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Daily Archives: May 21, 2021

IDF Artillery Corps seen firing into Gaza, near the Israeli border with Gaza on May 20, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Hamas-Israel ceasefire expected to take effect on Friday, IDF ratchets up military successes

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As multiple media reports of a ceasefire taking effect on Friday surfaced on Thursday, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad continued to fire on southern Israeli cities, towns and villages throughout the day, while the...
Israel Defense Forces Artillery Corps seen firing into the Gaza Strip in response to more than 4,000 rockets launched towards the Jewish state in the past two weeks, May 19, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

After 11 days of hostilities, Israel and Hamas agree to ceasefire

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Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian terrorist group that runs the Gaza Strip, have agreed to a ceasefire after 11 days of hostilities. According to a statement from the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, the security cabinet...
Rockets are launched towards Israel from the Gaza Strip, May 18, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Ex-British commander, foreign-affairs minister debate meaning behind Hamas actions

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Speaking during a webinar on the ongoing conflict in Israel on Wednesday, former commander of British Forces in Afghanistan Col. Richard Kemp said the Israeli government should be the determiner of when a ceasefire...
CCTV Headquarters famous skyscraper in the Central Business District of Beijing. Credit: Fotokon/Shutterstock.

Israeli embassy in China blasts state TV broadcaster for ‘blatant anti-Semitism’

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The Israeli embassy in Beijing accused China’s state TV broadcaster of “blatant anti-Semitism” after a presenter promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories while reporting on the U.S. government’s support for Israel. A presenter on China Global Television Network (CGTN),...
Dutch envoy Adriaan Pauw enters Münster around 1646 for the peace negotiations

Israel versus Hamas: Proportionality, Perfidy and the Law of War

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“It must not be forgotten that it is perhaps more dangerous for a nation to allow itself to be conquered intellectually than by arms.” -Guillaume Apollinaire, The New Spirit and the Poets (1917) Whenever Israel finds itself in...