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The Sky Dew system detects and gives warning of aerial threats emanating from over the northern border. The IDF confirmed Hezbollah’s claim to have damaged a sensitive military site in the north and is currently assessing the harm done. Two explosive UAVs penetrated Israeli airspace Wednesday, heading for an air defense facility near the Golani Junction in the Lower Galilee. One was shot down, the IDF said, while the other hit the location of the army’s new Sky Dew system, which operates a radar-filled reconnaissance blimp. It was the first time the Iranian proxy managed to hit anything of consequence…

Universities must protect Jews from violent hate speech, the way they protect Blacks. That they do not, shows the sickness of progressive higher education. Defining the current campus crisis : It is not the question of ‘how to protect free speech’ on campus. It is the question ‘How can such violent hatred of Jewish people hood ( usually termed anti-Semitism) be permitted to run uncontrolled on a college campus, seventy years after the Holocaust?’ The day after the Oct. Seventh massacre university leaders abandoned their Jewish students to suffering ongoing, violent attacks of anti Jewishness (anti Semitism). Why? The media and leaders of higher education are…

Rachel Goldberg-Polin believes son Hersh’s ill appearance will remind the world that the hostages are real people and raise pressure for a deal. Rachel Goldberg-Polin thinks it would be helpful for the world to see the latest Hamas propaganda video, which features her son, Hersh, The Telegraph reported Tuesday. “People have forgotten that [the hostages]  are actual, real people,” she told the British daily in an interview. In the nearly two-and-a-half-minute clip, an emaciated and pale Goldberg-Polin is seen sitting in a chair in a short-sleeved shirt which reveals that his left arm ends in a stump right below the…

According to a report by Israel’s Channel 12, a source close to Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar has revealed that Sinwar views the latest hostage exchange and ceasefire proposal as a trap. The source quoted Sinwar as saying, “The proposal on the table to free the hostages is not an Egyptian proposal, but an Israeli one in an American disguise that contains several booby-trapped clauses.” The source also revealed that Hezbollah is pressuring Hamas to accept the deal, but Sinwar is reluctant as it does not guarantee an end to the war. This suggests a possible rift between Hamas…

(JNS) – There can be no negotiations with Israel as the Jewish people are “slayers of prophets,” a top Qatari official told representatives at a recent Arab League summit, according to a translation of the speech the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) published on Wednesday. Essa bin Ahmad al-Nassr, who serves on Doha’s Shura Council legislature and holds the rank of brigadier-general in the Qatari Armed Forces’ elite Emiri Guard protection unit, threatened the annihilation of the Jewish state. Qatar, which hosts Hamas leaders and has provided the terrorist organization with hundreds of millions of dollars, played a role…

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…

(JNS) – The Isalmic Republic on Thursday threatened to reconsider its official nuclear doctrine amid Israeli threats to retaliate against the Islamic Republic for its unprecedented direct missile and drone attack on the Jewish state. “A review of our nuclear doctrine and politics as well as considerations previously communicated is entirely possible,” said Maj. Gen. Ahmad Haghtalab, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander responsible for safeguarding Iran’s nuclear sites, Reuters reported. Threats “against Iran’s nuclear facilities make it possible to revise and deviate from the declared nuclear policies and considerations,” he added, according to the semi-official Tasnim News Agency.…

(JNS) – An Iranian athlete who posted criticism online of Iran’s April 14 attack on Israel has reportedly been arrested, and her whereabouts have been unknown since Wednesday, according to media reports. Iranian national volleyball team player Mobina Rostami posted on her Instagram account: “As an Iranian, I am truly ashamed of the authorities’ attack on Israel, but you need to know that the people in Iran love Israel and hate the Islamic Republic.” She was reportedly arrested shortly afterwards. One of the comments on her post came from an account associated with Iranian security forces, stating: “We will shove you…

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…

Each terror organization took control of different hospital wards, intelligence has revealed. As more details emerge from the Israel Defense Force’s surprise raid on Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, which began on March 19, one thing has become clear: Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad absorbed a painful setback that will have strategic reverberations on their capabilities in northern Gaza. The IDF has categorized the raid as one of its most successful operations in the entire war, due to the number of terrorists who surrendered, the number of terrorists killed in the hospital complex, and the intelligence gleaned from those being…