May 8, 2024

Biden Admin. withholding munitions to Israel over Rafah, “played” Israel with Hamas hostages “deal”

Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 7, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. by Joshua Marks (JNS) — The Biden administration on May 7 confirmed reports that it had held up […]
May 8, 2024

Report: U.S. failed to inform Israel before announcing truce with agreement Hamas altered

Palestinians celebrate in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, after Hamas announced its approval of a ceasefire on May 6, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. (JNS) — The Biden administration did not inform Jerusalem in advance of Hamas’s “acceptance” […]
May 6, 2024

U. Penn encampment continues as Philadelphia police refuse requests to clear it

The University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. Credit: SINITAR/Shutterstock. by David Isaac (JNS) — As tensions escalate at a Gaza Solidarity Encampment at the University of Pennsylvania, administrators are taking a dialogue and de-escalation approach, possibly because they have no […]
May 5, 2024

Hamas fires at border aid crossing from civilian areas of Rafah, kills three IDF soldiers

Israeli security and rescue forces at the scene of a mortar shell attack near the Kerem Shalom Crossing in southern Israel, May 5, 2024. Photo by Flash90. (JNS) — Three Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and at least three […]
May 5, 2024

Report states U.S. withheld shipment of ammo to Israel

U.S. President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18, 2023. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90. (JNS) — The Biden administration has halted a shipment of U.S.-made ammunition to Israel, Axios reported on May 5, citing two officials in Jerusalem. According to […]
May 5, 2024

Hamas can’t provide names for 10,000 reported dead; cuts women, children percentage claim

Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip, Feb. 8, 2024. Credit: IDF. (JNS) — The Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health can’t provide names of more than 10,000 of the 34,000 it says have died during the war with Israel, the […]
May 3, 2024

Twenty years of groundwork: Who is funding the campus Gaza protests?

A pro-Hamas protest encampment on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, April 22, 2024. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock. by Shimon Sherman (JNS) — Over the past few weeks, dramatic scenes of mob action have unfolded across dozens of […]
April 26, 2024

Former top Hague judge: Media wrong to report court ruled ‘plausible’ claim of Israeli genocide

Joan Donoghue, judge and president of the International Court of Justice, briefs reporters at U.N. Headquarters on Oct. 28, 2022. Credit: Loey Felipe/U.N. Photo. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Media reports that the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel […]
April 21, 2024

House passes Israel supplemental aid bill, poised for Senate approval

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s 2023 Annual Leadership Summit in Las Vegas. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — American Jewish and pro-Israel groups lauded the April 20 passage […]
April 18, 2024

Contrary to most media reports, Gaza stores full, markets overwhelmed

by Ariel Jahana (Israel Hayom) — As the United States and other countries pressure Israel to increase food aid to Gaza, Israeli officials familiar with the situation say Gaza has been overwhelmed by food aid. Israeli officials harshly criticize American […]
April 12, 2024

Christian Allies Caucus presses Germany to keep funding freeze on UNRWA

A Palestinian man outside the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza City protests cuts to aid on June 20, 2023. Credit: Anas-Mohammed/Shutterstock. by Etgar Lefkovits (JNS) — The heads of […]