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GENEVA — Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest will be debated at a two-day meeting of member broadcasters in Geneva starting Thursday, following calls to exclude the country over its Gaza war tactics.

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation on Monday that would bar from the United States anyone involved in the Hamas-led October 7, 2023, terrorist attack against Israel.

Israel will deploy its first full-power Iron Beam laser defense battery by year’s end, with senior defense officials declaring the system will “fundamentally change the rules of engagement on the battlefield” as the Jewish state braces for continued clashes with Iran and its terror proxies.

“A society that sacrifices its own children for pity and power is a death cult — and the liberal West is feeding the beast by validating its lies,” the son of a Hamas co-founder warned, describing Hamas’s strategy of turning Gaza’s civilians into human shields to win global sympathy.

Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday denounced before the Paraguayan parliament that Venezuela’s socialist regime is the main “nexus” that facilitates the presence of Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis in the region.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on Thursday presented detailed information about a massive underground “terror stronghold” constructed by Hamas beneath the northern Gaza city of Beit Hanun.

President Donald Trump on Thursday met with recently freed Israeli hostages at the White House, just over a month after a historic Middle East peace deal that has thus far secured the release of the remaining living, and 25 of 28 deceased hostages, who were held captive by Hamas.

President Donald Trump currently enjoys the highest foreign policy job approval rating of any 21st-century president.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday voted to support President Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza, while the terrorists of Hamas rejected the plan completely, in part because it called for an international peacekeeping force.

Hundreds of Israelis gathered Tuesday in the central town of Kfar Saba to lay to rest army officer Hadar Goldin, whose remains were returned by Hamas after being held in Gaza for more than a decade.

The son of Hamas’s co-founder delivered a chilling warning about New York City’s socialist mayor-elect, describing Zohran Mamdani as a catastrophic figure who will “only succeed in one thing — burning the castle down” by functioning as a “Trojan horse” for what he identified as the Red-Green Alliance — a coordinated effort between radical communist and Islamist forces seeking to dismantle Western capitalism and fundamentally transform America’s largest city.

Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson called out the rise in antisemitism during a recent interview with the Israeli news channel N12. “Whenever people are spewing any kind of hate, I’m always concerned that they’re going to be physically violent as well,” the “Avengers” star said.

Austrian police captured a Hamas weapons cache smuggled and hidden for use in terrorist attacks against “Jewish” targets.

Oscar-nominated, multiplatinum singer-songwriter John Ondrasik told Breitbart News recently that the hostages held by Hamas would have been released sooner if the world’s biggest artists and singers demanded it after October 7.

FDNY Commissioner Robert Tucker handed in his resignation on Wednesday, less than 12 hours after Democrat Socialist Zohran Mamdani was announced the winner of New York City’s mayoral election.

The body of the last U.S. citizen kidnapped by Hamas, 19-year-old Staff Sgt. Itay Chen, was returned from Gaza for burial on Monday.

Islamic advocates are gloating over the election of a Muslim immigrant to the mayoralty of New York City.

Michael Rapaport slammed Democrat Socialist New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani over his refusal to call on the terrorist group Hamas to lay down their arms. “He is so full of f**king s**t,” the actor declared.

The terrorists of Hamas returned the remains of three more slain hostages to Israel on Sunday. All three were Israeli soldiers who were killed attempting to repel the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023. The terrorists dragged their bodies back to Gaza to use as bargaining chips.

Hamas returned the body of American-Israeli Capt. Omer Neutra to Israel on Sunday, a bittersweet handover his father marked with Jeremiah’s line that “your children shall return to their own land” — “Our Omer is on Israeli soil … so much pain, and so much relief.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed Sunday that there are still two “pockets” of Hamas terrorists inside the area to which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) withdrew under the ceasefire deal.

Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) warned New York City — the financial capital of the world — would face “a complete disaster” if socialist Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani takes power, cautioning his radical agenda on policing and governance will endanger the city’s safety and security and trigger a mass exodus that harms both New York and the nation.

Israel confirmed Thursday night that two bodies delivered by the Hamas terrorist organization via the Red Cross were those of two dead Israeli hostages, Amiram Cooper, 85, and Sahar Baruch, 25.

An ad from Veteran Action showcases the “radical Islamic agenda” of New York City’s socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the prime minister of Qatar, said on Wednesday that Hamas violated the terms of the Gaza ceasefire deal when it attacked a group of Israeli soldiers on Tuesday, killing one of them.

Israel and Hamas both said that the ceasefire in Gaza will resume, despite an exchange of attacks that began on Tuesday when Hamas terrorists fired on Israeli soldiers, killing one, and staged a fake return of remains.

A shocking poll shows that two years after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre that murdered more than 1,200 Israelis, a majority of Palestinians still say the terror group was right to launch the attack.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) issued a rare criticism of Hamas on Tuesday after the terrorist organization staged a fake retrieval of a body it falsely claimed to be that of a missing hostage.

Hamas was caught on video faking the retrieval of a body of one of the 13 dead Israeli hostages whose bodies it was supposed to hand over two weeks ago under President Donald Trump’s ceasefire agreement.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered airstrikes on Hamas positions in Gaza on Tuesday night after the terror organization staged a fake transfer of the body of one of the deceased hostages Monday.

Hamas staged a fake recovery of a hostage’s body in the Gaza Strip, according to Israeli soldiers who observed the event; and also returned a coffin to Israel Monday that contained more remains of a previously recovered hostage.

The International Stabilization Force (ISF) that is to patrol Gaza as part of President Donald Trump’s 20-point Gaza ceasefire plan could include troops from Azerbaijan, Indonesia, and Pakistan, one report says.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) is urging Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to re-review visa applications from legal immigrants admitted to the United States under the Biden administration. The call for more scrutiny of legal immigrants comes after the Justice Department revealed that the Biden administration rewarded a Gaza citizen with a visa to the U.S. despite his alleged ties to Hamas’s terrorist attack on Israel in October 2023.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR), the Senate Republican Conference chair and a senior member of the Armed Services Committee, called on the Department of Homeland Security to audit every visa approved under the Biden administration for applicants from high-risk countries, warning that Biden’s vetting policy “allowed dangerous individuals tied to terrorist groups to enter the United States.”

Although President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan stated that Hamas could play no role in governing postwar Gaza, the terrorist group is still kidnapping and murdering Palestinians to maintain its grip on power, reports on Tuesday confirmed.