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May 1, 2024
U.S. Legislators Push Back Against Possible ICC Warrants for Israeli Officials
In response to reports that the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague could soon issue arrest warrants for one or more senior Israeli officials, Speaker of the U.S. House...
May 1, 2024
World Central Kitchen Resumes Gaza Operations
Aid organization World Central Kitchen (WCK) resumed operations in Gaza this week, providing 200,000 meals to Palestinians in Gaza on April 30. The aid organization had suspended operations in Gaza after...
May 1, 2024
Hezbollah Targets Israeli Forces on Northern Border
The Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah carried out several attacks on northern Israel on April 30 and May 1. Hezbollah claimed it targeted an Israeli military barracks at Biranit,...
May 1, 2024
Iran handed Jordan and Israel an opportunity to improve ties
Some threats simply beg to be turned into opportunities. Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi confirmed that his country’s air force intercepted several Iranian drones between April...
May 1, 2024
What to Know About Iran’s Nuclear Program: Advanced Centrifuges
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May 1, 2024
IAEA Director General May Attend Iran Nuclear Technology Conference
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Mohammed Eslami, claimed on May 1 that International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi will attend...
May 1, 2024
The Azerbaijanis, Not the Azeris, Are Hosting COP29
The Republic of Azerbaijan will host the annual UN Climate Change Conference known as COP29 in November 2024. For many who will attend COP29 and follow the process, this will be their first...
May 1, 2024
The ideological cocktail poisoning American campuses
Back in December, the eminent historian Niall Ferguson wrote an essay in The Free Press that, it’s now apparent, presaged the tidal wave of demonstrations now inundating college campuses around...
May 1, 2024
Israel SitRep: May 1, 2024
Israel SitRep: May 1, 2024 Today’s Issue: Netanyahu Vows to ‘Enter Rafah and Eliminate Hamas Battalions There, With or Without a Deal’ | IDF Divisions Improve Combat Readiness for Further Gaza...
April 30, 2024
Progress Elusive as China Hosts Palestinian Unity Talks
Chinese officials said that Fatah and Hamas appear willing to smooth over their longstanding differences following a round of negotiations over the weekend between the...
April 30, 2024
Iranian IRGC Agents Murdered Teen Protestor Whose Death Was Ascribed to ‘Suicide,’ Leaked Document Reveals
A leaked document from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) revealed that a young female protestor whom the Tehran regime claimed had taken her own life in 2022 was...
April 30, 2024
EU Members Gear Up for Palestinian State Recognition
At least five European Union member states are moving to unilaterally recognize Palestinian statehood in the coming months, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on April 29....
April 30, 2024
Israel Dismantles Terror Tunnels in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) dismantled two underground tunnels in Gaza operated by Palestinian terrorist organizations, according to an IDF statement on April 29. The tunnels...
April 30, 2024
Gaza-based terrorist group threatens British forces if they begin to deliver aid from offshore pier
The Popular Resistance Committees warned via its official Telegram channel on April 28 that if British forces operate on a U.S.-made pier off the Gaza coast, they will become legitimate...
April 30, 2024
Islamic State expands da’wah activities in Mozambique
Earlier this month, FDD’s Long War Journal reported on the Islamic State’s concerted effort to both engage in more da’wah [proselytizing] activities in Africa and highlight...
April 30, 2024
Possible arrest warrants for Israeli leaders expose the utter perversity of the International Criminal Court
The perversity of targeting Israeli leaders for justly attempting, as any other nation would, to free the hostages and prevent future Hamas atrocities is precisely why two decades of US presidents, from...
April 30, 2024
China Has Crossed Biden’s Red Line on Ukraine
Excerpt President Biden warned China two years ago not to provide “material support” for Russia’s war in Ukraine. On Friday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken conceded that Xi Jinping ignored...
April 30, 2024
Turkey Cannot Be a Mediator in the Gaza War
The Turkish government led by Recep Tayyip Erdogan is not shy about its enthusiastic support of Hamas. Last month Erdogan shocked observers after declaring “Turkey is a country that stands firmly behind...
April 30, 2024
Israel SitRep: April 30, 2024
Today’s Issue: IDF Maps and Destroys Two Terror Tunnels in Gaza’s Beit Hanoun | Israel Increasing Efforts to Bring...
April 29, 2024
The Netherlands Considers Restoring UNRWA Funding, Pending Reform
The Netherlands is the latest country to consider reinstating funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) after the release of a report on April 22 into the agency’s...
April 29, 2024
Israel Readying for U.S. Military’s Floating Pier off Gaza Coast for Humanitarian Aid
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced on April 27 that it is preparing to receive a floating pier that the United States is building off the Gaza coast for the purpose of “receiving...
April 29, 2024
IDF Strikes Hamas Positions in Rafah Ahead of Planned Offensive
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out airstrikes in Rafah on April 29 ahead of a planned offensive on the southern Gazan city, where several battalions of Hamas terrorists...
April 29, 2024
Erdogan Needs a Reset with the US but Congress Could Stand in the Way
Turkey is attempting the impossible by trying to reestablish a productive relationship with the US while declaring his unreserved support for Hamas, and Congress may be gearing up to push back. After suffering...
April 29, 2024
IDF Focuses on Humanitarian Aid in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces are focusing on humanitarian aid entering Gaza ahead of a possible offensive against Hamas in the southern Gazan city of Rafah. The focus on improving the humanitarian situation...
April 29, 2024
Hezbollah Stumbles Into a War of Attrition
Hezbollah, Iran’s most formidable proxy, barely lifted a finger when its patron fired more than 300 missiles and drones at Israel in the early hours of April 14. The Lebanese group fired a few dozen...
