i24 News – Border Police battalions stationed in the West Bank will be transferred to Lod to help local authorities.
At the same time, the IDF pointed out that Hamas and Islamic Jihad have purposefully embedded themselves within the civilian population. “They are using their civilians, the Palestinians, their homes, schools, hospitals, and mosques in Gaza as human shields and are making it virtually impossible for us to strike only those involved in military activity,” said IDF Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus on Tuesday.
“The extent of damage caused in the Gaza Strip by errant Hamas rockets will be difficult to assess for some time,” Jonathan Schanzer, Senior Vice President at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told
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PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. â If her congressional colleagues elevate her to a leadership post in the House GOP conference, Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, says she will forgo a gubernatorial run and instead stay focused on helping her party regain control of the House of Representatives in 2022. I have been encouraged to run for conference many times before and took a pass, she said in a recent interview. This is a unique moment, though, where we need someone who can unite the entire Republican conference, and that s what I m running to do.â
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An eruption of violence in Jerusalem presents President Joe Biden’s young presidency a crisis that may be welcomed by multiple regional power players, analysts and U.S. government observers fear.
“We re in a new place, a place we haven t seen in a number of years, where this level of escalation has occurred,” a Senate Republican aide said amid reports of multiple waves of rocket attacks by Palestinian terrorist groups and retaliatory airstrikes from Israel. It s definitely a big test for the administration.”
The deadly clashes began when Israel evicted a handful of Palestinian families then destroyed their homes; after tensions rose, Israeli security forces acted aggressively inside a revered mosque, prompting violence from the other side. Chaos then ensued, with deaths on both sides and no peace process in sight.
Three weeks after United Nations member-states voted the Iranian regime onto the United Nations’ top gender equality body, attempts to determine which democracies supported its candidacy in the secret ballot continue, but most are citing protocol and declining to say how they voted.
Hamas firing rockets at Jerusalem shows crisis may not end soon
The escalation of violence, including Hamas rocket barrages and Israeli airstrikes, may not end soon, analysts warn
An Israeli sapper checks a damaged apartment in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, after rockets were fired by the Hamas movement from the Gaza Strip towards Israel overnight. AFP
A Palestinian man looks on at the site of an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Reuters
A man inspects the rubbles of a building destroyed by Israeli air strikes in Gaza. AFP
A view shows the site of an Israeli air strike in Gaza City. Reuters