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Continued operations on Islamic Republic of Iran, proxies , May 4 2026+ - sources: Pt II (view source)
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At 14, Lewin made aliyah to Israel. Finishing school, Lewin enlisted in the IDF’s elite counterterrorism unit, Sayeret Matkal.
At 14, Lewin made aliyah to Israel. Finishing school, Lewin enlisted in the IDF’s elite counterterrorism unit, Sayeret Matkal.
Marco Greenberg, his best friend, shared an anecdote about Lewin on the IDF website: “Danny wore many different hats. If you can believe it, he was both a father changing diapers with his wife and a stellar student at the Technion, majoring in mathematics, computer science, and electrical engineering.”
“He did reserve duty in Sayeret Matkal, the most elite Commando unit, and he would be correcting papers. When we had dinners at his apartment in Haifa, he would look at mistakes from other very bright students, and he would argue about politics – all of this at the same time.”
“He did reserve duty in Sayeret Matkal, the most elite Commando unit, and he would be correcting papers. When we had dinners at his apartment in Haifa, he would look at mistakes from other very bright students, and he would argue about politics – all of this at the same time.”
A fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew members fought back against the hijackers.
A fourth plane, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers and crew members fought back against the hijackers.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-9002-d646-a1b6-9f634c900000 JNS]
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-9002-d646-a1b6-9f634c900000 JNS]
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Maher: 9/11 Was And Still Is A Clash Of Civilizations Between Radical Islamism And Western Liberalism.
Posted By Ian Schwartz.
On Date September 12, 2026
HBO host Bill Maher delivers a monologue on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, reflecting on how the "idea that ditching political correctness and being honest" never got off the ground.
"After 9/11, there was a big debate," Maher said on 'Real Time' on Friday. "Was this a clash of civilizations? It was and it still is. Not between Muslims and Christians. No reasonable person was saying that. But radical Islamism versus Western liberalism? Yes, that's a real thing. Fighting people who hate freedom of religion and hate [the people sho are] homosexuals and hate the idea of women as equal and free humans."
"How did liberals wind up on their side?" Maher asked. And many did. One in five young Americans now has a positive view of Osama bin Laden. He's like Luigi Mangione in a turban. You hear it in a lot of places now that the worst thing about 9/11 was innocent Muslims came under suspicion. Yeah, where that did happen, it's wrong. But the worst thing about 9/11 was 3,000 people got roasted at the office."
"The prevailing view of so many young people is that, well, come on, we're the worst country ever. So if someone attacks us, that can't be all bad. That certainly wasn't the attitude 25 years ago. In fact, I know a guy whose show got canceled just for saying the terrorists weren't cowards. And that guy was right. They weren't cowards. But I'll tell you who is. Democratic Party politicians."
BILL MAHER:
'And finally, New Rule, since it's the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and since for 25 years we've been kept relatively safe from anything close to another 9/11, how about a hand for the Americans who made that happen? Because it didn't just happen. There was a war on terror, and we won. And yet, so much has changed since 9/11. For example, back then, we were against the terrorists. Really, no cap.
Now, a lot of media outlets don't even want you to say the T-word. On the 20th anniversary, four American journalism associations put out guidance that said that terrorism should only be used in quotes, because it's emotionally and politically loaded. Yeah, so is the World Cup, but we don't put soccer in quotes.
Really? We can't anymore just say out loud who the bad guys were that morning? Those 19 hijackers? They shared something. Oh, let's call it a worldview. And it wasn't astrology. But somehow over time, we've decided not to harp on that, the whole business about who wanted us dead and why. Let's not put a name on it. When it comes to terrorist attacks, please, there are very fine people on both sides.
Canadian state TV told its reporters, do not refer to the September 11th attacks as terrorist attacks. No? Even though the very definition of terrorism is using violence against civilians to pursue ideological goals, what should we call it then? Unruly passenger? A wrong turn taken at the Chrysler building? Why not just say the planes and the towers got into a fight?
I mean, after all, as the BBC advised its reporters, using the word terrorist can be a quote, barrier rather than an aid to understanding. You know what's really a barrier to understanding? Lying.
Back in 2001, after the attack, I said this. Political correctness itself is something we can no longer afford. Feelings are going to get hurt so that actual people won't. Well, it didn't last. I mean, my show. As for the idea of ditching political correctness and actually being honest, that never even got off the ground.
After 9/11, there was a big debate. Was this a clash of civilizations? It was and it still is. Not between Muslims and Christians. No reasonable person was saying that. But radical Islamism versus Western liberalism? Yes, that's a real thing.
Fighting people who hate freedom of religion and hate homosexuals and hate the idea of women as equal and free humans. How did liberals wind up on their side? And many did. One in five young Americans now has a positive view of Osama bin Laden. He's like Luigi Mangione in a turban.
You hear it in a lot of places now that the worst thing about 9/11 was innocent Muslims came under suspicion. Yeah, where that did happen, it's wrong. But the worst thing about 9/11 was 3,000 people got roasted at the office.
But the prevailing view of so many young people is that, well, come on, we're the worst country ever. So if someone attacks us, that can't be all bad. That certainly wasn't the attitude 25 years ago. In fact, I know a guy whose show got canceled just for saying the terrorists weren't cowards. And that guy was right. They weren't cowards. But I'll tell you who is. Democratic Party politicians. And I'll tell you why.
Because nowhere has this moral confusion become more obvious than in a place called Gaza. A little strip of land that was not part of the original Israel, but which they won in a war launched against them, but then gave back. Gave back as a peace gesture.
