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Child Hostage Forced to Watch Violent Hamas Murders while Held Captive

Friday, 11 October 2024 | In a poignant interview for the “Children of October 7” social media project, 13-year-old Eitan Yahalomi from Kibbutz Nir Oz shared the harrowing details of his captivity at the hands of Hamas terrorists in Gaza. The French–Israeli survivor, who was released in November, then aged 12, as part of a prisoner

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Couple Killed in Hezbollah Rocket Barrage on Northern Israel

Thursday, 10 October 2024 | A man and a woman were killed in a rocket barrage on Kiryat Shmona [a town in northern Israel], MDA [Magen David Adom, Israel emergency and ambulance service] Director Eli Bin confirmed on Wednesday, describing the strike as “unusual.” MDA had initially reported that the couple, both in their 40s,

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Six Wounded, Two Critically, in Hadera Terror Attack

Thursday, 10 October 2024 | Six people were wounded, two of them critically, in a terrorist attack in Hadera, north of Netanya, on Wednesday. A large number of security personnel arrived at the scene of the attack, and the assailant was neutralized. The wounded were evacuated to Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera, according to

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Is Jerusalem Keeping DC in the Dark About Plans for Iran Attack?

Thursday, 10 October 2024 | Jerusalem is not sharing with Washington its plans to respond to Tehran’s missile offensive against Israel last week, US officials told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. According to the report, Biden administration officials are frustrated at the lack of details conveyed to them after the White House publicly expressed

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Fatah, Hamas Terrorists Hold Unity Talks in Cairo

Thursday, 10 October 2024 | Hamas terrorists met with representatives of Palestinian Authority [PA] chief Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah faction in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss establishing a joint government after the war in Gaza ends. The Hamas delegation was led by the terrorist organization’s chief negotiator, Khalil al-Hayya, who is based in Qatar, a spokesman

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October 7 War ‘Most Covered Event’ in Israeli History

Wednesday, 9 October 2024 | The ongoing Israel Defense Forces [IDF] campaign against Iranian-backed terrorist organizations on the Jewish state’s southern and northern borders is the country’s most highly-covered war since 1948, the Government Press Office [GPO] said on Tuesday. Since the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 cross-border massacre, Jerusalem has issued 5,530 press passes to

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Hezbollah Calls for Unconditional Ceasefire Regardless of Fighting in Gaza

Wednesday, 9 October 2024 | Hezbollah is requesting an unconditional ceasefire, according to a speech delivered Tuesday by Naim Qassem, who until recently served as the deputy to assassinated Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah. In his remarks, Qassem stated that the group “agrees to a ceasefire without preconditions. First, a ceasefire is achieved diplomatically, and then

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The Israeli Operation to Rescue a Yazidi Woman from Captivity in Gaza

Wednesday, 9 October 2024 | Months of negotiations, successes and setbacks culminated in the rescue of Fawzia Amin Sido, a 21-year-old Yazidi woman who was sold to a Hamas terrorist affiliated with ISIS in 2014, and freed last week from Gaza. The man behind the operation was Steve Maman, a Canadian-Moroccan Jewish businessman, known as

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Sister Enlists in IDF after Brother Killed in Battle

Wednesday, 9 October 2024 | “We lost an exceptional soldier, we lost Amsalem,” said Avichai’s commander after he died. I thought to myself, there’s no way Hamas wins and there’s no soldier Amsalem; there was a soldier Amsalem, and now there isn’t? I am a soldier Amsalem,” shares Shira Emuna Amsalem, sister of the late

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Defiant Israel Stands Firm in Turmoil, One Year On

Tuesday, 8 October 2024 | On the first anniversary of October 7, 2023, we are still living in an unprecedented time. Hostages are still held captive in the Gaza Strip and their families continue to live in excruciating uncertainty. Nearly 100,000 Israelis are still evacuated from their homes, particularly in the north, where the situation

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