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Franklin Graham congratulates Mike Huckabee on nomination as US ambassador to Israel

Evangelist Franklin Graham congratulated former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on his Tuesday nomination by President-elect Donald Trump to be the U.S. ambassador to Israel.




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Russian hostage kidnapped in Israel on October 7 attack appears alive on video

The Saraya al-Quds* group, a military wing of the radical Islamic Jihad* movement (a terrorist organization banned in Russia), released a new video of Alexander Trukhanov, a Russian citizen, who was kidnapped on October 7, 2023. The video of the hostage posted on the Telegram channel of the terrorist group shows the man speaking Hebrew. The man complains about the difficult situation the hostages found themselves in. They do not have enough water and have run out of hygiene products, the man said. Fearing Israeli bombings and missile attacks, Trukhanov called on the Israelis not to forget about the hostages. He also urged the people of Israel to go to rallies and advocate for a ceasefire so that hostages could return home.




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David Israel of POP Gourmet Foods on fine-tuning retail sales

POP Gourmet Foods, Tukwila, WA—a manufacturer of high-end popcorn products, as well as chips and croutons—maintains an international customer base in mass merchandise, warehouse/club, specialty and traditional grocery, foodservice, airlines and hotels, among others.




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Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of war crimes

JERUSALEM — Israeli authorities have caused a forced displacement of Palestinian people in Gaza to an extent that constitutes war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said in a report on Thursday.




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How to watch France vs. Israel in the UEFA Nations League online for free

Live stream France vs. Israel in the UEFA Nations League for free from anywhere in the world.




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La Flytilla propalestina aterriza en Israel

Estado de alerta en el aeropuerto israelí de Ben Gurion ante la llegada masiva y en pocas horas de centenares de activistas propalestinos en una iniciativa promovida en la Red.




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Vitalicio y pesimista Maestro de Israel

En el 50 aniversario de su debut en la Filarmónica de Israel, el gran Zubin Mehta se muestra más pesimista y critico que nunca respecto al proceso de paz.




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Partido de alto riesgo entre Francia e Israel con la sombra de los altercados de Ámsterdam

Bezalel Smotrich, el polémico ministro de Finanzas israelí, iba a asistir justo antes a un acto de una organización cercana a la extrema derecha en París, lo que había subido todavía más la temperatura. Leer




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Thousands of protesters march in Paris ahead of tense football match between France-Israel 

Thousands of protesters march in Paris ahead of tense football match between France-Israel 




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West Bank: Growing Israeli restrictions trap Palestinians in Hebron's Old City




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Israeli jets strike commercial district in southern Beirut

Israeli jets carried out strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Thursday, after previously issuing evacuation orders for Lebanese civilians, Al Jazeera reported. The strikes hit the commercial ...




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Hamas-Affiliated WIRTE Employs SameCoin Wiper in Disruptive Attacks Against Israel

A threat actor affiliated with Hamas has expanded its malicious cyber operations beyond espionage to carry out disruptive attacks that exclusively target Israeli entities. The activity, linked to a group called WIRTE, has also targeted the Palestinian Authority, Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, Check Point said in an analysis. "The [Israel-Hamas] conflict has not disrupted the WIRTE's




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'Nowhere is safe': Concerns grow as Israel strikes new areas of Lebanon

Residents of the mixed area of Aramoun express alarm after a strike on Wednesday kills eight people.




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News24 | Nuclear watchdog chief heads to Iran after Israel warns of 'strikes on its nuclear facilities'

International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi is set to visit Tehran for crucial talks on Iran's nuclear programme, warning just ahead of his trip that room for manoeuvre is narrowing.




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News24 | 'We will continue to strike Hezbollah everywhere': 6 Israeli soldiers killed near Lebanon border

Israel suffered one of the deadliest days of its ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon when six of its soldiers were killed in combat near the border.




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Kamala Harris Upstages Israel President at White House with Bizarre Spectacle

Before Israeli President Isaac Herzog met with U.S. President Joe Biden at the White House, the ceremonial head of the Jewish state made it clear just how dire and grave […]

The post Kamala Harris Upstages Israel President at White House with Bizarre Spectacle appeared first on The Western Journal.




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U.S. says Israel now in compliance with law on humanitarian assistance to Gaza

The United States has determined that Israel has substantially met its demand to take "concrete steps" to improve the humanitarian crisis in Gaza within 30 days or risk losing military assistance provided by Washington.




