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• Israel Police detain Palestinian photographer who was attacked by Jewish youths during Jerusalem flag march

  Haaretz - 19:10 Jun 06, 2024
  

  Saif Kwasmi was slightly wounded in the head after about 10 Jewish boys attacked him. He continued to work and was later detained by police and his equipment was confiscated after a known right-wing activist contacted them and claimed that Kwasmi was a Hamas operative

  Tags: Jewish

• As Gaza war grinds on, volunteer lifeguards restore an important public services

  Haaretz - 18:55 Jun 06, 2024
  

  The Gaza Strip has seen various efforts by residents aimed at restoring services destroyed over eight months of war with Israel. Now, volunteer lifeguards patrol beaches where Palestinians try to cool off and engineers are volunteering to try and fix sewage systems

• India's voters show that 'Brand Modi' is a tired one indeed

  Haaretz - 18:40 Jun 06, 2024
  

  The 2024 general election has proved that religion, nationalism and personal charisma aren't enough to expand a political machine after a decade in power in India

• How Israel's mythic victory in the Six Day War became a Jewish far-right hate fest

  Haaretz - 18:37 Jun 06, 2024
  

  On Wednesday, right-wing Israelis, in a display of anti-Arab hatred, celebrated the reunification of Jerusalem in the Six Day War. Its ugly mythologizing could allow more Israelis to see the implications of military might

  Tags: Six Day War

• Israeli protester gets police call telling him to exclude politics from march to Pride rally

  Haaretz - 18:10 Jun 06, 2024
  

  A police officer told Pink Front co-founder Yaniv Segal to make sure there would be no 'political dimension' in the group's march to the rally that is being held instead of the usual Pride parade

  Tags: Pride

• Explained: What 'shahid' or 'martyr' means for Palestinians and Israelis

  Haaretz - 17:11 Jun 06, 2024
  

  Since the Palestinian suicide bombings of the 1990s, for Hebrew speakers in Israel, the word 'shahid' has been synonymous with 'terrorist.' With the term now in use from Al Jazeera to U.S. campuses, its use banned on Facebook and considered incitement by Israeli law enforcement, what does 'martyr' really mean for Arabic speakers in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank?

• Israel at war, day 244: Israel to set up system for wounded people to leave Gaza

  Haaretz - 16:58 Jun 06, 2024
  

  IDF has completed preparations for an attack on Hezbollah, head of Israel's northern command says ■ U.S., 16 other countries call on Israel, Hamas to 'make whatever final compromises are necessary' to secure truce ■ Israel to set up permanent system to allow wounded and sick people in and out of Gaza ■ Spain will join South Africa's ICJ case accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza ■ Here's what you need to know 244 days into the war

  Tags: Gaza Israel

• Meet the first Arab Israeli athlete to represent Israel at the Olympics since 1976

  Haaretz - 15:59 Jun 06, 2024
  

  'I surprised myself, and I'm very happy,' says Israeli swimmer Adam Mara'ana who is heading to Paris

• Worried about rising antisemitism? A pro-Israel musical by Nazi descendants might help

  Haaretz - 15:51 Jun 06, 2024
  

  Rain drops on roses and voyages to Zion: In the Jerusalem courtroom where the Eichmann trial was held, Germans descendants of Nazi criminals take part in a musical about the Zionist immigrant ship Exodus

  Tags: Nazi

• Tel Aviv's Pride events present a queer community dramatically changed by war

  Haaretz - 15:46 Jun 06, 2024
  

  Also this week, the Artport art center's annual art book fair returns; October 7 hero Noam Tibon will be the subject of a movie by the creators of Fauda; and the children's book by hostage Chaim Peri, who died in Gaza, is now out

• For Israel and Hezbollah, full-scale war is question of when, not if

  Haaretz - 15:41 Jun 06, 2024
  

  Well-intentioned diplomatic efforts by the U.S. and France to de-escalate the dangerous tensions on the Israeli-Lebanese border can only ever have a temporary effect. With Israeli concessions incapable of satisfying Hezbollah's implacable hostility, any cease-fire will be unsustainable

• As Europe heads to the polls, right-wing populism set to hold sway over its future

  Haaretz - 15:22 Jun 06, 2024
  

  What will be the role of Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán? Will the European far right unite? How much power will the liberals and the greens lose? The questions at the center of the European Union parliamentary elections being held from June 6-9

• Leading Israeli protest group files defamation suits against right wing slander

  Haaretz - 15:12 Jun 06, 2024
  

  In the months since Hamas' attacks on October 7, far-right pundits have regularly blamed the Israeli army reservist group, Brothers and Sisters in Arms, claiming their calls to refuse to serve in the military during the protests against PM Netanyahu's judicial overhaul motivated Hamas to strike Israel

• Biden affirms support for Ukraine at D-Day anniversary ceremony

  Haaretz - 14:42 Jun 06, 2024
  

  In a ceremony at the American cemetery in Normandy, the U.S. president said that 'to bow down to dictators' was 'unthinkable'

• TikTok worries Israel. Meanwhile, 22 of its ministers are hooked on the app

  Haaretz - 13:42 Jun 06, 2024
  

  'TikTok is a strategic threat to national security': a discussion at the Knesset exposed the Israeli government's failure to address the growing problem of manipulation by the social platform used by 3.8 million Israelis – including the National Security minister

  Tags: TikTok

• Dozens killed in Israeli strike on UNRWA school in Gaza; IDF: Hamas used building as base

  Haaretz - 11:32 Jun 06, 2024
  

  While the Israeli army said that the UNRWA school in Nuseirat was housing elite Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who took part in October 7, Hamas says that the school housed displaced Gazans and was not a military compound

  Tags: Israeli UNRWA Hamas

• Former Israeli Supreme Court President resigns from ICJ, citing personal reasons

  Haaretz - 10:48 Jun 06, 2024
  

  PM Netanyahu will now have to appoint a replacement for Aharon Barak, a Holocaust survivor who argued that Israel is not obligated to halt the fighting in southern Gaza as long as it fulfills its duties in keeping with the Genocide Convention

• When Israelis find themselves stranded at Beirut's airport

  Haaretz - 10:32 Jun 06, 2024
  

  Israel's army has been disrupting GPS services in order to confuse its enemies. An opportunity to regain our lost sense of direction

• Israeli soldier killed in Hezbollah drone attack near Lebanon border

  Haaretz - 10:07 Jun 06, 2024
  

  Staff Sgt. (res.) Refael Kauders was killed during Hezbollah's drone attack on a military position near the Druze town of Hurfeish, along Israel's northern border

• IDF soldier killed after terrorists planning raid on Israeli soil open fire, breach Gaza buffer zone

  Haaretz - 08:45 Jun 06, 2024
  

  At least three terrorists who breached the Israeli-controlled buffer zone on the Gaza border with equipment indicating they planned on raiding an Israeli military base or border community were killed by Israeli forces

  Tags: Gaza Israeli

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