Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called for disarming the terrorist organization Hamas yesterday. He made those remarks in a phone call to his Israeli counterpart, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon. The Defense Department website provided an account of the call, relayed by Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby: Kirby said Hagel...

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Hamas launched a major attack on IDF forces shortly after the American-sponsored 72-hour ceasefire took effect this morning, attacking an Israel position and reportedly kidnapping a soldier. Two additional soldiers were killed. The New York Times reports that as Israeli troops were preparing to destroy a terror tunnel, an activity allowed for...

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Today was the twenty-fourth day of Operation Protective Edge and the thirteenth day of ground operations in Gaza. Breaking: Secretary of State John Kerry announced that Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire to go into effect shortly. A source in the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office confirmed late Thursday that...

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Admittedly we did not discover this in a secret archive in Gaza City or Doha. But the events of recent weeks have laid bare what appears to be a remarkably consistent effort on the part of one of the world’s most brutal terrorist organizations to defeat the Jewish state in...

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A report on CNN’s Situation Room last night, seen in the video embedded below, illustrated the overwhelming support Israelis show for Operation Protective Edge. The support is shown by publicly displayed signs and by food that is prepared by ordinary citizens and delivered to the troops. It is also shown in...

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The building housing Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas’ broadcasting network, was among the targets in Gaza hit by the IDF on Tuesday. Both Al-Aqsa TV and Hamas, the station’s owner and operator, are designated by the U.S. government as terrorist organizations. The Telegraph reported: An Israeli air strike hit a media building housing Hamas’s...

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Tablet magazine yesterday explained how Israel knows that the leaders of the terrorist group Hamas are headquartered the Shifa hospital in Gaza: It was Israel that build the hospital – including the bunker in the basement that Hamas uses as its headquarters. The Israelis are so sure about the location of the...

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Today was the twenty-third day of Operation Protective Edge and the twelfth day of ground operations in Gaza. Three soldiers were killed today when they attempted to secure a booby-trapped building and it was detonated and collapsed on them. The death toll for IDF soldiers now stands at 57. Two...

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The Times of Israel reported today that IDF troops found a booby-trapped tunnel that opened into a clinic run by the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA). Three IDF soldiers were killed on Wednesday in Gaza in an explosion at a booby-trapped UNRWA health clinic that housed the opening of...

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An Italian reporter who fled from Gaza yesterday confirmed an IDF account that it was an errant Hamas rocket rather than an Israeli strike that killed ten Gazans, mostly children, on Monday. After leaving Gaza, Gabriele Barbati tweeted. Out of #Gaza far from #Hamas retaliation: misfired rocket killed children yday...

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