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In the main room, a cake with Kfir’s picture is surrounded by sweets and balloons. “It’s my birthday and no one will celebrate with me,” Yossi Schneider read out from a letter as family members and representatives of the Hostage and Missing Families Forum marked Kfir Bibas’s first birthday in Nir Oz. “It’s my birthday and I am not with my family. It’s my birthday and I don’t get presents. It’s my birthday and I hope that you remember me,” continued Schneider, Shiri Bibas’s cousin. On Oct. 7, Shiri, her husband Yarden, and their two children, Ariel, 4, and Kfir,…

The IDF reports that over 700 Hamas rocket launchers have been destroyed by its troops since the beginning of their operations in the Gaza Strip. Numerous rockets, among them long-range projectiles, have been seized, as well. The collaboration between ground forces and the Israeli Air Force has been pivotal in targeting these launchers, leading to a marked decrease in rocket fire from Gaza in recent weeks, a development military officials attribute to Israel’s effective control on the ground and successful capture of Hamas’s rocket stockpiles and launch sites. The IDF shared footage from the IAF’s intelligence-gathering 100th Squadron, which captured…

A New York City public school is facing allegations of “Jewish erasure” due to a map displayed in one of its classrooms that excludes Israel from the Middle East countries, instead labeling it as “Palestine.” The Free Press said it was given access to a photograph of this map, which was found in the art classroom of PS 261, a public elementary school located in Brooklyn. The classroom is used by Rita Lahoud to provide lessons to pre-K and elementary students as part of the “Arab Culture Arts” program, funded by Qatar Foundation International (QFI). QFI is the American arm…

Hamas diverted at least 6,000 tons of concrete and 1,800 tons of metal to build the tunnels. Hamas spent tens of millions of dollars, which was intended for the Gaza Strip, building underground terrorist infrastructure, the Israel Defense Forces said on Thursday evening, citing intelligence findings. Hamas “opted to invest precious resources in building terrorist infrastructure used to harm Israeli civilians and IDF forces, while cynically exploiting the civilian population in the Gaza Strip,” the military statement said. An analysis of tunnel shafts discovered since the start of Israel’s ground operation in the coastal enclave last year shows that Hamas…

Ninety-one days later, Eden is still in Gaza. When her phone died, I said, ‘I hope they shoot her, I hope it’s quick.’ Shani Yerushalmi, 25, from Tel Aviv, told JNS. “I never thought they’d kidnap her.” Hamas terrorists kidnapped Shani’s sister Eden, a 24-year-old Pilates teacher, from the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7. On that day, rockets began raining down on Israel at 6:30 a.m. Eden, who was working as a bartender at the festival, phoned her mother to inform her that the event had been stopped and she’d soon be home. An hour later, Eden called again.…

The Israel Defense Forces says it has successfully completed a week-long operation conducted by troops from the 646th Reserve Paratroopers Brigade and the elite Yahalom combat engineering unit. The neighborhood where the mission took place—often referred to as “the towers neighborhood” by the IDF due to its high-rise buildings—served as a hub for various terror activities. According to the IDF, these buildings were utilized by terrorists as positions for anti-tank missiles and machine gun fire. During the course of their operations, IDF troops engaged in battles with and neutralized many Hamas gunmen. Additionally, they discovered several primed rocket launchers, booby-trapped…

The IDF conducted strikes on more than 100 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip within the past day, military officials said Friday. The strikes were carried out using a combination of air, sea, and ground forces and targeted various Hamas facilities, including command centers, launch positions, and weapons depots, among other infrastructure, as reported by the IDF. In central Gaza’s al-Bureij, the Border Defense Corps’ 414th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit identified a group of Hamas operatives attempting to attack an IDF tank. Following the identification, a pursuit ensued as the gunmen used a drone to watch IDF movements. Subsequently, the…

Since 2015 the UN passed 141 resolutions against Israel, more than double the rest of the world. The United Nations General Assembly condemned Israel twice as often as it did all other countries combined in 2023, according to UN Watch. The Geneva-based NGO, which monitors the UN, found that the General Assembly last year passed 14 resolutions singling out Israel, while passing only seven condemning other countries. The international body passed two measures against Russia and one each against North Korea, Myanmar, Syria, Iran, and the United States. Notably, there were zero resolutions passed condemning countries such as Venezuela, Lebanon,…

WASHINGTON (JNS) – U.S. Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Wednesday told CNN‘s Jake Tapper that the popular social media app TikTok is distorting Americans’ perception of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Tapper, who is Jewish, had asked Fetterman—who is not, but has been one of the most vocal Zionists in Congress of late—about a New York Times/Siena College poll which found that 72% of registered voters aged 18 to 29 disapprove of the way U.S. President Joe Biden is handling the Israel-Palestine conflict. Why do so many younger people, especially Democrats, see Israel differently from…

‘The level of their awareness about that Intelligence Corps base in the western Negev slipped us … they knew exactly what they wanted to achieve.’ Interrogations with Hamas Nukhba terrorists and recovered documents reveal the extent to which Hamas had mapped out IDF bases and civilian areas in the south before the October 7th massacre. Unit 504 of Israel’s Intelligence Division reveals that Hamas terrorist commanders gathered intelligence on IDF activity and locations as well as detailed information about communities in the south and trained and instructed their terrorists accordingly. Nukhba terrorists knew security vulnerabilities, the precise locations of dining…