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June 6, 2024
What Will the U.S. Do to Stop a Nuclear Iran?
Regarding your editorial “Iran’s Brisk Walk to a Nuclear Bomb” (May 29): That the Biden administration prefers to “hide this scary truth from the world” during election season is worrisome,...
June 6, 2024
Israel Targets Hamas and Islamic Jihad Terrorists Hiding in UNRWA School
Latest Developments The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) conducted a precision airstrike on Hamas terrorists hiding inside a central Gaza school operated by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)...
June 6, 2024
Amid Tensions With Israel, Spain Requests to Join ICJ Case Targeting Jewish State
Spain on June 6 became the first European country to request to join South Africa’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) case accusing Israel of genocide in its war against Hamas...
June 6, 2024
Iranian Protester Partly Paralyzed After London Attack
An Iranian dissident may have permanently lost the ability to walk after Tehran loyalists assaulted him in London, The Jewish Chronicle reported on June 5. Navid Bavi, 32, to whom...
June 6, 2024
Seventeen Countries Urge Hamas to Accept Ceasefire Proposal
The United States and 16 other countries whose citizens are being held captive by Hamas in Gaza signed a statement on June 6 calling on the Iran-backed terror organization to accept...
June 6, 2024
For Israel and Hezbollah, Full-scale War Is Question of When, Not If
Hezbollah has dramatically intensified the frequency, lethality, and range of its attacks against Israel in the past month, and especially in the past few days including ones that have sparked large fires. On...
June 6, 2024
IDF Soldier Killed as Hamas Attempts Infiltration From Gaza
Hamas terrorists attempted to infiltrate Israel from Gaza using foggy weather as cover on the morning of June 6. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers who were dispatched to investigate...
June 6, 2024
China is main beneficiary of West’s futile energy transition push
Excerpt U.S. President Joe Biden, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, the heads of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Economic...
June 6, 2024
Hamas uses tunnel near Gaza border to attack IDF
On the morning of June 6, Hamas terrorists used a tunnel to try to enter an area near Gaza’s border with Israel and carry out an attack. The incident was relatively small, involving approximately four...
June 6, 2024
As Hezbollah escalates attacks at Iran’s behest, Israel must stop an ‘unsustainable’ assault
Iran’s multi-front war on Israel escalated this week as Tehran’s flagship terrorist proxy rained down missiles and drones on northern Israeli towns, killing an Israeli soldier, leaving more wounded...
June 6, 2024
Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker: June
Welcome back to the Biden Administration Foreign Policy Tracker. Once a month, we ask FDD’s experts and scholars to assess the administration’s foreign policy. They provide trendlines of very positive, positive, neutral, negative, or very negative for the areas they watch. ...
June 5, 2024
Study Finds Food Aid to Gaza Exceeds International Standards
Results from a scientific study published on June 2 indicate that food shipments to Gaza are enough to feed the enclave’s entire population of approximately 2.4 million. The study,...
June 5, 2024
Hezbollah Hits Border Village as Israel Warns of War
Hezbollah wounded at least 11 people in an armed drone attack on the Druze Arab village of Hurfeish in northern Israel on June 5, stoking calls in Jerusalem for escalated retaliation...
June 5, 2024
Amidst Gaza tensions, Israel signs F-35 deal with US for 25 more warplanes
Israel’s Ministry of Defense has signed a $3 billion deal with the US government for a third squadron of twenty-five F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, the government announced Tuesday. The signing of the...
June 5, 2024
U.S. House of Representatives Votes for Sanctions Against International Criminal Court
The U.S. House of Representatives voted by a comfortable majority on June 4 to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) following its prosecutor’s decision to...
June 5, 2024
IAEA Members Vote to Censure Iran Over Nuclear Violations
Member states of the 35-nation Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) voted to censure Iran’s nonproliferation violations during a quarterly meeting...
