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Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that she supported the Biden-Harris administration’s threat to Israel over humanitarian conditions for Palestinians in Gaza — though she denied it warned of an arms embargo.

Macron’s French government has banned Israeli defence contractors from exhibiting at next month’s Euronaval, a major arms fair in Paris.

Chinese Foreign Ministry Wang Yi made calls to his counterparts in both Israel and Iran, the Chinese state propaganda outlet Global Times reported on Tuesday, allegedly intended to convince the country to abandon “renewed conflict and turmoil.”

Israeli law enforcement authorities revealed on Tuesday that they had traced a failed suicide bombing that occurred in Tel Aviv in August to a Hamas cell based in Turkey.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) produced a video Tuesday reportedly showing the interrogation of a captured Hezbollah terrorist, Wadah Kamel Younis, who said others had “fled” after leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed.

The government of Russia confirmed on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia is not yet an official member of the anti-American BRICS coalition, claiming that the Middle East will formalize its position one way or the other at this month’s summit.

The University of Munster in Germany announced on Friday that a team of its archaeologists has uncovered one of the oldest Christian churches in the world in the Ararat Plain of Armenia.

Communist dictator Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanuayu on Monday evening, calling him “Hitler” and accusing him of being the “son of the devil” days after he had the country break diplomatic ties with Israel.

Former Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren blasted the Biden-Harris administration Tuesday after news emerged that Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had threatened an arms embargo against Israel over Gaza.

The Biden-Harris administration is quietly threatening an arms embargo against Israel, citing humanitarian concerns about the war in Gaza, where Hamas continues to hold Israeli hostages while Israel tries to stop it from regrouping.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to rise in polls of his country’s voters, as his strong performance in the ongoing war — and in standing up to President Joe Biden — wins praise from the electorate.

Voters in Cunningham Township in central Illinois, home to the University of Illinois, will face a ballot question asking whether the U.S. should stop giving aid to Israel, which the referendum identifies as an “apartheid regime.”

Esmail Qaani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, appeared on Tuesday at the funeral of a fellow senior IRGC commander following weeks of absence that fueled rumors he had fallen out of favor or possibly died.

A former British Army soldier had admitted terrorism charges laid against him over fundraising and equipment meant for the Taliban.

Israel has responded to a successful Hezbollah drone strike on an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) base earlier this week in classic Israeli fashion: by accelerating efforts to encourage private research and development of drone defenses.

The socialist dictatorship of Venezuela has sent 14 tons of food, medicine, and other humanitarian aid to Lebanon as a gesture against Israel’s self-defense operations following the October 7, 2023, Hamas slaughter.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Tuesday that it is expanding its humanitarian efforts in northern Gaza as it expands its attack there against remaining Hamas forces and encourages civilians to leave for their own safety.

An Israeli policeman was shot dead Tuesday and four other bystanders wounded when a terrorist launched an assault near Ashdod in the south of the country, local media outlets report.

The EU imposed sanctions on Iran´s deputy defense minister, senior members of its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and three airlines.

The Arab American Political Action Committee (AAPAC) will not be issuing an endorsement for president this election cycle — the first time in 20 years it has not backed the Democrat candidate.

The Biden-Harris administration gave the Iranian regime access to $200 billion in oil revenues through lax sanctions enforcement, according to a report Monday in the Washington Free Beacon, citing new government data.

The government of India was one of a small number of “global south” nations absent on a list of signatories to a letter released this week condemning Israel for declaring the head of the United Nations, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, persona non grata.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly agreed to a demand by U.S. President Joe Biden that Israel will not attack Iran’s oil facilities or nuclear sites in retaliation for a ballistic missile attack earlier this month.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published video and photos of an underground tunnel and bunker that were discovered beneath a Shia village in southern Lebanon, and were used by Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force.

Material labeled as being from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has allegedly been found among weapons stockpiled by Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorists at positions along Lebanon’s border with Israel.

The Pentagon announced on Sunday that it would deploy a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery for missile defense to Israel in response to incessant threats from Iran.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released audio Monday of a conversation between a representative of the Israeli military and a civilian in Gaza who reported that Hamas is beating residents who try to evacuate northern Gaza.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed evidence Sunday that showed the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror organization operating near United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) posts, using them as human shields.

Hezbollah successfully targeted an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) base on Sunday with a drone that hit the dining hall of a base near the city of Binyamina, south of Haifa, killing four, wounding seven critically, and injuring 14 more.

Israel has stopped attacking Hezbollah targets in Beirut, Lebanon, at the request of U.S. President Joe Biden, according to media reports.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Sunday that it had discovered a Hezbollah terrorist hiding in a tunnel amid stockpiles of weapons, as fellow terrorists retreated north rather than face advancing Israeli forces in direct combat.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told his Israeli counterpart, Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant, that Israel needed to “pivot” to a “diplomatic pathway” in Lebanon, despite stunning Israeli advances against Hezbollah.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published a statement Sunday urging the United Nations to withdraw so-called “peacekeeping” troops from Lebanon because they were acting as “human shields” for Hezbollah terrorists.

Israel issued an announcement declaring that it would turn the Jerusalem headquarters of UNRWA into a housing complex.

Comedian Trevor Noah expressed outrage against CBS News on his podcast Thursday with author Ta-Nehisi Coates, who was questioned by CBS’ Tony Dokoupil this week about his extremist views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, on Friday that Moscow continues to place a high priority on cooperation with Tehran and wishes to create a “new world order” in which the West and Israel no longer have a dominant position in global affairs.