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Israelis across the political spectrum expressed their sorrow and condolences to the family of a Druze special-forces soldier killed in a firefight with Hamas operatives in Gaza on Sunday night, which broke out when intelligence forces were discovered and attacked.
“I bow my head in sadness at the loss of Lt. Col. M., a glorious fighter who fell during an IDF operation in the Gaza Strip,” Netanyahu wrote on Twitter. “The day will come when we can tell of all his valor. The citizens of Israel owe him an enormous debt.”
After the shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue that left 11 people dead, French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner assured that security would be increased in France near Jewish places of worship.
Investigations from the United States, Israel and Colombia have linked, through several financial transactions, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s alleged accomplice Alex Saab to Hezbollah.
“We should play a more active role in ensuring the safety of our nations, visitors and our industry. Economic security is a major component of national security,” says Isabel Hill, director of the National Travel and Tourism Office, U.S. Department of Commerce.
“We talk a lot about raids, about going in and out. This is the main battle aspect that we teach them ... how to strike the enemy and move back. Lots of small victories, in the end, are one big victory,” says 906th Battalion Commander Lt.-Col. Yaron Simsolo of training techniques.
“Iran has attempted to interfere with the sovereign rights of the United States to take lawful actions as necessary to protect our national security, and Iran is abusing the ICJ for political and propaganda purposes,” said the U.S. Secretary of State.
Nearly 70 years after dying during the Korean War, the remains of Army Cpl. Morris Meshulam were buried in his home state of Indiana.
Reported discussions between the two countries are in the works five months after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blamed Israel for its response to violent protests along the Gaza border, labeling the country as a “terrorist state” that commits “genocide.”
In a Rosh Hashanah interview from his new office in Jerusalem, U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman wishes the people of Israel continued growth, together with the United States.
European Union efforts to preserve the nuclear deal, also led by the three European architects of the accord—France, Germany and the United Kingdom—puts the United States in direct conflict with its largest and most powerful NATO allies.
“The U.S. has understood that there will be no ultimate victory in case it opens war against Iran, and that it cannot guarantee avoiding it from becoming a war of attrition,” said Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Brig. Gen. Rasoul Sanayee Raad.
