Tag: Gaza Strip
UN agencies randomly use statistic that child in Gaza killed every 10 minutes
U.N. agencies cite Hamas statistics regularly without noting that the numbers come from a terrorist organization, though are inconsistent in which statistics they use.
Officials at the global agency continue to assert that a Gazan...
Biden, world leaders issue joint statement demanding release of hostages
U.S. President Joe Biden and 17 other world leaders issued a joint statement on Thursday calling on Hamas to immediately free all of the hostages the terrorist organization is still holding in the Gaza...
Minister Gamliel to JNS: Israel will destroy Hamas, and the US knows it
Destroying Hamas is not a matter of if, but when, and Israel’s allies know this is the case, Israeli Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology Gila Gamliel told JNS on Thursday.
“All our friends know...
No green light from Washington for Rafah mission, US envoy says
Despite reports to the contrary, the Biden administration has not given Jerusalem its approval of a military operation in Rafah—the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip—the U.S. State Department’s top Middle East diplomat said on...
UN official lauds Israel for more aid in Gaza but calls for ‘paradigm shift’
Israel has taken measures to improve the delivery of provisions in the Gaza Strip; however, there needs to be a “paradigm shift” to continue to meet the “immense needs” of the enclave’s civilian population “in...
IAF strikes Gaza launch pads after rockets fired at Israel on Passover
Israeli Air Force fighter jets destroyed two Hamas rocket launchers embedded in a humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, the army said Wednesday, as the war started by the terrorist group entered its 200th day.
The...
Israel’s nuclear doctrine, ambiguity versus openness after Iran’s aggression
Louis René Beres (Ph.D., Princeton, 1971)
Emeritus Professor of International Law
Purdue University
lberes@purdue.edu
“For by Wise Counsel, Thou Shalt Make Thy War.”
Proverbs 24,6
Israel's nuclear posture remains “deliberately ambiguous.” In the past, this stance appears to have been sensible,...
Dor Kapah’s harrowing escape from Hamas massacre
Dor Kapah, 30, stood before a group of students at the University of Florida, recounting a harrowing tale that seemed straight out of a war movie. But it wasn’t fiction; it was a gripping...
US report accuses Israel of causing ‘severe’ human rights crisis in Gaza
The Jewish state responded to Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack with “a sustained, wide-scale military operation in Gaza, which had killed more than 21,000 Palestinians and injured more than 56,000 by the end of...
IAF strike kills Hamas intel chief in Beit Hanoun
An Israeli Air Force attack this week killed a senior Hamas terrorist responsible for intelligence gathering in the Beit Hanoun area of northeastern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday.
Yussef Rafik Ahmed Shabat...