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It was only a matter of time before the new unity government between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, a designated terrorist organization, proved to be a deadly agreement for both Palestinians and Israelis. I saw the writing on the wall as soon as the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) chose to …

Christian religious leaders in northern Iraq called for an international investigation Monday into a deadly wedding fire that killed more than 100 people last week and slammed the government’s probe, which had blamed the blaze on negligence and lack of precautionary measures. An Iraqi Syriac Catholic priest, meanwhile, said widespread …

FIRST ON FOX: Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday proposed a six-prong plan for how the U.S. should strategize amid Israel’s war with Hamas while calling out former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and others who have not offered “a pragmatic path forward.” “The Hamas-led attacks on Israel were …

At least five Americans were among the group of civilians who fled Gaza for Egypt on Wednesday, U.S. officials say. All five U.S. citizens – who are the only known Americans to leave Gaza today – were aid workers. The U.S. State Department says that it will give instructions to …

Israel’s military has shared a video purportedly showing a fiery attack on a Hezbollah “terrorist target.” The Israeli Air Force wrote on X that the attack happened overnight, with footage depicting a fireball emerging following an airstrike. Hezbollah, which is based in Lebanon, has been engaging in border skirmishes with …

Israel’s first war with neighboring Arab countries began on the same day the Jewish state was re-established on May 14, 1948. While Jewish sovereignty ended 2,000 years earlier, in the year 70 A.D. at the hands of the Roman conquest, there has been a continuous Jewish presence in the land …

One of the recently released Hamas hostages had previously escaped imprisonment and survived for days in the rubble of Gaza before locals recaptured him, according to a report. “He tried getting to the border. But he didn’t have the capacity to understand where he was or where he needed to …

The U.S. House of Representatives summoned the presidents of Harvard, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania to a hearing this week to address the alarming rise of overt antisemitism on their campuses following the Hamas attacks on Israel two months ago. Their responses made it all too clear why one …

President Biden’s State Department said Saturday it approved the sale of $106.5 million worth of tank ammunition to Israel amid the war against Hamas in a deal that bypasses Congress. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has approved a possible foreign military sale to the government of Israel of 120mm M830A1 …

A top Hamas official has called for violence against the allies of Israel, specifically attacking American and British “interests” as a price for the deaths of Gaza citizens. “When (Secretary of State Antony) Blinken is justifying the killing of women and children, the sons of our nation should say to …