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If a Hollywood scriptwriter had written a script like the Rafah hostage rescue operation, he would have been immediately asked to remove a few scenes to make the story more realistic.
After that period, the Israeli military will shift to a more targeted phase • Hamas claims 6,000 fighters killed in war, about half the number of the IDF’s most recent estimate.
Ultra-Orthodox and secular Israelis get together to pray for the safe return of kidnapped captives.
In Israel for a surprise solidarity visit, Stephen Harper in an op-ed also called the U.S.-led push for Palestinian statehood “insincere, hypocritical and beyond foolish.”
According to U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew, the influx of aid to the Gaza Strip has been vital to securing the time and space necessary for Israel to prosecute its war against Hamas.
IDF Northern Command head Maj. Gen. Uri Gordin met with civilian security teams in Israel’s north ahead of a possible further escalation there.
The social worker from the U.N. agency and another terrorist are seen stuffing the man’s body into the back of an SUV and driving off.
While there are currently no direct talks between Fatah and Hamas, Russia has invited all of the Palestinian factions to a meeting in Moscow, said P.A. Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh.
Based on congressional mandates so far, the funding cut is “not a suspension. It is a prohibition,” said U.S. special envoy for Middle East humanitarian issues David Satterfield.
Ironically, the agency expects employees to “uphold the highest standards of neutrality and integrity.”
The Israeli president called the Friday encounter at the Munich Security Conference a “good discussion.”
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has greater worries and “will not compound his country’s woes unless he absolutely has to,” experts tell JNS.
