Hamas deputy leader Moussa Abu Marzouk said on Wednesday there has been no agreement to extend a 72-hour ceasefire with Israel that is set to expire on Friday, according to
The IDF has already launched a large-scale project in all divisions, a senior officer announced Wednesday, to determine which soldiers deserve medals or other decoration for their roles in Operation
Israel has conditionally agreed to extend a ceasefire that ended the month-long self-defense operation in Gaza, an Israeli official stated on condition of anonymity. Reuters reports Wednesday night that the official
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (Yisrael Beytenu) issued sharp criticism against the United Nations on Wednesday, after Secretary General Ban Ki Moon accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza. Liberman
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu gave a press conference to foreign journalists on Wednesday, to provide an update on Operation Protective Edge after a 72-hour ceasefire. Netanyahu began by noting that
Hamas terrorists have been encouraged to dress up like ordinary Orthodox Jews, according to Palestinian Media Watch, to carry out suicide attacks on Israeli civilians. Hamas repeatedly broadcasted a video
Israeli ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor sharply criticized the UN on Wednesday, after Secretary General Ban Ki Moon accused Israel of “war crimes” against Palestinian Arabs in Gaza during
In a move condemned as “anti-Semitic”, a London theater has shocked the British Jewish community by refusing to host the UK Jewish Film Festival this coming November, because the event
Five paintings by 19th-century Russian Jewish landscape painter Isaac Levitan have been stolen from a museum in his honor, regional officials said on Wednesday. The paintings, part of its permanent collection of the
Several foreign journalists have claimed to have been harassed by Hamas during Operation Protective Edge, the Government Press Office (GPO) announced Wednesday. “Upon the conclusion of the operation, the GPO
Conservative commentator Andrea Tantaros ripped into Geraldo Rivera, and demanded that Israel be allowed to defend itself against Hamas. Rivera has been attacking Israel since Operation Protective Edge began, and
London’s Times newspaper has refused to run an ad featuring Nobel Prize-winner Eli Wiesel opposing Hamas’s use of children as human shields in its war with Israel. The ad campaign,
IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz addressed the winding-down process of Operation Protective Edge on Wednesday afternoon, shortly before reports surfaced that 30,000 reserve soldiers in Gaza had
Roughly 30 hours into a 72-hour cease-fire deal, the IDF has begun to withdraw its ground forces from the Gaza border area, it announced Wednesday afternoon. IDF forces began withdrawing
Mohsen Rezai, Secretary Expediency Discernment Council for the Islamic Republic of Iran and former commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, called for Hamas to step up their campaign of human shields
Despite the current ceasefire, the IDF released additional video Wednesday showing Hamas rockets being fired from spots next to civilian homes. Israel has charged countless times that Hamas has a
A group of drunken anti-Semites terrorized a school bus filled with Jewish students in Australia, shouting Nazi slogans and threatening to murder everyone on board on Wednesday. Speaking to Australia’s
Arab news sources reported Wednesday that Egypt has agreed to open the crossing between it and Gaza at Rafah, on the condition that the Gazan side be supervised by the
A Gallup poll has found that 42% of the adult population in the US think the Israeli actions in Gaza are “mostly justified,” while 14% thought the same about Hamas’s
Google has removed from its Google Play store two controversial games created against the backdrop of Operation Protective Edge. In one of the games, “Bomb Gaza”, players take the role
In the last few minutes the Code Red sirens sounded in the Gaza belt communities of Sedot Negev and Sha’ar HaNegev. Reports indicate they were false alarms.
“Hamas has suffered a military beating, in terms of the rocket array and the tunnels, and has arrived in Cairo with its demands no longer on the agenda,” a diplomatic
Britain’s National Union of Students (NUS) has voted to boycott Israel, The Jewish Chronicle reports. The decision came at a special meeting on Monday, during which the NUS national executive
A team of chemical weapons experts will travel to Syria next month to follow up on Damascus’ pledge to hand over its arsenal, the British UN envoy said Tuesday, according
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry thinks that the ceasefire in Gaza should be used to resume broader peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Kerry’s remarks were
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein said on Tuesday that MK Hanin Zoabi must report for questioning by police on suspicion of inciting violence and insulting a public official. Weinstein’s directive came
The United States said Tuesday that it expects to participate in Cairo talks between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs aimed at securing a lasting ceasefire in Gaza, AFP reported. “I think
Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, on Tuesday called for arms exports to Israel to be suspended. Clegg’s call came after Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a British minister who was the
Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, on Tuesday called for arms exports to Israel to be suspended. Clegg’s call came after Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, a British minister who was the
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is continuing its efforts to join the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Ma’an news agency reported on Tuesday. According to the report, the PA’s Foreign Affairs