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Swords of Iron: sources IIIIII (view source)
Revision as of 04:57, May 16, 2025
, 04:57, May 16, 2025→Notes part I (May 4, 2025: Iran linked Islamist Houthis' missile finally hit near TLV airport +)
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Trump kicks off Mideast tour with arrival in Saudi Arabia.
Trump kicks off Mideast tour with arrival in Saudi Arabia.
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Witkoff's emotional gesture to released hostage.
Witkoff's emotional gesture to released hostage.
According to reports, the target of the strike was Mohammed Sinwar, a senior Hamas commander and brother of Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of the organization in Gaza, who was killed by Israel earlier in the conflict. Following his brother’s death, Mohammed Sinwar served as the group’s top military leader in Gaza, according to Israeli defense sources.
According to reports, the target of the strike was Mohammed Sinwar, a senior Hamas commander and brother of Yahya Sinwar, the former leader of the organization in Gaza, who was killed by Israel earlier in the conflict. Following his brother’s death, Mohammed Sinwar served as the group’s top military leader in Gaza, according to Israeli defense sources.
[https://www.jns.org/idf-targets-hamas-military-chief-mohammed-sinwar-in-gaza/ JNS]
[https://www.jns.org/idf-targets-hamas-military-chief-mohammed-sinwar-in-gaza/ JNS]
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Trump says he’ll accept a $400 million gift from Qatar — which helped fund Hamas
The president attacked universities in the name of "protecting" Jews. But he's happy to receive a donation from Qatar's royal family.
May 12, 2025
By Anthony L. Fisher, Senior Editor, MSNBC Daily.
[...]
Trump is poised to accept an exorbitant personal gift from a government that has provided substantial funding for the antisemitic, fascistic terror group Hamas.
At the same time, Trump’s administration continues to employ Kingsley Wilson as deputy press secretary for the Department of Defense, despite a recent social media record of posts widely seen as antisemitic. ...
[https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-qatar-hamas-antisemitism-boeing-jet-gift-rcna206386 MSNBC]
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Report: With Qatar help, US agreed to push Israel for 3-month truce-hostage deal to secure captive’s release.
By Nava Freiberg.
13 May 2025, 4:00 pm
The United States, in coordination
[https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/report-with-qatar-help-us-agreed-to-push-israel-for-3-month-truce-hostage-deal-to-secure-captives-release/ TOI]
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IDF confirms: Hamas 'journalist' eliminated in Khan Yunis.
Hassan Aslih, a terrorist from the Hamas Khan Yunis brigade, infiltrated Israel and documented acts of looting, arson, and murder, and uploaded the footage to the internet.
Israel National News. May 13, 2025, 10:53 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408313 INN]
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The US appears ready to sell Turkey advanced stealth aircraft, and Israel is worried.
Itamar Eichner |05.13.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/syezrcx11el YNet]
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Bound with a bag over his head, and stuck in a collapsed tunnel: Freed hostage Edan Alexander describes captivity.
Lihi Gordon|05.13.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/hkkqpxwble YNet]
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Killing confirmed: Hamas terrorist who posed as journalist, broadcast live footage from Oct. 7 attack eliminated
Hassan Aslih, a Hamas operative and media figure, was killed in strike in Khan Younis; Aslih, who documented October 7 atrocities, was killed in a targeted strike, highlighting Hamas’ use of hospitals for terror operations
Elisha Ben Kimon | 05.13.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bjczvvwzeg YNet]
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Outrage as Gary Lineker posts pro-Palestine video featuring a rat emoji - as critics draw parallels with Nazi propaganda and flag it as 'hateful content' on social media.
By Aidan Radnedge.
10:38 13 May 2025, updated 16:04 13 May 2025
Gary Lineker has been condemned after sharing an Instagram video which featured an emoji of a rat, with critics accusing him of promoting a familiar anti-Semitic slur.
The Match Of The Day presenter and former England football captain posted a reel originating with the pro-Palestine group Palestine Lobby.
The cartoon image of a rat was seen on screen throughout, above the video in which Canadian-Palestinian lawyer Diana Buttu attacks Israel's war in Gaza.
Lineker has been vocal in his own criticisms of Israel's actions.
But campaigners say sharing this particular video with the rat image goes too far and have also criticised the BBC for whom Lineker will remain until after next year's World Cup while stepping down as Match Of The Day host this month.
Disgusted users on X shared his post to on the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.