Do they tell you that part on TikTok, kids? And the people who run Gaza, Hamas, who you celebrate as a liberation movement but are really a terrorist mafia gang, just like the one that terrorizes Haiti, only ever used it to stage attacks on Israel. I think Macklemore spoke for all clueless celebrities when he said, I know enough to know this is a genocide.
Actually, you don't know sh*t. It's not a genocide. It's a counterattack in a war.
A war that's been waged on Israel since 1948 based on the ridiculous premise that Jews don't belong. In the one place on earth they are indigenous and indisputably their ancestral homeland. Hey geniuses, they're the Indians in this scenario.
Ariana Grande reposted that starving people to death is a red line. Well, who would know better about starving? But make no mistake, any famine that happened in Gaza is because Hamas stole the food.
Just like the Haitian gangs do. Israel ran 94,000 trucks carrying over 1.8 million tons of aid into Gaza and enabled over 36,000 patients to leave Gaza for treatment abroad, which you TikTok historians might be interested to learn are not things countries usually do for their enemies during a war and certainly not what you would do if you were trying for a genocide. Gaza equals genocide is a lie.
An easily provable lie. And the fact that so many prominent Democrats go along with it is, to me, the party's worst moment since they undid Reconstruction after the Civil War. Democrats are policing their candidates really hard on this issue.
Say it. Say it's a genocide. Say it.
The genocide in Gaza? And I think your policy on the genocide in Gaza?
You know, with Republicans, there's something you have to say, even though you know it's bullsh*t.
You have to say Trump won in 2020. This is the Democrats' version of that. But words do have actual meanings.
-cide means to kill. Fratricide. Kill your brother.
Homicide. Kill your fellow human. Suicide. Kill yourself.
Genocide. Kill or try to kill an entire people.
You can't just change the definition of genocide to mean counterattack in a war where people, including civilians, die. That's every war. There have been about 73,000 deaths in Gaza.
About 3% of the population. Tragic. Not genocide.
Not close. There were 3 million Jews in Poland before World War II. After?
45,000. That's genocide. If you're one of the many people these days asking, this explosion of anti-Semitism around the world that we see, where is it coming from?
This. This is where it's coming from. Because if you really think someone is committing genocide, of course you have full permission to hate them.
And history shows, for whatever reason, when it comes to hating the Jews, people don't need a lot of permission.'
[https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/09/12/maher_911_was_and_still_is_a_clash_of_civilizations_between_radical_islamism_and_western_liberalism.html RealClearPolitics]
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More Than 6,000 Leaders Across Entertainment, Academia and Public Life Unite to Reject “Genocide” Accusation Against Israel.
Press Release.
https://www.creativecommunityforpeace.com/blog/2026/09/08/rejectlie/
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At Least 72 Christians Massacred by Islamists Across Ituri, D. R. Congo,” Barnabas Aid, September 8, 2026:
The lives of at least 72 Christians have been added to the growing death toll of Islamist terrorism in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
These latest killings mean that more than 200 of our brothers and sisters have been massacred in Ituri Province since mid-July.
In the worst incident on August 28, fighters from Islamic State Central Africa Province (ISCAP) slaughtered 29 believers in the villages of Mabakoa and Biam, near Biakto.
The terrorists also burned down 40 houses as hundreds of villagers fled for safety.
The following day ISCAP fighters captured and beheaded nine Christians in the village of Amani, and killed a further two outside the village.
More than 1,370 Christians Dead
ISCAP (also known by its former name of ADF) has slaughtered more than 1,370 Christians in northeastern DRC since December 2024….
https://www.barnabasaid.org/us/news/at-least-72-christians-massacred-by-islamists-across-ituri-d-r-congo/
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American University To Host Al Qaeda Sympathizer for 9/11 Anniversary Who Laments Bin Laden's 'Extrajudicial Assassination,' Hailed 'Palestinian Liberation' on Oct. 7.
Maha Hilal, an 'Islamophobia' expert, wrote hours after the October 7 massacre that those who won't support 'Palestinian liberation' should 'move out of the way with your crumbs'.
Chuck Ross.
September 10, 2026
[https://freebeacon.com/campus/american-university-to-host-al-qaeda-sympathizer-for-9-11-anniversary-who-laments-bin-ladens-extrajudicial-assassination-hailed-palestinian-power-on-oct-7/ FreeBeecon]
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Zohran Mamdani and AOC spotted laughing at 9/11 ceremony while victims' families weep during reading of names.
By Chris Nesi.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Mayor Zohran Mamdani were captured laughing at Ground Zero during the solemn 9/11 victims’ reading at the 25th-anniversary service.
Mamdani and AOC laughing at a 9/11 ceremony during the solemn reading of the names.
The New York City Democratic Socialists of America darlings appeared all smiles in a live feed of the ceremony.
[https://nypost.com/2026/09/11/us-news/zohran-mamdani-aoc-spotted-laughing-at-9-11-ceremony-while-victims-families-weep-during-reading-of-names/ NYPost]
New York Post
@nypost:
Zohran Mamdani and AOC spotted laughing at 9/11 ceremony while victims' families weep during reading of names trib.al/WIFi3nn
Sep 11, 2026.
[https://x.com/nypost/status/2098451661123354755 on X]
‘Marxist socialist-Islamist alliance smiling’: Mamdani, AOC slammed for 'laughing' at 9/11 memorial.
The Economic Times.
Sep 12, 2026
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are facing backlash over a brief moment captured during the 9/11 Memorial ceremony in Lower Manhattan. A video showed a mourner sobbing before cutting to Mamdani and Ocasio-Cortez appearing to smile as they spoke, with their conversation inaudible.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEa3n0wmTNo on YouTube]
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Why They Hate Us: The Sources of Terrorist Conduct
It's not us, it's them.
