Tag: Gaza Strip
‘She worried about us more than she did for herself’
“My 18-year-old daughter Tchelet was killed on a Saturday morning during the holiday of Simchat Torah,” Gladys Fishbein told JNS.
On Oct. 7, Fishbein was tending to her ill 94-year-old mother, Sarah, at Kibbutz Be’eri...
UNGA passes resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on Tuesday calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas.
Out of the 193 members of the world body, 153 voted in favor of the...
An ‘Abraham Plan’ for the Middle East
Oct. 7, the day of Hamas’s barbaric, abhorrent terrorist attack on Israel, marked a watershed moment for the Middle East, with far-reaching consequences. In the short-term, Israel—which must be backed to the fullest extent—will...
Why the images of Hamas prisoners sparked outrage
I was poised to go on a live broadcast of WION, an English-language Indian television network, last week to discuss the war against Hamas. But before my turn to speak came, I was startled by...
US Defense Secretary to visit Israel
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will arrive in Israel on Monday at the invitation of his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant, Ynet reported on Tuesday.
The visit comes amid reports that the Biden administration is pressuring Israel to shift tactics...
J Street lobbies against Israeli war on Hamas
The Oct. 7 Hamas massacres hit hard at communities where many of the residents were left of center. As a result even some of the usual anti-Israel types temporarily came around to the idea...
Hamas creates new terrorist group to destroy Lebanon
On Dec. 4, the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas announced the establishment of a new terrorist group in Lebanon with the goal of "liberating Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque." In the past two months, Hamas terrorists...
‘No words’ for destruction from Hamas attacks, San Diego Federation head says
More than a dozen Jewish communal leaders and clergy from the Southern Californian city of San Diego traveled to Israel from Nov. 27 to Nov. 30 on a trip organized by the Jewish Federation...
Let the world know: It’s not 1945
How important is the State of Israel to the Jews of the world? How important is the strength of that state to the safety of the Jews who don’t live there?
We now have a...
Gaza photos said to show surrender of Hamas terrorists
Israel Defense Forces operating in the northern Gaza Strip arrested dozens of suspected Hamas terrorists, according to video footage and photos broadcast on Israeli TV networks on Thursday evening.
The images showed dozens of blindfolded...