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Israel kills a top Hamas military official Mourners carry the body of Bassem Issa, front, top Hamas’ commander in Gaza City and other bodies, during a funeral of thirteen Hamas militants outside the mosque in Gaza City, Thursday, May 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) OAN Newsroom UPDATED 9:01 AM PT – Friday, May 14, 2021 A member of Hamas’ military council, Bassem Issa, was eliminated by Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in an airstrike. The operation was carried out on Wednesday with both Hamas and IDF confirming the death shortly after. This is the first time Hamas has openly confirmed the de...

Just when it seems that The New York Times might finally set aside, at least for the moment, its unrelenting... Additionally, the Gaza Health Ministry and the “human rights” NGOs in Gaza (Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — PCHR, and Al Mezan) downplay any mention of terrorist casualties, and often call terrorists “civilians” when they report the circumstances of those who have died. (Amnesty International’s obscenely dishonest “Gaza Platform” with statistics from the 2014 war relied on PCHR’s initial reports, and as a result, lists more “civilians” dead than even the ...

Hamas has also managed to insert itself into the ongoing domestic strife in Israel, in which Arab and Jewish mobs have taken to the streets in recent days, wantonly and viciously attacking members of the other ethnic group. Hamas’s rocket launches at Jerusalem on Monday evening were widely seen as an intelligence failure by the Israel Defense Forces, as Israeli military officials for weeks prior to the attack had maintained that Hamas was not interested in a war. IDF Military Intelligence rejects this allegation, saying that it had warned the political echelon of the threat of an attack by ...

Article content LOD, Israel — Israel’s prime minister declared a state of emergency Wednesday in response to riots spreading across the country that led to schools, synagogues and cars being set ablaze in Jewish neighbourhoods, as the president blamed the chaos on a “bloodthirsty Arab mob.” A curfew was imposed in the central city of Lod, and the wave of violence spread to cities including Haifa, Acre and Ramla, as Hamas fired hundreds of rockets and Israel continued to bomb the crowded coastal enclave of Gaza. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your brows...

But analysts say the White House has little in the way of a coherent strategy to cool the soaring tensions in Gaza, and appears to have been caught off guard by the current Israeli-Palestinian escalation, which is now reverberating dangerously through the wider Middle East. The crisis is showing signs of spreading, as Israeli officials blame their Arab counterparts across the region for not doing enough to help quell increasingly ugly anti-Israel protests in mixed communities across the country, including in Jerusalem. Foreign policy analysts say that in a worst-case scenario, the violence co...