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June 11, 2024 19,000 Rockets Launched at Israel Since Hamas’s October 7 Atrocities Hamas and other terrorist groups have launched more than 19,000 unguided rockets at Israel since the October 7 massacre in southern Israel, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on... June 11, 2024 Knesset Advances Contested Conscription Law Israel’s parliament approved moving ahead on a contested conscription law on June 11. In a vote of 63 lawmakers in favor and 57 opposed, the Knesset plenum approved applying continuity... June 10, 2024 Blinken in Israel Amid Talk of Side Deal on American Hostages Held in Gaza Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on June 10 to discuss the U.S.-backed ceasefire plan to end the war in Gaza. During... June 10, 2024 Turkish Foreign Minister Meets with Hamas Leader in Qatar Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met with Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh during a visit to Qatar on June 9. Fidan arrived in Doha for a ministerial meeting of the Turkey-Gulf Cooperation... June 10, 2024 Citing Threat to State Security, Israel Extends Ban on Qatar-Owned Al Jazeera for 45 Days The Israeli government on June 9 extended its temporary ban on Al Jazeera, citing the Qatari-owned network’s ongoing threat to Israel’s national security. Israeli Communications... June 10, 2024 Northern Israeli City of Nahariya Under Fire as Hezbollah Attacks Intensify Tensions on Israel’s northern border continued to escalate on June 10, as Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorists launched drones and missiles at cities and towns deeper inside of the... June 9, 2024 Hamas ‘Reporter’ Doubles as Captor A Hamas-affiliated Palestinian journalist held captive three of the four Israeli hostages recently rescued from Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Shin Bet revealed on... June 9, 2024 Hezbollah Attacks Israel With Drones and Rocket Salvo Hezbollah attacked Israel with two explosive-laden drones and 10 rockets on June 9. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the drones, launched from Lebanon, targeted an area in the... June 8, 2024 IDF Liberates Four Hostages Abducted By Hamas On October 7 In a daring operation on June 8, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops rescued four hostages seized by Hamas terrorists during their October 7 assault on southern Israel. The four hostages... June 8, 2024 Iran-Backed Houthi Rebels Abduct UN Employees Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen abducted at least 15 Yemeni employees of United Nations (UN) and other international agencies on June 7. Houthi enforcers detained nine employees... June 7, 2024 Biden Administration Warns Israel Against War With Hezbollah The Biden administration told Israel not to respond to Iran-backed Hezbollah’s escalating attacks, warning that a ground invasion into Lebanon risks drawing in the Islamic Republic... June 7, 2024 New Report Determines Percentage of Civilian Casualties Has Fallen Sharply in Gaza Latest Developments Despite persistent claims from the Hamas-run Ministry of Health that women and children account for more than 70 percent of fatalities in Gaza, the ministry’s own data show that... June 7, 2024 State Department Sanctions Armed Palestinian Group in Nablus But Refrains From Terrorist Designation Latest Developments The U.S. State Department announced sanctions on a notorious Palestinian terrorist group on June 6 but refrained from designating it as a “Foreign Terrorist Organization” or... June 6, 2024 Israel Targets Hamas and Islamic Jihad Terrorists Hiding in UNRWA School Latest Developments The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted a precision airstrike on Hamas terrorists hiding inside a central Gaza school operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)... June 6, 2024 Amid Tensions With Israel, Spain Requests to Join ICJ Case Targeting Jewish State Spain on June 6 became the first European country to request to join South Africa’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) case accusing Israel of genocide in its war against Hamas... June 6, 2024 Iranian Protester Partly Paralyzed After London Attack An Iranian dissident may have permanently lost the ability to walk after Tehran loyalists assaulted him in London, The Jewish Chronicle reported on June 5. Navid Bavi, 32, to whom... June 6, 2024 Seventeen Countries Urge Hamas to Accept Ceasefire Proposal The United States and 16 other countries whose citizens are being held captive by Hamas in Gaza signed a statement on June 6 calling on the Iran-backed terror organization to accept... June 6, 2024 IDF Soldier Killed as Hamas Attempts Infiltration From Gaza Hamas terrorists attempted to infiltrate Israel from Gaza using foggy weather as cover on the morning of June 6. