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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.

“Our role is to defend the citizens of Israel against every threat—and that is what we will do,” said the Israeli defense minister.
Jerusalem “will not allow Hamas murderers to rearm and threaten us again,” the premier vowed.
The statement came after Khaled Mashaal rejected the U.S.- and U.N.-backed demands for Hamas to disarm and for the Strip to be demilitarized.
Global anti-Israel sentiment has created opportunities “to remove this entity [Israel] from our homeland,” said Khaled Mashaal.
A senior National Security Council official met in Nakura with “relevant Lebanese civilian representatives” to discuss economic cooperation, PMO said.
The P.A. should be replaced by a civilian administrative body that “does not seek to annihilate the State of Israel,” said the Israeli Finance Minister.
“The Office of the President is aware that this is an extraordinary request which carries with it significant implications,” Herzog’s office stated.
Israel reserves the right to protect itself “under any circumstances, and we will effectively use this right if necessary,” the opposition leader said.