Mike Watson.
September 11, 2026
The second plane was the most shocking on September 11. Not just because its collision with the World Trade Center was caught on film, but also because it ruled out any innocent explanation. This was not an accident. For the first time in decades, the homeland was under attack. Much about American life would have to change.
Conspiracy theories about 9/11 still swirl around the gutters of the internet, but there's also an active debate about why these attacks occurred. Some people blame Israel because, in their view, the Muslim world would have no quarrel with the United States if it were not for the Jewish state. Others think the attack was a natural, and possibly even justified, response to U.S. imperialism and hubris. Neither claim is true. Al Qaeda attacked Washington and New York because the terrorists wanted to harm American interests in the Middle East and beyond. Our allies, however, are not a source of vulnerability, but of strength.
During the 20th century, many Middle Eastern countries adopted some Western institutions, such as elaborate constitutions that they routinely ignored. They more enthusiastically embraced some of the worst ideas emanating from the West, such as state-led economies and other dead-end Marxist concepts. By 1980, secular-leaning dictators ruled Arab civilizational centers like Baghdad, Cairo, and Damascus. The Salafists had nothing to show in the Sunni world, although a Shia Islamic revolution had seized control of Iran.
A decade later, secularism seemed like a loser. Iraq's Saddam Hussein attacked Iran, endured a bloody multiyear stalemate, then invaded Kuwait and watched his Soviet-equipped army get blown to smithereens by a U.S.-led coalition. The mujahideen, by contrast, had driven the Soviets out of Afghanistan, albeit with substantial American support. After channeling funds and other assistance from the Gulf to some fighters during the Afghan war, bin Laden partnered with Ayman al-Zawahiri, who aimed to overthrow the Egyptian government but mostly slaughtered civilians. Zawahiri believed attacking the "far enemy," the United States, was necessary for overthrowing Arab governments.
Bin Laden's depraved mind held many kooky beliefs about Jewish power over Americans—as revealed in his 2002 "letter to America" that trended on TikTok in 2023—but he didn't seek to kill Americans because of Zionism. In his 1996 declaration of jihad against the United States, bin Laden wrote, "Clearly after Belief there is no more important duty than pushing the American enemy out of" the Arabian peninsula. He also referred to "the forthcoming Islamic State" that would supposedly control the area after the Americans were defeated.
Some appeasers thought removing U.S. troops from the region and cutting off Israel would cause bin Laden to focus his ire elsewhere and smooth over tensions with the allegedly aggrieved Arab street, but they were mistaken. When bin Laden and Zawahiri crowed about 9/11, Zawahiri complained about the loss of Spain back before Christopher Columbus sailed for the New World. These fanatics sought to conquer the Middle East and then the world. Americans had a longstanding interest in preventing any other country from dominating the Persian Gulf's oil resources, which put us on a collision course with the jihadists.
Al Qaeda had murdered Americans before 9/11, but that attack made defeating the group a national priority. The Clinton administration had balked at earlier opportunities to kill bin Laden, but after he murdered nearly 3,000 Americans, bin Laden had to flee for his life from U.S. forces and their Afghan partners. Over the ensuing 25 years, our country's military became ruthlessly efficient at finding and defeating terrorists around the world, as the Navy SEALs personally demonstrated to bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011. There are still plenty of al Qaeda allies active, but none have carried out an attack nearly as harmful in the United States.
Allies have been critical for curbing this threat. NATO invoked the mutual defense treaty on September 12 and many members sent troops to Afghanistan. Israel provided intelligence and other support against a range of threats. Many regional partners have fought with extraordinary courage. Some of the most pugnacious American allies are the "hypocrites" bin Laden threatened in 1996.
Shortly after 9/11, bin Laden said, "When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature, they will like the strong horse." He was right. He just didn't understand the sources of American strength.
[https://freebeacon.com/columns/why-they-hate-us-the-sources-of-terrorist-conduct/ FreeBeacin]
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DSA-Backed Challenger Defeats Jewish Incumbent in Rhode Island Mayoral Race.
By Corey Walker. September 11, 2026.
Rhode Island state Rep. David Morales, a democratic socialist, defeated incumbent Providence Mayor Brett Smiley in Tuesday’s Democratic primary, ending Smiley’s bid for a second term and marking another victory for the anti-Israel Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) in a major American city.
Morales, 27, is a member of the far-left Democratic Socialists of America and received the radical group’s endorsement during his campaign. His victory places a prominent DSA-backed politician in position to become Providence’s next mayor in November.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/09/11/dsa-backed-challenger-defeats-jewish-incumbent-rhode-island-mayoral-race/ Algemeiner]
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Is ‘Politico’ Covering for Tucker Carlson?
by Omri Tubi.
September 11, 2026.
In a Sept. 1, 2026, article titled, “Vance offers olive branch to pro-Israel Republicans in closed-door speech,” Politico‘s Samuel Benson describes media personality Tucker Carlson as merely an “Israel-skeptical pundit.”
This inadequate and misleading description whitewashes the extent and nature of Carlson’s radical, and often unhinged, positions.
Describing Carlson as an “Israel-skeptic” ignores his long record of hate and conspiratorial thinking aimed not only at Jews and Israel but also toward other groups as well, including immigrants, .., and African Americans. Such a description of Carlson is tantamount to describing Henry Ford as a “Jew-skeptic” for spreading antisemitic propaganda, or calling Richard Spencer an “immigration-skeptic” and “African American-skeptic” for promoting extremist, white supremacist ideas.