Screenshots of Lineker's shared video were immediately flagged as posts which 'may violate X’s rules against Hateful Conduct'.
Images of rats and other vermin were regularly used as tropes by Nazi Germany to depict Jewish people, as many of Lineker's critics today have pointed out.
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14706167/Gary-Lineker-fire-posting-pro-Palestine-video-featuring-rat-emoji-known-antisemitic-slur-Jews.html DailyMail]
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Scant mention of Israel in vision Trump lays out for Middle East on Saudi visit.
“Oh, what I would do for the crown prince,” Trump said in announcing that he will lift sanctions on Syria, as a gesture to Mohammed bin Salman.
Mike Wagenheim.
(May 13, 2025 / Riyadh, Saudi Arabia / JNS)
After signing agreements with Saudi Arabia worth about $600 billion on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump was expected to tout the deals that evening during a speech in Riyadh at the Saudi-U.S. Investment Forum. Instead, he broke news announcing a major shift in U.S. foreign policy by saying that he intended to lift sanctions on Syria, which had been imposed during the regime of Bashar Assad.
“In Syria, which has seen so much misery and death, there’s a new government that will hopefully succeed in stabilizing the country and keeping peace,” Trump told attendees, of the new government of Ahmed al-Sharaa, who leads a U.S.-designated terror group.
“That’s why my administration has already taken the first steps toward restoring normal relations between the United States and Syria for the first time in more than a decade,” Trump said, to some applause.
The U.S. president said that he made the decision after talking with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
“I will be ordering the cessation of sanctions against Syria in order to give them a chance at greatness,” Trump said, to the night’s largest ovation. “Oh, what I would do for the crown prince,” he said.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stated earlier in the day that Israel is “extremely concerned about the state of play in Syria.” He also suggested that Congress had a role to play in lifting sanctions on Syria, but Reuters reported that “most sanctions laws passed by Congress, including a 2019 package of stiff sanctions on Syria, include a provision allowing a president to suspend them if he deems it to be in the U.S. national security interest.”
Asked during the U.S. State Department daily press briefing how quickly Trump intends to lift the sanctions on Syria and if Washington will ask the United Nations Security Council to lift its sanctions on al-Sharaa’s Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group, Tommy Pigott, the department’s principal deputy spokesperson, said that he had nothing further to add.
Trump is expected to meet with al-Sharaa in Riyadh on Wednesday. The new Syrian leader is scheduled to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio later in the week in Turkey.
‘Olive branch’
Jonathan Bass, a Jewish-American businessman who was on hand at the forum in Riyadh, told JNS that he backs the president. “We need to give al-Sharaa oxygen to move forward and bring together his country,” said Bass, who said that he often acts as a diplomatic backchannel and who met with Sharaa recently for four hours. “Everyone’s past has a tendency to haunt them.”
“It’s time for us again to bring an olive branch to the table and stop bombing,” Bass told JNS.
The businessman thinks that the issue of Israeli protection of the Arab Druze minority in Syria is misunderstood. Just as there is progressive left, conservative center and religious right in the United States, the Druze community isn’t monolithic, Bass told JNS.
“No one’s sitting at the same table, so you can’t expect that anybody else has a complete table around them,” he said. “We all need to be active participants. We need to show up, and we need to make a difference in the future of the region.”
Trump appeared to echo that point when he spoke of neocons, liberal groups and “nation builders,” who he said were damaging the region with their failed ideas.
“If the responsible nations of this region seize this moment, put aside your differences and focus on the interests that unite you, then all of humanity will soon be amazed at what they will see,” Trump said.
“My administration stands ready to help Lebanon create a future of economic development and peace with its neighbors,” he added.
Trump Mohammed Bin Salman SaudiU.S. President Donald Trump with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Al Saud, also known as MBS, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 13, 2025. Credit: Daniel Torok/White House.
‘Hit them hard’.
The president directed harsh words at Tehran. “I’m here today not merely to condemn the past chaos of Iran’s leaders but to offer them a new path and a much better path toward a far better and more hopeful future,” he said. “We will never allow them to threaten America and our allies with terrorism or a nuclear attack.”
Trump also said the United States had beaten the Houthi rebels in Yemen, although the terror group denied that it chad apitulated in a ceasefire.
“Following repeated attacks on American ships and freedom of navigation in the Red Sea, the United States military launched more than 1,100 strikes on the Houthis in Yemen,” Trump said. “We hit them hard. We got what we came for, and then, we got out.”
