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The son of an Israeli diplomat was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly intentionally ran down a Florida police officer. The incident happened shortly after 3:30 p.m. Saturday when a Sunny Isles Beach police lieutenant had pulled over a vehicle, WPLG-TV reports. Avraham Gil was weaving in out of traffic on his motorcycle as he approached the officer. The lieutenant motioned Gil, 19, to stop, but he continued traveling toward the officer. According to the arrest report, Gil "intentionally ran (the lieutenant) over." Following the collision, the lieutenant was still able to bring Gil to the ground and apprehend...

IDF forces together with police officers on Sunday. prevented demonstrators from blocking the Kerem Shalom Crossing and preventing the entry of aid trucks into the Gaza Strip Demonstrators, including families of hostages, gathered at the Kerem Shalom Crossing after they blocked it last week, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip. When soldiers and officers blocked the protesters, the latter attempted to get around the roadblocks to reach the crossing. While the demonstrators were being held off by the officers, several aid trucks managed to enter the Gaza Strip. The demonstrators eventually reached the crossing and blocked...

Israeli authorities have reportedly foiled a planned terror attack in Jerusalem by two Arab residents of East Jerusalem who had pledged loyalty to the so-called “Islamic State,” or ISIS. The Israeli security forces, including both the Israel Police and the Israel Security Agency (ISA, or Shin Bet), said that the two would-be terrorists had hoped to detonate a truck bomb near the Israeli parliament, or Knesset. The Times of Israel reported: “Among the targets and plans considered, the accused wanted to carry out a terror attack by detonating a truck filled with gas canisters near the Knesset, in an attempt...

Some social media users are claiming this is the latest shocking campaign to denigrate Palestinians. The Cube took a closer look at the viral video. It’s an image that has shocked many social media users lately. The viral clip appears to show a wounded baby doll surrounded by toy soldiers with an Israeli flag in the background. The packaging says in Spanish the item "includes a Palestinian baby” and “elite soldiers" and appears to be sold by toy street vendors. Multiple social media users were quick to jump to the conclusion this toy was made by an Israeli company and...

Former Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton used a meeting with the families of Israeli hostages Thursday to attack Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, prompting criticism that it was a “revolting, disgusting” thing for her to do. As the Israeli news website Ynet reported: Clinton also urged relatives of the hostages to put pressure on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to those present at the meeting, she told the families that Netanyahu is only busy with “politics and personal political survival,” and that Knesset seats are of more interest to this government than the hostages. “As long as the hostages...

Comedian Jerry Seinfeld met Monday with several of the hostages freed by Hamas and the families of those still held captive in Gaza. The 69-year-old “Seinfeld” actor — who worked on a kibbutz in Israel as a teen — arrived in Tel Aviv with his wife Jessica to attend an event held by the Hostages and Missing Persons Families Forum, where he spoke with the former hostages and relatives for hours to show his support over their plight. “Seinfeld told the families that he feels a deep commitment to raising awareness around the world about the issue of the hostages,”...

ROME — Pope Francis used his strongest language to date in condemning ongoing Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, calling them acts of “terrorism.” “I continue receiving very serious and sad news about Gaza,” the pontiff said following his weekly Angelus prayer in the Vatican. “Unarmed civilians are targets for bombs and gunfire,” he stated. “And this has happened even within the parish complex of the Holy Family, where there are no terrorists, but families, children, people who are sick and have disabilities, sisters.”

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Protesters marching in Philadelphia against the bombardment of Gaza chanted about genocide Sunday outside an Israeli-style restaurant, leading Gov. Josh Shapiro to call the demonstration “antisemitic.” In Philadelphia’s Center City and University City neighborhoods, hundreds of people marched to criticize Israel’s military actions in Gaza, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. However, it was unclear why some specifically protested the restaurant. A video of demonstrators outside of Goldie Falafel depicted people chanting, “Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide,” which garnered backlash from the Democratic governor

Israel Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says his ministry is now approving “up to 3,000” gun license applications a day. The Times of Israel quoted Ben Gvir saying, “When the war started, we knew that we were right when we said that every place that has a weapon can save a life.” He went on to say, “My policy within the office was to permit as many people as possible to get a weapon…[and] in a short period of time, we were giving up to 3,000 approvals a day.” Ben Gvir indicated over 260,000 gun license applications have been approved...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) called out Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, as Israel restarted attacks in its war on Hamas after a roughly weeklong truce. “Netanyahu’s resumption of bombing in Gaza is beyond the pale,” Sanders posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Two million people are now in south Gaza. Many have fled earlier fighting in the north.” Israeli fighter jets hit Gaza minutes after a weeklong truce expired on Friday, resuming the nation’s war with Hamas. Israel dropped leaflets over parts of southern Gaza urging residents to leave their homes, suggesting it will be...

