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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 U.S. president said the contacts were “in depth, detailed and constructive,” and could lead to a “complete and total resolution” of the conflict.
The military’s largest regular-service armored division exited the Gaza Strip for rest and training.
Mahmoud Abbas demanded the secretary of state push Israel to unconditionally release all tax revenue it collects on the P.A.'s behalf.
“The Washington Post” cited a senior U.S. official as saying that Israel has already withdrawn several thousand troops from northern Gaza.
The Israeli military confirmed that it had begun the transition to a campaign involving fewer ground troops and airstrikes.
Terrorists counting down until Israel’s departure from Gaza “need to change the count until the end of their lives,” warned Israel’s defense minister.
“We found a tunnel here that looks exactly like the Hamas infrastructure we are familiar with from the Gaza Strip,” an army reservist said.
Israeli evacuees, who live between 2.5 and 4.4 miles from the Gaza border, to be allowed to return to towns devastated by Hamas on Oct. 7.
In an interview with Egypt’s ON channel, P.A. chief Mahmoud Abbas had said he hopes to hash out a unity deal with all Palestinian terror groups.