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Hamas’s Rafah Brigade Eliminated, 80% of Tunnels in Philadelphi Route Destroyed

Friday, 30 August 2024 | The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] announced on Thursday that Hamas’s Rafah Brigade had been decimated, with 80% of the tunnels along the Philadelphi Route destroyed. This announcement comes about a week after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared that the Rafah Brigade had been defeated and that the military had destroyed

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IDF: Hamas Fudges Opinion Polls to Hide Diminishing Support

Friday, 30 August 2024 | The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] on Thursday revealed documents of the Hamas security services, showing the terror group faked the results of opinion polls conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, headed by Khalil Shikaki, that were considered to be the most reliable indicators of Palestinian society.

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Rescued Hostages Share Horrors of Captivity

Friday, 30 August 2024 | “If I dreamt of home, it was a good night. I would wake up and say I can remember what my mother looks like,” Almog Meir said of the long nights of captivity. “You are unable to sleep and you have nothing to look at when you are so homesick.

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IDF Launches Major Anti-terror Operation in Biblical Heartland

Thursday, 29 August 2024 | Israeli security forces continued their extensive counterterrorism operation on Wednesday evening, targeting terrorists and dismantling explosives in the West Bank [Judea and Samaria] and the Jordan Valley. Hundreds of soldiers, including undercover units and Border Police forces, with significant air support, operated in the Jenin and Nur Shams refugee camps

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Rescued Israeli Hostage ‘Spoke about Darkness, not Being Able to See’

Thursday, 29 August 2024 | Qaid Farhan Alkadi, who was rescued from Gaza by Israeli forces on Tuesday after 326 days in Hamas captivity, was released from Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center on Wednesday afternoon. Meanwhile, relatives of the 52-year-old Muslim Israeli and father of 11 from the Bedouin city of Rahat in the Negev Desert

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The Middle East: A Story of Journalistic Failure

Thursday, 29 August 2024 | On May 15, 1948, five Arab armies started a war—and lost. From that time on, many Arabs have called this loss a nakba (catastrophe). Ever since then, they have been seeking sympathy for losing a war that they began. If they are unhappy, perhaps they should not have started a

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30,000 New Immigrants since October 7 Massacre

Thursday, 29 August 2024 | Nearly 30,000 new immigrants have arrived in Israel since the October 7 massacre, according to figures released on Tuesday by the World Zionist Organization [WZO]. The wave of aliyah [immigration to Israel] coincides with the nearly 11-month war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and a surge in worldwide anti-Semitism.

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Israeli Forces Rescue Hostage Alive from Southern Gaza

Wednesday, 28 August 2024 | Israeli forces have rescued a hostage alive from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces [IDF] and Israel Security Agency [ISA] said in a joint statement on Tuesday. Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, from the Bedouin city of Rahat in the Negev Desert, was rescued from a tunnel

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Round One Goes to Israel

Wednesday, 28 August 2024 | It was over before we woke up. For almost a month, Israel was on high alert, waiting for the sirens to start. We waited for the “imminent” revenge promised by Iranian and Hezbollah top leadership for the death of Hezbollah’s second-in-command Fu’ad Shukr in a pinpoint strike in Beirut—which Israel

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IDF: 90% of Hezbollah Rockets, Drones Fired from Civilian Areas

Wednesday, 28 August 2024 | Nearly all of the hundreds of rockets and drones Hezbollah fired at Israel early Sunday were positioned in civilian areas of Lebanon near mosques, schools, gas stations and United Nations sites, the Israel Defense Forces [IDF] said on Monday night. Out of the 230 rockets and 20 UAVs that crossed

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