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Israel pushed back on what it called “misinformation” about fighting near hospitals in Gaza such as Shifa Hospital, where Hamas has established its headquarters, saying that it was not targeting hospitals and was helping patients and personnel to evacuate.

Israelis rallied nationwide on Saturday evening for the freedom of the 239 hostages still believed to be held by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza, urging the government and the international community not to forget them as the war continues.

Iran’s hard-line president, Ibrahim Raisi, told a gathering of Muslim and Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia on Saturday that the only solution in the Middle East was the destruction of Israel and its replacement by a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet / Shabak) announced Saturday that Ahmed Siam, a Hamas terrorist who held 1000 Palestinians hostage at a local hospital, had been killed by the IDF in an airstrike in Gaza.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators smashed a door at New York City’s Grand Central Station on Friday night and briefly forced the closure of the transportation hub as they marched through the streets of Manhattan for the second night in a row.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked French President Emmanuel Macron early Saturday morning after Macron called on Israel to stop killing Palestinian “babies and women,” declaring that Hamas was to blame for all civilian casualties.

Israel is preparing for the possibility that the Hamas terror organization in Gaza and the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon may attack using rockets filled with various liquid fentanyl variants, designed to incapacitate and kill large numbers of people.

The one question that unravels them, every time, is: “What kind of Palestinian state do you want?” They don’t know.

Newly-confirmed Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. is pressuring Israel to give up on the idea of eliminating the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, claiming a prolonged war risks turning more of the Palestinian population into terrorists.

The Israeli military is currently trying to find and destroy every Hamas tunnel it can in Gaza — including one found underneath a child’s bed.

The Washington Post has taken down a cartoon by conservative artist Michael P. Ramirez that mocked Hamas, after criticisms by readers and a revolt by staff members.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a terror group controlled by Iran in Gaza, released propaganda videos Thursday that featured two Israeli hostages and offered their release in return for fuel and other supplies.

Israel successfully used its “Arrow 3” anti-missile missile on Thursday to intercept a surface-to-surface missile fired by Iran-backed Houthi terrorists from Yemen toward the Red Sea port city of Eilat.

American Jews and supporters of Israel will descend on the National Mall on Tuesday, November 14, for a massive “March for Israel” to show solidarity with the Jewish state in its war against terror, and to stand up against rising antisemitism at home.

Israel reportedly “agreed” to unilateral, daily four-hour pauses in the fight against Hamas in Gaza for “humanitarian” reasons, though it was already pausing on its own and providing an evacuation corridor for Palestinian civilians from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily.

The New York Times issued a statement Thursday denying that photographer Yousef Masoud had accompanied Hamas terrorists to the October 7 terror attack on Israel, among other photographers identified by the pro-Israel watchdog Honest Reporting.

Harvard University President Claudine Gay admitted that the pro-Palestinian slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is antisemitic, since it implies the destruction of Israel and the genocide of the seven million Jews living there.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) arrested two 18-year-old men — one using the name “Charlotte” and he/him pronouns — on Wendesday for allegedly tearing down posters of Israelis taken hostage by Hamas during the October 7 terror attack.

An eyewitness to the October 7 terror attack has told Israeli police that Palestinian Hamas terrorists gang-raped a woman, then shot her in the back of the head and mutilated her body.

The advance of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in northern Gaza has continued this week, with Israeli soldiers winning intense gunfights with Hamas terrorists and discovering caches of weapons and explosives — including one next to a children’s room.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration is demanding answers from several prominent news agencies after criticism emerged of their photographers appearing to have been embedded with Hamas terrorists during the October 7 attack.

A brawl broke out Wednesday evening outside the Museum of Tolerance where anti-Israel demonstrators gathered to oppose Gal Gadot’s screening of a film of atrocities committed by the Palestinian terror group Hamas in its October attack.

DeSantis exaggerated the effect of the flights: there were no additional hostages taken after the initial Hamas attack on October 7.

Gov. Chris Christie was mostly right: TikTok allows China to manipulate American culture and political debate — and it is restricted in China itself.

Israel has released information about the use — or abuse — of ambulances by the Palestinian terror group Hamas, citing intelligence gained from interrogations of terrorists who were arrested after the initial October 7 attack on Israel.

The Associated Press told Breitbart News on Wednesday that it had no foreknowledge of the October 7 terror attack by the Palestinian terror group Hamas, despite evidence that its photographers seemed to capture terrorists in action in real time.

Israel is collecting evidence on Hamas’s use of rape as a weapon of war in its terror attack on Israel on October 7, as it documents the atrocities and prepares to put arrested Palestinian terrorists on trial.

Hamas has accused the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) of helping Palestinian civilians evacuate northern Gaza — which the Palestinian terror organization does not want them to do, because civilian casualties hurt the Israeli war effort.

“Jewish Voice for Peace,” a pro-terror organization that exploits Jewish identity to cover for violent Palestinian extremists, has come out against Gal Gadot’s effort to show a film of Hamas atrocities on Octover 7 to a group of select Hollywood insiders.

The media frequently cite two groups — Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow — as if they are “Jewish” organizations, when in reality both support terrorism.

A new poll set to be released Wednesday by Rasmussen Reports shows that over two-thirds of likely U.S. voters oppose a ceasefire against the Palestinian terror group Hamas in Gaza.

Locals in New York City have rallied to save Caffè Aronne after its owner put up an Israeli flag in the wake of the Hamas terror attack on Israel on October 7, and pro-Palestinian employees walked off the job.

Hamas leaders told the New York Times on Wednesday that they had no interest in governing Gaza and instead wanted to create a “permanent” state of war against Israel that, in their minds, would mobilize Arab support and keep the Palestinian cause alive.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined Tuesday to condemn the tearing down of posters featuring hostages taken by Hamas terrorists to Gaza — a phenomenon that has appeared on college campuses and in cities across the nation.

Another major insurance company — Farmer’s — will stop providing many insurance policies in California, joining an exodus of insurers from the state.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has hit an all-time low approval rating of 44%, according to a new poll by the UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies and the Los Angeles Times.