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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According to Reuters, a cache of weapons have been found on the campus of a United Nations Relief Works Agency school for the third time since the beginning of the ground operations of Operation Protective Edge. The first cache of weapons was found two weeks ago amid simultaneous reports that Hamas...
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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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A recent poll by Pew Research finds that Americans fault Hamas for the current violence in the Middle East by a margin of more than 2 to 1. The Washington Free Beacon reported today on the results of that poll: More than twice as many Americans blame Hamas for the...
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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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The Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a group behind the Mavi Marmara incident and has recently been the subject of anti-terror investigations, has announced that it is planning a second flotilla in efforts to undermine Israeli security in the Gaza Strip. Bulent Yildirim, director of the IHH, announced the plans for “Freedom Flotilla II” on Thursday, in only...
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Accompanied by Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon and IDF Chief of Staff Gen. Benny Gantz, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the campaign against Hamas will continue. Haaretz reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that Israel is prepared for a prolonged operation in Gaza, with striking its tunnels as the first...
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The Jerusalem Post is reporting that four people were killed when a mortar shell hit a group of Israelis in the Eshkol region bordering Gaza. At least four people were killed and several others seriously wounded in a mortar attack in the Eshkol Regional Council, next to the Gaza border,...
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The Wall Street Journal reported today (via Google) that the inability of John Kerry to arrange a ceasefire by engaging Qatar and Turkey despite “Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia caution[ing] Mr. Kerry against relying” on the two allies of Hamas, reveals a rift between the United States and many of its...
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