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  • Hostages Were Executed Days Before Being Found, Autopsies Show

    One of the six bodies recovered from a Rafah tunnel bore signs of having been tied up, and all showed evidence of neglect, according to the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute. By: Jewish News Syndicate; jns.org The six hostages whose bodies were recovered by Israeli forces from a Rafah tunnel in southern Gaza overnight Saturday were…

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  • Israeli Forces Rescue Hostage Alive from Southern Gaza

    Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, from the Arab Bedouin Negev city of Rahat, was rescued in a “complex operation.” Israeli forces have rescued a hostage alive from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Security Agency said in a joint statement on Tuesday. Qaid Farhan Alkadi, 52, from the Bedouin city of Rahat…

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  • Columbia President Minouche Shafik Resigns, Citing Toll of Controversy over Pro-Palestinian Protests on Campus

    By: JTA Staff – jta.org Minouche Shafik, the Columbia University president whose campus became an epicenter of unrest this year following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, has resigned weeks before the start of the school year. Shafik’s resignation, tendered Wednesday, means she is stepping down after about a year in the role. Her decision…

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  • In Jish, an Indigenous Christian Minority Defiantly Stays in Hezbollah’s Crosshairs

    Instead of fleeing the Galilee, hundreds of Zionist Arameans are digging in as they brace for a major escalation By: Canaan Lidor – The Times of Israel; timesofisrael.com JISH, northern Israel — In plain view of a Hezbollah stronghold, Shadi Khalloul scanned a fig tree for the best fruit to offer his guests. “Take some…

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  • Israel’s Underground Hospital Prepares for Attack

    By: Jenny Hill, reporting from Haifa, Israel – BBC News; bbc.com Deep under the northern Israeli city of Haifa, there’s a vast underground hospital. Hundreds and hundreds of beds are lined up within its concrete walls. There are operating theatres, a maternity ward, and medical supplies stacked up in corners. But there are no patients…

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  • Influencer went to the West Bank to see if Palestinians support Hamas… He almost didn’t make it out alive

    ‘I’ve never had anything like this happen in my entire career,’ Zach Sage Fox says Comedian and social media influencer Zach Sage Fox traveled to the West Bank to see if Palestinian people truly support the Hamas terror group. He almost didn’t make it out alive.  Fox, who went viral earlier this year when his “Gaza Graduation”…

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