Consider several examples of Carlson’s hideous rhetoric:
On his “The Tucker Carlson Show,” Carlson regularly legitimizes and platforms individuals “who have espoused antisemitism, anti-Israel conspiracy theories, Holocaust revisionism, white supremacism, and xenophobia.” These figures include extremists such as Candace Owens and Nick Fuentes.
Carlson himself has spread antisemitic and anti-Israel conspiracy theories that “portrayed Jewish influence in the US as a hidden, malevolent force driving the country toward war through deception and ‘demonic’ control.” In addition, Carlson claimed that the Orthodox Jewish group Chabad was behind the US-Israel war with Iran, as part of a Jewish plot to destroy holy Muslim sites in Jerusalem and build the third Jewish temple.
Carlson also promotes the “Great Replacement” theory, which asserts demographic changes in the US are part of a conspiracy “to take power from white Americans.”
In 2019, Time reported Carlson was recorded calling Iraqis “primitive monkeys” who “don’t use toilet paper or forks.” Reportedly, he also said that immigrants arriving in the US should be “hot,” “really smart,” and that civilization was created by white men.
Carlson has also described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, as “sweaty and rat-like” and “a persecutor of Christians,” echoing both Nazi propaganda and old antisemitic tropes.
This is but a partial list of examples. To describe someone with these views as merely an “Israel-skeptic” is to substantively mislead Politico‘s audience. His record of spewing racism, antisemitism, and conspiracy theories unmoored from reality demands acknowledgement from responsible journalists.
[https://www.algemeiner.com/2026/09/11/is-politico-covering-tucker-carlson/ Algemeiner]
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Virginia school district advises teachers not to associate 9/11 with Islam or Muslims.
By Nick Minock, September 11, 2026.
FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. (7News) — On the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 Americans, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) is facing scrutiny over how it directs teachers to teach students about 9/11.
FCPS, Virginia’s largest public school district, is instructing teachers not to associate 9/11 with Islam despite the terrorist attacks being committed by Islamic extremists.
The six-page guidance sent to teachers instructs them to “design instruction around your students’ needs and experiences” and do not “associate the 9/11 attacks with Islam or Muslims” and do not “center the extremists or the acts of the extremists.”…
[https://wset.com/news/nation-world/virginia-school-district-advises-teachers-not-to-associate-911-with-islam-muslims-fairfax-county-controversy-september-11-terrorist-attacks-islamic-extremists-fcps-guidance-miyares-never-forget WSET]
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UCLA disgraces itself by hosting terrorist lawyer on 9/11.
By CA Post Editorial Board
Published Sep. 11, 2026, 9:15 p.m. ET
UCLA disgraced itself this week by hosting a symposium on terrorism on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 that featured radical critics of US counterterror policy, and a lawyer for al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
In addition to allegedly planning the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Mohammed is the terrorist who decapitated Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002.
Pearl’s father, Judea Pearl, teaches engineering at UCLA. That only underlines how shocking and insensitive the symposium, hosted by UCLA School of Law, was.
It was so shocking that UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk condemned the event in exclusive remarks to The California Post, saying “We reject antisemitism and terrorism in all their forms, and we believe our campus must be a place where the dignity of every member of our community is respected.”
If UCLA hosted any 9/11 event at all, it should have been to honor victims of terror.
UCLA is already on the hot seat for allowing antisemitism to run wild on campus, especially during the so-called “encampment” in 2024.
[https://nypost.com/2026/09/11/opinion/ucla-disgraces-itself-by-hosting-terrorist-lawyer-on-9-11/ NYPost]
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Pinker, E. (2026). How the New York Times Framed the War Between Israel and Hamas. Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 1–21. [https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2026.2707956]
Abstract.
This study examines the New York Times coverage of the war between Israel and Hamas from 7 October 2023 through 7 June 2024. Drawing on a corpus of 1,559 news articles I document a dominant narrative consistent with a framing that assigns near-exclusive agency and responsibility to Israel while diminishing Hamas’s role in sustaining the conflict.
It describes Hamas’s October 7 attack followed by Israeli military violence and mounting Palestinian casualties, while largely omitting Israeli casualties post-October 7, Hamas fighter casualties, and post-October 7 Palestinian violence. Personal accounts of Palestinian suffering appear two out of every three days, while comparable accounts of Israeli suffering rarely appear.
The New York Times’ coverage of the first months of the war in Gaza displayed a clear bias against Israel by downplaying the country’s casualties [https://nypost.com/2026/02/18/world-news/israeli-soldier-killed-by-friendly-gaza-fire-idf/] while minimizing Hamas’ role in sustaining the conflict, a new study found.
By Ronny Reyes. Published Sep. 13, 2026
A review of the Times’ 1,559 articles published between Oct. 7, 2023, and June 7, 2024, showed that the Times often omitted deaths sustained by the Jewish military while looking the other way on ongoing Palestinian violence once the war began after Hamas terrorists’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack [https://nypost.com/2026/09/09/world-news/netanyahu-to-sue-israeli-newspaper-over-reports-uae-warned-him-of-oct-7-days-before-terror-attack/] on Israel.
Edieal Pinker of the Yale School of Management, who published his findings in the Studies in Conflict & Terrorism academic journal [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1057610X.2026.2707956], said the Times’ coverage was clearly skewed against Israel.
“Drawing on a corpus of 1,559 news articles I document a dominant narrative consistent with a framing that assigns near-exclusive agency and responsibility to Israel while diminishing Hamas’s role in sustaining the conflict,” Pinker wrote.
