Israel Launches Major Ground Offensive in Rafah, Targeting Hamas

The Israel Defense Forces launched a major ground offensive Wednesday in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, as it expands its campaign to dismantle Hamas following the collapse of a two-month ceasefire, Defense Minister Israel Katz announced.

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What the Anti-Hamas Protests in Gaza Mean for Israel

The eruption of anti-Hamas protests across the Gaza Strip last week was a win for Israel, which has called for a popular revolt against the Palestinian terrorist group.

Israel’s renewed military campaign in Gaza appears to have triggered the protests by weakening Hamas’s control of the strip and its credibility with the population, according to Israeli national security analysts. But the analysts said it was too soon to say if the protests would contribute to Israel’s war aims: the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza and Hamas’s removal from power.

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Israel Orders Mass Evacuation in Rafah Ahead of 'Intense Operations' Against Hamas

The Israel Defense Forces on Monday ordered the mass evacuation of residents in the Gazan city of Rafah, citing the need to eliminate Hamas terrorists in the city after Israel restarted military operations in Gaza.

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ABC News Retracts Claim That Israeli ‘Occupation Forces’ Dropped ‘Harrowing’ Leaflet in Gaza

ABC News retracted its claim that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) dropped leaflets containing "harrowing messages" in Gaza. An editor’s note said the outlet couldn’t confirm the leaflets’ authenticity—but didn’t disclose that it also scrubbed language referring to the IDF as "occupation forces."

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Israel Takes Out Two More Hamas Leaders as IDF Tanks Reenter Gaza

Israel confirmed that an additional two senior Hamas members were killed Tuesday during a series of precision airstrikes in Gaza that also annihilated four other leaders and a spokesman for the Palestinian Islamic Jihad movement. The announcement came as Israeli forces and tanks reentered central Gaza to begin "targeted ground activities."

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Barnard Students Hoist Effigy of College President, Disseminate Hamas Pamphlets as They Occupy Library

A mob of Columbia University and Barnard College radicals stormed a campus library Wednesday afternoon, just one week after they took over another Barnard building and sent a security guard to the hospital.

Video footage shows droves of masked radicals clad in dark clothing storming Barnard's Milstein Library through a back exit that an accomplice held open. Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) and Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)—the Ivy League institution's most anti-Semitic student groups and the organizations that orchestrated last week’s incident—took credit for the storming on social media

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Israel Cuts All Aid To Gaza in Step Toward Resumption of Full-Scale War

TEL AVIV—Israel halted any entry of goods into the Gaza Strip on Sunday, signaling the start of a more aggressive phase of its war to destroy Hamas. Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision was a response to Hamas’s rejection of a proposal by U.S. Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to extended the phase one hostage-ceasefire deal that expired a day earlier. Israel had endorsed the proposal.

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Hamas Terrorists 'Brutally Murdered' Bibas Children With Their Hands, IDF Announces

Hamas terrorists viciously murdered the Bibas family's two small children, nine-month-old Kfir and four-year-old Ariel, just weeks after taking the children hostage on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel announced on Friday. While Hamas had long claimed that an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed the Bibas children, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said "forensic findings" show Hamas terrorists killed them "with their bare hands."

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Biden Admin ‘Recklessly’ Sanctioned American Jews in Campaign Against Israelis, Lawsuit Reveals

JERUSALEM—The Biden administration sanctioned two Israeli-Americans as part of a regime targeting settlers in the West Bank, a federal lawsuit filed on Thursday revealed. 

The Americans, who are also Israeli citizens, sued the Biden administration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, claiming the sanctions violated their constitutional rights to due process and equal protection. According to attorneys for the plaintiffs, the administration appears not to have known it was sanctioning Americans.

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IDF Recovers Body of Hostage Youssef Ziyadne in Gaza

The Israel Defense Forces recovered the corpse of Israeli hostage Youssef Ziyadne from an underground tunnel in the southern Gazan city of Rafah and have returned it to Israel, the military said Wednesday.

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