski

Palestinian Islamic Jihad on Thursday night released a propaganda video of Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski, whom the terrorist group has held in Gaza since the Hamas-led massacre in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Read More: Jewish News Syndicate

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Iran hiring criminal networks in Europe to attack Jews, US religious freedom report finds

Iran is “directly engaging criminal networks abroad to carry out attacks against Jewish targets and make Jews in Europe unsafe,” according to the July Iran report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF).

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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US to sanction Palestinian Authority, PLO members, State Dept. confirms

The United States will impose sanctions on several members of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization, the State Department said on Thursday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Israel says Gazan boy in viral image was treated for genetic disorder in Israel in 2018

Israel claimed Thursday that a viral image of 14-year-old Palestinian boy Abdul Qader al-Fayoumi, who reportedly died of starvation in Gaza, is misleading, saying the teen suffered from a genetic neurological disorder and was treated in Israel in 2018.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Israel delivers humanitarian aid to southern Syria Druze

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday it had delivered some 2 million shekels ($450,000) worth of humanitarian aid to the embattled Druze population of Sweida in southern Syria.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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‘Shameful’ Canadian plan to recognize ‘Palestine’ rewards Hamas—Israeli deputy FM

Canada’s intention to recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September will only serve to embolden Hamas terrorists, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel told JNS on Thursday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate