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Breaking News Kibbutzes Empty as Gaza Rockets Rain
(Reuters) — ’Residents stay in your homes! Do not go outside!’ read the text message sent at dawn to the Israelis living on a kibbutz near the Gaza border, as soldiers searched the grounds for Palestinian gunmen. While the Nir Am kibbutz was under lockdown on Monday, a deadly battle ensued between the Israeli troops and…
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Breaking News Israeli Professor Suggests Rape Would Serve as ‘Terror Deterrent’
(Haaretz) — “The only thing that can deter terrorists, like those who kidnapped the children and killed them, is the knowledge that their sister or their mother will be raped.” This assertion was made by Middle East scholar Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University on an Israel Radio program. “It sounds very bad, but that’s…
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Breaking News 7 Israeli Soldiers Killed in Gaza Firefight
Seven Israeli soldiers were killed on Monday during clashes with Palestinian militants, the Israeli military said, lifting the army death toll to 25 in two weeks of fighting around the Gaza Strip. The army did not provide any further details. Local media had said there were a number of casualties when Palestinian fighters slipped under…
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Opinion Is Gaza Fight Israel’s ‘War of Choice’?
Israeli armored personnel carrier rolls at army deployment near Israel’s border with Gaza / Getty Images In his piece “Israel’s Moral Army?” in these pages, Michael Mitchell impressively deconstructs the Israel Defense Force’s conduct during its current military operation in Gaza. Using a variety of pedagogical criteria (international law, Jewish tradition, ethical theory) he ultimately…
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Breaking News War-Weary Gaza Cheers Report of Soldier’s Capture
Residents of the Gaza Strip, mostly house-bound and fearful after 13 days of Israeli bombardment, lit fireworks and chanted “God is great!” into the early morning darkness on Monday after Hamas said it had captured an Israeli soldier. Abu Ubaida, the masked and camouflaged spokesman of the Palestinian Islamist militant group’s armed wing, announced that…
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Opinion As Gaza Toll Rises, So Will Pressure on Israel
Mark your calendars: It was on Sunday, July 20, that the momentum turned against Israel. Sometime around noon the wind shifted and the tide began to roll out, and Israel started to lose international sympathy for its Operation Protective Edge in Gaza. Up until Sunday morning Israel had a pretty clear field, owing to a…
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Israel News Hamas Claims It Captured Israeli Soldier in Gaza
A spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing said on Sunday the group had captured an Israeli soldier during fighting in the Gaza Strip. Speaking on a Hamas television station, the masked spokesman, Abu Ubaida, said “Qassam Brigades have captured a Zionist soldier and the occupation has not admitted that.” Israeli television stations ignored the report in…
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Breaking News U.N. Finds Rockets in Gaza School and Returns Them — to Hamas
Rockets discovered in a United Nations agency school in Gaza were returned to Hamas, an Israeli official said. The rockets were handed over to local government authorities, a senior Israeli official told the Times of Israel. The local government authorities in Gaza are Hamas, he reportedly pointed out. About 20 rockets were discovered on the…
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