DAMASCUS, Syria — Rockets were fired at a home in Syria’s capital on Friday night, wounding several people and causing damage, state media reported.
It wasn’t immediately clear who was behind the rocket attack in Damascus’s western…
Category: 1. Israel
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At a Secret Harvard Site, a Massive Archive of Israeliana Is Preserved – in Case Israel Ceases to Exist
“This day is devoted to Harvard. We came out of the metro directly to the square and there was no time to look around. We hurried to the library. We were received by Elizabeth, who showed us the catalog. It’s in a computer! We were surprised to…
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UN Security Council calls for end to Houthi attacks, renews sanctions
The UN Security Council on Friday called for an end to cross-border and maritime attacks by Yemen’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels and urged member states to beef up efforts to implement an arms embargo against them.
In a resolution renewing sanctions…
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Tents flooded in Gaza as Israel keeps blocking shelter materials
Heavy rainfall on Saturday inundated dozens of tents housing displaced Palestinians in Khan Younis, as civil defense teams worked to respond to widespread flooding in the Al-Mawasi area.
The Gaza Civil Defense said in a…
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UN agency urges entry of shelter materials into Gaza amid winter rains
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency has issued an urgent appeal for shelter materials to enter the Gaza Strip as severe winter weather compounds the humanitarian crisis for displaced Palestinians. UNRWA emphasized Saturday that winter…
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Christian media pledge ‘truthful reporting’ in new covenant on Israel
Some 100 members of Christian media from around the world have signed a “covenant” on journalistic ethics as they relate to the State of Israel.
The covenant, presented last Thursday at the Christian Media Summit in Jerusalem—an event…
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Israel built wall crossing Lebanon border, violating Lebanese sovereignty, UN peacekeeping force says
UNIFIL said a concrete wall erected by the IDF has crossed the Blue Line, rendering almost an acre of Lebanese territory inaccessible to the local population. The IDF said it has been reinforcing Israel’s northern border barrier, ‘as part of…
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Paris display shows Gaza’s imperiled heritage via artifacts exiled after 2007 Hamas coup
PARIS — As a fragile US-brokered ceasefire to the two-year Israel-Hamas war appears to hold, local archaeologists fear that the conflict that reduced much of the Gaza Strip to rubble has caused extensive, irretrievable losses to the…
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Is dining hall matzah ‘DEI’? The answer isn’t clear to ex-University of Virginia president
JTA — Months after being forced out as president of the University of Virginia, Jim Ryan is still pondering Passover food.
More specifically, Ryan, who was pushed out of the role over the summer amid mounting Republican party pressure on…
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Transition to phase two of Trump’s Gaza plan frozen due to disputes
Saudi television channel “Al-Hadath” reported from Israeli sources that “the transition to the second phase of Trump’s plan for the Gaza Strip is frozen due to disputes surrounding the multinational force and Hamas disarmament.” The sources also…
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