Much of the president’s praise was reserved for the Saudi prince, known as MBS, with whom he signed a $142 billion arms deal earlier in the day. “Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts and tired divisions of the past and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos,” Trump said.
The president said that it is his “fervent hope, wish and even my dream” that Saudi Arabia join the Abraham Accords, but said that it will do so “in your own time.”
Israel was noticeably absent from Trump’s remarks, but Bass, the Jewish businessman, said that there is some room for a business relationship between the Jewish state and the kingdom above the radar.
“I think that there is a place for American Jews, European Jews. I think that Israelis coming directly for the moment will probably represent a little bit of a challenge, but I think that this community here is very open,” he said, of the Saudis.
Bass thinks that about 300 Jews, mainly non-Israelis, attended the forum.
“I’ve never received any iota of antisemitism in Saudi Arabia,” he told JNS. “These are amongst the most embracing, loving, welcoming people for our community. We need to be part of the future of the region.”
Avraham Berkowitz, another Jewish businessman who attended the forum, told JNS that he was pleased that Trump mentioned the release of Edan Alexander, the dual U.S.-Israeli citizen who was freed from Hamas captivity in Gaza on Monday.
Berkowitz was also pleased that Trump said that “all civilized people must condemn the Oct. 7 atrocities against Israel” and that it drew no hint of condemnation from the Saudi crowd, even as the government has criticized Israel’s prosecution of the war harshly. (That mention of Israel was the only direct reference in Trump’s half-hour remarks.)
Trump is scheduled to attend a Gulf Cooperation Council leaders’ meeting on Wednesday morning before flying to Doha for the second leg of his trip.
[https://www.jns.org/scant-mention-of-israel-in-vision-trump-lays-out-for-middle-east-on-saudi-visit/ JNS]
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Ontario:
Antisemitic assailant sentenced after vile attack on Jews.
Israel National News.
May 14, 2025, 6:38 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408324 INN]
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Despite antisemitism failure
Columbia ex-President to return.
Former Columbia University president Katrina Armstrong will return as CEO of the university’s medical center in June, after taking a sabbatical following a controversial deposition in which she failed to recall antisemitic incidents documented in Columbia’s own report.
Elad Benari.
May 14, 2025, 6:54 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408325 INN]
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Over 200 explosives.
Explosives lab dismantled in Tulkarm.
Israel National News.
May 14, 2025, 6:23 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408323 INN]
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Shin Bet agent from Gaza admits to lying and misleading Israel before Hamas attack.
During his interrogation, a Shin Bet agent from Gaza admits to acting as a double agent and providing false information about Hamas’s intentions, contributing to the failure to prepare for the massacre.
Israel National News
Published: May 14, 2025, 3:02 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408318 INN]
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Transgender IDF soldier imprisoned in Russia.
Born in Tajikistan as Andrei, Olga Sivushkova moved to Israel at 13, renounced her citizenship over her hatred of Zionism, and later transitioned in Russia; Now, she’s jailed for backing Ukraine and opposing Putin.
Itamar Eichner|05.14.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1noqkzblx YNet]
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Pre-dawn demolition in Gush Etzion: Homes razed at Noda B'Yehuda.
Israeli forces demolish homes at Noda B'Yehuda near Ma'ale Amos, evicting a family as their children watched, in a rare and traumatic pre-dawn raid.
Israel National News.
Published: May 14, 2025, 10:22 AM (GMT+3)
...Noda B'Yehuda was founded around three years ago with the stated aim of preventing the spread of Arab construction in the area and protecting strategic territory near the community. Despite repeated terrorist attacks over the past two years, including incidents in which residents were seriously wounded, the community has remained resilient, continuing development efforts and welcoming additional families.
The demolition at Noda B'Yehuda comes amid a wave of enforcement actions across Judea and Samaria over the past week. These include the razing of three family homes in the Or Nachman hills in Binyamin, the uprooting of a fruit tree orchard near Shiloh, and multiple demolitions of a fledgling Jewish community near Amichai.
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408333 INN]
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NHL Suspends Minority Team Owner for Calling for Destruction of Hamas.
Calling for the destruction of Israel is free speech. Calling for the destruction of Hamas isn't.
May 14, 2025 by Daniel Greenfield.
These are the rules.
