Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declares a 'special situation on the home front'
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declares a 'special situation on the home front.'
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The New York TimesHow Hamas Uses Brutality to Maintain Power
Early this summer, Amin Abed, a Palestinian activist who has spoken out publicly about Hamas, twice found bullets on his doorstep in the northern Gaza Strip. Then in July, he said he was attacked by Hamas security operatives, who covered his head and dragged him away before repeatedly striking him with hammers and metal bars. “At any moment, I can be killed by the Israeli occupation, but I can face the same fate at the hands of those who’ve been ruling us for 17 years,” he said in a phone interv
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Israeli military says it has hit Hezbollah weapons storage facilities in several areas of Lebanon
The Israeli military says it targeted Hezbollah “weapons storage facilities” in multiple airstrikes across Lebanon on Saturday.
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Israel-Hamas war latest: Oct. 7 mastermind thanks Hezbollah leader for his help attacking Israel
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar thanked Lebanon’s Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah for his support in the ongoing war with Israel in a letter released Friday by Hezbollah’s media office.
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Iraqi and US forces kill a top IS commander and other militants in joint operation
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi forces and American troops have killed a senior commander with the Islamic State group who was wanted by the United States, as well as several other prominent militants, Iraq's military said on Friday.
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An American activist killed by Israeli fire is buried in Turkey as Israel strikes Gaza
ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — A Turkish-American activist who was killed by Israeli fire in the West Bank was laid to rest on Saturday in her hometown in Turkey with thousands lining the streets and anti-Israeli feelings in the country rising from a conflict that threatens to spread across the region.
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Missile fired from Yemen lands in open area in central Israel and sets off air raid sirens
A long-range missile fired from Yemen landed in an open area in central Israel early Sunday, the Israeli military said, in the latest reverberation from the nearly yearlong war in Gaza. The early morning attack triggered air raid sirens, including at Israel's international airport, where Israeli media aired footage of people racing to shelters. A fire could be seen in a rural area of central Israel, and local media showed images of what appeared to be a fragment from a missile or interceptor that landed on an escalator in a train station in the central town of Modiin.
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Israeli intelligence commander to resign after being accused of failing to prevent October 7
He was the commander of Israel’s elite 8200 intelligence unit, which critics say played a pivotal role in failing to prevent the October 7 attacks.
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UN staff member among 10 killed during Israel military operation in West Bank
Israel’s military accused Sufyan Jaber Abed Jawwad of “hurling explosive devices,” while UNRWA said he was shot “on the roof of his house having a coffee.”
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Maryland woman is charged with vandalizing property during protests over Netanyahu's visit to DC
A Maryland woman was arrested Friday on a charge that she vandalized federal property in Washington, D.C., during protests against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress in July. A video posted on social media showed Isabella Giordano, 20, of Towson, using red spray paint to write “Gaza” on a fountain in front of Union Station and spray-painting the base of two of the flagpoles in Columbus Circle, according to a U.S. Park Police sergeant's affidavit. A group of protesters had a permit to demonstrate in front of Union Station, but the Park Police revoked the permit after it couldn't reach protest organizers that afternoon, the affidavit says.
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Ukraine would have military reason for striking deeper into Russia - NATO committee chief
Ukraine would have a good military reason to strike deeper into Russia using Western weapons, a senior NATO military official said on Saturday. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer met U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House on Friday as Ukraine's allies discuss whether to give a go-ahead for Kyiv to use long-range missiles against targets in Russia. President Vladimir Putin has said the West would be directly fighting Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike with Western-made long-range missiles.
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The Jerusalem Bar Where Hersh Goldberg-Polin Found a Home
As bombs continue to fall on Gaza and Israelis’ hope for a hostage deal dwindles, Goldberg-Polin’s friends mourn his loss in his favorite bar
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Israel strikes Gaza as friends and family of slain Turkish-American activist prepare for her funeral
Israeli airstrikes hit central and southern Gaza overnight into Saturday, killing at least 14 people as the friends and family members of a Turkish-American activist killed by an Israeli solider prepared to honor her in a funeral.
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Opinion - Protesters, media must stop normalizing terrorism
There’s plenty to criticize in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies and conduct of the war, but Americans should reject the spurious logic of moral equivalence.
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Here’s the latest for Saturday, Sept. 14th: Iran says it launched a satellite into space; American activist killed by Israeli fire is laid to rest; Hundreds gather in Paris to protest against sexual violence; Germany's first hobby horsing championship gets underway.
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Israeli airstrike on Gaza school sheltering displaced people kills at least 18, including UN staff, Palestinian officials say
At least 18 people, including United Nations staff, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a UN school-turned-shelter in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza on Wednesday, according to the Gaza Civil Defense and hospital officials. At least 44 others were injured, they said.
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Climate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
The sentences are believed to be the longest in the UK’s history for non-violent protest and were delivered under two new laws that supercharged policing powers.
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IS militants kill 14 in a Shiite area of Afghanistan in one of the deadliest attacks this year
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Islamic State militants killed 14 people in a Shiite-majority area in central Afghanistan in one of the deadliest attacks in the country this year.
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Opinion - In and outside of Israel, radicalization runs both ways
If the world is truly concerned about peace in the Middle East, it should be concerned about how Israel — and Jews around the world — will emerge from this war.
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Hamas chief Sinwar thanks Hezbollah in letter to Nasrallah
Hamas chief Yehya Sinwar thanked the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah for his group's support in the conflict with Israel, Hezbollah said on Friday, in the first reported message since Sinwar became Hamas leader in August. The Iran-backed Hezbollah has been waging attacks on Israel for nearly a year in a conflict across the Lebanese-Israeli border that has been taking place in parallel to the Gaza war.
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Israeli military says it acted against targets in Syria
The Israeli military said Friday that over the source of the week it had acted in Syria against targets, just days after Syrian state media reported Israeli airstrikes killed 16 people in western Syria and wounded dozens more. "In southern Syria, the IDF targeted several terrorists who were advancing terror activities against Israel," a statement from the military said Friday but did not give further detail. The Israeli military rarely comments on allegations that it acts in Syria and declined to comment on a New York Times report that Israeli special forces raided a weapons manufacturing site near the Syria-Lebanon border on Sunday.