Emergency response teams provide medical, psychological and social support, as well as distribution of relief goods. IsraAID swung into immediate action upon news of the destruction Typhoon Hagupit (locally called Ruby) caused across the Philippines from December 6 to 9, leaving hundreds of thousands of families homeless. The Israeli-based humanitarian...

An 11 year old girl, identified as Ayala Shapira was seriously injured yesterday when a Molotov cocktail hit the car she was riding in with her father. Her father, Avner, suffered only minor injuries. The Times of Israel reports: The girl suffered third degree burns over the majority of her...

Iran’s media blasted participants in a conference at Tehran University for speaking in “one voice with Israel” and “repeating the enemy’s goals.” The conference,which was held at Tehran University, included rare domestic criticism of Iran’s nuclear program. Some speakers criticized the nuclear program, its costs to Iranians and the lack of public debate about the...

Israel is looking to upgrade its naval capabilities – both its surface and underwater forces – the website DefenseNews reported Tuesday. The Israel Navy is finalizing plans to integrate a fifth Dolphin-class submarine and a new fleet of unmanned surface vessels (USVs) into its operational force structure in the first...

Hezbollah insists that its ally, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, will remain in power. In a message delivered to Russia, the Shiite terror organization made clear that it does not agree that anyone, even from the Alawite sect, should replace the current President as part of any possible solution to the Syrian conflict....

As Fatah and Hamas fight over control of the rebuilding in Gaza, Israel is showing “flexibility” in allowing in raw materials to enter the Strip, Neri Zilber, a visiting scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, reported in an article published Sunday in Politico. The Gazan population is growing...

Nepalese migrant workers charged with building venues for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar died at a rate of one every two days this year, according to a report in The Guardian: Human rights organisations have accused Qatar of dragging its feet on the modest [workplace safety] reforms [it has promised], saying not...

The new Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is considering a “tectonic” adjustment in its foreign policy by no longer voting for the Palestinians in the United Nations, The Hindu, a leading Indian newspaper, reported Monday. In what could amount to a tectonic shift in the country’s foreign policy, the Modi...

In an interview in The New York Times published today, former Israeli chief negotiator Tzipi Livni detailed how Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas undermined the American-sponsored peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Livni’s account, given to the Times‘s Roger Cohen, identified three specific episodes that led to the collapse of the talks. On March 17, in...

A sniper from Gaza targeted an IDF patrol near the border with Israel today, seriously injuring an Israeli soldier. The New York Times reports: After a routine patrol on the Israeli side of the border came under fire, the Israeli military responded with air and ground forces, in what appeared to be the...