“Oct 7 2023”

New footage showing the kidnapping of three Israeli men on October 7 has been made public by their families in a desperate bid to pressure world leaders into agreeing a deal to secure the release of the hostages still being held in Gaza.

Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Or Levy and Eliya Cohen were among three of the hundreds of party-goers attending the Nova music festival when the Hamas terror group stormed across the border and attacked southern Israel last year.

The trio were captured from what later became known as the ‘death shelter’ – a bomb shelter in which several festival-goers hid as the attack unfolded.

⚠️ Graphic and disturbing

New footage sheds light on the brutal Oct 7 kidnapping of three men to Gaza: Eliya Cohen (26), Hersh Goldberg-Polin (23), and Or Levy (33).

They sought refuge in what became known as the "Death Shelter," a bus shelter that terrorists fired inside of… pic.twitter.com/iVvAMD6tmK

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As far as the White House and Democrats are concerned, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing it again. Similar to multiple occasions during the presidency of Barack Obama, Netanyahu is not playing by the rules Washington and the foreign-policy establishment believe are laid down to govern the behavior of client states.

The intense part of the military operation in Rafah is almost over, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday night, explaining that the next goal is to bring an end to Hezbollah’s attacks along the country’s northern border.

“The intense phase of the war is about to end in Rafah,” after which the IDF will “continue mowing the grass all the time. We will not give up. We hit them hard,” Netanyahu said in a wide-ranging interview with Channel 14.

“In almost every abandoned house, an Arabic copy of Mein Kampf,” wrote Jake Wallis Simons in a Telegraph op-ed, arguing that the accusations of genocide against Israel in Gaza were unfounded and driven by misinformation. He stated, “Every aspect has been either disproven or cast into irretrievable doubt.”

Simons, the editor-in-chief of The Jewish Chronicle, highlighted that the Al-Ahli hospital bombing was not by Israel but by Islamic Jihad, and the casualty figures were exaggerated. “The combatant-to-civilian casualty ratio now likely stands at about 1:1, a historically low figure,” he noted. He also pointed out that the UN had downgraded the number of women and children casualties.

If I was asked to pick a theme that defines my education from elementary school to high school it would be anti-bullying.

In school assembly after school assembly, in class after class, teachers and motivational speakers told my peers and me repeatedly: don’t be bystanders to bullying. If you see something say something. And above all, try your best to spread “small acts of kindness” wherever you go.

The sad thing is, it’s become clear that this lesson did not sink in, especially when it comes to antisemitism.

Full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah would be “a catastrophe”, the UN Secretary-General says. But to David Kamari, who lives under near-daily fire on the Israeli side of the border, it would be a solution.

Last month, a Hezbollah rocket fired from Lebanon landed in his front garden in the border town of Kiryat Shmona, cracking his house in several places and filling it with rubble.

He points out the gaping holes where shrapnel sliced through the walls, missing him by inches. And then to the hills above us, where Hezbollah-controlled territory begins.

Netanyahu doubles down on decline in US arms shipments despite White House comments

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended his very public dispute with the White House over a slowdown in a the shipment of arms to Israel, noting that that there had a sharp decline.

“Four months ago, there was a dramatic decrease in the munitions coming to Israel from the US,” Netanyahu said during the weekly government meeting.