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Israel's bid to stop celebrations of Palestinian prisoners' release reveals the real aim of the war

Haaretz - 22:02 Nov 26, 2023
For Israelis, the Hamas hostage releases are a necessary nightly psychological torture

Haaretz - 21:20 Nov 26, 2023

Hamas chief Yihye Sinwar didn’t want to take Jewish babies and mothers hostage. He wanted to kill them. But Israelis still feel collective guilt about the captives ripped from their homes by Hamas

Tags: Hamas
For Biden, freeing four-year-old hostage Avigail was always personal

Haaretz - 21:20 Nov 26, 2023

President Biden has been focused on the American hostages since the start of the crisis, says one senior U.S. administration official, adding that 'we are unable to confirm the whereabouts or status for many of the ten [still] unaccounted for'
Three Palestinian students shot in Burlington, Vermont amid spiking Islamophobia stemming from Israel-Gaza war

Haaretz - 20:53 Nov 26, 2023

'In this charged moment, no one can look at this incident and not suspect that it may have been a hate-motivated crime,' says Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad
U.S. hopes Israel-Hamas four-day pause can be extended past Monday to secure more hostages

Haaretz - 20:28 Nov 26, 2023

Israel is 'prepared to continue the pause in fighting for every day that Hamas produces an additional 10 hostages,' says National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan
Stop applauding Hamas for its ‘humanity’

Haaretz - 20:15 Nov 26, 2023

We must admit that applauding Hamas gunmen for giving high-fives to their captives on camera, after killing their family members – in some cases in front of their eyes – sets a very low bar for humanity

Tags: Hamas
8 of the 39 Palestinian prisoners released in Hamas deal on Saturday convicted of attempted murder

Haaretz - 19:23 Nov 26, 2023

In exchange for the release of 39 Palestinian women and children from Israeli prison, Hamas released 13 Israeli women and children from captivity in Gaza

Tags: Hamas Palestinian
Northern Israeli Kibbutz residents prevent Palestinians from harvesting their olives

Haaretz - 18:31 Nov 26, 2023

Palestinians have been allowed through the border to harvest their olives for years. This year, residents of a nearby Kibbutz staged a protest to prevent them from doing so. The Israeli army refused to remove the protesters, despite initially granting the Palestinians right of access

Tags: Palestinians
Syria says Israeli strike puts Damascus airport out of service

Haaretz - 18:09 Nov 26, 2023

Israel has reportedly carried out strikes for years against what it has described as Iranian-linked targets in Syria, and the U.S. recently confirmed it targeted IRGC facilities in Syria in response to attacks against U.S. personnel

Tags: Syria
Al-Ahli Hospital explosion likely caused by Palestinian rocket, Human Rights Watch says

Haaretz - 17:30 Nov 26, 2023

Initial coverage of the incident cited a claim by Hamas that Israel had bombed the hospital, and that 500 people were killed in the explosion – two assertions Human Right Watch now says are unlikely to be correct
Tanker hijacked off coast of Yemen in third attack on Israeli-linked ships since Gaza war began

Haaretz - 16:01 Nov 26, 2023

The seizure of the Central Park comes less than a week after Yemen's Houthi rebels hijacked a cargo ship partially owned by a company belonging to an Israeli businessman
All-woman Israeli tank crews killed 50 terrorists over 17 hours of combat on October 7

Haaretz - 15:20 Nov 26, 2023

Composed of young women in their early 20s, the tank crews were the first Western women armored soldiers to go into active battle, according to the IDF.
Israelis massacred and abducted? Not in the Arab media

Haaretz - 14:26 Nov 26, 2023

Instead, Hamas' attack has largely been portrayed as a legitimate act of resistance, though not every country's media equates the terror group in Gaza with the Palestinian people
Toxicity doesn't rule the Hamas-Israel debate on U.S. college campuses

Haaretz - 13:31 Nov 26, 2023

As Jewish-Israeli scholars who work in U.S. universities, we know that the image of polarization and betrayal on campus is overblown. Most students and colleagues we encounter are curious and open-minded to learn more about the Israel-Hamas war
New York City teacher who attended pro-Israel rally hid in locked room as students rioted

Haaretz - 13:24 Nov 26, 2023

According to the New York Post, students who discovered a Facebook post indicating the teacher had been at the rally tried to push their way into her classroom, forcing her to be evacuated by police. Mayor Eric Adams said the incident was a 'vile show of antisemitism'
'This is not our battle': Director of Srebrenica Genocide Memorial targeted over Israel-Hamas war response

Haaretz - 13:06 Nov 26, 2023

Emir Suljagić, a Srebrenica survivor himself, is under fire for refusing to comment on the Israel-Hamas war, declaring that he won't sacrifice his organization’s work ‘at the alter of whatever Hamas’ agenda is’

Tags: Israel-Hamas
Israeli foreign minister says Irish prime minister legitimizing terror after tweet about freed hostage

Haaretz - 12:28 Nov 26, 2023

Prime Minister Leo Varadkar's tweet referred to Emily Hand as 'lost' rather than abducted, with social media users pointing out that he was alluding to the New Testament and that his full response described her as a hostage
Unable to escape Hamas' rockets, Bedouin choose to talk about their fears instead

Haaretz - 11:57 Nov 26, 2023

To date, 19 members of the Bedouin community in Israel, including six children, have been killed in the war. A hotline with Arab psychologists and social workers has become the best resource of comfort and support for many of them

Tags: Bedouin
'Most U.S. Jews don't want to choose: They can stand with Israel, and stand with Palestinians'

Haaretz - 11:45 Nov 26, 2023

Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, the spiritual leader of the world’s largest LGBTQ synagogue, and her partner, union leader Randi Weingarten, are paying a ‘shiva visit’ to Israel, while dealing with U.S progressive voices who ‘believe that Israel kind of deserved what it got’ on Oct. 7

Tags: Israel
These are the hostages freed from Hamas captivity on Sunday

Haaretz - 11:43 Nov 26, 2023

The hostages were kidnapped into the Gaza Strip 51 days ago from border communities and released on Sunday, as part of a limited cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas

Tags: Hamas Sunday

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