Israeli turns 86 in Hamas captivity in Gaza
March 18, 2024 by Amelie Botbol
Filed under News
Israeli hostage Shlomo Mansour, the oldest of 134 captives still being held by Hamas in Gaza, turned 86 years old on Sunday. Read more
PM says Israel will not keep civilians trapped in Rafah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not leave civilians trapped in Rafah when its forces begin a long-expected assault on the southern Gaza city where more than a million Palestinians have taken shelter. Read more
Australia resumes UN Gaza funding after security checks
March 15, 2024 by AAP J-Wire
Filed under News
Australia has unfrozen aid to a United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees after security advice, following accusations some staff helped attack Israel. Read more
Hamas’ strategy is working.
March 14, 2024 by Ron Weiser
Filed under Featured Articles
I was really hoping that on International Women’s Day recently, some of the good friends of our community would use the opportunity, notwithstanding their position on UNRWA, to condemn the rape and sexual mutilation of young and old, that took place on 7 October and which continues to be used as a weapon of humiliation and intimidation and dehumanisation, on those held hostage by Hamas. Read more
Israeli FM to UN Secretary-General: ‘You’ve brought world body to all-time low’
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz sent a sharply worded letter to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday, charging him with a blatant disregard for the atrocities committed by Hamas against the Jewish people on Oct. 7. Read more
Mediators at Gaza talks push to secure truce: Israel
Efforts to secure a deal on a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza are ongoing, Israel’s intelligence agency Mossad says, despite dimming hopes for a truce during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Read more
Hamas presses on with Gaza truce talks without Israel
Hamas and Egyptian mediators are pressing on with talks in Cairo on securing a ceasefire in Gaza, despite Israel’s decision not to send a delegation, as Washington pressed again for a truce, the release of hostages and a plan to alleviate the humanitarian catastrophe. Read more
Israel to revise lyrics amid Eurovision controversy over references to October 7 attacks
Amid a controversy with the organisers of the Eurovision song competition, Israel agreed to modify the lyrics of two possible songs that referred to Hamas’s October 7 massacre. Read more
Captives’ loved ones begin four-day protest march
February 29, 2024 by Amelie Botbol - JNS
Filed under News
Families of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza embarked on a four-day march on Wednesday from Kibbutz Re’im near the Strip to Jerusalem’s Paris Square. Read more
New Zealand says no to Hamas and extremist Israeli settlers
February 29, 2024 by J-Wire Newsdesk
Filed under News
In one day, New Zealand has banned entry to Israeli settlers who have committed violent attacks and have proscribed Hamas as a terrorist entity in its entirety. Read more
Israel, Hamas truce efforts pick up pace
Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen have clashed throughout the Gaza Strip over the weekend, as mediators picked up the pace of talks over a possible ceasefire to free hostages held by Hamas and bring a measure of Ramadan respite to the battered enclave. Read more
Gaza talks halted over ‘delusional’ demands: Netanyahu
Israel sent negotiators for truce talks in Cairo as requested by US President Joe Biden but they did not go back for further talks because Hamas’ demands are “delusional,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says. Read more
‘I am going to The Hague to speak for those who no longer can’
February 15, 2024 by Amelie Botbol - JNS
Filed under News
One hundred representatives of families of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza left for The Hague on Wednesday morning to submit a comprehensive complaint to the International Criminal Court on behalf of the victims of Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist invasion. Read more
Australia keen to resume Palestine aid ‘soon’: minister
As Israel signals an intention to target the last refuges in Gaza, the Australian government says it wants to restore aid to a United Nations Palestinian relief agency as soon as possible. Read more
Blinken says truce ‘possible’ as Hamas responds to plan