“It describes Hamas’s October 7 attack followed by Israeli military violence and mounting Palestinian casualties, while largely omitting Israeli casualties post-October 7, Hamas fighter casualties, and post-October 7 Palestinian violence.
“Personal accounts of Palestinian suffering appear two out of every three days, while comparable accounts of Israeli suffering rarely appear,” he said.
A total of 437 Israeli soldiers have been killed since the Jewish state began its offensive in Gaza, with dozens of police officers and civilians also killed and injured in terror attacks [https://nypost.com/2025/09/08/world-news/four-killed-in-jerusalem-shooting-israeli-ambulance-service-says/] throughout the war, according to Israeli officials.
Pinker argued that the Times’ coverage ultimately portrayed Israel as the “sole aggressor” in the conflict while Palestinians were depicted as “passive victims.”
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After Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attack, which left more than 1,200 people dead and another 251 kidnapped [https://nypost.com/2026/07/02/world-news/israel-marks-1000-days-since-oct-7-hamas-massacre-that-killed-over-1200-people/], Israel launched a full-scale war aimed at rescuing the hostages and eliminating Hamas.
[https://nypost.com/2026/09/13/media/ny-times-gaza-war-coverage-was-clearly-biased-against-israel-damning-study/ NYPost]
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Sa’ar thanks Colombia’s president for synagogue visit.
Sep 13, 2026.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Sunday thanked Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella for visiting a synagogue in Barranquilla over the Rosh Hashanah holiday, writing on X that the Jewish people and state had gained “a true friend and partner.”
The Colombian people “chose an inspiring leader,” Sa’ar tweeted. He also praised de la Espriella’s “moving speech” at the city’s Bet-El synagogue, and signed off with “God bless Colombia!”
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-9ed7-d9dc-a3b6-dfff19d00000 JNS]
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Netanyahu thanks Modi for Rosh Hashanah wishes, hails Israel-India ties.
Sep 14, 2026.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday thanked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his Rosh Hashanah greetings, saying the two countries had transformed ties into an “unprecedented partnership between two great democracies.”
“Sara and I look forward to seeing you again soon,” Netanyahu added.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-9f21-da29-abfb-9fa550980000 JNS]
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Israeli culture minister calls to strip citizenship from ‘NAZA’ filmmakers.
Sep 14, 2026.
Israeli Culture and Sports Minister Miki Zohar called Sunday to strip Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor of their citizenship after their film “NAZA” won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival a day earlier.
Zohar accused the filmmakers of “treason against the state,” saying they were willing to harm Israel to win applause from “antisemites around the world.” He said the controversy demonstrated the need for the cinema-funding reform he promoted, arguing that Israelis should not be forced to finance works that harm IDF soldiers or the country.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-9e51-d92d-afa8-bf57444c0000 JNS]
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Trump unloads on AOC, Mamdani for laughing during sacred 9/11 ceremony at Ground Zero.
Video of the two Democrats smiling during the reading of 9/11 victims' names sparked backlash online.
By Stepheny Price Fox News
Published September 13, 2026.
President Donald Trump slammed Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani for appearing to laugh during the solemn reading of victims’ names at the 9/11 Memorial, calling their behavior "terrible" and "inappropriate."
"I think it’s terrible," Trump said when asked about the video of the two Democrats. "It’s not a place to be laughing, especially in that case."
"I thought it was terrible," he continued. "The fact that they were laughing together at a very important part of the ceremony was inappropriate."
The president’s condemnation came after video of Ocasio-Cortez and Mamdani sharing what appeared to be a lighthearted exchange at Ground Zero sparked widespread criticism online.
[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-unloads-aoc-mamdani-laughing-during-sacred-9-11-ceremony-ground-zero FoxNews]
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Likud pushes back on Kushner’s account of Gaza talks.
Sep 14, 2026.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party on Sunday credited the Gaza hostage deal to the premier’s wartime decisions and to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, pushing back on Jared Kushner’s account of how the agreement was reached.
“The prime minister’s decision to send the IDF into Gaza City and to strike the Hamas leadership in Qatar, together with the intense pressure exerted by President Trump, are what led Hamas to drop its demands and agree to release all the hostages remaining in Gaza,” the party said. The statement did not name Kushner
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-9eb7-dd34-a5ff-9fbfe4220000 JNS]
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Israel blasts Norway over proposed ban on trade with Judea and Samaria towns.
Sep 14, 3026.
Israel’s embassy in Norway on Monday condemned a Norwegian government proposal that would ban trade with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria and criminalize violations of the ban, accusing Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide of “obsessive anti-Israel activism.”
"Norway's legislative proposal to criminalise trade with Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria is the latest example of the Norwegian foreign minister's obsessive anti-Israel activism on the global stage."..
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-9fcc-d601-a3a7-9fee497c0000 JNS]
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Munich Jewish leader threatened after call to ban AfD party.
Sep 14, 2026.
The Munich prosecutor’s office said on Friday that it had opened an investigation into a death threat directed against Charlotte Knobloch, a 93-year-old Holocaust survivor who serves as the president of the Jewish Community of Munich and Upper Bavaria.
Knobloch had called for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to be outlawed following its election victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt earlier this month, and the threat was explicitly linked to her comments, according to the Deutsche Welle outlet.
A witness reportedly found the threat scrawled on a park bench and a trash bin in a Munich park on Thursday and alerted police. Knobloch subsequently canceled her attendance at an event on Thursday evening.
