Argentina announced two days of national mourning on Thursday after the bodies of two Israeli Argentine children who had been taken hostage by Hamas were handed over by the group.Hamas delivered the bodies of four hostages on Thursday, three of which it said were members of the Bibas family — Shiri Bibas and her two young sons.While the identities of the Bibas boys, Kfir and Ariel were confirmed by Israeli forensics, they said Shiri was not among them, as the militants had claimed.
Source: Al Monitor
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Daughter of British IS victim reads last texts to him at France trial
The daughter of murdered British aid worker this week at the Paris trial of two of his presumed Islamic State group jailers recounted her anguish after her father went missing in war-torn Syria in 2013.In a Paris court on Thursday, Bethany Haines, 27, read out the last text message she would ever receive from her father, David Haines, before he was abducted by IS in north Syria aged 42.Sitting in the dock as she read were Frenchmen Mehdi Nemmouche, 39, and Abdelmalek Tanem, 35, on trial for holding four French journalists hostage for IS in Syria between 2013 and 2014.
Source: Al Monitor
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IDF arrests 90 terrorists in West Bank counterterrorism operation
The IDF was instructed to increase its activities in the West Bank and to keep a close eye on the terrorists who have been released from prison during the ceasefire.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: IDF arrests 90 terrorists in West Bank counterterrorism operation
Khrushchev and the Jews: The attitude of Stalin's successor to Soviet Jewry
Between Stalin’s shadow and the Cold War, the Soviet leader both perpetuated and decried Soviet antisemitism.
Source: Jerusalem Post
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This week in Jewish history: Biblical civil war, Jewish refugees killed by torpedo
A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: This week in Jewish history: Biblical civil war, Jewish refugees killed by torpedo
Bibas family speaks out for first time since identification of Kfir and Ariel's bodies
"None of this was deserved. We will miss you forever. We will not give up on Mom, Shiri," Ofri Bibas, Yarden's sister stated.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Bibas family speaks out for first time since identification of Kfir and Ariel's bodies
Trump 'horrified' by return of Bibas children, Security Advisor Mike Waltz says
Waltz said that Hamas's return of the Bibas children's bodies, without their mother Shiri, shows what despicable people Hamas are and why they can never be allowed to run Gaza.
Source: Jerusalem Post
Full Article: Trump 'horrified' by return of Bibas children, Security Advisor Mike Waltz says
Arab leaders meet in Saudi Arabia to hash out Gaza plan
Arab leaders met in Riyadh on Friday to craft a plan for Gaza's post-war reconstruction to counter Donald Trump's proposal for the United States to take over the territory without its Palestinian inhabitants.Trump's plan has united Arab states in opposition to it, but disagreements remain over who should govern Gaza and how its reconstruction can be funded.An image published on Saudi state television showed the kingdom's de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with the leaders of other Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan.
Source: Al Monitor
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Covert with calculated risk: How Iran is shifting its Israel strategy
Tehran appears to be keeping pressure on Israel mainly through its network of proxies, resorting to calculated restraint and deniability to avoid risks of a devastating full-scale war.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Covert with calculated risk: How Iran is shifting its Israel strategy
Hamas frees 6 Israeli hostages in latest transfer under truce
Palestinian militants freed six Israeli hostages on Saturday, with hundreds of Palestinian prisoners expected to be released in exchange under a fragile Gaza truce that is nearing the end of its first phase.The release of the last group of living hostages under the truce's first phase caps an emotional two days in Israel, where the remains of another hostage, Shiri Bibas, have been identified after the initial handover of a different body.
Source: Al Monitor
Full Article: Hamas frees 6 Israeli hostages in latest transfer under truce