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers who were dispatched to investigate... June 5, 2024 Study Finds Food Aid to Gaza Exceeds International Standards Results from a scientific study published on June 2 indicate that food shipments to Gaza are enough to feed the enclave’s entire population of approximately 2.4 million. The study,... June 5, 2024 Hezbollah Hits Border Village as Israel Warns of War Hezbollah wounded at least 11 people in an armed drone attack on the Druze Arab village of Hurfeish in northern Israel on June 5, stoking calls in Jerusalem for escalated retaliation... June 5, 2024 U.S. House of Representatives Votes for Sanctions Against International Criminal Court The U.S. House of Representatives voted by a comfortable majority on June 4 to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) following its prosecutor’s decision to... June 5, 2024 IAEA Members Vote to Censure Iran Over Nuclear Violations Member states of the 35-nation Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted to censure Iran’s nonproliferation violations during a quarterly meeting... June 5, 2024 IDF Ground Forces Target Hamas Stronghold in Central Gaza The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began a ground operation in the Bureij area of central Gaza on June 4, confirming in a statement that “Israeli Air Force fighter jets are now attacking... June 4, 2024 Israel Intercepts Houthi Ballistic Missile Targeting Eilat The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it had intercepted a surface-to-surface ballistic missile targeting the southern city of Eilat on June 3. Israel’s long-range Arrow... June 4, 2024 Alleged Israeli Airstrike Kills Iranian Military Advisor in Syria An Israeli airstrike killed a military advisor belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) near Aleppo, Syria, Iranian state media claimed on June 3. The death... June 4, 2024 Egypt’s Sisi Orders Cabinet Reshuffle Amid Spiraling Economic Crisis Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi reappointed Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on June 3 and ordered him to form a new government. Sisi’s announcement came shortly after Madbouly... June 4, 2024 One-Third of Hostages in Gaza Believed Dead More than one-third of the Israeli hostages still in captivity in Gaza are believed to have died, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on June 4. According to an official Israeli... June 4, 2024 Hezbollah Rocket Attacks Spark Massive Fires in Northern Israel Firefighters battled raging blazes across northern Israel on June 3-4, ignited by rocket barrages launched by Hezbollah terrorists across the border in Lebanon. “Some 15 active... June 3, 2024 Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad Vying to Succeed Raisi Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered as a presidential candidate on June 2. Elections to select a successor to the late Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter... June 3, 2024 Shin Bet Foils Hamas Terror Plot Tied to Turkey Israel’s Shin Bet security agency in March thwarted a terrorist plot inside Israel being planned by Hamas operatives in Turkey. In a June 3 statement, the agency confirmed that... June 3, 2024 Palestinian President Denounces Iran’s Supreme Leader for Supporting Gaza War Tehran’s support for Hamas is undermining the Palestinian goal of independence, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), said on June 3, in a rebuke of Iran’s... June 3, 2024 Israeli Amendment Condemning Hamas and Demanding Release of Hostages Passed by World Health Organization Assembly The World Health Assembly, the governing forum of the World Health Organization (WHO), passed an Israeli amendment on May 31 that called for the release of all hostages held in Gaza... June 3, 2024 Acre in Firing Line as Hezbollah Targets Northern Israeli Towns Hezbollah targeted multiple areas along the northern Israeli coast on June 2, setting off sirens and forcing Israeli civilians to seek shelter. Alerts sounded in the cities of Acre... June 1, 2024 Chinese President Addresses Arab Leaders in Beijing Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to deepen cooperation with