Thursday, 13 February 2025 | Ofri Bibas Levy was at a meeting when the IDF officer assigned to assist the family called her and cautiously alerted her that an unofficial list was circulating online with the names of the hostages expected to be released the next day, including the name of her younger brother, Yarden Bibas.
Continue Reading »Thursday, 13 February 2025 | Hamas on Wednesday said it would not release all of the Israeli hostages on Saturday and called for three days of solidarity marches around the world in protest of US President Donald Trump’s plans to remove Palestinians from Gaza in order to rebuild it. “We call our masses, our nation,
Continue Reading »Thursday, 13 February 2025 | Britain tallied the second-highest annual total of antisemitic incidents in 2024, according to a Jewish security group, which published its report on Wednesday. The Community Security Trust [CST], a British-Jewish body that advises communities on security, counted 3,528 incidents, “reflecting sustained levels of hatred towards Jews.” “While the number of
Continue Reading »Thursday, 13 February 2025 | Recent US intelligence reports indicate that Israel is likely to strike Iranian nuclear facilities in the coming months, potentially targeting the Fordow and Natanz sites. According to reporting on Wednesday in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, the attacks would aim to exploit Iran’s vulnerabilities following the degradation of
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 12 February 2025 | It’s been near impossible to keep up with current events over the past two weeks. My goodness! Blink and you miss something. In the Middle East, all eyes are on the hostage–ceasefire deal between Israel and the terror organization Hamas, an agreement that is seemingly teetering precariously close to the
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 12 February 2025 | The Egyptian–Israeli peace treaty may be invalid if US President Donald Trump carries out his threats to end American aid to Egypt, diplomatic sources in Cairo were quoted as saying in an article to the Qatari Al Araby al-Jadeen newspaper on Tuesday. The sources said the planned meeting in Washington
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 12 February 2025 | Two health care workers in New South Wales, Australia, were suspended on Wednesday after a viral video showed them boasting about killing Israeli patients and refusing to treat them. Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh were recorded in a video shared by Israeli content creator Max Veifer, confirming they
Continue Reading »Wednesday, 12 February 2025 | Hamas’s decision to halt the scheduled hostage release on Saturday appears to be a pressure tactic aimed at pushing Israel into advancing negotiations for the second phase of the hostage deal in exchange for a ceasefire. The group is likely not looking to collapse the agreement but rather to extract
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 11 February 2025 | US President Donald Trump vowed on Monday that “all hell is going to break out” if Hamas did not release the remaining hostages by Saturday. “As far as I’m concerned, if all of the hostages aren’t returned by Saturday at 12 o’clock—I think it’s an appropriate time—I would say, cancel
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 11 February 2025 | Has the final curtain fallen on payments to terrorists and their families? Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas issued a presidential decree on Monday canceling laws that allowed financial payments to families of prisoners in Israeli jails or to families of terrorists killed during attacks. This decision quickly drew condemnation
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