The Palestinian militant group Hamas says it has delivered its response to a proposed ceasefire deal for Gaza, and the United States says it believes an agreement is possible. Read more
Palestinians pin hopes on Gaza truce before Rafah push
The top United States diplomat has met Saudi Arabia’s de-facto ruler in a visit that Palestinians hope will deliver a truce before a threatened Israeli assault on Rafah, the border city where about half of the population is sheltering. Read more
UN chief calls on countries to resume funding Gaza aid
The secretary-general of the United Nations has called on countries to continue funding the main agency providing aid in Gaza after several of its employees were accused of taking part in the Hamas attack on Israel that ignited the war four months ago. Read more
‘Down with Hamas,’ chant Gazans evacuating Khan Yunis
January 28, 2024 by Pesach Benson
Filed under News
Hundreds of Palestinians evacuating from Khan Yunis chanted “Down with Hamas” on Saturday in a video posted on social media by Israeli authorities as cracks in the terror group’s control of the Strip continued to grow. Read more
Israel wants UNRWA replaced as countries pause funding
Six European countries have paused funding for the UN Refugee Agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) following allegations that some of its staff were involved in the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel. Read more
Hamas is weakening, but the campaign against it will be lengthy
January 24, 2024 by Yaakov Lappin
Filed under Featured Articles
While the Israel Defence Forces is gaining ground against Hamas by the day, destroying it as a military force will take time, according to former IDF officers. Read more
Knesset caucus hears testimony on Hamas’s brutal sexual violence
January 24, 2024 by Sveta Listratov
Filed under News
“There will be some difficult things to digest here, so take a deep breath.” Read more
Plan for one-month Gaza truce makes progress
Israel and Hamas have moved closer to an agreement on a 30-day ceasefire in Gaza when Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners would be released, sources tell Reuters, as Israel presses ahead with its assault on southern Gaza’s main city of Khan Younis. Read more
Hamas rejects offer of two-month ceasefire for release of all hostages
January 24, 2024 by Charles Bybelezer - JNS
Filed under News
Hamas rejected an Israeli proposal for a two-month ceasefire in exchange for the staged release of the 136 remaining hostages being held in the Gaza Strip, a senior Egyptian official told the Associated Press on Tuesday. Read more
Israel: Gaza goals unchanged after 24 troops killed
Twenty-four Israeli soldiers have been killed in Israel’s worst day of losses in Gaza, the military says, as its forces encircled southern Gaza’s main city, Khan Younis. Read more
The West’s lethal error in the war against Israel
January 19, 2024 by Melanie Phillips - JNS.org
Filed under Featured Articles
In the current war in the Middle East, it’s a given that a distinction must be drawn between Hamas and the “ordinary” Palestinian Arab residents of Gaza. Read more
Hamas man wanted to sell IDF soldier’s head for $10,000
January 19, 2024 by David Isaac
Filed under News
A Hamas terrorist admitted to Israeli interrogators that he tried to sell the decapitated head of an IDF soldier for $10,000. That soldier was the son of David Tahar of Jerusalem. Read more
‘My heart is split in two’: Families of hostages mark 100 days of captivity
January 15, 2024 by Sveta Listratov
Filed under News
“My heart is split in two,” says Zvika Mor, whose 23-year-old son remains captive in Gaza. Read more
Hamas to reveal hostages’ fate as China urges talks
China has called for a large-scale and authoritative peace conference on the war in Gaza, while the terrorist group Hamas has aired video of three Israeli hostages and says their fate will be disclosed soon. Read more
‘Allah will curse them’: Gaza civilians call for Israel to overthrow Hamas
January 15, 2024 by Pesach Benson
Filed under News
Palestinian civilians living in Gaza who have been in contact with the Israeli military are piling scorn on Hamas and encouraging the Israeli military to remove the terror group from power, in audio recordings released by the Israel Defence Forces on Sunday. Read more
War in Gaza between Israel and Hamas reaches 100 days
The war in Gaza has continued for 100 days since gunmen from the terrorist group Hamas ran amok in southern Israel, prompting a fierce military campaign in which almost 24,000 Palestinians are reported to have been killed. Read more