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FBI arrests CIA official in document leak of Israeli military plans against Iran

CIA official Asif W. Rahman was arrested by the FBI Tuesday in Cambodia on two counts of violating the Espionage Act in classified documents leaks about Israeli military plans. He will appear Thursday in a Guam court.




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Docuseries follows the making of Israel-Palestinian pop group as1one

Paramount+ is teasing a new docuseries about an Israeli-Palestinian pop group.




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Egypt's foreign minister says Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire “a priority,” warns of full-scale war

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said that an unconditional cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel is "the first priority," calling for intensifying international and Arab efforts to prevent a large-scale war.




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"Only Survivor": Gaza Child Left Alone After Family Killed In Israeli Attacks

Israeli attacks in Beit Hanoun leave a child as the only survivor of his family, while displaced residents flee the devastated city.




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CIA Official Charged Over Leak Of Classified Intel On Israel-Iran Plans

A CIA official has been charged in connection with a leak of classified US intelligence documents about Israel's plans for a retaliatory strike on Iran, The New York Times reported Wednesday.




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6 Soldiers Killed During Combat In Lebanon, Says Israeli Army

Israel suffered one of its deadliest days of its ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon on Wednesday when six of its soldiers were killed in combat near the border.




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Six Israeli troops killed in nation's deadliest day in Lebanon 

Jerusalem — Israel suffered one of the deadliest days of its ground offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon on Wednesday when six of its soldiers were killed in combat near the border.  The soldiers "fell during combat in southern Lebanon," the army said in a statement. Their deaths brought to 47 the number of Israeli troops who have been killed in combat with Hezbollah since September 30, when Israel sent ground forces into Lebanon.  The army's announcement came after Israel Katz, Israel's new defense minister, said there would be no easing up in the war against Hezbollah.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on X shared an image of the "Golani" Brigade symbol, the unit the soldiers who were killed belonged to, a green olive tree against a yellow background, with a broken heart emoji.  Since September 23, Israel has stepped up its bombing campaign in Lebanon, mainly targeting Hezbollah strongholds in south Beirut and in the east and south of the country. On September 30, it sent in ground troops.  The offensive came after nearly a year of cross-border exchanges of fire, launched by Hezbollah in support of its Palestinian ally Hamas following its October 7, 2023, attack on Israel that triggered the Gaza war.  Strike at Aramoun Earlier on Wednesday, an Israeli strike hit Aramoun, a densely packed area south of Beirut that is outside Hezbollah's traditional strongholds. The health ministry said the strike killed six people.  Lebanese state media on the same day reported a third wave of Israeli raids on Hezbollah's south Beirut bastion in 24 hours.  The Israeli army, meanwhile, said it had intercepted some of the "five projectiles" that had crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory.  Katz told senior military commanders on his first visit to the border region since his appointment last week that Israel would "make no cease-fires, we will not take our foot off the pedal, and we will not allow any arrangement that does not include the achievement of our war objectives."  Katz added: "We will continue to strike Hezbollah everywhere."   Israel's objectives include disarming Hezbollah and pushing the militants beyond the Litani River, which flows across southern Lebanon.  After Katz's address, another airstrike hit a Beirut suburb Wednesday evening after a warning by Israel's military for residents to evacuate.  Hezbollah said on Wednesday it had fired ballistic missiles at the Israeli army's headquarters in the commercial hub of Tel Aviv, which also houses the defense ministry.  Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army spokesperson's unit said it would "not to react to Hezbollah's allegations."  Lebanese authorities say more than 3,360 people have been killed since October 8, 2023, when Hezbollah and Israel began engaging in cross-border clashes.  Rocket fire from Lebanon on Tuesday killed two residents of the northern Israeli city of Nahariya. The deaths brought to 45 the number of civilians killed in northern Israel as a result of rocket fire from Lebanon.  Israeli hostage The Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group, an ally of Hamas, released a video earlier on Wednesday of an Israeli hostage held in Gaza, identifying himself as Sasha Trupanov.  Trupanov's mother, Lena, in a statement published by the Hostage and Missing Families Forum campaign group, urged the hostages' immediate release.  When Hamas militants staged their October 7, 2023, attack, they killed about 1,200 people and about 250 hostages into the Gaza Strip. Of those, about 100 remain held hostage, while about a third of them are confirmed dead. Their bodies remain in Gaza.  In the more than 13 months of war, Israel’s offensive has killed nearly 44,000 people, the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Wednesday. The health ministry does not distinguish between civilians and combatants but says more than half of those killed were women and children. 




