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Senator Van Hollen (D-MD) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the Israel-Hamas war was causing “unacceptably high levels of civilian casualties” in Gaza.

Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., entrepreneur Elon Musk, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have the highest net favorability of any public figures in the United States, according to a recent Harvard-Harris poll.

“To Hamas, Black Lives Don’t Matter. Jewish Lives Don’t Matter. Christian, Muslim, Druze, Hindu, and Buddist [sic] Lives Don’t Matter. Palestinian Lives Certainly Don’t Matter. For Hamas, Life Itself Doesn’t Matter.”

Israel began a new week on Sunday with a sense of determination after what many called the “difficult Sabbath” — a counterpart to the “black Sabbath” of October 7.

“If Israel is using precision aerial weapons 55-60% of the time, then that is more than any country in the history of urban warfare.”

Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organizations said Saturday evening that they would not agree to release further Israeli hostages until a complete and total ceasefire — effectively demanding that Israel abandon the war and accept defeat.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a video on Saturday showing troops battling a terrorist who shot at them from within an exposed tunnel shaft in the ground in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a grieving nation on Saturday night that despite the tragic killing of three Israeli hostages on Friday, and despite international pressure, “nothing will stop us” from continuing the war and destroying Hamas.

“I think the three hostages did everything possible so that we would understand – they moved around shirtless so that we wouldn’t suspect them of carrying explosives and they held a white cloth, but the tension overcame all of the above.”

The Israeli logistics company Trucknet has successfully brought ten trucks across a new 2,550-kilometer overland route between the port of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, across Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and into Israel, it was revealed on Saturday.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Saturday after an inquiry that the three hostages who were mistakenly killed on Friday were shirtless, waving white flags, and calling in Hebrew, and were shot by soldiers who thought they were being lured into a trap.

Destroyer downs suspected Houthi drone over Red Sea, as repeated attempts to attack merchant shipping, the lifeblood of the West, continue.

On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) said that aid that has gone into Gaza that the United States helped fund is “being stolen by Hamas” and “is not being given to the civilians, the

On Friday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) said that the media “rarely” cover Hamas continuing to fire rockets at Israel and that Hamas misfires plenty of rockets and ends up hitting Palestinian civilians. Stevens responded

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said that the suffering that the population of Gaza is experiencing is the fault of Hamas and their choice “to break

Hanukkah in London saw a series of antisemitic incidents, including members of the Jewish community abused and public menorahs vandalised.

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas fired rockets toward Jerusalem on Friday evening, as both Jews and Muslims were participating in prayers, endangering the Dome of the Rock, the Western Wall, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The rockets were intercepted and disabled by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, whose trails could be seen across the evening sky.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” host and NBC News Correspondent Katy Tur stated that while “Israel says they’re warning” Palestinian civilians of strikes, “I find it hard to believe that if a mother or a father was

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said that while the suffering of civilians in Gaza is due to Hamas, Israel has a “special responsibility” and needs to

Harvard University may intend to reduce the proportion of Jews in its student body to 1-2%, roughly the Jewish share of the U.S. population, according to a newsletter published by a new group of Jewish alumni of the institution.

Adeel Mangi did his best to evade questions about his role on an advisory board to an anti-Israel center that invited a terrorist to a 9/11 event.

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is claiming he is “not a progressive” as he advocates for aid to Israel and says a conversation with Republicans about immigration provisions tied to an aid package to Ukraine and Israel is “reasonable.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Friday that Israeli soldiers involved in combat against Hamas terrorists in Gaza had killed three Israeli hostages who were mistaken for the enemy.

The Maersk shipping company suspended shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait after Houthi terrorists launched a string of attacks.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released photos and a video Friday showing Hamas ambush tactics in the northern Gaza Strip, hiding explosives inside items associated with children and civilians to lure troops who are hoping to rescue Israeli hostages.

Iran-proxy group attacks on American troops stationed in Iraq and Syria have reached nearly 100 since the Israel-Hamas War began, according to a U.S. military official on Friday.

Israel said Friday that the U.S. was “fully aligned on the mission to destroy Hamas,” despite reports that visiting White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan had pushed Israel to wrap up the most intense fighting in the next few weeks.

A spokesman for the Israeli government said Friday that CNN had “buried the lede” in its own story about Israel using “dumb bombs” in Gaza, noting in the 20th paragraph that Israel was using technology that made those bombs into guided munitions.

Israel slammed the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Friday after a Red Cross official claimed that Israel was responsible for a lack of food and water in Gaza, ignoring the fact that Hamas steals humanitarian aid that Israel delivers there.

A court will rule Friday on whether to force the Dutch government to stop supplying parts for F-35 fighter jets being used by Israel.

A large container ship was struck by a projectile fired from Yemen, causing some cargo to fall overboard and setting a fire on the ship.

The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen launched missiles at a tanker full of jet fuel and threatened a U.S. Navy destroyer with a drone.

Megyn Kelly has called for a boycott of Taylor Swift after she attended a fundraiser aimed at providing “humanitarian relief” to Gaza.

A social media account called metoo_washu, created to help survivors of sexual violence at Washington University in St. Louis, claimed falsely on Tuesday that the Israeli government is guilty of “sexual violence inflicted upon Palestinians.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Thursday that it had suspended several soldiers who were seen in a widely-shared video singing Hanukkah songs through the loudspeaker of a minaret on a mosque during a counter-terror operation in Jenin.

Hamas received a rather nasty 36th birthday present on Thursday when the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a video of a deadly attack on Hamas terrorists underground, accomplished through the use of a probe and weapons activated remotely.