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Opinion The biggest impediment to peace between Israelis and Palestinians has little to do with Gaza
While the IDF regularly kills children in the West Bank, any kind of stabilization will be impossible
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Opinion There’s a shocking new report on civilian deaths in Gaza. If only it were accurate.
Why bombshell claims may not tell the whole story about military versus civilian deaths
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Opinion The world is outraged by a reporter’s death in Gaza. It’s part of a much bigger problem.
The IDF killed Anas al-Sharif, a prominent Al Jazeera journalist, in a targeted strike
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Fast Forward Top leaders resign from Friends of the IDF amid internal reckoning
The leadership change comes after donors retreated amid concerns from within the group supporting Israeli soldiers
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Fast Forward Tucker Carlson calls for stripping citizenship from Americans who served in the Israeli army
Carlson also accused Jeffrey Epstein of Mossad ties and slammed deportations of pro-Palestinian activists
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News Friends of the IDF in crisis after internal report alleges financial abuse and toxic culture
The U.S.-based charity has raised hundreds of millions of dollars by promising to meet the emergency needs of Israeli soldiers during the war in Gaza
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Fast Forward 7 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza, in grim reminder that one war’s end leaves another grinding on
The seven men killed were all combat soldiers between 19 and 21
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Fast Forward Israeli army fires deputy commander after finding ‘operational errors’ in killing of 15 Gazans
The army rejected the idea the bodies of those killed in the March 23 incident had been mishandled.
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