Canada will cease future arms sales to Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly told The Toronto Star on Tuesday. The Trudeau government is making the move to support Hamas over Israel despite the fact that a motion passed on Monday by the Canadian Parliament called for such action is non-binding. The motion was drafted by members of the extreme left New Democrats party. “It is a real thing,” Joly said. Her assertion was confirmed on Tuesday by Foreign Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Robert Oliphant. Canada is the first of Israel’s Western allies to make such a move and Israeli officials fear…
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Senior Biden administration officials told Israeli security officials that the US will back Israel in targeting “high-value Hamas targets in and underneath Rafah” but not a large-scale invasion, Politico reported on Wednesday evening. In other words, the Biden administration will support “surgical” counterterrorism operations in Rafah rather than an all-out war, a strategy it claims can still decimate Hamas while minimizing civilian casualties and avoiding “scenes that have led to souring public opinion on Israel’s campaign and Biden’s handling of the war.” The US has asked Israel to present a plan to protect the large civilian population in Rafah but…
A shooting attack took place at a gas station in the yishuv of Eli in Binyamin late Thursday afternoon. The attack left two Israelis murdered. Their identities have not been released. One victim is reportedly 17 years old, and the second is 31. According to initial reports, the attack was carried out by a terror cell of three terrorists. One terrorist was neutralized by the owner of “Chummus Eliyahu,” next to the gas station, and one reportedly barricaded himself inside a store next to the gas station. A large number of Israeli security forces launched a manhunt for additional terror…
State Department spokesperson Matt Miller said that the Biden administration’s policy regarding recognizing a Palestinian state remains unchanged. In response to a question about a report that the Biden administration is exploring the possibility of recognizing a Palestinian state following the war in Gaza, Miller said: “We have been quite clear publicly that we support the establishment of an independent Palestinian state—with security guarantees for Israel. That’s been the policy of the United States for some time and that has been the policy of this administration.” “We look at any number of options—that’s part of the normal planning process. The…
IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari on Wednesday evening addressed the issue of the many hostages still being held by Hamas in Gaza, saying that the security establishment does not yet have a complete picture of their situation. “We’re exerting all efforts to gather intelligence about the hostages and we adjust our operations based on the intelligence at our disposal,” he said. However, he clarified that “we do not have a complete intelligence picture of the situation of all the hostages,” adding that continuous intelligence efforts are being carried out to try to glean more information. Hagari emphasized that the goal to…
Tal Chaimi, H’yd, (left) and Joshua Mollel were murdered by Hamas and their bodies are being held in Gaza. Kibbutz Nir Yitchak announced on Wednesday evening that Tal Chaimi, H’yd, was murdered by Hamas on October 7th and his body is being held by Hamas. Chaimi, H’yd, 41, left behind his wife Ella and three children, nine-year-old twins and a six-year-old. He was part of Nir Yitzchak’s civilian defense team and left the house the morning of October 7th to protect the residents against the terrorists. He had been listed as missing ever since. The statement from the kibbutz said…
Sgt. Major (res.) Ben Zussman, Hy’d, of Jerusalem fell in battle in the northern Gaza Strip last week. Zussman, H’yd, was the son of Tzvi and Sarit Zussman of Jerusalem, the grandson of Edna and Aver Zussman, a part-time resident of Denver, and the great-grandson of the late Ben and Bernice Zussman of Denver. Before Zussman, z’l went into battle in the Gaza Strip, he wrote a letter to his family. Read his moving words below: “I’m writing you this message on the way to the base. If you’re reading this, something must have happened to me. As you know…
Batia Holin, a resident of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, is a photographer and peace activist who developed a friendship with a Gazan photographer. In February 2023, they arranged a joint exhibit of photos of Kfar Aza and his village in the Gaza Strip. Over 10,000 people viewed the images. They had plans for another exhibit in San Diego. In an interview with Channel 13, Holin revealed that on October 7th, she discovered that “her friend” had participated in the assault and passed the information and photos about her kibbutz to Hamas. How did she know? She said that she had no…
Sharon Cunio, 34, and her twin daughters, Yuli and Emma, 3 were released from captivity in Gaza last week. Sharon’s sister, Danielle Aloni, and her daughter, Emilia, 5, were released three days earlier. Sharon’s husband and the twins’ father, David, remains in captivity. Both families were abducted on October 7th from Kibbutz Nir Oz. On Sunday evening, Ramos Aloni, Sharon and Danielle’s father, told Channel 12 News that in Gaza, the terrorists separated one of the twins, Yuli, from the rest of her family and they had no idea where she was. “On the second day, they took Yuli to…
A US study revealed an unusual volume of transactions at the New York and Tel Aviv stock exchanges that gambled on the collapse of the Israeli stock market a week before the October 7th attack, The Marker revealed for the first time on Monday The report was based on a study called Trading on Terror?, carried out by two of the greatest US experts in the field of securities law: Prof. Robert Jackson Jr. of New York University, formerly one of the heads of the American Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Prof. Joshua Mitts of Columbia University, an expert in…