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PA accuses Israel of engineering ‘special rodents’ to attack Gaza children

JNS — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:51:10 +0000

Israel has developed a “special kind of rodent” that specifically “attacks children and the sick” in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority recently claimed in one of its more outlandish libels against the Jewish State. Palestine Broadcasting Corporation (PBC) Director Rafat Al-Qudra made the claim about the genetically engineered rodents to Fatah-run Awdah TV on April 15, […]

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Updated British parliamentary report sets out full scale of 7 October attacks

Rob Klein — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:39:30 +0000

A cross-party UK parliamentary commission has released the most detailed account to date of the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel, documenting atrocities across 55 locations and naming nearly 1,200 victims. The report released on March 18 updates an earlier version and finds 1,183 people were killed, more than 4,000 wounded, and 251 were taken hostage […]

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NCJWA slams Grace Tame for calling October 7 rape evidence “propaganda”

Rob Klein — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 06:13:20 +0000

Grace Tame, the 2021 Australian of the Year, has spent the past two years recasting herself from a celebrated survivor advocate to one of Australia’s most polarising voices in the antizionist movement. That shift reached a new flashpoint this week when she told ABC Sydney Mornings host Hamish Macdonald that claims of sexual violence committed […]

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Israel’s FM Sa’ar attends first meeting of Trump’s Board of Peace, says peace in Gaza dependent on ending Hamas

TPS-IL — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:23:39 +0000

President Trump’s new International Board of Peace held its first meeting in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. After the meeting, Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar spoke about how Hamas is the biggest obstacle to a lasting peace in Gaza. Sa’ar said that, since Hamas “violently took over Gaza in 2007, it has built the largest terrorist […]

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Hamas spied on World Vision employees to disrupt Gaza aid director’s trial

Pesach Benson — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 12:21:38 +0000

Internal Hamas documents seized by Israeli soldiers and reviewed by experts reveal that the terror group spied on and interrogated the staff of World Vision to obstruct the trial of the charity’s former Gaza director, Mohammed el-Halabi, according to newly analyzed materials published by NGO-Monitor. The development sharpens concerns that U.S. and Australian funds earmarked […]

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Patron walks out of Sydney Festival show and cuts ties

Rob Klein — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:09:23 +0000

A major Sydney Festival Jewish supporter who withdrew her backing after attending a flagship performance says the experience brought an abrupt end to a relationship she had built with the festival over more than two decades. Jacqui Scheinberg, a founding member of the festival’s Director’s Circle and an inaugural member of its philanthropy committee, told […]

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‘All the abductees have been returned’: Israel confirms return of last hostage, Ran Gvili

Pesach Benson — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 04:01:10 +0000

After 843 days, the remains of the last Israeli missing from Hamas’s October 7 attack have been returned to Israel, the IDF announced on Monday. “After completing the identification process by the National Centre for Forensic Medicine in cooperation with the Israel Police and the Military Rabbinate, IDF representatives informed the family of the abducted […]

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Israeli ‘large scale operation’ to find last hostage

Associated Press — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 06:28:33 +0000

Israel says its military is conducting a “large-scale operation” to locate the last hostage in the Gaza Strip as the United States and other mediators pressure Israel and Hamas to move into the next phase of their ceasefire. The statement came as Israel’s cabinet met to discuss the possibility of opening the Gaza Strip’s key […]

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Israeli agency refutes claims made by Doctors Without Borders

TPS-IL — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 06:08:59 +0000

The Israeli agency COGAT (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories: Judea and Samaria and towards the Gaza Strip) released a statement of clarification regarding the registration of international organisations that send aid to Gaza and their non-compliance with Israeli registration requirements, following allegations made by Doctors Without Borders (DWB). COGAT stated that DWB failed […]

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Shiri Bibas’s sister lights Chanukah menorah in Rafah

JNS — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 03:09:10 +0000

Israeli forces held a Chanukah candle-lighting ceremony in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday, led by Golani Brigade commander Col. Adi Ganon and Sgt. (res.) Dana Silverman Seton, the sister of murdered Hamas hostage Shiri Bibas. The menorah lit for the eighth and final night of the festival belonged to the home of Bibas […]

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