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UN ambassador Danon slams Sanders over remarks on annual assistance to Israel
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon slammed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, on Sunday for saying recently that a portion of the U.S. military assistance to...
Israel strikes Hamas targets after two rockets fired at Beersheva
Israel struck several Hamas installations in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after two rockets were fired at the city of Beersheva from the coastal territory, setting off warning sirens.
According to Israeli military sources, the...
After 50 hours of fire exchanges, Israel waits to see if Gaza Strip stabilizes
A ceasefire that appeared fragile, and which was punctured twice by rocket fire from Gaza, went into effect on Thursday after 50 hours of combat between the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror faction and...
Israel seeks to prevent further escalation on second day of conflict with Islamic Jihad
Israel carefully managed its second day of conflict with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on Wednesday, keeping airstrikes focused on the suppression of Gazan rocket-launch squads, as Hamas, despite declarations, continued to sit on the...
Airstrike assassination of Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza neutralized an imminent danger
The Israeli assassination of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander in the Gaza Strip removed what Israeli officials have called a “ticking time bomb” from the Gazan arena—a terrorist leader who was in the...
Iran ‘deserves credit’ for ‘building our strength,’ says Hamas chief
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar admitted on Monday that the Islamic Republic of Iran was responsible for “building the strength” of the Palestinian terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip by supplying it with both weapons...
Hamas leader threatens to rain rockets on Tel Aviv ‘for six months’
Yahya Sinwar, Hamas leader in Gaza, warned Israel on Monday that the terrorist organization could turn its cities into “ghost towns” and has enough rockets to fire on Tel Aviv “for six months in...
Twitter suspends accounts affiliated with Hamas and Hezbollah
Social-networking service Twitter has suspended numerous accounts affiliated with the terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah, according to media reports on Saturday.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television station protested on Saturday that most of its Twitter accounts had...
Lawmakers accuse Twitter of allowing content from Hamas and Hezbollah, violating law
A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers accused Twitter on Tuesday of violating U.S. law in allowing content from U.S.-designated terrorist groups, including Hezbollah and Hamas, to appear on its site.
Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Tom...
Mother of captured Israeli soldier to address UN Human Rights Council
Leah Goldin, mother of captured Israel Defense Forces’ soldier Hadar Goldin, is scheduled to address the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva later this week, where she will call on the international community to...