June 5, 2024
Hezbollah is filling void left by Hamas, and gauging Israel’s reaction
Hezbollah is intensely focused on Israel’s reactions to recent escalation by the terrorist group. It has increased the use of drones and anti-tank missiles over the last month, doubling the amount of...
June 5, 2024
IDF Ground Forces Target Hamas Stronghold in Central Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) began a ground operation in the Bureij area of central Gaza on June 4, confirming in a statement that “Israeli Air Force fighter jets are now attacking...
June 5, 2024
What Has Changed in the Middle East
After Israel’s token response to the Islamic Republic’s intercepted missile-and-drone barrage, there is one overarching question in the Middle East: Has anything—beyond the horrendous loss of life—really changed since the Gaza war started on October 7th...
June 5, 2024
Israel SitRep: June 5, 2024
Today’s Issue: | Hezbollah Attacks Cause Large Fires in Northern Israel; Chief of Staff: Decision Point Approaching | IDF Begins Operations in Bureij and Deir al-Balah Areas in Gaza | IDF Establishes...
June 5, 2024
IDF uncovers long tunnel in Rafah as Hezbollah attacks in north
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on June 5 flew in an F-15 warplane over Gaza and northern Israel, surveying the multi-front conflict and threats faced by Israel. The flight took place the...
June 5, 2024
Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and Current Situation in Iran
June 5, 2024
Photos offer insights on Russia’s new UMPB D-30SN glide bomb
Photos published over the past few weeks shed additional light on a new Russian glide bomb that has seen growing use in Ukraine: the UMPB D-30SN. The pictures, shared by Russian Telegram channels and Ukrainian...
June 5, 2024
Why Is there no Palestinian State?
Excerpt The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is intractable. One binational state is impossible, given that the two sides – Jews and Arabs — have irreconcilable national projects....
June 4, 2024
Israel Intercepts Houthi Ballistic Missile Targeting Eilat
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that it had intercepted a surface-to-surface ballistic missile targeting the southern city of Eilat on June 3. Israel’s long-range Arrow...
June 4, 2024
Alleged Israeli Airstrike Kills Iranian Military Advisor in Syria
An Israeli airstrike killed a military advisor belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) near Aleppo, Syria, Iranian state media claimed on June 3. The death...
June 4, 2024
Egypt’s Sisi Orders Cabinet Reshuffle Amid Spiraling Economic Crisis
Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi reappointed Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly on June 3 and ordered him to form a new government. Sisi’s announcement came shortly after Madbouly...
June 4, 2024
One-Third of Hostages in Gaza Believed Dead
More than one-third of the Israeli hostages still in captivity in Gaza are believed to have died, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on June 4. According to an official Israeli...
June 4, 2024
Media Call: Healthcare Cybersecurity Needs a Check Up
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June 4, 2024
The fires in northern Israel are a wake-up call to complacency
The fires that swept northern Israel this week due to Hezbollah’s rocket, missile, and drone attacks were a wake-up call. The Israeli public is now forced to see what almost eight months of...
June 4, 2024
Bureij and Gaza’s central camps are still Hamas bastions
The IDF has launched a new operation in Gaza’s el-Bureij camp in central Gaza, one of several densely populated areas built as refugee camps in the 1950s. Mughazi, Deir el-Balah, and Nuseirat...
June 4, 2024
Hezbollah Rocket Attacks Spark Massive Fires in Northern Israel
Firefighters battled raging blazes across northern Israel on June 3-4, ignited by rocket barrages launched by Hezbollah terrorists across the border in Lebanon. “Some 15 active...
June 4, 2024
With northern Israel aflame, IDF warns of ‘decision’ against Hezbollah
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi traveled to northern Israel on June 4 to conduct a situational assessment as Hezbollah continued its escalatory attack with rocket and missile...
June 4, 2024
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq increases its drone attacks on Israel
Over the past month, there has been a surge in attacks from Iraq against Israel attributed to the Islamic Resistance. This group consists of several militias backed by Iran, active in both Syria...
