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As hostages' families drown in red tape, Israel fails to set up agency to help them

Haaretz - 17:15 Dec 07, 2023

'There are families who are broken up and are receiving no support, they're not holding up,' says a representative of the hostages' families
Israeli police tries to prevent left-wing, largely-Arab Hadash party convention

Haaretz - 17:00 Dec 07, 2023

Claiming convention would include inciting speech, Israeli police threaten facility owner where the event was to be held. Hadash leader says agenda to include planning 'for political action against the continuation of the war and against political persecution'

Tags: Israeli
Thai held hostage by Hamas in Gaza: Israelis 'singled out for especially brutal treatment'

Haaretz - 16:49 Dec 07, 2023

Anucha Angkaew, who spent 50 days in Hamas captivity, was held with several other Israeli and Thai hostages. Their captors punched and kicked them for two days. After that, they persisted with another two days of beatings for the Israelis, who were whipped using electrical wires

Tags: Hamas Thai Israelis
Belgium bans Israeli settlers committing anti-Palestinian violence in the West Bank

Haaretz - 15:57 Dec 07, 2023

The Belgian PM emulated Biden's recent sanctions, and says will push the EU to follow suit. 'Violence against civilians will have consequences,' he warns, as settler violence in the West Bank increases to an all-time high since the October 7 Hamas attack

Tags: West Bank
'Good Jew' vs. 'Bad Jew': Why pro-Palestine protests have a problem

Haaretz - 15:41 Dec 07, 2023

I have always protested Israel's occupation and systemic anti-Arab discrimination, but I won't join New York's pro-Palestinian protests. I will never take a toxic test requiring me to denounce other Jews nor march with anyone legitimizing killing Israelis as 'resistance'
Letter from Jerusalem: My family, my country at wartime

Haaretz - 15:35 Dec 07, 2023

We awoke from our camping trip October 7 to the rumbling of explosions. The horror of the war began to dawn: Not only Hamas rockets, but realizing our cousin was among those abducted from Israel into Gaza. When will he come home?
My brothers in arms, stop Netanyahu now

Haaretz - 15:23 Dec 07, 2023
The beautiful friendship between Jews and the Ivy League is over

Haaretz - 15:16 Dec 07, 2023

The Gaza war exacerbated the trend, but it began years ago: The Ivy League turning its back on Jews. Now Jewish alumni are returning the favor

Tags: Jews
Israel's foreign minister orders diplomatic passports for Netanyahu's son Yair, party members

Haaretz - 15:06 Dec 07, 2023

Professional Foreign Ministry staff didn't think it appropriate to issue the passports, but Foreign Minister Eli Cohen bypassed them. 'This smells particularly bad,' a source familiar with the foreign service said
The long road to recovery for freed Israeli hostages' has only just begun

Haaretz - 15:04 Dec 07, 2023

Israel has never faced a rehabilitation project of this magnitude. It is difficult to predict how, or even if, the hostages' road to full recovery will end
Has Erdogan's anti-Israel rhetoric damaged his political standing in Germany?

Haaretz - 14:54 Dec 07, 2023

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are at opposite ends of the scale when it comes to the Israel-Hamas war, but the former's political pragmatism means he reserves his harshest words about Israel for domestic audiences

Tags: Israel
'Spreading light in the darkness': Swedish leaders wear kippot in solidarity march with Jewish community

Haaretz - 14:40 Dec 07, 2023

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and opposition leader Magdalena Andersson were among those marching in Stockholm against antisemitism on Wednesday. 'All leaders bear a responsibility to draw a line against hate,' says premier
Netanyahu, ignore the U.S.' ideas about Gaza at your peril

Haaretz - 14:04 Dec 07, 2023

In Washington, there's a realization that Israel's war with Hamas is not aligned with or derived from any political objectives. So, after two months, the Americans are unilaterally proposing their own framework, even though they know the extremist Netanyahu government will never agree to it

Tags: Netanyahu
Israeli soldiers proclaim northern Gaza building is Chabad house

Haaretz - 13:02 Dec 07, 2023

The idea seemingly came from a number of American yeshiva students studying in Tel Aviv, who plan to put up more signs as they head south. The late leader of the Chabad movement was a staunch believer that Israel must retain control of all the Biblical land of Israel

Tags: Chabad
Israel cannot beat Hamas. It's time to halt the fighting and think ahead

Haaretz - 12:29 Dec 07, 2023
Israeli soldiers documented shooting disabled Palestinian in West Bank

Haaretz - 12:15 Dec 07, 2023

Tariq Abu 'Abed, 34, was heading home from work in Hebron when soldiers stopped him for his ID. Without it, they pointed guns at him. When he gestured to explain, they shot him. His mother shared his account with Haaretz
Police clash with far-right Jewish nationalists during Temple Mount/Al-Aqsa march in Jerusalem

Haaretz - 12:02 Dec 07, 2023

Far-right activists marching through the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City called for 'full Jewish control' over the Temple Mount/Al Aqsa compound and hurled racist abuse

Tags: Temple Mount Jewish
With hardly any internet access and confusing IDF tweets, Gazans don't know where to go

Haaretz - 11:20 Dec 07, 2023

The IDF's Arabic-language spokesman released a barely comprehensible map with garbled place names that Gazans were to use to make life-or-death decisions; human rights groups report that the places of sanctuary on the maps are already collapsing under the crush of people and lack of necessities

Tags: Gazans
Israeli defense minister orders settler accused of assaulting Palestinians to be held without trial

Haaretz - 11:04 Dec 07, 2023

Yoav Gallant signed the order against Tal Yinon Dardick, as the U.S. pressure to combat violence against Palestinians in the West Bank grows. Far-right minister Ben-Gvir hinted the defense minister is 'confused, and forgot the difference between friend and foe'

Tags: Palestinians
Israel is fostering the next generation of hatred against itself

Haaretz - 10:50 Dec 07, 2023

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