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Dutch Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp said his government would scrap all “non-essential contacts” with the Israeli prime minister.
“The truth that has been revealed is that international justice is with us, while it is against the Zionist entity,” said senior Hamas figure Izzat al-Risheq.
“Israel utterly rejects the false and absurd charges of the International Criminal Court, a biased and discriminatory political body.”
The Hague issued warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defense minister due to alleged “crimes against humanity and war crimes” in Gaza.
Israel’s ambassador to Canada talks with JNS about the rise in antisemitism in the northern country, and Ottawa’s move away from the Jewish state in the aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023.
Brian Director, 27, from Maalot-Tarshiha is the fourth person killed in cross-border attacks on the seaside city in less than a month.
According to the “severe indictment,” the main defendant tried to form a terror cell and reached out to Hamas and Hezbollah for help in carrying out attacks.
Hamas launches at Israel have significantly decreased over the course of the war.
“The stone-throwings on the Huwara bypass road shows that the defensive method does not bring security,” said the Fighting for Life NGO.
Survivor of Oct. 7 attack shares harrowing testimony challenging encampment leader’s anti-Israel stance.
Sgt. Gur Kehati, 20, of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion, from Nir Banim, was killed alongside Maj. (res.) Ze’ev Erlich, 71, in Southern Lebanon.
“The members of Hamas that we designated yesterday, we designated for being involved in terrorist activities,” Matthew Miller, the U.S. State Department spokesman, said on Wednesday.