June 4, 2024
Healthcare Cybersecurity Needs a Check Up
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June 3, 2024
Former Iranian President Ahmadinejad Vying to Succeed Raisi
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered as a presidential candidate on June 2. Elections to select a successor to the late Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter...
June 3, 2024
Shin Bet Foils Hamas Terror Plot Tied to Turkey
Israel’s Shin Bet security agency in March thwarted a terrorist plot inside Israel being planned by Hamas operatives in Turkey. In a June 3 statement, the agency confirmed that...
June 3, 2024
Palestinian President Denounces Iran’s Supreme Leader for Supporting Gaza War
Tehran’s support for Hamas is undermining the Palestinian goal of independence, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), said on June 3, in a rebuke of Iran’s...
June 3, 2024
October 7 attacks strengthen case for designating IRGC as a terrorist organization
Canada must designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization pursuant to the Criminal Code. So declared the House of Commons on May 8. Again. Yet Prime...
June 3, 2024
Is Hezbollah beginning to anticipate IDF’s responses?
The Alma Research and Education Center concluded that May 2024 was the month with the “highest intensity of Hezbollah attacks against Israel since October 2023.” The attacks are increasing and it...
June 3, 2024
As Hezbollah ramps up attacks, Iran proxies itch to strike Israel
Hezbollah expanded its attacks over the last week, striking deeper into Israel. It has targeted the Israeli cities of Nahariya and also set off alarms in Acre. As Hezbollah increases its attacks, it...
June 3, 2024
Only Defeating Hamas Can Lead to an Israeli-Saudi Normalization Deal
United States President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, visited Israel and Saudi Arabia in mid-May, offering a Saudi-Israeli normalization package that he says would lead to greater...
June 3, 2024
Israeli Amendment Condemning Hamas and Demanding Release of Hostages Passed by World Health Organization Assembly
The World Health Assembly, the governing forum of the World Health Organization (WHO), passed an Israeli amendment on May 31 that called for the release of all hostages held in Gaza...
June 3, 2024
How the UN Got Away With Wildly Inflating the Casualty Numbers in Gaza—and the Media Bought It
On May 6, a U.N. office reported that more than 9,500 women and 14,500 children had been killed so far in Gaza. The office had been reporting similar figures for nearly two months. Yet on May 8, the...
June 3, 2024
Acre in Firing Line as Hezbollah Targets Northern Israeli Towns
Hezbollah targeted multiple areas along the northern Israeli coast on June 2, setting off sirens and forcing Israeli civilians to seek shelter. Alerts sounded in the cities of Acre...
June 3, 2024
Israel SitRep: June 3, 2024
Today’s Issue: | Israel Hit with 325 Hezbollah Attacks in May, Including With Burkan Missiles | Defense Minister Gallant: We Will Not Accept Hamas as Ruling Power in Gaza After War | IDF Holds Exercise...
June 2, 2024
‘Post’ gives inside look into northern Israeli ghost towns amid endless war of attrition
A man in a white shirt emblazoned with images of orange basketballs held an M-16 rifle as he tried to balance a large cup of coffee and his car keys in his other hand. He was trying to open the door to...
June 2, 2024
Biden must resist the WHO’s power grab
Excerpt The once-in-a-century COVID pandemic was fueled by China’s obstruction and obfuscation and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) mismanagement. Yet WHO has considered a pandemic treaty that...
June 1, 2024
The Policies That Are Killing Israeli Soldiers
Three soldiers from Israel Defense Forces (IDF) were killed on May 28, when they encountered a Hamas booby trap in a building in Rafah. In a separate incident, three other soldiers were...
June 1, 2024
Chinese President Addresses Arab Leaders in Beijing
Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged to deepen cooperation with the Arab world and called for Palestinian statehood in an address to Arab leaders on May 30. “Since last October,...
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