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Three Israeli troops were killed and another fifteen where wounded on Wednesday by explosions inside a booby-trapped health clinic operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), an incident that seems set to fuel a growing debate over the degree to which the UN organization has been complicit...

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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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Europe

As in many European countries, the United Kingdom has seen many pro- and anti-Israeli protests over the course of Operation Protective Edge. While the rallies supporting Israel are about peace for people on both sides, the pro-Palestinian demonstrations are filled with vitriol and in some cases violence. All of this has...

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Terrorism

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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Israel

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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Macrocure, a late-stage Israeli biotech developing white blood cell injections to treat hard-to-heal and chronic wounds, has announced terms for its $75 million IPO. The Petach Tikva company is offering 5.4 million shares, according to Renaissance Capital Investments. Macrocure’s main product is CureXcell, a cell based therapy that when applied...

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Europe

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy wrote today in The Wall Street Journal about The Ugly Tide Washing Across Europe. (via Google) Lévy describes the selective outrage expressed by anti-Israel protesters across Europe. Will they say that it is Israel’s disproportion in force that is shocking, the imbalance between an all-powerful army and defenseless...

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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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