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Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces during operational activity in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza on May 20, 2024. Credit: IDF.

Report: Israel opts for limited Rafah action with Biden’s blessing

The IDF won't engage in a full-scale assault on the last Hamas stronghold in southern Gaza.

A tent camp in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, set up for Palestinians who evacuated from their homes elsewhere in the coastal enclave, Jan. 30, 2024. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90.

IDF: Nearly a million Gazans evacuated from Rafah in two weeks

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with French President Emmanuel Macron in Jerusalem, Oct. 24, 2023. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Paris backs ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant visits Israel Defense Forces troops serving on the northern border with Lebanon, Nov. 11, 2023. Credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense.

Gallant: ICC arrest warrant request must be ‘rejected explicitly’

Israeli President Isaac Herzog meets with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Jerusalem, Jan. 18, 2023. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Herzog: Normalization with Saudi Arabia a ‘game-changer’

Then-Culture and Sports Minister Chili Tropper at a reception for the Israeli Olympic medalists at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, Aug. 16, 2021. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Gantz’s National Unity Party: No to Pal state for Saudi normalization

A humanitarian-aid truck rolls off the U.S.-built floating pier on its journey to a U.N. warehouse in Gaza. Source: CENTCOM/X.

Nearly 70% of Gaza aid from US-built pier stolen

Joshua Marks

Border Police officers participate in an IDF raid in Jenin, Dec. 12, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

IDF begins counter-terror operation in Jenin

British lawyer Karim Ahmad Khan was elected on Feb. 12, 2021 to replace Fatou Bensouda as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, New York City. Credit: ICC.

International reactions to ICC announcement mixed

Troy Osher Fritzhand

Members of the U.N. Security Council observe a moment of silence in the memory of former Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, former Iranian foreign affairs minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other victims of a helicopter crash in Iran, at the start of the Security Council meeting on threats to international peace and security on May 20, 2024. Credit: U.N. Photo.

US joins minute of silence for ‘Butcher of Tehran’ at UNSC

Gilad Erdan, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, April 17, 2024. Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo.

UNSC discusses advancing IDF Rafah operation

Mike Wagenheim

Master Sgt. (res.) Nitai Meisels (left) and Maj. (res.) Amishar Ben David. Both men began volunteering for Magen David Adom at age 16, and both died in the Gaza Strip during the current war against Hamas. Credit: Courtesy.

Families commemorate fallen medic sons with bulletproof ambulance

Etgar Lefkovits

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting in Ramallah, Sept. 3, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

Abbas adviser: Oct. 7 ‘could repeat itself 100 times’

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres (right) meets with Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in New York, April 18, 2024 Credit: Evan Schneider/U.N. Photo.

UN tributes to ‘butcher’ Raisi draw ire of Israeli envoy

Mike Wagenheim

Analysis

The International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2016. Credit: U.N. Photo.

analysis

David Isaac

‘Israel must take aggressive action against ICC’

A Palestinian smuggler enters a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah, April 14, 2010. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

analysis

Yaakov Lappin

The implications of Rafah’s cross-border tunnels

Opinion & Features

Credit: Yaakov (DryBones) Kirschen.

War Cabinet targets Bibi

Not a confidence-building motion ...

Dry Bones

Avi Gold (center) during his visit to Saudi Arabia. Credit: Courtesy.

Donning kippah, world traveler confronts stereotypes head-on

Amelie Botbol

Karen Bekker, David M. Litman

ICC prosecutor seeks to rob Israel of its right to self-defense

Israel at war

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