April 29, 2024
The Out-of-Control Social Media App Spreading Antisemitism at Columbia
Demonstrators have shouted “tear down the gates!” while circling Columbia University’s main entrance in recent days. “I am Hamas!” “Long live the intifada!” The chants carried beyond the...
April 28, 2024
Egypt Seeks Hostage Negotiations Breakthrough
Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel met his Israeli counterpart David Barnea on April 26 to continue deadlocked negotiations over a potential deal to free the hostages still in Hamas captivity...
April 28, 2024
Hezbollah Retaliates Against IDF Strike, Launches Barrage of Missiles
Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets at Israel on April 26 in retaliation against an Israeli strike that killed two Palestinian Islamist terrorists in Lebanon...
April 28, 2024
China watches as the U.S. fumbles around in central Pacific
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April 27, 2024
Blinken Reverses Plan to Sanction IDF Battalion
The U.S. State Department on April 26 froze a plan to impose sanctions on the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) Netzah Yehuda battalion...
April 27, 2024
Crush and eliminate Hamas: Navigating ties with Hezbollah, Iran, and Saudi Arabia
Normalization with Saudi Arabia is crucial but shouldn't come at the cost of significant concessions. ...
April 27, 2024
Blinken to Address Normalization With Israel During Visit to Saudi Arabia
Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Saudi Arabia on April 28 for the World Economic Forum. While in Riyadh, Blinken is expected to discuss the normalization of Saudi-Israeli...
April 26, 2024
Terrorists Attack U.S. Pier Under Construction Off Gaza Coast
Terrorists conducted a mortar attack on a U.S. pier under construction off the Gaza coast, American defense officials said on April 25. Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder...
April 26, 2024
Russia and Iran Agree to Deepen Security Ties
Russia is ready to expand military and technical cooperation with Iran, the Russian state-owned media outlet RIA Novosti reported on April 26. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu...
April 26, 2024
90-Day Clock For Iran Sanctions Begins Pursuant to New U.S. Laws
President Joe Biden must determine within 90 days whether to impose key sanctions on Iran pursuant to the supplemental appropriations package signed into law on April 24. The package...
April 26, 2024
Iran Sentences Popular Rapper to Death Amid Widening Crackdown on Dissent
Tehran’s judiciary confirmed the death sentence of a prominent Iranian hip-hop artist, Toomaj Salehi, on charges of “corruption on earth,” Reuters reported on April 25. Despite...
April 26, 2024
What the World Central Kitchen Strike Tells Us About Israel — And Its Enemies
More than two dozen Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to the Biden administration on April 16 criticizing Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza and expressing concern about “civilian harm...
April 26, 2024
Israel SitRep: April 26, 2024
Today’s Issue: U.S. Begins Construction of Gaza Pier | Missiles Fired From Lebanon Kill Israeli Civilian | IDF Arrests Two Men in West Bank With Axes and Knives | IDF Withdraws Nahal Brigade from Gaza...
April 26, 2024
U.S. Rushes Aid to Ukraine as Russia Presses Near Avdiivka, Chasiv Yar
The United States has begun rushing artillery shells and other aid to Ukraine following the passage of the long-delayed national security supplemental bill. For Kyiv’s embattled troops, this...
April 26, 2024
Washington Should Clip Qatar’s Media Wing
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre recently criticized a new Israeli law that allows the government to temporarily shutter Al Jazeera’s Israel operations. “If it’s true, a move like...
April 25, 2024
Iran Rebuffs Argentine Request for Extradition of Key Terrorist Mastermind
Tehran on April 24 rejected an Argentine request for the extradition of Iran’s interior minister for his alleged role in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in...
April 25, 2024
Hamas Releases Video of American-Israeli Hostage
Hamas released a video of American-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin on April 24, reportedly at the request of Qatar. In the video, Goldberg-Polin is seen seated in front of a...
April 25, 2024
Lidar: Another emerging technology brought to you by China
The exponential growth in connected and automated systems has increased the demand for the sensor technology necessary to make them operate safely. Light detection and ranging, or lidar, is...
April 25, 2024
IDF rotates units in central Gaza as Rafah operation looms
The Israel Defense Forces redeployed the Nahal brigade, which has been key to controlling a corridor in central Gaza. The movement of the unit comes after a number of new IDF raids in central and northern...
April 25, 2024
How Universities Can Take Back the Quad
More than 100 people staging a pro-Palestinian protest were arrested last week at Columbia University after the university president asked the NYPD to intervene. ...
April 25, 2024
America needs to treat ‘the cloud’ as critical infrastructure
When it comes to cybersecurity and Communist China, Microsoft needs to get its act together — and so does the American government. ...
April 24, 2024
Columbia must send the pro-Hamas protestors a clear message
The intifada revolution has engulfed Columbia University. Just a week after a congressional hearing in which President Minouche Shafik touted her school’s efforts to combat antisemitism, protests rife with antisemitism raged on Columbia’s campus. ...
April 24, 2024
Hamas Places Rocket Launch Sites Near Civilian Shelters in Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) carried out airstrikes on two Hamas rocket launch sites in southern Gaza, the IDF said on April 24. An infographic distributed by the IDF showed that...
April 24, 2024
Israel Mobilizes Reservists Ahead of Rafah Push
Israel is redeploying reservist ground forces brigades on April 24 for operations in the Gaza Strip, signaling its readiness to move against the Hamas stronghold of...
April 24, 2024
Half of Hezbollah’s South Lebanon Commanders Killed
Israeli counterstrikes have killed “half of Hezbollah’s commanders in southern Lebanon,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant revealed on April 24. Gallant’s remarks...
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