The IDF Spokesperson said on Monday night that the military conducted precise, targeted strikes against Hamas terror targets in Eastern Rafah. The Prime Minister's Office said earlier on Monday night that the War Cabinet had agreed to continue with Israel's planned Rafah operation. "The War Cabinet unanimously decided that Israel continues the operation in Rafah to exert military pressure on Hamas in order to promote the release of our hostages and the other goals of the war," the...
The Biden administration tried to argue Thursday that if Israel launched an ambitious attack on Hamas in Rafah, that would strengthen Hamas, improve Hamas's leverage in hostage negotiations, and build popular support for Hamas.
WASHINGTON >> President Joe Biden warned today that the threat of antisemitism is growing in the United States, including on college campuses, as his support for Israel’s assault on Gaza divides Democrats and alienates some young voters.
A few hours after the Palestinian Islamist Hamas movement announced that it would agree to the mediators' proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza, the Israeli army attacked targets in the east of the city of Rafah late on Monday evening. According to an army spokesman, the targets were Hamas facilities. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war Cabinet had previously decided to continue the military operation in Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip in order to increase the military pressure on Hamas and...
Heavy bombardment and airstrikes reported in devastated north while clashes also seen in south as tens of thousands flee RafahThousands protest in Israel amid anger at Netanyahu over hostages held in GazaFierce battles were under way across much of the devastated north of Gaza on Sunday, with heavy bombardment and airstrikes reported as Israeli forces attacked Hamas militants in areas that have already seen repeated rounds of fighting.The new clashes underlined the failure of Israeli Defense...
The Palestinian Hamas terror organization rushed Monday to claim that it had accepted a ceasefire -- just hours after Israel warned residents of Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza, to evacuate due to an imminent invasion.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has come under criticism from a fellow Democrat, Senator Chris Van Hollen, for her recent comments blasting anti-Israel student protesters as ignorant about Middle Eastern affairs. “They don’t know very much at all about the history of the Middle East, or, frankly, about history in many areas of the […]
Chris Grant’s recently formed distribution outfit Osmosis Global is set to handle international television sales for We Will Dance Again, a feature-length documentary about the terror attack by Hamas on the Nova Music Festival on October 7, 2023.
Among the core Israeli national narratives that have been fractured by the Hamas terror attacks and months of war and violence is the notion that Israel’s ethos on firearms differs from that of the United States. Both countries can be characterized as gun-centric democracies, but according to the Israeli narrative, the U.S. is a land of too many guns and too few laws, while Israelis “trust their state, and don’t fear each other.” A common refrain emphasizes that in Israel, bearing arms isn’t a...
To the editor: Like Hala Alyan, who wonders if recent protests signify a turning point in support for the Palestinians, I mourn the loss of innocent lives in Gaza. I have some questions for her: Could the war and death of innocent Palestinians have been avoided completely if Hamas had not entered Israel and murdered and captured so many Israelis on Oct. 7? What would Palestinian life be like in the Gaza Strip if Hamas, instead of building an extensive tunnel and weapons system, had spent that...
The escalation came as the latest round of ceasefire talks were 'near to collapse', with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly ruling out any end to the war.
Hamas on Sunday attacked Israel's main crossing point for delivering humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip, reportedly wounding Israelis.