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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 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.
“Only sovereignty—full control from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the Jordan [River]—will secure the state’s future,” said the Sovereignty Movement.
“Israel will not agree to the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state in the heart of the Land of Israel,” said Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar.
HaGvura‒The Forum for Families of Fallen Heroes urged Washington not to extend a “lifeline” to terrorists trapped in a tunnel in Gaza’s south.
During the campaign, Democrats 66 leader Rob Jetten slammed the outgoing government’s failure to agree on additional sanctions on the Jewish state.
“We want to believe they weren’t part of this,” a spokesman for the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office told JNS.
Gazans’ support for the deadliest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust rose to 44%, up by seven percentage points since May.