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TEL AVIV — Pink Floyd vocalist Roger Waters is an “idiot” with a “hateful agenda” that is a “bunch of lies” about Israel, Canadian-Israeli philanthropist Sylvan Adams said.

TEL AVIV — As Madonna landed in Israel ahead of her performance at the Eurovision Song Contest final, Sylvan Adams, the Canadian-Israeli philanthropist who picked up the hefty $1.3 million tab to bring her here, said the headlines garnered by the megastar’s visit would be worth every penny. 

TEL AVIV – Women’s March leader Linda Sarsour was ripped to pieces on social media after posting a selfie with Roger Waters on a private jet with an accompanying text extolling the Pink Floyd frontman’s “empathy” and “personal risk” in standing up for the Palestinians.

Several prominent Saudi journalists and intellectuals expressed support for Israel during the latest Gaza flare-up last weekend, and blamed Iran for the outbreak in hostilities.

Qatar says it will send $480 million to Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip after a cease-fire deal ended the deadliest fighting between Israel and Palestinian factions since a 2014 war between the two sides.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday commented on reports of an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire deal in Gaza, after two days of fighting in which four Israelis were killed, saying that Israel was readying for further confrontations with terrorist groups in the coastal enclave.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump said Sunday that the U.S. supports Israel “100%” for defending itself from an onslaught of rockets fro Gaza-based terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. 

JERUSALEM — Imagine the southern half of the United States being bombarded by missiles for days at a time. Conceptualize the populations of Miami, Los Angeles and Dallas running into bomb shelters as rocket sirens blare. This is the reality here in Israel as I write these words.

As rockets from the Gaza Strip continued to batter the south of the country Sunday, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz ordered the Tamar offshore natural gas field closed and put the country’s energy infrastructure into an emergency mode.

ASHDOD — An Israeli man was killed when a rocket landed in the coastal city of Ashdod, bringing the civilian death toll to four as population centers continue to be pounded with more than 700 projectiles launched by terror groups in the Gaza Strip.

ASHDOD, SOUTHERN ISRAEL – The U.S. lambasted Gaza-based terror groups for launching hundreds of missiles at civilian populations in Israel, and supported the country’s right to defend itself.

ASHDOD, SOUTHERN ISRAEL – After firing more than 450 rockets at Israel’s south in one day, killing an Israeli father of four, Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror groups on Sunday threatened to extend the range of the projectiles. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will authorise further “massive strikes” on Gaza Strip terrorists after rocket fire from the territory crashed into southern Israel overnight and into the morning.

One man has died and 83 people have been injured since terror groups in Gaza began firing rockets into Israel around 10 a.m. on Saturday.

The Israeli military denied Palestinian claims that a 14-month-old baby and her pregnant mother were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, instead blaming a terror group’s failed rocket launch for their deaths.

The Palestinian Authority on Saturday called on the United Nations to immediately intervene to halt Israeli “aggression” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The man wounded in Ashkelon has died of his injuries, according to several Hebrew-language media outlets.

Six Israelis were wounded, one seriously, by Palestinian rocket attacks as about 200 projectiles today were fired toward Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.

TEL AVIV – Ahead of what is expected to be an eventful but tense-filled May, the IDF on Tuesday deployed the Iron Dome missile defense system throughout the country after a rocket was launched from Gaza the previous night. 

A senior Palestinian Authority official reportedly warned that Hamas means to exploit the economic situation in the West Bank and pay off PA officers and security forces to take control of the territory.

NEW YORK — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez raised eyebrows for saying in an interview that cutting U.S. military aid to Israel is “certainly on the table” following the reelection of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Two small fires were started in southern Israel by balloons carrying incendiary devices from the Gaza Strip on Monday, the local fire department said. The blazes were quickly extinguished by firefighters.

A rundown zoo in the Gaza Strip will be relieved of 40 animals including five lions that were being kept in squalid conditions, an animal welfare group confirmed Sunday.

Hamas’s chief in Gaza said Saturday that if there is a war, Israel will need to evacuate its civilians from Tel Aviv as well as the border communities, a day after the terror group’s leader said talks to achieve a truce were advancing.

TEL AVIV – The leader of the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group said Tuesday that three rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into central Israel were a “mistake,” but added that they demonstrated what Hamas would do intentionally in a future conflict.

Several rockets were fired from Gaza at Israel early Sunday, officials said, marking a likely setback hours after the sides appeared to be headed for an unofficial truce following a day of low-level violence along the border.

JERUSALEM –  Despite initially claiming that the rocket launched from Gaza that leveled a private home in central Israel on Monday was a “mistake” and that Hamas had “no interest” in firing projectiles at Israel, the terror group’s official TV station continued to air calls to murder Israelis, telling Palestinians to “scatter the enemies’ body parts, make the skulls fly in the sky.”

TEL AVIV — Speaking in a radio interview, Aaron Klein, Breitbart’s Jerusalem bureau chief, offered his analysis on the escalation from the Gaza Strip prompted by unprovoked rocket attacks on Israel.

TEL AVIV – The IDF poked fun at Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, urging him not to forget to update the Israeli military as to the location of his new headquarters after an IAF strike saw the terror leader’s current offices leveled. 

Hamas terrorist leader Ismail Haniyeh had his administrative offices destroyed early Tuesday morning after an estimated 80 Israeli air strikes leveled dozens of Hamas and Islamic Jihad installations in the territory.