Tag: Gaza Strip
Captives’ loved ones begin four-day protest march
Families of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza embarked on a four-day march on Wednesday, from Kibbutz Re’im near the Strip to Jerusalem’s Paris Square.
“Right here, where we stand, I survived the Shoah we...
Who is dehumanizing whom?
There have been countless accusations against Israel since the Oct. 7 massacre and the ensuing war. Some can be understood in the context of the desire to protect civilians at any cost despite the...
The Negev’s taste of resilience
If you find yourself in the northern Negev during the summer, you will see a scorched landscape of yellow and brown. But each winter, the poppy anemone—the national flower of Israel—returns. You will witness...
Israeli officials puzzled by Biden’s optimism on ceasefire deal
Senior Israeli officials said on Tuesday that they were unaware of any basis for U.S. President Joe Biden’s remarks on Monday that a hostage-for-ceasefire agreement in Gaza is imminent.
During an unannounced visit to Van...
NJ: ‘Geopolitical conflicts,’ including in Gaza, pose ‘threats’ in state in 2024
Anti-Israel activists, both cyber and other criminals, are likely to target Jews and pro-Israel and pro-Jewish people and organizations in New Jersey, per a nearly 70-page “2024 Threat Assessment” published by the state’s Office...
The pro-Hamas fifth column intends to kill people
Sigmund Freud always took a somewhat jaundiced view of the human psyche, but in the wake of the horrors of World War I, it turned even darker. Confronted with mankind’s capacity to destroy itself,...
Educating about antisemitism
My maternal grandmother is Jewish. That makes me Jewish according to Jewish law. As an agnostic—and for many other reasons—I go through peaks and troughs regarding my Jewish identity. But as author David Baddiel...
IDF uncovers six-mile tunnel stretching from northern Gaza to south
Israel Defense Forces troops in the Gaza Strip uncovered a major tunnel network extending from the northern part of the enclave to the south, a distance of more than six miles, the military revealed...
IDF detected Hamas terrorists switching to Israeli SIMs ahead of Oct. 7
Hours before Hamas’s Oct. 7 onslaught on the northwestern Negev, Israel Defense Forces intelligence officials learned that hundreds of terrorists in the Gaza Strip activated Israeli SIM cards in their phones, the Military Censor...
Hamas rockets must stop before two-state solution, 13 Dems in Congress say
U.S. President Joe Biden and officials at the White House, U.S. State Department and other departments in the administration have repeatedly stated that Hamas must release all of the hostages it holds in Gaza...