Andreas Franck, the antisemitism commissioner at the prosecutor’s office, told German news agency dpa that he had opened an investigation into suspected incitement to hatred, threats and criminal damage. A Star of David was among the graffiti, Franck said.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-9ef5-dc42-afaf-9ef586b40000 JNS]
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Top AfD official condemns death threats against Holocaust survivor.
By Canaan Lidor. Sep 14, 2026.
The head of the Bavaria branch of Germany’s right-wing AfD party on Monday condemned death threats that unidentified perpetrators made against Charlotte Knobloch, a prominent Holocaust survivor and Jewish community leader.
“I condemn the death threat against Charlotte Knobloch unequivocally and without reservation,” the AfD leader, Stephan Protschka, told JNS in reply to a query on the threats, which were discovered on Thursday on a park bench in Munich. According to the dpa news agency, the death threats referenced Knobloch, AfD, and featured a Star of David.
“Political disagreements or election results can never justify threats, intimidation, or violence against any individual. This applies, of course, especially when such a threat is motivated by antisemitism,” Protschka added. He advised against “drawing any further conclusion” until the culprits are identified.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-9f89-deb7-a3ac-bf8d72e70000 JNS]
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Sakhnin man gets four years for transferring suspected terror funds to Judea and Samaria.
Sep 14, 2026
The Central District Court in Lod sentenced Suheil Bashir, from Sakhnin in the Lower Galilee to four years in prison for transferring 200,000 shekels (about $65,000) and $150,000 in cash into Judea and Samaria while strongly suspecting the money was intended for terrorist activity, Israel Hayom reported on Monday.
Bashir received the money from Fadi Arabi in three transfers in February 2025 and passed it to Mohammed Ganaim, who arranged its onward transfer to another person in Nablus (Shechem), according to the report. The court also fined Bashir 170,000 shekels (almost $56,000) and ordered the forfeiture of 30,000 shekels (some $9,800) seized from him.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-9ff1-d8c7-afe5-fffb66e60000 JNS]
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Netanyahu to depart for UN General Assembly on Sept. 23.
Sep 14, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will depart for the U.N. General Assembly in New York on Sept. 23 and return on Sept. 25, a source in the Prime Minister’s Office told JNS on Monday.
Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said earlier this month that Netanyahu would address the annual general debate on Sept. 24. He aimed a pointed message at New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a03e-d588-abfd-ad7f96b00000 JNS]
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Sunni cleric, who was ‘active’ in fight against Zionism, reportedly killed in Iran.
Sep 14, 2026
An unidentified gunman killed Molavi Yusef Gorgij, a senior Muslim cleric, in the southeastern part of Iran on Monday, Reuters reported, citing state media.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a0b9-ddd4-a1f9-e9fd176e0000 JNS]
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Gulf states, Iran postpone talks.
Sep 14, 2026
Talks between Persian Gulf states and Tehran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and establish future frameworks have been postponed, multiple officials said on Monday.
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a0b9-df78-afb1-a1bb9b1a0000 JNS]
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Israeli filmmaker of 'NAZA' under scrutiny over longstanding ties to Hamas-linked activist.
In 2019, Avraham reached out to Alnaouq to discuss what young people in the Gaza Strip think about politics in Gaza. Alnaouq serves as vice president of Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
Mathilda Heller. September 14, 2026.
Israeli filmmaker Yuval Avraham has a longstanding relationship with Hamas-linked Palestinian journalist and activist Ahmed Alnaouq, investigative journalist Eitan Fischberger first reported Sunday.
Avraham has been in the headlines this week after his film, NAZA, won the Special Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Saturday.
The film has received intense criticism from most Israeli politicians, and the IDF stated its categorical rejection of the film’s allegations..
In 2019, Avraham – then a young journalist – reached out to Alnaouq...
Avraham has often referred to Alnaouq as a “close friend” and “partner.”
Alnaouq: vice president of Hamas-linked organization.
Alnaouq is a London-based Palestinian “journalist” and human rights activist. He also serves as the vice president, treasurer, and outreach and advocacy officer at the Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and is co-founder and advisory council member of the British Palestinian Committee.
Euro-Med has been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization since 2015. It is known for disseminating blood libels and conspiracy theories, including notably accusing Israel of “organ theft” and training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”
Alnaouq: vice president of Hamas-linked organization.
Alnaouq is a London-based Palestinian “journalist” and human rights activist. He also serves as the vice president, treasurer, and outreach and advocacy officer at the Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and is co-founder and advisory council member of the British Palestinian Committee.
Euro-Med has been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization since 2015. It is known for disseminating blood libels and conspiracy theories, including notably accusing Israel of “organ theft” and training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”
Earlier this year, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry also revealed that Euro-Med founder Ramy Abdu is a Hamas operative.
Alnaouq's brother was eulogized by Hamas.
Alnaouq has also previously claimed that his brother, Ayman, was a “member of the resistance” killed in 2014 by the Israeli security forces.
Hamas’s Qassam Brigades posted an eulogy of Ayman with a picture of him holding a machine gun and wearing a Hamas headband. This post is still available through archival engines.
Speaking to American journalist Pam Bailey in 2017 Alnaouq said, “I came to understand that resistance fighters are nothing more than young people who loved life and loved their homeland, but left their comfortable lives and joined the resistance to confront the Israeli occupation, and defend their homeland and land that had been taken from them since the Nakba of the Palestinian people in 1948.”
In an interview with 'Zman Yisrael' in 2021, Avraham referred to the killing of Ayman as a “very great tragedy.”
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-908586 JPost]
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Israel has the horrific evidence. Where is the international campaign? - comment.
