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Fast Forward Israel Strikes Hamas Military Compound In Response To Gaza Rocket Fire
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli airstrike hit a Hamas military compound in southern Gaza in response to a rocket fired hours earlier at southern Israel. The attack early on Tuesday morning reportedly caused damage to the facility. The attack came hours after a rocket launched from Gaza landed in an open field in southern Israel….
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Fast Forward Michael Oren Calls For IDF To ‘Shoot To Kill’ Suspected Terrorists
(JTA) — Michael Oren tweeted that the Israel Defense Forces should “shoot to kill” suspected terrorists, rather than just “neutralize” them. Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the United States who serves as a deputy minister in Israel’s Knesset, made the call for extrajudicial killing while tweeting Wednesday about Omar al-Abed, who was convicted on the…
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Fast Forward 63 Israeli Teens Sign Open Letter To Netanyahu: We Refuse To Serve IDF
(JTA) — Some 63 Israeli high school students signed a public letter declaring that they will refuse to be drafted into the Israel Defense Forces. The letter, published on Thursday in the Hebrew-language daily Yediot Acharonot, was addressed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Education Minister Naftali Bennett and IDF Chief of…
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Opinion Video Of A Palestinian Girl Hitting Soldiers Shows The IDF’s Moral Fiber
Video of a violent confrontation last Friday between a 16-year-old Palestinian girl, Ahed Tamimi, and two IDF soldiers went viral. As Tamimi proceeds to hit the soldiers, they refrain from any reaction, stoically absorbing her blows without responding to them. In retrospect, it was obvious that the video would go viral. For Israelis, the video…
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Opinion That Palestinian Girl’s Viral Video? The Real Scandal Is That Israeli Troops Were There At All
The video is striking — no pun intended. A 16 year-old Palestinian girl in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh grapples with Israeli soldiers in full combat gear and armed to the teeth. Despite the fact that she swats and kicks at them, the soldiers, likely hardly older than their tormentor, show admirable restraint,…
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Fast Forward Two IDF Soldiers Arrested For Brutal Attack On Druze Soldier
(JTA) — Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were arrested Sunday night in connection with an on-base attack against a Druze soldier. The soldier, who said he was attacked and beaten by fellow soldiers on his base in northern Israel, was taken to the hospital with a broken nose, and cuts on his head and face….
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Fast Forward Intense Photos Show Undercover Israeli Agents Infiltrating Protest
A Reuters photo essay captured undercover Israeli agents shutting down a protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Agents wearing Palestinian flags and face masks dispersed a crowd of hundreds by firing their guns in the air and throwing sound grenades, according to witness reports. “The undercover personnel were posing as Palestinian protesters and…
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Fast Forward Hamas Hanukkah Plot To Kidnap Israelis Thwarted
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli security services thwarted a Hamas kidnapping plot set to take place during Hanukkah. A Hamas cell from a Palestinian village near Nablus in the West Bank planned to abduct an Israeli soldier or a settler from a bus stop near Nablus, the Israel Security Agency, or Shin Bet, said in a…
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