Calling for the destruction of Israel is free speech. Rioting and vandalizing campuses is free speech. Assaulting Jewish students on campus and community members outside synagogues is free speech. Any effort to stop them is an assault on “free speech” and “democratic norms”.
Florida Panthers minority owner Doug Cifu tweeting “Israel now and forever. Until ever last Hamas rat is eliminated” at a troll resulted in him being suspended by the NHL and forced to apologize for “unacceptable and inappropriate” posts.
The same activists, media outlets and elected officials who keep claiming that the “free speech” of the people tearing down hostage posters and assaulting Jewish students is under fire have no problem with this.
They don’t believe in free speech. They believe in unlimited violence disguised as speech. They believe that their allies have the right to do anything from throwing Molotov cocktails at police to smashing windows to holding entire campuses hostage. And they believe that you have the right to keep quiet or get canceled.
Their current free speech pose is a lie. And it doesn’t take long to show it.
Calling for the destruction of Israel is free speech. Calling for the destruction of Hamas isn’t.
[https://www.frontpagemag.com/nhl-suspends-minority-team-owner-for-calling-for-destruction-of-hamas/ FPM]
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Trump touches down in Qatar amid controversy over luxury jet gift and hopes for Gaza ceasefire.
07:33 EDT 14 May 2025, updated 07:33 EDT 14 May 2025
By Emily Goodin, Senior White House Correspondent And Nikki Schwab, Chief Campaign Correspondent.
[...]
But Trump's trip also raised questions on where America's relationship with Israel stands and turned the spotlight on Qatar's wealthy royal family and its gift of a 'flying palace' to the president.
The president argued his trip does not sideline Israel.
'This is good for Israel, having a relationship like I have with these countries; Middle Eastern countries, essentially all of them. I think it's very good for Israel,' he told reporters on Air Force One ahead of his arrival in Doha.
[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14710969/trump-qatar-visit-air-force-one.html DailyMail]
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Hamas abuse of civilian facilities in Gaza City revealed.
The IDF revealed new intelligence indications demonstrating the continued terrorist activity of the Hamas organization from within and near civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, including hospitals, educational institutions, and other civilian facilities.
Israel National News
Published: May 14, 2025, 7:54 PM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408371 INN]
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Tortured by Hamas, known as ‘the American’: Edan Alexander’s ordeal in captivity.
Ynetnews|05.12.25.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1gpfp111gl
'Drank murky water,' held with Hamas leaders: New details about Edan Alexander's captivity revealed
Released hostage's aunt offers new details in wake of Edan's return to Israel after 19 months in Hamas captivity, including more about the inhumane conditions, torture and emotional family reunions; 'From the moment Trump started talking about him, they gave him more food so he could gain weight'
Lihi Gordon|05.14.25. https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1qv38gzll
Trump, tech giants ink titan AI deals in Gulf visit.
Trump, Nvidia's Huang, OpenAI's Altman clinch $600B+ in Saudi tech investments and Humain AI project.
Israel Wullman|05.14.25.
https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/hjx4511fzxx
Hamas abuse of civilian facilities in Gaza City revealed.
The IDF revealed new intelligence indications demonstrating the continued terrorist activity of the Hamas organization from within and near civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, including hospitals, educational institutions, and other civilian facilities.
Israel National News
Published: May 14, 2025, 7:54 PM (GMT+3)
[https://2.a7.org/files/pictures/781x439/1189146.jpg].
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408371 INN]
IDF reveals intel on Hamas terror activity within civilian sites
The intelligence underscores the terrorist group's “cynical exploitation” of civilian environments to carry out attacks, according to the military.
JNS Staff
IDF soldier seen in an unknown location in the Gaza Strip, in front of rubble and ruin. Credit: IDF.IDF soldier seen in an unknown location in the Gaza Strip, in front of rubble and ruin. Credit: IDF.
(May 15, 2025 / JNS)
The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday released intelligence indicating that Hamas continues to conduct terrorist operations from within and around civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, including hospitals, schools and other public facilities.
According to the IDF, the intelligence underscores the “cynical exploitation” by Hamas of civilian environments to carry out attacks, using non-combatants as human shields and putting civilian lives at risk.
Amid the ongoing operation in Gaza, the IDF on Wednesday issued a warning to residents in the southern Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, an area it said contains terrorist strongholds embedded within the civilian population.
[https://www.jns.org/idf-reveals-intel-on-hamas-terror-activity-within-civilian-sites/ JNS]
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'We won't bow!'