NAZA draws on anonymous testimony from soldiers and intelligence personnel who say the army calculated expected civilian deaths before airstrikes and proceeded with them anyway.
By Zvika Klein. September 14, 2026.
Three years after October 7, Israel still invites people into closed rooms to watch evidence that it wants the whole world to understand. An officer brings a hard drive. Recording is forbidden. After 47 minutes, the screening ends and the footage leaves with him.
I was invited to one of those screenings and didn’t go. I had seen enough of that day. But I keep wondering about the foreign editor who would investigate a recording, the filmmaker who could spend six months reconstructing an attack, or the audience that would trust their work. What are we doing to make that possible?
The Venice prize for NAZA, the documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, makes the question more urgent.
Whatever we think of its allegations about Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, its filmmakers have assembled the partnerships and experience needed to reach an international audience. Israel has an enormous archive of October 7. Access to it should produce far more reporting than a series of invited screenings.
IDF: The testimony cannot be verified, people approve targeting decisions
NAZA draws on anonymous testimony from soldiers and intelligence personnel who say the army calculated expected civilian deaths before airstrikes and proceeded with them anyway. The IDF says the testimony cannot be verified and that people approve targeting decisions.
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908587].
Foreign journalists should investigate those allegations and press the army for detailed answers. Culture and Sport Minister Miki Zohar’s threat to revoke the directors’ citizenship gave them something considerably easier to write about.
Abraham and Szor, who won an Oscar last year for No Other Land, secured The Guardian as a co-producer and Jonathan Glazer as an executive producer. They know whom to approach, how to finance a production, and how to get it seen. Israeli officials could learn something from that, however much they dislike the film.
In April, I wrote about Al Jazeera and the sustained investment behind its international reach. I argued for substantial funding for independent international journalism, with owners prepared to finance reporting and respect editorial decisions.
Working through the October 7 [https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-908557] archive would require that kind of commitment. Researchers, translators, editors, and lawyers have to be paid. Distribution takes money and contacts. A donor needs to understand that the film may take a year and include conclusions he dislikes. Financing it should buy him neither script approval nor the right to remove an inconvenient interview.
I would ask the authorities to identify 100 previously unpublished recordings that could responsibly be released, then offer them individually to foreign newsrooms. Reporters would receive original files, information about their origins, and help contacting witnesses willing to speak.
An exclusive gives an editor a reason to assign staff. Those reporters can establish locations, compare recordings, and question the explanations they receive. When they publish, they can explain to readers what they could verify and what they couldn’t.
Officials would need to accept some uncomfortable reporting. A recording might document both a Hamas atrocity and the hours before help arrived. A witness might describe extraordinary bravery and a government failure in the same interview. Trying to suppress the second part would give people reason to distrust the first.
Reconsider the assumption that the most graphic recording is the most useful
Last December, I proposed a civilian public diplomacy reserve, with a permanent staff and professionals contributing several weeks a year. Teams would work in languages they knew, dealing with countries whose media and culture they understood. I offered to volunteer and wrote that others with media experience were willing to contribute.
They could spend those weeks helping foreign journalists work through the archive. A producer needs a translation checked; a reporter is waiting for an answer from the army; a documentary team cannot find a witness. These requests often require repeated calls and someone who knows whom to ask. A journalist abroad should have a reliable contact who will pursue an answer.
The reserve’s advocacy role would be public. Journalists would retain control over their reporting and disclose relevant funding or assistance.
We should also reconsider the assumption that the most graphic recording is the most useful. Footage can establish planning, coordination, and the sequence of an attack. People can learn something substantial without watching someone die. Given my own decision to decline the screening, I can hardly demand that everyone else watch it.
Families must approve the use of recordings showing their relatives. They need time to decide, and a refusal must be respected. Material involving sexual violence requires particular care and a specialist’s review.
Much has already circulated. Some people have justified what it shows, and another recording may change nothing for them. October 7 evidence also cannot answer every allegation about Israeli conduct in Gaza. The army must address those questions separately.
There are still readers who know little about the massacre, or who doubt accounts they have encountered. Someone who distrusts an IDF statement may be moved by an investigation from a newspaper they have read for 20 years. That newspaper, thus, should be able to examine the evidence.
Helping it do so may earn the government very little credit. A completed documentary may omit mentions of Israeli officials or may include criticism of them. Ministers would have to tolerate that in return for reaching people who rarely believe anything they say.
I would consider that a good use of public money. Another closed screening for people already sympathetic to Israel needs a better justification, three years on.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-908591
Israeli filmmaker of 'NAZA' under scrutiny over longstanding ties to Hamas-linked activist
In 2019, Avraham reached out to Alnaouq to discuss what young people in the Gaza Strip think about politics in Gaza. Alnaouq serves as vice president of Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.
Mathilda Heller. September 14, 2026.
Israeli filmmaker Yuval Avraham has a longstanding relationship with Hamas-linked Palestinian journalist and activist Ahmed Alnaouq, investigative journalist Eitan Fischberger first reported Sunday.
Avraham has been in the headlines this week after his film, NAZA, won the Special Jury Prize at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival on Saturday.
The film has received intense criticism from most Israeli politicians, and the IDF stated its categorical rejection of the film’s allegations..
In 2019, Avraham – then a young journalist – reached out to Alnaouq...
Avraham has often referred to Alnaouq as a “close friend” and “partner.”
Alnaouq: vice president of Hamas-linked organization.
Alnaouq is a London-based Palestinian “journalist” and human rights activist. He also serves as the vice president, treasurer, and outreach and advocacy officer at the Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and is co-founder and advisory council member of the British Palestinian Committee.
