In a phone call Friday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a phone call that was interrupted by Israeli air warning sirens, President Barack Obama reiterated his support for Israel to defend itself. “While I was having the conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu, sirens went off in Tel Aviv,” said Obama....

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Israeli news website i24 reported today that the IDF has made progress in its first day on the ground in Gaza. As the first day of Israel’s ground incursion into Gaza draws to a close, the IDF says it has uncovered a total of 21 tunnels in Gaza which are...

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The Israeli government issued a statement late Thursday revealing that the country’s military had sent ground troops into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip as part of Operation Protective Edge, hours after Israeli forces thwarted an early morning terror attempt in which Hamas commandos – emerging from an attack tunnel emptying roughly...

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The tenth day of Operation Protective Edge is over. The big news of course is that the IDF began a ground offensive this evening. The Tower covered the beginning of the fighting, the events that led up to it and provided a number of analyses explaining the causes of the...

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In response to the continued rocket and terror threat posed by Hamas, the IDF began a ground invasion of Gaza this evening. BREAKING NEWS: A large IDF force has just launched a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. A new phase of Operation Protective Edge has begun. — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson)...

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) released a statement today condemning the storage of rockets in one of its schools in Gaza. Yesterday, in the course of the regular inspection of its premises, UNRWA discovered approximately 20 rockets hidden in a vacant school in the Gaza Strip. UNRWA...

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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton laid the blame for Palestinian civilian casualties squarely on the heads of Hamas leaders, saying their policy was designed to kill Palestinians. Interviewed on India’s NDTV, Clinton was blunt in his assessment: Hamas was perfectly well aware of what would happen if they started raining...

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Tony Blair says Israel’s acceptance of the Egyptian proposed ceasefire in Gaza was only part of a larger plan to stop the shooting and produce a long-term solution to stabilize the Gaza Strip. Those efforts were torpedoed by the Iran-backed Hamas, which rejected the ceasefire instead of entering into negotiations...

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A group of international notables issued a statement Tuesday condemning Hamas’s terror war against Israel and supporting Israel’s right to defend itself, and demanding that “policy makers, international institutions, the UN, and the European Union” do the same. The statement came from the Friends of Israel Initiative, founded and headed...

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The Jerusalem Post reports today that Secretary of State John Kerry, who is in Vienna for a final push to reach a permanent nuclear deal with Iran, will ask Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to have his country stop sending rockets to Hamas. An administration source was quoted: “Iran...

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