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The group said it urged Congress members to “show solidarity and firm commitment to securing the swift and total release of the hostages by wearing yellow ribbons and dog tags” during the State ofUnion

JTA 17 relatives of Americans taken hostage by Hamas will attend Biden’s State of the Union address Ron Kampeas March 4, 2024 …A list published Monday by the Families of the American Hostages in Gaza coalition named relatives of six … Continue reading

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“We have hostages. I caught one,” UNRWA employee al-Hawajri said and could be heard laughing and describing an Israeli woman as a “noble mare”

ALL ISRAEL NEWS IDF releases recordings of 4 UNRWA workers involved in Oct. 7 attack and abduction of Israelis March 5, 2024 Israel Defense Forces released recordings and the identities of four more UNRWA employees who participated in the Hamas … Continue reading

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Kemp: “It’s terrible to reduce human life to statistics, but from what I can see so far, it appears that the IDF has been immensely successful at minimizing civilian casualties”

BREITBART Col. Richard Kemp: Arab States Want Hamas, Hezbollah ‘Destroyed’ Joshua Klein March 3, 2024 Israel’s military operation in Gaza, led by the IDF, has been a strategic success against Hamas, significantly diminishing the terror group’s capabilities while prioritizing the … Continue reading

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Matti Friedman: In a deserted border town, I listened to the reigning genius of Israeli pop blast his songs toward Gaza

FREE PRESS The Song of the Israel-Hamas War Matti Friedman March 7, 2024 By the time the singer-songwriter Shlomi Shaban showed up at the border, the road crew had already set up two towers of speakers facing Gaza. The parents … Continue reading

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“The fact that so many Hamas members were switching to Israeli SIM cards could have been strong evidence of a potential invasion”

JERUSALEM POST IDF intel. saw Hamas using hundreds of Israeli SIM cards in Gaza before Oct. 7 Yonah Jeremy Bob February 26, 2024 Dozens to hundreds of Hamas members activated Israeli SIM cards in the early morning hours of October 7, … Continue reading

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“Part of this Israel-Hamas war reminded me of the “Trolley Problem” — a speculative puzzle that incorporates inaction as a consequential option in a moral choice”

FUTURE OF JEWISH Can you hear the runaway trolley in Gaza? Yishai Jusidman February 24, 2024 …In philosopher Philippa Foot’s original 1967 outline, a runaway trolley is on a downhill course about to hit and kill five people down its … Continue reading

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Days after the Hamas onslaught, filmmaker Duki Dror headed to the devastated rave site near Re’im. It is now his mission to show the world ‘Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre’

TIMES OF ISRAEL Documentary on October 7 Supernova festival massacre makes US debut Rich Tenorio February 23, 2024 Just three days after the October 7 Hamas terror onslaught on Israel, longtime Israeli filmmaker Duki Dror visited the location of an … Continue reading

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Melanie Phillips joined the CAMERA group to view scenes of the October 7 atrocities, one of them Kfar Aza.

MELANIE PHILLIPS SUBSTACK Never again February 15, 2025 I made a pilgrimage this week to the the area of the south-western Negev that was devastated by the Hamas pogrom on October 7…The eerie silence of Kibbutz Kfar Aza, whose once … Continue reading

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Egypt bears massive responsibility for the ongoing crisis. To prevent another October 7, this will require Israel to maintain control of the Rafah crossing

JERUSALEM POST Egypt must reap what they sowed to prevent another October 7 from happening Benjamin Anthony February 18, 2024 Following Israel’s rescue mission of two hostages carried out in Rafah, the IDF is poised to launch a ground incursion … Continue reading

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday that a deal on the release of hostages held by Hamas remains possible, but there remain “very hard” issues to be resolved.

JERUSALEM POST Hamas rejects Israeli proposal to release 1,500 inmates for hostages February 15, 2024 Hamas has rejected an Israeli offer to free all hostages taken into the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of 1,500 Palestinians from Israeli … Continue reading

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