Iran rejects Trump's call to end proxy wars for nuke deal
Elad Benari
May 15, 2025, 2:07 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408382 INN]
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Massive Israeli anti-terror op transforms Tulkarm.
Top terrorists in Nur Shams killed or fled; schools reopen, shops revive, signaling new local reality amid ongoing wider campaign.
Elisha Ben Kimon|05.15.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rybdcex11xx YNet]
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German president visits Kibbutz Be’eri with Herzog.
“585 days after the massacre, there are still hostages in the hands of Hamas, including German companions,” noted Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
JNS Staff.
(May 15, 2025 / JNS)
[https://www.jns.org/german-president-visits-kibbutz-beeri-with-herzog/ JNS]
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US sanctions Iran's missile suppliers in China and Iran.
Israel National News.
May 15, 2025, 6:36 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408390 INN]
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Doha pessimistic.
Qatari PM blasts Israel's 'bad signal' on Gaza.
Israel National News
May 15, 2025, 5:38 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408388 INN]
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Harvard President takes pay cut amid funding freeze.
Elad Benari.
May 15, 2025, 6:54 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408391 INN]
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German Chancellor: Netanyahu must be able to visit Germany.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must be allowed to travel to Germany, despite an ICC arrest warrant, stresses Netanyahu was democratically elected.
Elad Benari.
Published: May 15, 2025, 5:59 AM (GMT+3)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408389 INN]
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Minister Strock:
Terror risks must not travel Israel’s heartland.
Israel National News.
May 15, 2025, 8:23 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408392 INN]
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Bruchin shooting attack: Husband released from hospital, infant in stable condition.
Hananel Gez released from hospital, neonate stable but in serious condition, following deadly shooting attack.
Israel National News.
May 15, 2025, 9:46 AM (GMT+3)
shooting attack
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408395 INN]
Terrorist kills pregnant woman driving to delivery room in Samaria.
"The murder of Tzeela Gez, on her way to give birth at the hospital, is a spine-chilling, horrific act of terror that shakes us to the core," Israeli President Isaac Herzog stated.
([https://me.jnsi.org/uploads/2025/05/MDA-1320x880.jpg].
The scene at a shooting terror attack in Samaria on May 14, 2025. Credit: Magen David Adom).
(May 14, 2025 / JNS)
The Israeli military is hunting for a terrorist who shot and killed Tzeela Gez and injured her husband, as the Israeli couple drove to the delivery room near the small community of Bruchin, in Samaria.
Gez’s baby was delivered in hospital, Ynet reported. The infant is listed in serious but stable condition. The Rabin Medical Center’s Beilinson Hospital said its neontal unit at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center “fought all night for his life.”
The mother was pronounced dead on Thursday morning.
“I am deeply shocked by the horrific attack in Samaria, targeting a heavily pregnant woman and her husband as they were on their way to the delivery room,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated.
“This vile act precisely reflects the difference between us—those who cherish and bring life—and the despicable terrorists whose very purpose is to kill us and cut lives short,” the prime minister said.
([https://me.jnsi.org/uploads/2025/05/Tzeela-Gez.jpg].
Tzeela Gez was murdered by a terrorist in Samaria on her way to the delivery room, where doctors delivered her baby, May 14, 2025).
[https://www.jns.org/two-israelis-in-critical-serious-condition-after-terror-attack-in-samaria/ JNS]
On the way to the delivery room: Tze'ela Gez murdered in Samaria shooting attack.
Tzela Gez, a resident of Bruchin who was nine months pregnant murdered and her husband lightly wounded in a shooting attack between Bruchin and the Peduel Junction in Samaria. Security forces are searching for the terrorists.
Israel National News.
Published: May 14, 2025, 10:17 PM (GMT+3)
Updated: 5/15/2025, 6:30:00 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408377 INN]
Newborn between life and death after mother killed in W. Bank attack; 'Always there for others'.
Tzeela Gez, mother of three from Bruchin, killed on her way to hospital to deliver baby; child delivered via emergency C-section and remains in grave condition; loved ones remember her as a devoted mother and pillar of her community.
Nina Fox, Elisha Ben Kimon, Itamar Eichner, Sharon Kidon|05.15.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkpg3gxzeg YNet]
Blinding Green Lasers: Missed Signs Before Sniper Murdered Pregnant Woman.
Thirty minutes before Tze’ela Gaz was killed, drivers reported seeing green lasers on the roads, which often precedes terror attacks. So why was nothing done?