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What one US-Israel policy expert thinks of Trump's Defense Secretary pick


Makovsky called Trump's Defense Secretary selection of Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and Army combat veteran, a "curious appointment."




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Blinken: US to track Israel’s Gaza aid distribution, urges war pause for relief


"Israel has to meet these [humanitarian] responsibilities, and we will be tracking this every single day," Blinken said.




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Israel must seize historic opportunity to welcome one million olim in 2025


In the early 1990s, the unprecedented wave of aliyah followed the fall of the USSR. A million olim came to Israel and ensured that the country would keep growing.




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Eden Golan: Representing Israel at Eurovision was 'such an honor'


The Eurovision singer shared details behind her new single 'Older' on ABC's News Live.




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EU's Borrell proposes suspending Israel dialog over Gaza war concerns


Borrell cited "serious concerns about possible breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza" in a Wednesday letter.




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Egypt: Egypt Focuses On Ceasefire, Ending Israeli Aggression an Lebanon - FM Abdel Aatty in Beirut

[Egypt Online] Egypt's primary focus is achieving a ceasefire and halting Israeli aggression on Lebanon, Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdel Aatty said during his meeting with Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament Nabih Berry in Beirut on Wednesday 13/11/2024.




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Egyptian foreign minister visits Lebanon to push for ceasefire with Israel


Abdelatty met with a number of key officials in the country and reiterated his support for Lebanon and a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.




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How Israel and the Trump administration can win the war and shape Middle East policy - analysis


Israel's military campaign against Hamas and Hezbollah could reshape Middle Eastern alliances and weaken Iran's regional influence.




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Israeli forces kill 22 people in Gaza, force new displacement

CAIRO: Israeli military strikes killed at least 22 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, as Israeli forces deepened their incursion into Beit Hanoun town in the north, forcing most remaining residents to leave.

Residents said Israeli forces besieged shelters housing displaced families and the remaining population, which some estimated at a few thousand, ordering them to head south through a checkpoint separating two towns and a refugee camp in the north from Gaza City.

Men were held for questioning, while women and children were allowed to continue towards Gaza City, residents and Palestinian medics said.

Israel’s campaign in the north of Gaza, and the evacuation of tens of thousands of Palestinians from the area, has fuelled claims from Palestinians that it is clearing the area for use as a buffer zone and potentially for a return of Jewish settlers.

Students occupy defence firm Leonardo’s headquarters in Italy to protest against assistance to Tel Aviv

“The scenes of the 1948 catastrophe are being repeated. Israel is repeating its massacres, displacement and destruction,” said Saed, 48, a resident of Beit Lahiya, who arrived in Gaza City on Wednesday.

“North Gaza is being turned into a large buffer zone, Israel is carrying out ethnic cleansing under the sight and hearing of the impotent world,” he said via a chat app.

Protest

Around a hundred students occupied Leonardo’s Turin headquarters to denounce what they say is the Italian defence group’s complicity in Israel’s bombardment of the Gaza Strip.

The students, who unfurled a flag of the Palestinian territories from the roof of Leonardo’s offices, said the company was supporting Israel by providing remote technical assistance and spare parts to Israel’s air force. Leonardo declined to comment.

Images released by the students show them in Leonardo’s offices waving Palestinian flags and carrying spray cans. Outside they hung banners on the buildings saying ‘no arms to Israel’ and accusing the group of complicity in genocide. They also clambered on top of a plane in the grounds of the company’s headquarters.

Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto condemned the protest, saying on X that the students were “destroying and defacing” the offices where an “important meeting with the staff of the defence ministry” was taking place.

“These people must be treated for what they are, dangerous subversives. Criminals have no political colour, they are just criminals,” he said.

No plans for settlers’ return

The Israeli military has denied any such intention, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he does not want to reverse the 2005 withdrawal of settlers from Gaza. Hardliners in his government have talked openly about going back.Speaking on Wednesday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel “has accomplished the goals that it set for itself” by taking out Hamas’ leadership and ensuring the group is unable to launch another massive attack. “This should be a time to end the war,” he said.

