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The bodies of three more hostages: Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum, and Orion Hernandez Radoux, were rescued during a joint IDF and Shin Bet operation. Based on verified intelligence obtained by the IDF, the hostages were murdered already during the October 7th attack and were abducted from the Mefalsim Intersection to Gaza by Hamas terrorists. The bodies of the hostages were rescued during a joint IDF and Shin Bet operation in Jabaliya, based on precise intelligence obtained and analyzed by the IDF Intelligence Directorate’s Headquarters for the Hostages and Missing Persons. At the beginning of the operation, intense combat was carried…

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Soldiers operating in Zeitoun found food forcibly taken by Hamas from humanitarian aid distributors. The terror organization first distributed the aid to its operatives and then to the civilians in the area. IDF soldiers from the Nahal Brigade who raided the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza this week were surprised to find large quantities of food that came via humanitarian aid trucks in Hamas hideouts. Yoav Zitun reported on Ynet that alongside the weapons caches, Hamas hid in their stronghold that they reestablished in Zeitoun tons of packaged food, which came in humanitarian aid shipments from the southern Gaza Strip and…

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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…

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The letter comes amid growing pressure on Biden to continue to enact more policies critical of Israel. More than 90 retired US military generals and admirals have signed a new letter released this week in support of Israel and a strong US-Israel relationship amid heightened tensions between the Biden administration and the Jewish state. Organized by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA), the letter focused on the adverse consequences of weakening the US-Israel alliance. “Given our experience as retired American military leaders,” the letter reads, “we are very concerned about the security impacts of increasingly strained US-Israel…

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The United Nations has released new data indicating a significant reduction (50%) in the reported deaths of women and children in Gaza. “The UN has so far not been able to produce independent, comprehensive, and verified casualty figures,” the world body stated in its disclaimer. The UN data, published on May 6, indicates that of the 34,735 total fatalities in Gaza, more than 9,500 were women and 14,500 were children. This data, provided by Hamas, suggests that women and children comprised nearly 70% of the casualties. However, two days later, the UN published new revised data indicating that 4,959 women and 7,797…

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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…

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Senator Tom Cotton compares Biden’s freezing of arms sales to Israel with Trump’s impeachment over withheld Ukraine aid. A Republican senator has called on the House of Representatives to launch impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden over the president’s decision to halt military sales to Israel in a bid to prevent the IDF from destroying Hamas battalions in Rafah. Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton took to Twitter to urge the Republican-held House of Representatives to impeach Biden, comparing the president’s decision to withhold arms from Israel with then-President Donald Trump’s impeachment for allegedly withholding aid from Ukraine for political purposes. “The…

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The Biden administration has withheld the approval of the sale to the Israel Defense Forces of two types of precision-guided bombs. Amid the Biden administration’s decision to withhold arms from Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reaffirmed Jerusalem’s resolve to defeat Hamas, even if it has to fight without U.S. backing. Sharing a clip of his May 5 speech at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Museum in Jerusalem, the premier sought to reiterate that “no amount of pressure, no decision by any international forum will stop Israel from defending itself.” “Eighty years ago, in the Holocaust, the Jewish people were totally…

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump excoriated US President Joe Biden for his comments to CNN that he will halt arms shipments to Israel if it launches a full-scale invasion of Rafah. “Crooked Joe Biden, whether he knows it or not, just said he will withhold weapons from Israel as they fight to eradicate Hamas Terrorists in Gaza,” he wrote on his Truth Social account. “Hamas murdered thousands of innocent civilians, including babies, and are still holding Americans hostage, if the hostages are still alive.” “Yet Crooked Joe is taking the side of these terrorists, just like he has sided with…

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