November 3, 2024

New intel suggests 51 of the 101 hostages are still alive in Gaza

Families of hostages take part in a meeting at Tel Aviv’s “Hostages Square.” Photo by Paulina Patimer. by Yoav Limor, JNS Staff (JNS) — Fifty-one out of the 101 hostages still being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip are […]
November 2, 2024

Biden admin threatens Israel with arms embargo over Gaza aid

Gaza aid trucks, October 2024. Credit: COGAT. (JNS) — The Biden administration has stepped up pressure on Jerusalem to meet a host of demands focused on vastly expanding the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. On Oct. 13, Axios reported […]
November 1, 2024

UN’s Albanese report slammed as ‘gross perversion of history,’ ‘weaponizing Holocaust comparisons’

Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, briefs reporters at U.N. Headquarters, Oct. 30, 2024. Credit: Mark Garten/U.N. Photo. by Mike Wagenheim (JNS) — Francesca Albanese, the U.N. special rapporteur for Palestinian rights, presented a new report to […]
October 31, 2024

UN chief charges Israel would ethnically cleanse Gaza if Arab states accepted refugees

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres speaks during a press conference at the COP16 summit in Cali, Colombia, Oct. 30, 2024. Photo by Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP via Getty Images. (JNS) — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Oct. 30 accused Israel of seeking […]
October 22, 2024

Hamas shooting Gazans who are trying to flee fighting

Hamas terrorists in Gaza City, Sept. 21, 2022. Photo by Attia Muhammed/Flash90. (JNS) — Palestinian civilians trying to evacuate intense fighting in the northern Gaza Strip are being shot by Hamas terrorists trying to prevent them from leaving, an Israel […]
October 21, 2024

“Real” controversy over Harris’ response to anti-Israel heckler’s charge of genocide

Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris pauses while speaking during a campaign rally at the Rawhide Event Center on Oct. 10, 2024 in Chandler, Arizona. Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images. (JNS) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic […]
October 14, 2024

Asking the Tough Questions after the Tragic Loss of Ori Borenstein

Ori Moshe Borenstein, 1991-2024 by Ari Sacher Since October 7, four soldiers from my home town of Moreshet, a hamlet of 400 families in the Western Galilee, have been killed in action. Yakir Levi was killed on October 7, when […]
October 14, 2024

Sen. Cotton fears $1 billion in U.S. humanitarian aid diverted to Hamas coffers

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md. Photo by Gage Skidmore/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons Commons. by David Isaac (JNS) — Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) expressed concerns that $1 billion in U.S. assistance […]
October 10, 2024

Documenting the unthinkable: Book recounts atrocities of Oct. 7 Hamas attack

As Hamas invaded Israel on Oct. 7, Alon Penzel was a political science student at Haifa University. The grandson of a Holocaust survivor, he went to social media to defend Israel from the inevitable waves of hate. “Already on Oct […]
October 8, 2024

Sinwar renews Qatar contacts, seeks to foment regional war, not interested in truce

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar speaks at a rally in Gaza City, Nov. 4, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. (JNS) — Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has renewed contacts with mediators in Qatar, Israel’s Channel 12 News reported on Oct. 7, citing sources […]
October 8, 2024

Israeli hostage negotiator: Hamas keeps torpedoing the talks

IDF Brig. Gen. (res.) Gal Hirsch, the Israeli government’s point man on the hostage issue, attends a ceremony for the Jewish holiday of Chanukah at the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, Dec. 7, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90. (JNS) […]