How Israel Lost a Battle to Al Jazeera — and How It Must Do Better Next Time
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Gaza Ministry of Health
Israeli military launches extensive operation against West Bank terrorist groups
On Monday, August 27, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Israeli Security Agency (ISA), and Israel Police launched a counterterrorism operation against Palestinian armed factions and their associated...
Op-eds
Terrorist Released in Prisoner Swap Killed During Counterterror Operation
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) eliminated a Hamas terrorist on August 26 who was released in a hostage-for-prisoner deal last November. The IDF said it struck an operations center...
Flash Briefs
U.S. Legislators Bar State Department From Citing Gaza Health Ministry Fatality Statistics
An amendment to the annual State Department appropriations bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on June 27 bars the State Department from citing the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry’s fatality data. Sixty-two Democrats and 207 Republicans voted for the measure, which was spearheaded by representatives Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Joe Wilson (R-SC), Mike Lawler (R-NY), and Carol Miller (R-WV). ...
Flash Briefs
How the UN Got Away With Wildly Inflating the Casualty Numbers in Gaza—and the Media Bought It
On May 6, a U.N. office reported that more than 9,500 women and 14,500 children had been killed so far in Gaza. The office had been reporting similar figures for nearly two months. Yet on May 8, the...
Op-eds
The Gaza Health Ministry Flimflam
Its casualty data are incomplete, unsourced, manipulated, or perhaps invented—and taken as gospel
Op-eds
UN Halves Its Estimate of Women and Children Killed in Gaza
The United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) revised its child fatality figure from the Gaza war sharply downward, reporting more than 14,500 deaths...
Flash Briefs
Gaza Health Ministry Cannot Provide Names for More Than 10,000 It Says Have Died
The Gaza Ministry of Health cannot provide names of more than 10,000 of the 34,000 individuals it says have died during the war between Israel and Hamas. While the Health Ministry conceded earlier this...
Policy Briefs
Washington Should Clip Qatar’s Media Wing
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre recently criticized a new Israeli law that allows the government to temporarily shutter Al Jazeera’s Israel operations. “If it’s true, a move like...
Op-eds
Hamas’ Enablers in the Turkish Government
Links to the terrorist group rise to the top of the ruling party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Op-eds
Hamas-Run Gaza Health Ministry Admits to Flaws in Casualty Data
The Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health said on April 6 that it had “incomplete data” for 11,371 of the 33,091 Palestinian fatalities it claims to have documented. In a statistical...
Flash Briefs
Hamas’s Casualty Numbers Games
Journalists and Joe Biden lend credence to bogus counts from the Gaza Health Ministry.
Op-eds
IDF Targets Hamas Terrorists Using Shifa Hospital as Command Center
Israeli troops arrested about 80 Hamas terrorists who were using the premises of Shifa Hospital as a command center, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on March 18. The IDF announced...
Flash Briefs
U.S. Vetoes UN Resolution Falsely Accusing Israel of Aid Convoy Deaths
The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution on February 29 falsely blaming Israel for Palestinian deaths at a Gaza aid convoy that morning. The resolution,...
Flash Briefs
Israeli Air Force struck 31,000 targets in four months of war
New government numbers show roughly 228 targets struck by airstrikes every day of the conflict, significantly more than any previous IDF effort.
Op-eds
A Palestinian Authority that rewards terrorism has no place in Gaza
The Biden administration wants a “revitalized” Palestinian Authority to take responsibility for postwar Gaza. Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh just announced a plan to launch...
Op-eds
Israel: Find UNRWA Successor Now
Israel urged world powers on February 1 to find alternatives to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) after the Hamas-tainted organization threatened to cease Gaza operations...
Flash Briefs
Sanction the Hamas nongovernmental organization in Turkey
The United States government has intensified its efforts to counter Hamas worldwide. Recently, that has included sanctions on entities based in Turkey. The focus is warranted. The government in Ankara...
Op-eds
Hamas Using Hospital as Cover for Attacks
Israeli forces and Hamas fighters clashed on November 20 near a hospital next to the Gazan city of Jabalia, which has seen fierce fighting in recent days. The Hamas-run Gaza Health...
Flash Briefs
How many aid groups knew Hamas was hiding in a hospital and lied about it?
Hamas used Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital as a base of terror operations. That’s the obvious conclusion following Sunday’s discovery of a large terror tunnel under the hospital along with...