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Akiva Van Koningsveld

Akiva Van Koningsveld is a news desk editor for JNS.org. Originally from The Hague, he made the big move from the Netherlands to Israel in 2020. Before joining JNS, he worked as a policy officer at the Center for Information and Documentation Israel, a Dutch organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism and spreading awareness about the Arab-Israel conflict. With a passion for storytelling and justice, he studied journalism at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and later earned a law degree from Utrecht University, focusing on human rights and civil liability.

“The medical records made available to me ... support self-insertion and not insertion by any external party,” wrote Dr. Alon Pikarsky.
According to an initial IDF assessment, the terrorists sought to draw Israeli forces toward a side road where several explosive devices were planted.
The outgoing E.U. diplomat did not clarify who Brussels deems hampering de-escalation.
Among those killed was a terrorist involved in the murders of IDF Maj. Gen Elhanan Klein, Chief Inspector Yatev Lev Halevi and Amnon Muchtar, according to the military.
The report came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened the chiefs of Israel’s security agencies for a situation assessment.
Ayman Safadi’s diplomatic visit is the first by a high-level Jordanian official to the Islamic Republic in nearly a decade.
“We have international partners who will strengthen their forces in the region to help us in the face of these threats,” the Israeli military spokesman said.
“The escalation depends on the behavior and reactions of the enemy,” said the Hezbollah leader.
Fuad Shukr served as a senior “military” adviser to Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the deadly Hezbollah barrage comprised around 10 rockets.
Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadeen broadcast live from the site where a rocket barrage fired by the Lebanese terror group killed 12 children.
“The Palestinian Authority should be held accountable for what happened on Oct. 7,” Religious Zionist Party lawmaker Simcha Rothman told JNS.