Euro-Med has been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization since 2015. It is known for disseminating blood libels and conspiracy theories, including notably accusing Israel of “organ theft” and training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”
Alnaouq: vice president of Hamas-linked organization.
Alnaouq is a London-based Palestinian “journalist” and human rights activist. He also serves as the vice president, treasurer, and outreach and advocacy officer at the Hamas-linked Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor and is co-founder and advisory council member of the British Palestinian Committee.
Euro-Med has been designated by Israel as a terrorist organization since 2015. It is known for disseminating blood libels and conspiracy theories, including notably accusing Israel of “organ theft” and training police dogs to “rape prisoners and detainees.”
Earlier this year, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Ministry also revealed that Euro-Med founder Ramy Abdu is a Hamas operative.
Alnaouq's brother was eulogized by Hamas.
Alnaouq has also previously claimed that his brother, Ayman, was a “member of the resistance” killed in 2014 by the Israeli security forces.
Hamas’s Qassam Brigades posted an eulogy of Ayman with a picture of him holding a machine gun and wearing a Hamas headband. This post is still available through archival engines.
Speaking to American journalist Pam Bailey in 2017 Alnaouq said, “I came to understand that resistance fighters are nothing more than young people who loved life and loved their homeland, but left their comfortable lives and joined the resistance to confront the Israeli occupation, and defend their homeland and land that had been taken from them since the Nakba of the Palestinian people in 1948.”
In an interview with 'Zman Yisrael' in 2021, Avraham referred to the killing of Ayman as a “very great tragedy.”
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-908586 JPost]
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USPS probing apparent Hartford staffer caught on video saying ‘Jewish garbage[sic]’.
The independent executive branch agency told JNS that the behavior is “not acceptable” and the incident is being “fully investigated.”
Rebecca Szlechter.
(Sept. 14, 2026 / JNS) The U.S. Postal Service told JNS that it is investigating an employee in Hartford, Conn., who appeared to refer to “Jewish garbage” in a video recording that has circulated on social media.
In the video, which appears to be from a doorbell camera, the apparent employee of the independent executive branch agency, who has a mailbag slung over his shoulder, stuffs envelopes into a mailbox.
The man appears to become frustrated with an apparently overstuffed mailbox. “What the Christ is this f***ing crap?” he appears to say. “Oh, of course. It’s Jewish garbage[sic].”
StopAntisemitism, a nonprofit, posted the video on Sept. 11 and called the behavior “atrocious bigotry.”
Amy Gibbs, a spokeswoman for the Postal Service, told JNS that USPS had reviewed the footage and was investigating the incident.
[https://www.jns.org/news/u-s-news/usps-probing-apparent-hartford-staffer-caught-on-video-saying-jewish-garbage JNS]
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London police seeks British man accused of assaulting three Jewish teens on bus.
“Jewish children must be able to go about their daily lives without fear of being targeted for who they are,” the Board of Deputies told JNS.
Rebecca Szlechter.
(Sept. 14, 2026 / JNS) A man allegedly assaulted three Jewish teens on a north London bus last week in an incident that the Metropolitan Police is investigating as an antisemitic hate crime, the police department told JNS.
The three 14-year-old boys were traveling on a bus near Sanders Lane in Mill Hill at about 8:15 a.m. on Sept. 10, the day before Rosh Hashanah.
[https://www.jns.org/news/world/uk-police-seek-suspect-after-three-jewish-teens-allegedly-assaulted-on-london-bus JNS]
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US ‘on top of’ Houthi activity in Red Sea, Vance says.
Sep. 14, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a0de-d342-afaf-f8ff1cb60000 JNS]
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Saudi Arabia discovers 114 million tons of uranium ore in Medina.
Sep. 14, 2026
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a110-d864-a5fa-f97e42670000 JNS]
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‘Free Palestine’ graffiti at student 9/11 memorial on California State University campus.
Sep. 14, 2026.
Some 30 of the 2,177 American flags that the Young Americans for Freedom chapter at California State University, Stanislaus planted on the Turlock, Calif., “free speech lawn” were vandalized with “free Palestine graffiti,” the College Fix reported.
There was also graffiti supporting the “antifa” movement, and some of the American flags were dislodged, according to the report.
The public school told JNS that campus police “received a report of the vandalism and is actively investigating the situation.”
[https://www.jns.org/live/breaking-news#000001a0-a134-d0c1-a5ee-a33519070000 JNS]
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Israel unlikely to improve Saudi ties despite Houthi threat, expert tells 'Post'.
“If there was a new governing coalition that seemed more committed to discretion, then perhaps there would be an opening for greater cooperation,” Dr. Brandon Friedman suggested.
September 14, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908541 JPost]
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Saudi crown prince meets CENTCOM chief in bid for US help amid escalating Houthi attacks.
Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have been conducting strikes and seizing territory throughout the region, prompting serious concern from Gulf nations.
September 14, 2026
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-908519 JPost]
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IDF kills five Hamas terrorists, among them military commander, in Gaza counterterrorism operation
The IDF and Shin Bet have intensified counterterrorism efforts in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks with the goal of killing Hamas terrorists and minimizing reconstruction efforts.
Avi Ashkenazi. Sep 15, 2026 01:31
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-908599 JPost]
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Israel Police find illegal weapons, explosives among Arab communities in operation against crime
Among the illegal weapons and ammunition seized were several which are suspected to have been stolen from the IDF, the police stated.
Tzvi Jasper. Sep 15, 2026 01:51
[https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/crime-in-israel/article-908600 JPost]
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