Israeli troops on the ground in Gaza. Photo: IDF via Reuters i24 News – An Israeli official speaking to i24NEWS on the condition of anonymity on Saturday sought to rebuff reports that a ceasefire and hostage deal could be announced in the coming hours. Even allowing that an agreement on the framework of the deal is in place, there are still many details to thrash out, including the names of the prisoners to be released, which has yet been discussed at this stage, the official told i24NEWS. Certainly no agreement is expected on Saturday, seeing as the head of the Mossad, Dedi Barnea, has not ..read more

Illustrative: Students Supporting Israel and Reservists on Duty protests the SJP National Conference at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities / Source: SSI i24 News – Extremist campus group Students for Justice for Palestine issued a demand for UC Santa Cruz to boycott both Israeli and Jewish community organizations, a move described by Jewish groups and student and blatantly antisemitic. SJP demanded that the university “Cut ties UC wide with all zionist [sic] organizations — including study abroad programs, fellowships, seminars, research collaborations and universities. Cut ties with th ..read more

Palestinian fighters from the armed wing of Hamas take part in a military parade to mark the anniversary of the 2014 war with Israel, near the border in the central Gaza Strip, July 19, 2023. REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa i24 News – Palestinian gunmen belonging to several Gazan groups and gangs robbed the Bank of Palestine of some $70 million, French media reported Saturday. The robbery, carried out in several installments, targeted several branches of the bank on several days, according to Le Monde. The bank’s biggest Gaza branch was attacked by commandos saying they answered to “Gaza’s high ..read more

Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh meets with Qatari envoy Mohammed Al-Emadi in Gaza City, Jan. 24, 2019. Photo: Ahmed Shaat / Courtesy of Hamas Chief Media Office / Handout via Reuters. Qatar could close the political office of Hamas as part of a broader review of its role as a mediator in the war between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group, according to an official familiar with the Qatari government’s reassessment. The Gulf state was weighing whether to allow Hamas to continue operating the political office, and the broader review includes considering whether or not to continue mediating i ..read more

Illustrative: A pro-Hamas demonstration in Ireland led by nationalist party Sinn Fein. Photo: Reuters/Clodagh Kilcoyne Students at Trinity College Dublin and Lausanne University in Switzerland have staged occupations to protest against Israel‘s war in Gaza, joining a wave of demonstrations sweeping US campuses. In Dublin, students built an encampment on Friday that forced the university to restrict campus access on Saturday and close the Book of Kells exhibition, one of Ireland’s top tourist attractions. The camp was set up after the students’ union said it had been fined 214,000 euros ($230 ..read more

Pro-Hamas demonstrators at Columbia University in New York City, US, April 29, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Caitlin Ochs Anti-Israel protesters who occupied an academic building at Columbia University had signs that read “death to America” and “death to Israel,” a New York City Police Department (NYPD) official said on Friday. “Pencils, books, laptops — those are the tools of students and what you expect to find on a college campus,” NYPD Deputy Commissioner of Operations Kaz Daughtry wrote on X/Twitter. “However, when the NYPD entered Hamilton Hall — which encampment protesters took over — to remov ..read more

The personal belongings of festival-goers are seen at the site of an attack on the Nova Festival by Hamas terrorists from Gaza, near Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, Oct. 12, 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun Survivors of the Hamas terror group’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel will be visiting churches across the US this weekend to tell their stories as a way to mark Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day, known as Yom HaShoah. On Sunday, the survivors will travel to churches from New York to California. Eagles’ Wings, a pro-Israel organization, is partnering with ..read more

The sign “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work makes you free”) is pictured at the main gate of the former Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland. Photo: Reuters/Pawel Ulatowski A US-based Jewish educator has brought to life a movie about one of the more unknown but riveting stories from the Holocaust. After years of educating Jewish youth around the world, Rabbi Shmuel Lynn never expected to find himself back in the art of filmmaking, he told the Algemeiner in a recent interview about his new movie, Bardejov. Raised secular in Florida, Lynn was once focused intently on ..read more

US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) holds a press conference in the US Capitol in Washington, DC, April 23, 2024. Photo: Annabelle Gordon / CNP/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is set to join House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) in inviting Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to address a joint session of the US Congress less than two months after Schumer called for the Israeli premier’s ouster from office. “He intends to join the invitation; the timing is being worked out,” a Schumer spokesperson told The Hill. Johnson reportedly s ..read more

US Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) speaks to media during a Senate vote, at the US Capitol, in Washington, DC, May 2, 2024. Photo: Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via Reuters Connect As part of the New York Times‘ regular ongoing series of Sunday opinion section logorrheic attacks on Israel, Nicholas Kristof recently weighed in with a super-long article that added precisely nothing to what everyone already knew about the events in the Middle East and Kristof’s view of them. To fill out an article as long as Kristof’s without any original thought required a lot of reporting, and Kristof was determined to ..read more