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Today was the twenty-second day of Operation Protective Edge and the eleventh day of ground operations in Gaza. #Hamas released footage of an attack yesterday from one of its tunnels. This is the terror #Israel is battling. http://t.co/Iz3YsLCisn — UK Media Watch (@UKMediaWatch) July 29, 2014 An infiltration yesterday in southern...

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Some of the soldiers wounded in Operation Protective Edge are benefiting from a brand-new Israeli technology to close open wounds quickly and temporarily prior to further evaluation and treatment. Just on the cusp of the market, the TopClosure 3S Trauma Management System is approved by regulatory agencies in Israel, the...

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Veteran Arab affairs journalist Avi Issacharoff late Monday assessed that the ongoing Israeli-Hamas hot conflict seemed set to escalate following the misfire of a rocket from Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ): The incident, apparently born of a misfire of an Islamic Jihad rocket, prompted Hamas to embark on a series of...

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Addressing Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s outlandish charge that Israel’s efforts to defend itself against Hamas rockets and tunnels “surpassed even Hitler,” an op-ed by Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen today concluded that much criticism of Israel in effect “blame[s] the victim.” After pointing out the extraordinary efforts Israel...

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Over the course of Operation Protective Edge, the Israel Defense Forces have uncovered dozens of tunnels dug towards Israeli kibbutzim along the Gaza border. Hamas said that the purpose of these tunnels is to abduct Israelis. There have already been several attempts by Hamas terrorists to infiltrate the kibbutzim –...

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Today was the twenty-first day of Operation Protective Edge and the tenth day of ground operations in Gaza. Staff Sgt. Moshe Davino, 20, from Jerusalem, was killed today in combat in the southern Gaza Strip. May his memory be blessed. — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) July 28, 2014 A soldier identified as...

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