Tuesday, 4 June 2024 | Israel’s envoy to the United Nations [UN] will depart his position this summer, according to the prime minister’s office. Gilad Erdan, whose confrontational nature has rattled UN officials and opposing diplomats, especially in a post-October 7 environment, announced that he will depart at the end of his appointed term, which
Continue Reading »Monday, 3 June 2024 | Israel forces on Sunday continued their “precise, intelligence-based targeted operations” in Gaza’s Rafah city, according to the Israel Defense Forces [IDF]. Troops have seized large caches of weapons and killed armed terrorists in the city, Hamas’s last stronghold in the Strip, the military said. Ground forces remain active elsewhere in Gaza, including
Continue Reading »Monday, 3 June 2024 | The two main political parties in the United States Congress rarely agree, but leaders from both sides reaffirmed their support for Israel last week. The top four members of the US Senate and House—in a letter published on House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson’s page on X (formerly Twitter) on Friday—issued
Continue Reading »Monday, 3 June 2024 | Nahariya and Acre are two of Israel’s northernmost cities. For months, these cities had relative calm, especially compared to neighboring communities. Nahariya experienced five consecutive months without sirens, from November to April. In Acre, there were no sirens for four months, from late December until the end of April. However,
Continue Reading »Monday, 3 June 2024 | Ahead of Jerusalem Day on Tuesday evening and Wednesday, which this year celebrates 57 years since the city was reunified in the Six-Day War, the Jerusalem Institute for Policy Research has published its 38th annual report on the city, which provides an in-depth statistical look at the capital. With a
Continue Reading »Friday, 31 May 2024 | The Slovenian cabinet endorsed a decision to recognize a Palestinian state on Thursday, paving the way for parliament to approve the move in the coming days, the government in Ljubljana announced. “Today, the government has decided to recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state,” Prime Minister Robert Golob told
Continue Reading »Friday, 31 May 2024 | The images grip your heart and haunt you late into the night. A fire roaring through make-shift shelters as soot-streaked figures scurry desperately to save the inhabitants within. Refugees with vacant eyes sifting through the ashes hours later for tokens of life that the flames didn’t consume. Mothers sobbing their
Continue Reading »Friday, 31 May 2024 | The Hamas terror organization reiterated on Thursday night that it intends to end ongoing negotiations with Israel, which would see the hostages being held in the Gaza Strip released in exchange for a ceasefire and the release of terrorists in Israeli custody, unless the Jewish state first ends the war
Continue Reading »Friday, 31 May 2024 | Nakba Day, observed on May 15, was portrayed this year by many Palestinians as an unending loop of their historical plight marked by displacement, refuge, casualties and ruin. Some even argued that the current Gaza campaign represents a greater Nakba, eclipsing the original 1948 catastrophe in terms of damage inflicted
Continue Reading »Thursday, 30 May 2024 | Following an emergency session of the UN Security Council on Tuesday afternoon, Algeria began circulating a concise draft resolution calling for an immediate end to Israel’s military operation in the southern Gazan city of Rafah, tying it to a recent ruling by the International Court of Justice [ICJ]. Algeria, which
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