A source within the Israeli government told Breitbart News on Tuesday that U.S. President Joe Biden’s pressure would lead to Hamas surviving the war intact, rather than allowing Israel to destroy Hamas or remove its military and governing capabilities. In recent days, the White House has acknowledged that Israel intends to continue fighting Hamas after the current “pause,” sought by Biden to allow the release of hostages, ends later this week. “The Israelis have been pretty clear that once the pauses are complete and the hostage exchanges [sic] are over that they intend to continue their military operations against Hamas,”...

The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas is refusing to release an infant Israeli hostage, Kfir Bibas, who was nine months old at the time of his abduction, among the 50-70 hostages it is letting go as part of a four-to-six-day “pause” in the fighting. The family of 10-month-old Kfir Bibas, the youngest hostage held by Hamas, along with his 4-year-old brother Ariel and mother Shiri, said they will not be released today. Qatar says there will be two more days of ceasefire in exchange for 20 Israeli hostages. pic.twitter.com/MlCSxICN59 — Lahav Harkov ️ (@LahavHarkov) November 27, 2023

A radical teenage political activist who has rubbed shoulders with Congressional Democrats and a former Disney Channel actress are among those facing felony charges for vandalizing an Israeli company’s New Hampshire offices. Calla Walsh, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Bridget Shergalis, of Dayville, Connecticut, were among three demonstrators with the anti-Israel group Palestine Action US arrested after they wrecked a Merrimack, New Hampshire, building housing Haifa-based defense contractor Elbit Systems, according to local reports.

JERUSALEM, Israel — The Israeli government approved a deal Tuesday night that will see the Palestinian Hamas terror group release at least 50 female, child, and elderly hostages over four days, in return for a pause in the fighting in the Gaza Strip. In return, Israel will release a greater number of convicted Palestinians — though none who have been convicted of murder. Israel will resume the fight as soon as the hostages are delivered and the four-day period is over, as it works to destroy Hamas.

The Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women is working to compile a database of gender-based atrocitiesThe first suggestion that Hamas terrorists committed acts of extreme sexual violence and rape against victims during their Oct. 7 rampage through southern Israel came on social media early on that fateful Saturday morning six weeks ago. Two short videos, shared by the terrorists themselves, quickly emerged showing groups of cheering Palestinian men, some armed, in the streets of Gaza crowding around half-naked and bloodied young Israeli women. In one clip, a woman later identified as German-Israeli citizen Shani Louk, 22,...

Israel will likely have to occupy Gaza post-war, due to fears Hamas would reestablish a stronghold in the region, according to former CIA director and military expert David Petraeus. “This is about ensuring that Hamas cannot reconstitute itself,” Petraeus said. Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sat down with Petraeus for an event the think tank hosted Tuesday, where the two discussed the United States’ role in international conflicts, including the Russia-Ukraine war and the Israel-Hamas war. While Petraeus echoed the Biden administration’s concerns that Israeli occupation of Gaza would be unfavorable, he...

Soldiers and farm volunteers in Israel are now forced to wear bulletproof vests as they feed and milk the cows on the kibbutz farms attacked by Hamas. Normal operations on those farms are slowly recovering but many have suffered serious damage as well as a loss of workers and cattle. Following a period of five days of not being milked or fed, the cows on the farms in the military no go zone are now receiving food as trucks carrying forage are allowed in under armed military guard. One farm was forced to turn all its cows loose to fend...

Cypriot police were on high alert early on Saturday after an improvised explosive device was thrown 30 meters away from Israel’s embassy in Nicosia. The “homemade bomb” exploded around 1:30 a.m. local time. Following the blast, two people walking near the Israeli mission were detained, as were two others in a car. Police found two knives and a hammer inside the vehicle.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) met at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center with Israeli victims of the Palestinian terror group Hamas on Friday, including a Californian from Los Angeles who had been shot and survived.

The New York Times reportedly edited a headline twice on Tuesday about a blast that blew up a Gaza hospital, changing the title each time to reflect less blame against Israel for the tragic explosion. After the blast, multiple pieces of evidence emerged from the Israel Defense Forces and the media that suggested the blast was an errant rocket fired by Hamas, not an Israeli airstrike. As the evidence came to light, the Times altered its headline.