Iran-backed Islamic Jihad claimed the attacks, which originated from northern Gaza. Israeli Air Force fighter jets destroyed two Hamas rocket launchers embedded in a humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, the army said Wednesday, as the war started by the terrorist group entered its 200th day. The Israel Defense Forces said the launch pads were loaded with rockets and were struck before they could be used to attack the Jewish state. The strike in the heart of a humanitarian zone was carried out following efforts to prevent harm to civilians, the military added. Overnight, IAF fighter jets targeted 2 Hamas launch…
Author: Yossi Licht
Rachel Goldberg-Polin has met with numerous world leaders and addressed the UN twice in her advocacy efforts. Rachel Goldberg-Polin, whose 23-year-old Israeli-American son is still being held hostage by Hamas terrorists following the Oct. 7 attacks in southern Israel, has been included in this year’s Time magazine annual list of the “100 most influential people” for her global campaigning efforts to secure the release of her son and all the hostages in Gaza. Hersh Goldberg-Polin was abducted by Hamas terrorists from the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7. A video from his abduction shows Goldberg-Polin being shoved onto a pickup…
The Bidenites seem to think Israel should be satisfied with having escaped harm. The remains of intercepted Iranian drones and missiles shot down over Israel and Jordan are still smoldering, and already the Biden administration is trying to prevent Israel from launching its own strike in retaliation for what Washington admits was a hugely “disproportionate” response by Iran to the killing of a high-ranking Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commander, Mohamed Reza Zahedi, in Damascus. Biden has said his government will not take part in any attack by Israel on Iran. Apparently that “ironclad” support for Israel that Biden continue…
While garnering broad support, the statement was only signed by Western nations. Forty-eight countries condemned Iran and its proxies for the Apr. 14 missile and drone attack on Israel in a joint statement issued on Wednesday evening. “We unequivocally condemn” the attacks, read the statement, specifically naming Iran and its “militant partners” and noting that “this large-scale attack could have caused significant damage and loss of life.” While garnering broad support, the statement was only signed by Western nations. The effort was led by the United States and included five other members of the U.N. Security Council—France, Japan, Malta, South…
Hamas’s strategy now is to pressure Israel globally to end conflict before Gaza collapses. Hamas’s leadership in Rafah continues to cling to fanatical visions of eventual victory, six months into the war it launched with Israel, according to Israeli observers. “As long as they are not decisively defeated, they have a chance to stay alive in Gaza. Therefore, they positively view the outcomes of the war, or at least they have some kind of optimism,” said Brig. Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, former head of the Research and Assessment Division of Israel’s Military Intelligence and currently director of the Project on…
Over the past decade, the U.S. Congress has dramatically increased security funding for synagogues. A 25-year veteran of the FBI, Rusty Rosenthal had a front-row seat to understanding the difference between U.S. and Israeli approaches to security during his 11 years working in the bureau’s Tel Aviv field office. “I worked with all the Israeli services—the Shin Bet, Mossad and the police—for all those years and really had an appreciation for their entire society’s culture of security, as opposed to ours sometimes, which is really a culture of freedom and privacy,” Rosenthal told JNS. “Sometimes those are at odds with…
The film institute claimed that it initially canceled the screening ‘due to concern for public safety.’ A film institute in Pennsylvania was forced by court order to screen a documentary as part of the 28th annual Israeli Film Festival (IFF) of Philadelphia, after initially cancelling the screening following pressure from a pro-Palestinian group. The IFF announced on Tuesday it filed for and was granted a court order earlier in the day that required the Bryn Mawr Film Institute (BMFI) in Bryn Mawr, Penn., “to meet its commitment to the festival and the community, and proceed with the screening as planned.”…
On campus, maltreatment of Jewish students has been allegedly common and unpunished. Three major nonprofit organizations have joined forces as co-litigants in a civil rights complaint alleging that Ohio State University (OSU) has grossly foundered in responding to numerous incidents of antisemitic harassment and discrimination since Oct. 7, thus violating Title VI of the US Civil Rights Act. The university’s alleged neglect began just weeks after the Hamas terror group’s massacre of Israeli civilians, according to the complaint—which was filed by StandWithUs (SWU), the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law with the…
Fake news was a prevalent issue, with 61% of teenagers saying they encountered misinformation about the conflict. Findings from an Israeli survey released on Thursday shed light on the challenges youth face navigating offensive content, antisemitic discourse and threats in online spaces. The study, led by the National Headquarters for the Protection of Children Online – Unit 105 and the Office of the Chief Scientist, unravels a concerning narrative of exposure to offensive content and vulnerability to online harm among Israel’s youth. Conducted in the first quarter of 2024, a total of 1,155 respondents aged 12-17 participated. Just over half…
Hamas said it wouldn’t budge on its demands for a ceasefire, including a full withdrawal from Gaza. Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said on Wednesday that a hostage release deal with Hamas will only come as a result of military pressure. Addressing IDF commanders in the former Hamas stronghold of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza, Halevi said, “We are pressing to deepen the achievement” of the military operation in Gaza City’s Shifa hospital, “and we are pressing to try to initiate movement in the negotiations, to bring about an agreement for the release of the…