the Arab world and called for Palestinian statehood in an address to Arab leaders on May 30. “Since last October,... June 1, 2024 Amid Tensions With Israel, Brazil Withdraws Ambassador Brazil recalled its ambassador to Israel, the government announced in its official gazette on May 29. In February, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, also known as Lula, compared Israel’s actions against Hamas to those of the Nazis, claiming that the only historical parallel for the current fighting was “when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.” ... May 31, 2024 Slovenia Latest EU Member State to Push Recognition of Palestinian State Israel lambasted Slovenia on May 31 after the former Yugoslav republic’s government formally requested its parliament to unilaterally recognize an independent Palestinian state.... May 31, 2024 Biden Announces Israeli Ceasefire Proposal to End Gaza War President Joe Biden announced a three-phase Israeli ceasefire proposal on May 31 that would entail Hamas’s release of all hostages in exchange for a permanent end of hostilities... May 31, 2024 Israel Announces Two Soldiers Killed, Concludes Jabaliya Operation Two Israeli soldiers were killed during intense fighting in northern and southern Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported on May 31. Reserve Sgt. First Class Adar Gavriel,... May 31, 2024 Iran Poised to Execute Child Offender and Five Other Prisoners Iran’s judiciary has transferred six men to pre-execution solitary cells in Shiraz Central Prison, suggesting their executions are imminent, the Oslo-based nonprofit Iran Human... May 30, 2024 Israel, Sweden: Iran Using Criminal Gangs for European Terror Iran is using criminal networks as terrorist proxies in Europe, Israel and Sweden warned on May 30. Jerusalem disclosed that an investigation involving the Mossad, the Shin Bet,... May 30, 2024 U.S. Boycotts UN Session Honoring Iran’s Late President The United States boycotted a May 30 plenary session of the UN General Assembly held to commemorate Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19. Speeches... May 30, 2024 Maryland Court Issues Restraining Order Against U.S.-Based Iranian Diplomat A Maryland court issued a temporary restraining order on May 28 against an employee of Iran’s Interests Section in Washington — the Islamic Republic’s de facto consular office... May 30, 2024 Hamas Stole Millions From Gaza Bank, Internal Document Reveals Israel’s Arabic language spokesperson on May 29 revealed an internal Hamas document showing how the terrorist group orchestrated the theft of hundreds of millions of shekels from... May 30, 2024 IDF Finds Terror Tunnel Near Rafah Crossing Anti-tank missiles, grenades, and AK-47 automatic rifles were among the weapons discovered by Israeli troops on May 29 in a terror tunnel located several hundred feet from the Rafah... May 29, 2024 Canada Increases Number of Temporary Visas Allotted to Gazans Canada announced plans on May 27 to increase the number of visas allotted to Gazans from 1,000 to 5,000. The temporary visas are reserved for relatives of Canadians and will be issued... May 29, 2024 Israeli Embassy in Mexico City Attacked by Hamas Supporters as Government Requests to Join ICJ Case Pro-Hamas protestors clashed with police officers outside the Israeli embassy in Mexico City on May 28. The protestors, many of whom were masked, lit fires and sprayed graffiti on... May 29, 2024 War Against Hamas To Continue All Year, Senior Israeli Official Says A senior Israeli official predicted on May 29 that the Gaza war would last at least until the end of this year. “We expect another seven months of combat, in order to deepen... May 29, 2024 Three Israeli Soldiers Killed by Explosion in Booby-Trapped Gaza Building Three Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers were killed on May 28, when a booby trap exploded in a building in Rafah. In a statement the following day, the IDF named the fallen as... May 29, 2024 European Union Foreign Ministers Threaten Israel With Prospect of Sanctions The European Union’s (EU’s) Foreign Affairs Council warned that Israel could face sanctions imposed by the 27-member bloc over its ongoing military operation against Hamas terrorists... May 28, 2024 Malaysian PM Reaffirms Friendship With Hamas Speaking at a conference in Tokyo on May 23, Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim defended his country’s relationship with Hamas. “Did I promote terrorism?” Ibrahim asked,...

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