“We also need to make sure we have a plan for what follows,” he said, “so that if Israel decides to end the war and we find a way to get the hostages out, we also have a clear plan so that Israel can get out of Gaza and we make sure that Hamas is not going back in.”

Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said Blinken’s comments showed: “We are facing one enemy and that the US enmity against the Palestinian people is no less than that of the occupation.”

Medics said five people were killed in an Israeli strike that hit a group of people outside Kamal Adwan Hospital near Beit Lahiya, while five others were killed in two separate strikes in Nuseirat in central Gaza Strip where the army began a limited raid two days ago.

In Rafah, near the border with Egypt, one man was killed and several others were wounded in an Israeli airstrike, while three Palestinians were killed in two separate Israeli airstrikes in Shejaia suburb of Gaza City, medics added. Later on Wednesday, an Israeli strike on a house in western Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip killed eight people, medics said.

Published in Dawn, November 14th, 2024




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Six Israeli soldiers killed, six killed by Israeli jets in Lebanon




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France mounts security operation for Israel match after Amsterdam violence





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Israel wants freedom to strike Lebanon even after ceasefire, France says

PARIS — Israeli officials are insisting on maintaining a capacity to strike Lebanon at any moment as part of conditions to secure a ceasefire with Iran-backed Hezbollah, France's foreign minister said on Wednesday (Nov 13). Speaking to a parliamentary hearing after holding talks in Israel last week in Jerusalem, Jean-Noel Barrot said it was a condition increasingly voiced among Israeli officials. "Today we hear in Israel voices calling for it to keep a capacity to strike at any moment or even enter Lebanon, as is the case with its neighbour Syria," said Barrot, who held talks with Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer and new Defence Minister Israel Katz last week. "That is not compatible with the sovereignty of a strong country," Barrot said, referring to broader efforts to help strengthen Lebanon's governance. Several diplomats said that it would be all but impossible to get Hezbollah or Lebanon to accept any proposal that included this demand.




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France mounts security operation for Israel match after Amsterdam violence

Thousands of police are deployed in Paris to ensure security at a France-Israel football international.




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Lebanon media claims Israeli strike hit apartment south of Beirut

Israeli warplanes launched a strike at dawn targeting a residential apartment in a building in the Dawhet




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Israelis in Thailand urged to be vigilant

Israeli authorities have advised their nationals to remain vigilant following reports they might be targeted during the Full Moon Party on Koh Phangan this coming Friday.




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Israel Post CEO: I’m proud and happy that Milgam Group chose to invest

An investor consortium, led by Milgam has won the tender for the privatization of Israel Post.




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Despite war, we are leading the fight against climate change, says Israel’s Climate Ambassador


“Climate change continues to happen, and it is important that Israel remains part of the efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change,” Behar said.




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Israel visits Paris amid tight security for Nations League soccer clash


"I’m more concerned about France’s attack on the pitch than anything that might happen off it" Ben Shimon said, regarding possible threats to the upcoming game.




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Bill to weaken Israel Bar Association passes preliminary Knesset vote


The bill would give the Justice Minister the authority to set the amount of the annual membership fee instead of IBA's national council.




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Israel questions ICC judge's impartiality in Netanyahu arrest case


The request requires the approval of ICC judges, but their decision has been delayed, partly because of several rounds of legal filings by Israel that have challenged the court's jurisdiction.




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US not limiting military assistance to Israel, but may act later


Washington warned Israel last month that military aid could be limited until progress was made. It did so based on Memorandum 20, which links such aid to humanitarian actions.




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New recordings of Yitzhak Rabin on Arab-Israeli peace talks, role of reservists


Yitzhak Rabin spoke of the importance of manpower and mobilizing reservists following the Yom Kippur War, echoing modern sentiments.




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Israel rejects aid groups' Gaza report, says it 'relies on partial information'


The Israeli military "intends to continue its tireless efforts to improve the humanitarian situation in the Strip during the ongoing conflict," a statement said.




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Expert urges Israel to target civilian infrastructure in Lebanon's 'Hezbollah state'


Hezbollah’s drones were “ultimately,” the terrorist organization’s “trump card,” despite rockets being employed as their “main weapons.”




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CIA official arrested in Cambodia for classified doc. leak on Israel retaliation on Iran - report


CIA official Asif W. Rahman held top-secret security clearance and had access to sensitive information, the New York Times reported.