Gila Isaacson.
May 15, 2025 04:36
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/pregnant-woman-killed-in-samaria-terror-attack JFeed]
Benny Gantz on Samaria shooting attack: Human monsters.
Chairman of the National Unity Party responds to shooting attack in Samaria: "Against this murderous terror, we must act with strength and determination." Netanyahu: “A horrific attack, we will settle the score with the terrorists.”
Israel National News.
May 15, 2025, 12:14 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408380 INN]
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US-backed Gaza aid group to launch by end of May.
The U.S.-led, Israel-endorsed aid plan seeks to bypass the United Nations and prevent aid being diverted by Hamas.
JNS Staff.
(May 15, 2025 / JNS)
A new U.S.-backed humanitarian group, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), is set to begin operations in the Gaza Strip by the end of May, Reuters reported on Thursday. The group aims to provide aid through a plan endorsed by Israel and supported by private American firms.
[https://www.jns.org/us-backed-gaza-aid-group-to-launch-by-end-of-may/ JNS]
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Christians kick anti-Israel protesters out of Dutch coastal town.
Dozens of Muslims came to the Christians for Israel's Independence party in Katwijkand had to "run for their lives," an observer said.
Canaan Lidor.
(May 15, 2025 / JNS)
Anti-Israel protesters who demonstrated outside a Christian-Zionist celebration in the Netherlands on Wednesday were chased away by locals, some of whom assaulted the outsiders and made others “run for their lives,” an observer told JNS.
[https://www.jns.org/christians-kick-anti-israel-protesters-out-of-dutch-coastal-town/ JNS]
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US presents Iran with written nuclear deal proposal - report.
By Walla! 05/15/2025 2:46 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854057 JPost]
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Trump hails Qatari pledge to invest $10 billion in US airbase, heads to UAE.
By Reuters. 05/15/2025 2:48 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854114 JPost]
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Security guard lightly wounded in ramming at Meitar Crossing in West Bank, suspect flees.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/15/2025 5:23 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854143 JPost]
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Mike Huckabee: 'The US stands with Israel preserving the truth of history'.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/15/2025 05:26 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854144 JPost]
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Hostage deal can be made at any time, Lapid says following a security update.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/15/2025 06:33 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854158 JPost]
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IDF: Two soldiers moderately wounded in car crash in military exercise abroad.
By Jerusalem Post Staff, Yonah Jeremy Bob. 05/15/2025 07:23 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854167 JPost]
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IDF kills Hezbollah terrorist attempting to rebuild infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/15/2025 07:44 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854171 JPost]
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Rubio speaks to Netanyahu, says US troubled by Gaza humanitarian situation.
By Reuters. 05/15/2025 08:00 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854175 JPost]
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US Ambassador Mike Huckabee takes shelter following Houthi missile strike.
By Jerusalem Post Staff. 05/15/2025 10:11 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854186 JPost]
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Trump announces over $200 billion in deals with UAE, White House says.
By Reuters. 05/15/2025 10:27 PM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854188 JPost]
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Israel drops to sixth place in betting odds after qualifying for Eurovision final.
By Maariv. 05/16/2025 01:05 AM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854197 JPost]
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Navy and Air Force attacking in the Gaza Strip -report.
By Liran Haroni. 05/16/2025 02:13 AM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854199 JPost]
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Democrats look to block UAE arms sales, as Trump announces new deals.
By Reuters. 05/16/2025 02:19 AM
[https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-854200 JPost]
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Missile from Yemen sends Israelis to shelters.
Over a million Israelis leave their Lag B'Omer bonfires for safety from Houthi ballistic missile; IDF defense systems intercepted it.
Raanan Ben-Zur|05.16.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/h133rj7wge YNet]
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One in five Israeli combat troops is a woman.
New data shows significant rise in women serving in combat roles, now accounting for 20% of combat troops
Sivan Hilaie|05.16.25.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/ryk15009xeg YNet]
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Hardline on Iran:
Republicans insist on end to all enrichment.
Congressional Republicans urge President Trump to eliminate all Iranian nuclear enrichment capacity, citing fears of another "buy time" deal.
Elad Benari.
May 16, 2025, 4:45 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408449 INN]
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US-Iran nuclear talks:
Tehran denies receiving written offer from US.
Elad Benari.
May 16, 2025, 6:26 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/408452 INN]
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