Friday, 26 July 2024 | A senior official on Friday criticized Vice President Kamala Harris for saying the serious humanitarian situation in Gaza cannot be ignored. Harris spoke after she met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday. “Hopefully the things the vice president said in a press conference would not be interpreted by Hamas
Continue Reading »Friday, 26 July 2024 | Less than a day before the opening ceremony of the 2024 summer Olympics on Friday, there were competing demonstrations in Paris against and in support of Israel. The several hundred pro-Palestinian demonstrators chanted, among other things: “Fascist and terrorist Israel”, “Israel is occupying, Emmanuel Macron will wake up”, “Free Palestine”
Continue Reading »Friday, 26 July 2024 | What Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to a joint meeting of Congress was important. Both Americans and Israelis need to understand that the war in the Gaza Strip is just one front in a conflict with Iran that is, as he rightly said, a battle “between
Continue Reading »Friday, 26 July 2024 | Kiryat Shmona, Israel—The streets are deserted, the malls, stores and businesses long shuttered, and the pockmarks of war are everywhere. Even for Israel’s northernmost border city long known for bearing the brunt of rocket attacks from Hezbollah in Lebanon in decades past, as well as earlier notorious Palestinian terror attacks,
Continue Reading »Thursday, 25 July 2024 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received bursts of applause and frequent standing ovations—often from both sides of the aisle—as he delivered an address to a joint session of the US Congress on Wednesday afternoon. In his remarks, which ran about an hour, Netanyahu praised the longevity and closeness of the
Continue Reading »Thursday, 25 July 2024 | The Biden administration, the European Union and other international bodies claim that they condemn Hamas and that the alternative to Hamas is a PLO-run Palestinian Authority [PA]. Repeated statements by PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization], Fatah and PA figures (all variations of the same thing in different guises) that they are
Continue Reading »Thursday, 25 July 2024 | Hezbollah has ramped up its rocket fire in recent days, extending its range and broadening its targets in retaliation to IDF [Israel Defense Forces] actions. Residents of eight kibbutzim near the border, which had not been evacuated by the Northern Command, were instructed on Tuesday night for the first time
Continue Reading »Thursday, 25 July 2024 | “I will tell your story,” Noa Argamani, who was rescued from Hamas captivity, promised in an Instagram post to Yossi Sharabi who was murdered while being held hostage in Gaza. Sharabi and Itai Svirsky were confirmed dead in January. He was abducted on October 7 together with Ofir Engel, the
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 24 July 2024 | The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] killed Ashraf Nafah and Mohammed Abu Abdu, commanders of the Hamas and Fatah military wings in Tulkarm, respectively, in a targeted strike in the West Bank [Judea and Samaria] refugee camp on Tuesday. At least five others were killed in the operation, including a woman
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 24 July 2024 | The National Food Security Council and the Hostage Health Network issued a statement on Tuesday, expressing severe concerns over the nutritional and health conditions of the 120 hostages held in Gaza for more than 290 days. “Members and representatives of the council express deep concern for the 120 hostages who
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