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A church congregant wrestled the shooter to the ground and restrained him until police arrived.

It may well be that the Israeli prime minister does not want a deal at this time – but it's also feasible that the threat of a ground invasion of Rafah is the final leverage on Hamas. 'If Netanyahu wants a deal,' says one official involved in the talks, 'this is more or less the best one he can get'

As Israel prepares for a Rafah ground operation against U.S. wishes, and while Israel and Hamas are inching closer to a cease-fire and hostage deal, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has to tell Congress by Wednesday whether he accepts Israeli assurances that it isn't violating international law while using U.S. weapons

Ilan Sinelnikov, founder and President of Students Supporting Israel (SSI), in conversation with Tamar Uriel-Beeri, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Jerusalem Post

After Israel shuttered the local offices of the Qatari-owned news network, Palestinians criticized the ban as an attempt to hide its intensive coverage of the war in Gaza

There will now be another round of accusations and counter-accusations, Israel will 'study' the details and perhaps send its negotiating team yet again to Cairo. But meanwhile, Israeli troops won't be going into Rafah

Dozens of tents were erected overnight at Oxford and Cambridge, where students came to 'show a united force'

  Hamas said in a statement on Monday that it had accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal from Egypt and Qatar. The Islamist faction said in a statement that its chief, Ismail Haniyeh, had informed Qatar's prime minister and Egypt's intelligence chief of its acceptance of their proposal. Earlier on Monday, US President Joe Biden pressed […]

  A senior US official has told Politico that the Biden administration is concerned Hamas' rocket attack over the weekend has led Israel to accelerate plans for a potential military operation in Rafah, a city in southern Gaza. "The rocket attack confirms their fear, you still have this pocket there that gone unchecked or left […]

The state university of New Jersey is home to 6,400 Jewish undergraduates – the second-highest number in the U.S.

  The world is witnessing a deeply disturbing resurgence of antisemitism on a scale unparalleled since the Nazi atrocities of World War II. Holocaust deniers, once relegated to the fringes of society, are reemerging and propagating falsehoods. While the historical record unequivocally establishes Adolf Hitler's direct, personal orchestration of the Final Solution and the genocide […]

  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that his War Cabinet approved continuing an operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah in order to pressure Hamas to release Israeli hostages and achieve the country's other war goals. "The war cabinet unanimously decided that Israel continue the operation in Rafah to exert military pressure on […]

Anyone familiar with Benjamin Netanyahu's interpretation of history should not be surprised by his latest ludicrous comparison between the pro-Palestinian protests on U.S. college campuses and 1930s Germany

  US President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a phone call Monday during which the American leader demanded clarifications regarding the Israeli upcoming incursion into Rafah amid reports that the IDF had ordered residents in the city to evacuate. The two spoke for about half an hour in what was described as […]

Amid global protests against the Gaza war – some accompanied by denial of Hamas' systematic sexual crimes – Israeli filmmaker Anat Stalinsky created a film documenting sexual violence on October 7, through interviews by former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg

While COGAT, the IDF unit in charge of coordinating aid to Gaza, said international organizations have indicated that there was too much aid entering into northern Gaza, UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini insisted that there continue to be long delays at checkpoints for aid deliveries, shootings at convoys and arrests of UN staff