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Israel Update 18.4.24

Chag Pesach Sameach to all celebrating Passover this coming week.   IRANIAN ATTACK ON ISRAEL  On Saturday evening, Iran initiated an unprecedented attack against Israel, launching over 300 aerial threats of various types. Including approximately 170 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more than 30 cruise missiles, and 120 ballistic missiles. Israel reported a 99% success rate in […]

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Israel Update 11.4.24

HOSTAGES Hamas has told international mediators that it does not have 40 living Israeli hostages needed for the first phase of a ceasefire deal, ( involving women excluding Israeli soldiers, children and the elderly)  according to an Israeli official, raising fears that more hostages may be dead than are publicly known.Report here     ISRAEL’S […]

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Israel Update 4.4.24

IRAN   Gen. Mohamad Reza Zahedi the boss of Hizbullah, the Iranian proxy that has fired 3,500 rockets, unprovoked, on Israel’s north since Oct. 7, was among at least three senior commanders and four officers in the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, overseeing Iran’s covert operations in the Middle East, who were […]

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Israel Update 28.3.24

HOSTAGES Hamas rejected a U.S. compromise deal for a Gaza truce and the release of Israeli hostages on Monday.Report here   Amit Soussana, 40, an Israeli lawyer, was abducted from her home in Kibbutz Kfar Azza on Oct. 7, beaten and dragged into Gaza by at least 10 men, some armed. She was held alone […]

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ISRAEL UPDATE 21.3.24

PURIM SAMEACH TO MY READERS POST-SCRIPT TO LAST WEEK’S TERROR ATTACK     A member of Israel’s security forces, Senior Warrant Officer Uri Moyal, 51, who was stabbed and critically wounded in a terror attack north of Beersheba, succumbed to his wounds last Thursday night. He had managed to shoot the Gazan assailant who was […]

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Israel Update 14.3.24

HAMAS CASUALTY FIGURES CHALLENGED   Professor Wyner of the dept of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School analysed data and concluded that Hamas is disseminating fictitious casualty figures in the Gaza war. He wrote:“The numbers are not real…The casualties are not overwhelmingly women and children, and the majority may be […]

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ISRAEL UPDATE 7.3.242

HOSTAGES NOW HELD FOR 153 DAYS     Israel has demanded to know how many of the roughly 130 hostages that remain in Gaza are still alive as a condition of returning to the negotiating table. Hamas is refusing to hand over the names of living hostages, stalling ceasefire talks. The latest reports from the […]

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Israel Update 29.2.24

GAZA CROWD CRUSH   At 4 a.m. today Thursday, 30 trucks carrying humanitarian aid arrived at the coast of Gaza City. Thousands of Palestinians rushed the trucks after they passed an IDF checkpoint, leading to a stampede in which dozens of Palestinians were wounded and killed, some after being run over by the trucks. Some […]

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Israel Update 21.2.24

TERROR ATTACK Two Israelis were murdered on Friday and four others were injured, two seriously, in a terror shooting attack on a bus stop near Gedera. A passing civilian shot and killed the terrorist. Report hereand here   ISRAEL’S WAR AGAINST HAMAS     The IDF has been operating in Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, […]

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Israel Update 15.2.24

RESCUE OF  TWO HOSTAGES     In the early hours of Monday morning, Israeli security forces successfully rescued Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Har, 70, who were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on Oct. 7, from the second floor of a building in Rafah, Gaza. Report here       The family members of the […]

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