Gallant: Hamas’s Rafah brigade has been defeated
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared on Wednesday during a visit to the Gaza-Egypt border that the IDF has achieved victory over Hamas’s Rafah brigade.
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IDF launches ‘extensive’ strikes against Hezbollah in 10 areas of southern Lebanon
The IDF said Thursday that it carried out “extensive” airstrikes against Hezbollah terror group sites in southern Lebanon overnight, as the spiraling violence between the two sides showed no sign of losing momentum.
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Israeli consulate ‘appalled’ by violent protest near its Chicago office
The Consulate General of Israel to the Midwest stated on Tuesday night that it is “beyond disappointed” by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s “ongoing support” for anti-Israel protests across the city, particularly during the Democratic National Convention.
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Biden-Harris admin waives sanctions on state-run Iranian media
The Biden-Harris administration recently renewed a sanctions waiver for Iran’s state-controlled broadcaster, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), which publishes antisemitic and anti-Israel content.
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IDF confirms elimination of Iranian proxy commander in Lebanon
An IDF spokesperson verified that an aerial attack on a vehicle in Sidon on Wednesday eliminated Khalil al-Maqdah, a top-ranking member of Fatah and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades in Lebanon. The target was identified as the sibling of a high-level operative in the Lebanese arm of the terror group, which is known to support Iranian objectives on...
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Hezbollah fires 50 rockets at Golan, wounding one
A man was moderately wounded by a 50-rocket barrage launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah at Katzrin in the Golan Heights on Wednesday morning.
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Israel-Hamas ceasefire talks ‘on the brink of collapsing’
Gaza ceasefire talks are “on the brink of collapsing” as negotiators head to Cairo this week to discuss the latest proposal, Politico reported on Tuesday, citing two U.S. and two Israeli officials.
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Bipartisan ‘Stand with Israel Act’ seeks to withhold US funds from anti-Israel UN agencies
Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York and Democrat Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida introduced the "Stand with Israel Act" on Monday which will "require the withholding of US funding to UN agencies that expel, downgrade, suspend, or otherwise restrict the participation of the State of Israel," according to a statement from Lawler's office.
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Bereaved US families call for probe into ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’
In a striking development, dozens of American families who lost loved ones in the October 7 attack near Gaza are pressing US Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) organization. The American families assert that SJP is violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), claiming that since...
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Israel’s intelligence wary of West Bank terrorist spillage into Israeli cities
Recently, the National Intelligence Directorate alerted the defense establishment about a potential escalation in the West Bank, possibly reaching the scale of an intifada, with bombings and suicide attacks within Israel. The attack near a synagogue in Tel Aviv on Sunday might be yet another sign that the warning of an imminent armed escalation in...
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Biden says Hamas ‘backing away’ from hostage-ceasefire deal, as Blinken heads to Egypt
US President Joe Biden accused Hamas on Monday night of “backing away” from a hostage deal with Israel that would halt the ongoing fighting in Gaza, as the Wall Street Journal reported that the terror group’s chief, Yahya Sinwar, believes the latest round of negotiations is a “bluff” meant to grant Israel further time to continue its military...
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Hezbollah fires 75 rockets at northern Israel
Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah launched a 55-rocket barrage at the Upper Galilee and Golan Heights on Tuesday morning, followed by a 20-rocket barrage in the afternoon, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
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The jihadist who became a Zionist
Kasim Hafeez grew up in a Pakistani Muslim immigrant community in Britain that was rife with antisemitism and Israel hatred. Every day, he was exposed to anti-Western ideas. As a student he decided to join a terrorist organization to kill or be killed for the cause, but an accidental intervention of fate caused him to change course, and walk a...
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IDF recovers remains of six hostages murdered in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday morning recovered the bodies of six hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7, from a tunnel in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
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Blinken arrives in Israel to push cease-fire deal amid doubts of success
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel for a trip focused on bridging the significant gaps between Israel and Hamas on a U.S.-sponsored cease-fire proposal aimed at ending 10 months of fighting in the devastated Gaza Strip.
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news Israel at War PA informs Israel of Abbas’s intent to visit Gaza Strip
Palestinian Authority leaders have started contacting countries and global bodies, including Israel, to receive backing and lay the groundwork for a visit by P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas to the Gaza Strip, Ramallah’s official Wafa news agency reported Sunday.
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House Intelligence Committee chairman says Iran could “declare itself a nuclear weapons state by the end of the year”
Rep. Mike Turner, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that Iran could declare itself a nuclear weapons state "by the end of the year," blaming Biden administration policies for what would mark a major escalation that the U.S. has sought for years to avoid.
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Heavy fighting in Rafah, Hamas launches rockets from schools, clinic, cemetery, military says
The military said that Hamas used two schools a field hospital and a cemetery to launch rockets at Israeli communities in the south. "This is a further example of the systematic abuse of civilian and humanitarian infrastructure by the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza," the military said adding it had killed the terrorist responsible for rocket...
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Hezbollah barrage kills one, wounds another in the Galilee
An IDF chief warrant officer was killed and a combat officer was seriously wounded on Monday morning when a drone launched from Lebanon slammed into Moshav Ya’ara in the Western Galilee, the army confirmed.
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Hamas, Islamic Jihad claim failed Tel Aviv suicide bombing
The “military” wings of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist groups accepted responsibility on Monday afternoon for a failed suicide bombing attack in south Tel Aviv the previous night.
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