Hassner also thinks Hamas may have hoped to provoke Israel into a bloody retaliation.The Palestinian militant group's "hope is that the Israelis will respond disproportionately, and will then be castigated by the rest of the world," he told CBS San Francisco, adding that from Israel's perspec...
Hamas has dropped its demand for an upfront pledge that Israel ends the war, a move that prompted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to send a team led by Mossad Director David Barnea to participate in further negotiations IN DOHA for a deal, The Jerusalem Post has learned. Netanyahu spoke wi...
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In that vein, the Hamas spokesman accused Israel of perpetrating the murder noting Arrigoni had been a vocal opponent of Israel's policies in Gaza, and frequently blogged about 'Israeli crimes against Palestinians' equating Israeli policies to 'Nazi' crimes. Arrigoni had also been arrested twice ...
Deputy national security adviser Jon Finer reiterated Monday that the United States believes Iran is “broadly complicit” in Hamas attacks in Israel, but said the US does not have “direct information” linking these attacks to Iran at this time. ...
Sir Keir Starmer said the UK would not mourn Sinwar's death. The prime minister said: “As the leader of the terrorist group Hamas, Yahya Sinwar was the mastermind behind the deadliest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust, as 1,200 people were slaughtered in Israel. ...
We found that the in-question footage was captured in 2013, and therefore does not show the aftermath of Hamas' attack on Israel in October 2023. It showed a protest organized by the students of the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt. Therefore, we rated this claim as Miscaptioned. ...
Starbucks spokesperson Jaci Anderson told Snopes by email that the mug was launched in May of 2023 as part of the company's summer collection in the U.K. and that it had no tie to the Israel-Hamas war, which began months later in October following Hamas' attack in Israel. ...
The ongoing Israel-Hamas war topped news trends in 2023, per Google's global data, followed by queries related to theTitanic-bound submersiblethat imploded in June, as well as February's devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Damar Hamlin was Google's top trending person onsearchthis yea...
I have no difficulty realizing that it has been a full year since I have written on this blog! Right after the last blog post, most of the nation went into various levels of restriction due to coronavirus and the high numbers of people with covid-19 symptoms clogging hospitals. One of ...