Tunnel shaft found in Khan Yunis City Hall was Hamas gathering point
July 8, 2024 by Pesach Benson
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Israeli soldiers continued pressing attacks on Hamas across the Gaza Strip over the weekend, the Israel Defence Forces said on Sunday morning, including strikes on a tunnel shaft discovered in the Khan Yunis city hall and a UNRWA school used by the terror group as a command centre. Read more
Polarized society raised probability of October 7 attack
June 28, 2024 by Pesach Benson
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Seventy-two per cent of Israelis believe internal divisions over judicial reform increased the likelihood of Hamas’s October 7 attack, according to a survey released on Thursday. Read more
October 7 victims file US$1 billion lawsuit against UNRWA
June 25, 2024 by Pesach Benson
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More than 100 survivors of Hamas’s October 7 attacks filed a $1 billion lawsuit against the United Relief and Works Agency for “aiding and abetting” Hamas on Monday. Read more
Israel strikes UNRWA facility taken over by Hamas
June 24, 2024 by Pesach Benson
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The Israeli military struck buildings used by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad that previously served as headquarters for the UN Relief and Works Agency in northern Gaza, the Israel Defence Forces said on Sunday. Read more
Biden says no Gaza ceasefire deal soon
President Joe Biden says he doesn’t expect to seal a Gaza ceasefire deal in the near future, as a US-backed proposal with global support has not been fully embraced by Israel or Hamas. Read more
US mulls own talks on hostage deal with Hamas: report
US officials are considering negotiating a unilateral deal with Palestinian Hamas terrorists to release five US hostages held in the Gaza Strip if ceasefire talks involving Israel fail, NBC News reports. Read more
Zones of chaos as Hamas struggles to maintain its grip on Gaza
June 4, 2024 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
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After eight months of war, Gaza no longer has a governing continuum, and parts of it have become islands where various degrees of both chaos and governance exist. Read more
Biden: Forget Ceasefire – Focus on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine
June 3, 2024 by David Singer
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President Biden has misleadingly claimed that Israel has offered a roadmap leading to an enduring ceasefire in Gaza: Read more
US plan not a good deal but Israel accepts it: Netanyahu aide
An aide to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that Israel has accepted a framework deal for winding down the Gaza war being advanced by US President Joe Biden. Read more
International Court of Justice orders Israel to halt Rafah operations
May 26, 2024 by J-Wire Newsdesk
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The International Court of Justice ordered Israel to immediately halt its military operations in Rafah on Friday. Read more
‘Positive engagement’ with Israel over aid worker death
The Australian government has welcomed “positive engagements” with Israel over an investigation into the killing of an aid worker as questions are raised about the prime minister’s response to alleged war crimes. Read more
‘It’s a political court’: legal expert slams expected warrants for Israeli leaders
May 21, 2024 by Pesach Benson
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Israeli officials responded with anger to International Criminal Court Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan’s announcement that he will seek arrest warrants for both Hamas and Israeli leaders for war crimes in Gaza on Monday. Read more
ICC prosecutor seeks arrest of Netanyahu, Hamas leaders
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is seeking arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in connection with their actions during the seven-month war. Read more
Israel forces operating in eastern Rafah and other Gaza areas
May 13, 2024 by Pesach Benson
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Israel military forces continued operating in eastern Rafah, as well as in the northern Gaza areas of Jabaliya and Zeitoun, the Israel Defence Forces said on Sunday. Read more
“A sad and shameful day for all Australians”
May 11, 2024 by AAP J-Wire
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Australia’s support of a UN resolution on Palestine will help to broker peace, the foreign minister says, but a Labor MP argues it will leave Jewish Australians isolated. Read more
US push for Qatar to expel Hamas gathers momentum
May 6, 2024 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
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American pressure on Qatar to expel the Hamas leadership is mounting as the Gulf state’s mediation of another ceasefire collapsed. Read more
Rockets in Gaza kill three IDF soldiers
May 6, 2024 by Pesach Benson
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Three soldiers were killed and 11 injured in a rocket attack on the Kerem Shalom crossing. Read more
Prime Minister Netanyahu: ‘Capitulating to Hamas’s demands would be a terrible defeat’
May 6, 2024 by Gil Tanenbaum - TPS
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday commented on the ongoing negations for the release of Israelis who have been held hostage in Gaza for the past seven months, calling media reports about them provocative and the cause of “needless suffering to the families of the hostages that are enduring a nightmare.” Read more
Hamas negotiators begin Gaza truce talks in Cairo
Hamas negotiators have begun intensified talks on a possible Gaza truce that would bring a halt to the fighting and the return to Israel of some hostages, a Hamas official says, with the CIA director already present in Cairo for the indirect diplomacy. Read more
Hamas negotiators arrive in Cairo for Gaza truce talks
Hamas negotiators have arrived in Cairo for intensified talks on a possible Gaza truce that would see the return to Israel of some hostages, a Hamas official says, with the CIA director already present for the indirect diplomacy. Read more
Gaza divisions hurt Australia’s soft power: minister
Australia’s multiculturalism is one of its greatest sources of soft power but this is being challenged as violence in Gaza fuels impassioned debates and protests, an assistant minister says. Read more
Israeli troops recover slain Gaza hostage
Israel says its special forces have recovered the body of a hostage killed while being held captive in Gaza, as the Palestinian enclave’s dominant Islamist movement Hamas said it would take part in a new round of ceasefire talks in Cairo. Read more
Hamas slashes food prices as Gaza residents struggle with poverty
April 5, 2024 by Pesach Benson
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Contradicting claims of famine in Gaza, Hamas lowered the prices of food, while residents said the problem was a lack of money to purchase the basics. Read more
Freed Thai hostages wed, plan to return to Israel
Two Thai citizens who were abducted to Gaza during the Oct. 7 Hamas invasion and were later freed have married and are planning to return to Israel for work. Read more
Unrest grips Jordan as Hamas leader’s words ignite protests
April 4, 2024 by Baruch Yedid - TPS
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Tensions between Hamas and Jordan have soared in recent days, with officials in Amman suggesting that the Jordanian citizenship of the terror group’s leaders be revoked. Read more
Hamas knows 11% of its rockets landed within Gaza
The Israeli agency COGAT has reported on how the Hamas terrorist organisation’s attacks on Israel actually lead directly to the deaths of people in Gaza saying, “Hamas does not care about Gaza civilians.” Read more
‘I raped her’: Palestinian terrorist admits sexually assaulting Israeli woman on Oct 7
March 29, 2024 by Pesach Benson
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The Israel Defence Forces has released footage of a Palestinian terrorist describing to his interrogator how he raped an Israeli woman during Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israeli communities near the Gaza border. Read more
Israel’s Orwellian nightmare
March 29, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
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For the Jewish world, these are nightmarish, hallucinatory times. Israel is fighting a hydra-headed genocidal enemy that not only slaughtered 1,200 women, children and men and took more than 240 hostages but intends to repeat such atrocities until Israel is destroyed. Read more
Anatomy of an antisemite
March 29, 2024 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
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Francesca Albanese is at it again, cloaking her Jew-hatred in legalese and justifying it through denial. Read more
IDF begins isolating Rafah, orders 40,000 tents
The Israel Defence Forces has begun isolating Rafah in southern Gaza and has started taking steps to evacuate the city’s civilian population, Channel 12 reported on Wednesday. Read more