Max Blumenthal
Mass shootings and terror attacks at concerts are not new: The terrorists who assaulted Paris’ Bataclan in 2015 killed 130 people, including 90 inside the theater, and the mass murderer who opened fire on a country-music festival in Las Vegas in 2017 ultimately killed 60. But Supernova,...
An outdoor party - a festival, a rave, call it what you like - but just a few hundred metres from where I was standing, the Israeli defence forces are still trying to identify and remove the bodies of over 250 young men and women killed in a bloodthi...
How many of the dead are civilians? Of the 32,916 Palestinians reportedly killed in the war so far, it's not clear how many are civilians. In February, a Hamas source told Reuters that 6,000 of the group's fighters had been killed. The Israeli military put the fig...
Had all these measures been taken, the entire event would have turned into a monumental failure for Hamas.Footnote8 How can this be? How could Israel’s top security echelons so callously betray the country’s border communities and the soldiers tasked with their protection, many of whom were...
People light candles in memory of the civilians and soldiers killed during the Hamas conflict on October 12, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Amir Levy/Getty Images Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options The co-creator of the ...
As of this writing, 101 hostages remain in Hamas captivity, including four who were captured before the attack; it is unknown how many are still alive. To date (several days ahead of this issue’s publication), 734 IDF soldiers have been killed and thousands wounded. The end is nowhere in...
But this year many families are torn about how — or if — to celebrate. When Hamas attacked Kibbutz Be’eri, Gat and his wife, 3-year-old daughter, parents and sister hid for hours in their rocket-proof safe room. But fighters entered the house and kil...
immediately recognized that this was an invasion – not the usual rocket barrage residents had, outrageously, learned to endure regularly. She organized 12 neighbors and coordinated operations, killing five terrorists herself, as her fellow residents killed at least another 20. Their kibbutz was barel...
Israeli soldiers look at chairs for hostages held in Gaza at a Passover Seder table on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at the communal dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel, where a quarter of all residents were killed or captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. For many Jews, no ma...