By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation says the terrorist organization is threatening its staff and disrupting aid.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
As of February, 85% of the Gaza Envelope's approximately 65,000 residents, who were almost all evacuated after the Oct. 7 attacks, were back home.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I am extremely proud of our team as they safely opened the four sites today despite the unprecedented series of conflict events in the region,” the foundation’s interim executive director said.
According to "The Wall Street Journal," internal Hamas documents show it directed up to 25% of humanitarian supplies to its "military" wing.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Police forces and bomb disposal units were called to examine the bags and did not find weapons or hazardous materials.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Terrorists murdered American-Israelis Judy Weinstein-Haggai and Gadi Haggai at Kibbutz Nir Oz, then carried their bodies to the Strip.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"They are welcome to do that, but they are not welcome to impose that kind of pressure on a sovereign nation," said the U.S. envoy.
“Israel will not cooperate with such moves aimed at harming it and its security,” an Israeli official told reporters.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"They will establish a Palestinian state on paper, but we will build the Jewish-Israeli state here on the ground," the defense minister vowed.
The global body has previously said that no entities outside of the United Nations can provide adequate and necessary assistance to Gazans.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The total number of meals delivered to date is more than 1.8 million, according to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We kindly ask all media to proceed cautiously when reporting on this story," the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation stated.
“Hamas knows if it loses control over the aid, it loses control over the people of Gaza,” Danny Danon told the United Nations Security Council.
By David Isaac
(JNS) The United Kingdom is one of the chief funders of Hamas, Israel’s Channel 12 “Weekend News” reported on Saturday night. While a great deal of the money comes from private donations to so-called Muslim “charities,” the investigation revealed that the British government also funds the terrorist group. Admittedly, the money reaches Hamas indirectly, via […]
By Canaan Lidor
A top official had falsely claimed that 14,000 infants faced death within 48 hours.
By David Isaac
The figures' wide acceptance constitutes a "major strategic victory" for Hamas, according to the Australian authors of the study.
By David Isaac
"Calling for collecting funds for this without first of all condemning Hamas is indecent," said Matan Peleg, author of “A State for Sale."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The battalion commander, who had gotten engaged a few days earlier, had never celebrated the rite of passage.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Pope Leo XIV said he was "deeply pained" by the situation in Gaza amid the war against Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Knesset passed a law in October making it illegal for the terror-linked agency to operate in the Jewish state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Polls show rising frustration in the coastal enclave, with growing support for anti-Hamas protests and interest in emigration amid deepening humanitarian crisis.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Three designated distribution centers are to be established in Rafah, with each Gaza family being able to collect a weekly allotment. The distribution process is to be overseen by vetted NGOs and private U.S. contractors.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Troops from the IDF’s 188th Brigade arrested a Hamas terror commander who participated in the Oct. 7 massacre.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Supreme Defense Council asks parliament to warn the terrorist group not to jeopardize the country's stability.
Hamas has looted at least 60% of the aid that Israel allowed to enter Gaza, the Shin Bet revealed last year.
Anti-Hamas demonstrations have emerged in recent weeks, fueled by frustration over the war, economic hardship and repression.
By David Isaac
“We know and have experience that very often laws that are enacted in the Knesset are not necessarily applied,” MK Dan Illouz said.
By Ariel Kahana
The evacuees, who departed via Ramon Airport in Israel, possess foreign citizenship that will facilitate their resettlement abroad.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"In the end, Gaza's governmental capabilities need to be destroyed," said the Israeli finance minister.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Trump has made it clear that Hamas will either release hostages immediately, or pay a severe price,” the U.S. Middle East envoy warned.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The whole world should continue to say that what Hamas has done is outrageous, it’s ridiculous, it’s sick, it’s disgusting," said the U.S. secretary of state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The terrorist group said it would free Edan Alexander, who holds U.S. citizenship, after the Trump administration signaled his importance.
Since October 7, the COI has outrageously accused Israel of committing crimes against humanity in Gaza, while refusing to say the same about Hamas.
Israel's U.N. mission in Geneva slammed the report as baseless and biased, while Prime Minister Netanyahu called the U.N. Human Rights Council "an antisemitic, terrorist-supporting body."
By Joshua Marks
The Doha discussions, which reportedly included P.A. official Hussein al-Sheikh, also covered the establishment of an administrative committee to manage the coastal enclave.
According to Smotrich, the Israel Defense Forces and the security establishment “did not tell us the truth, and said it wasn’t the P.A.”
“Mahmoud Khalil was an individual who was given the privilege of coming to this country,” the White House press secretary said. “He took advantage of that opportunity, of that privilege, by siding with terrorists.”
85% of the Jewish public in Israel thinks that “there is no chance of a peace agreement with the Palestinians in the foreseeable future.”
By Ariel Kahana
The senior American official published clarifications and corrections to statements he made on television networks following Israel's strongly worded messages to the White House.
A front-page exposé in the British Daily Mail reveals the social media sensation "Abu Wadei" is an active member of the terrorist organization's "Arson Unit."
A June 2024 survey found that 44% of Gazans ages 18-29 would emigrate if given the chance, while 12% of the Strip’s population fled since 2007.
Smotrich said that efforts are underway in coordination with the U.S. administration.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The first phase of the ceasefire with Hamas expired a week ago.
By Ariel Kahana
Israel has finalized arrangements to enable thousands of Gazans to leave daily through three routes.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israel Police is deploying around 3,000 personnel, including Border Police officers, in Jerusalem for the first Friday of Ramadan.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Mahmoud Abbas has said Ramallah would not deduct a single penny from the fund, despite a Feb. 10 statement interpreted by some as ending the practice.
