40 percent of children in Sderot, a city less than a mile from the Gaza Strip that frequently comes under fire from rockets, experience symptoms of anxiety, fear, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a study reported in The Jerusalem Post Tuesday. “Even during wartime, the level of PTSD among children...
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Tomorrow, Amnesty International plans to officially release a graphical tool that has no purpose except to bash Israel. From the leaked press release: An investigative online tool mapping Israeli attacks in Gaza during the conflict of July and August 2014 has been unveiled by Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture today....
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Leaders of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah met last week in Beirut with officials from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to a report by Avi Issacharoff in The Times of Israel. Senior members of the Palestinian terror group Hamas and the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah met with officials...
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A United Nations Human Rights Council hearing on last year’s war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas was highlighted by testimony on Monday from three military experts who said that the Council’s recently commissioned report on the war would encourage further terrorism. The three experts were Col. Richard Kemp, former...
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An Israeli general has accused Hamas of aiding the Sinai affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Ha’aretz reported today. Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai made his remarks in an interview with the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera. Israel has “clear information that Hamas is supporting the Wilayat Sinai, which belongs to Daesh,” Maj....
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The Shin Bet, Israel’s security intelligence service, announced today that it had broken up a Hamas-linked terror cell in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported. The group was reportedly in the planning stages of a major terror attack. Though the arrests have been made over the past few months,...
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The Israeli navy intercepted and boarded the last remaining vessel of a flotilla headed towards Gaza without incident, NBC News reported today. The boat — the Marianne av Göteborg, one of four in a convoy called Freedom Flotilla III carrying pro-Palestinian activists — was boarded and redirected to the port of...
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Col. Richard Kemp, the former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, called the recently released United Nations Human Rights Council report on last year’s Operation Protective Edge “dangerous” in an op-ed published today in The New York Times. One area of Kemp’s critique focused on the commission members’ ignorance of...
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The report by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on the 2014 Gaza conflict, released earlier this week, is substantiated in large part by the allegations of political advocacy NGOs (non-governmental organizations). One such group, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHR-I), was cited 16 times. PHR-I is an Israeli organization that has a...
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A report released by a controversial commission of inquiry appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) equated Hamas’ terror attacks against civilians with Israel’s self defense against Gaza-launched rockets, The Jerusalem Post reported today. Both Israelis and Palestinians may have committed war crimes during the 2014 Gaza war,...
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