“We estimate 22, maybe 24 live bodies,” the U.S. Middle East envoy said. “We want them all back.”
The captors used the foreign workers' passports to bypass the security checkpoints, for over a month.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hans Wechsel is said to have told employees that he "didn't like the direction the ship was heading."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The scene in "No Other Land," described in the film as "settler violence and IDF cruelty," was a staged provocation, according to the local council.
The report called on prosecutors at the ICC “to pursue investigations into and prosecutions of hostage-taking and torture” and for the creation of a UN fund to support hostages that would be “funded in part by confiscations of financial assets and property imposed by sanctions.”
By Joshua Marks
"This morning, I woke up to the news that the terrorist who murdered my husband was released," said Knesset member Limor Son Har-Melech.
Egypt wants to keep the Gazans in Gaza and put the Palestinian Authority in charge.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"If war returns to Gaza, we will rain fire upon all areas of the enemy regime [Israel], especially Tel Aviv, which is known as occupied Jaffa."
By Canaan Lidor
Save One Life UK posted about praying for Gazans even as terrorists were murdering Israelis in border-adjacent communities on Oct. 7, 2023.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The move comes amid reported preparations to resume the war against Hamas in Gaza.
“The polite lie that we tell ourselves over and over again is that Hamas does not represent the Palestinians. It is simply not true.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"You don’t care about the beatings. They’re breaking my ribs, and I don’t care; give me another half-pita,” Eli Sharabi said of his 16 months in Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The incoming IDF chief is devising a plan to “eradicate Hamas” with more than 50,000 soldiers and a reduction of aid, Israeli sources say.
A senior official from the terrorist group urged an escalation of "resistance in all its forms in Jerusalem."
Hamas’s attack plans, Katz said, were discovered in files seized by the Israel Defense Forces.
602 living terrorists are being exchanged for the bodies of four murdered hostages.
The completion of Wednesday night’s exchange will mark the conclusion of the first phase of the ceasefire agreement.
The three will be laid to rest in Zohar, near the family’s home in Kibbutz Nir Oz.
By Canaan Lidor
If the captives, both living and dead, are not returned, Israel will expand the agricultural areas of the kibbutzim Be'eri and Nir Oz into the Gaza perimeter, said the Israeli finance minister.
“We will not allow the Palestinian Authority to continue rewarding terrorists for murdering and harming Israeli citizens,” Katz declared.
By Joshua Marks
The Saudi summit focused on an Egyptian proposal for the war-torn coastal enclave.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Rejected by Abbas, it would have ceded more than 94% of Judea and Samaria.
Adi Jenga noticed a bag on the bus with Arabic writing on it.
Netanyahu said Israel will not accept the humiliation of the hostages anymore.
Na'el Abid was released a week ago as part of the hostage deal with Hamas.
"Our Shiri was murdered in captivity and has now returned home to her children, her husband, her sister, and all her family for her final rest."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“We demand that Hamas return Shiri home along with all our hostages,” the Israeli military said.
Israeli officials confirmed that Hamas will release six hostages on Saturday as the terror group seeks to expedite the handovers of the ceasefire’s first phase.
Mohammed Abu Warda, an Arab terrorist freed on Jan. 30, was supposed to be deported to a third country.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
Separately, Jerusalem trying to persuade the terrorists to free six live captives instead of three in the next round slated for Saturday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The ceasefire deal includes the release of "terror experts" who "killed hundreds of Israelis and wounded thousands," the Cabinet minister said.
The list includes 36 terrorists serving life sentences for mass murder.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Trump's plan is meeting resistance from Arabs who don't want the Gazans in their countries.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
He described his conditions as “unimaginable,” feeling that “every single day” could be his last.
The IDF is preparing for an uptick in terror.
After 498 days in brutal Hamas captivity, Israeli hostages Sagui Dekel-Chen, Alexandre (Sasha) Trufanov, and Yair Horn were freed on Saturday and reunited with their families."
“The entire region is shaken now, and it's good,” Brig. Gen. (Ret.) Effie Defrin told reporters. “Because for more than seven decades, eight decades, we have repeated the same mistakes.”
“Hamas is not what it was before October 7, but it still has the capacity to harm our forces, plant explosives, fire a certain number of rockets, and achieve tactical successes.”
The rocket was launched from Nuseirat.
UAE Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef al-Otaiba said Abu Dhabi was "going to try" to find common ground with Trump but called the plan "difficult."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Amir Ohana told visiting European Parliament President Roberta Metsola that only Trump's plan for Gaza offers a path forward.
By Canaan Lidor
“The full story of funding Hamas is vast, and much of it was done in secret,” Sen. Ted Cruz wrote about an exposé maintaining the aid agency financed terrorism.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Echoing the demand by U.S. President Donald Trump, the Israeli prime minister issued Hamas an ultimatum and threatened its “total defeat.”
Mansour is survived by his wife of 60 years, children and grandchildren.
The same families will receive the same money, just through a different mechanism.
DM Katz, "We will not allow a return to the reality of October 7.”
The IDF located the drone and three weapons.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The redeployment was conducted as part of the implementation of the truce struck with the Hamas terrorists in January.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Before their release, Hamas paraded the hostages in front of a raucous crowd of Palestinians in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah
By David Isaac
The terrorists received $141,837,087 from the Palestinian Authority while serving time.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Security forces arrested five alleged terrorists from Ramallah, who are facing trial for conspiring to commit murder and gun offenses.
“I think it’s actually quite evil to suggest that people should live in such dire conditions,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told reporters about life in Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Anyone who accepts the package and later attempts to return to Gaza would, under the bill, be required to repay it plus a 100% penalty adjusted for inflation and interest.