UNHRC Report: IDF deliberately shot at children, people with disabilities

Considering the United Nations Human Rights Council commission had no access to Gaza or cooperation from Israel, due to the biased mandate to only investigate Israel’s response to the Hamas-led riots along the Gaza border, PM Netanyahu rejected the report, saying the UN had set “new records for hypocrisy and mendacity out of an obsessive hatred of Israel.”

By TOVAH LAZAROFF

 

In a likely war crime, IDF soldiers deliberately shot at children and people with disabilities when it quelled Hamas-led protests on the Gaza border during the last 11 months, a United Nations Human Rights Council commission of inquiry reported on Thursday morning. Continue Reading »

Israel releases Palestinian Authority lawmaker after 20 months detention 

Having served 15 months after conviction for inciting violence and “promoting terrorist activities,” back in 2015, Khalida Jarrar, a senior member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, was released again, this time after having been held under administrative detention since July 2017.

By The Associated Press and Israel Hayom Staff

 

The family of a Palestinian Authority lawmaker said Israeli authorities have released Khalida Jarrar after 20 months of holding her in detention without raising charges.

The lawmaker’s husband, Ghassan Jarrar, said she was freed on Thursday.

The 56-year-old Khalida Jarrar was held under administrative detention, an Israeli policy that permits holding people for months at a time without charges. Continue Reading »

BREAKING: Israel’s AG announces intent to indict PM Netanyahu for corruption

Israel’s Attorney-General Mandelblit said that PM Netanyahu will be indicted in three cases: for bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
– The decision to indict the PM could decisively impact upcoming election.
– PM Netanyahu, “There will be nothing, because there is nothing.”

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

 

Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit announced his intent to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bribery on Thursday in a blockbuster decision that could decisively impact the April 9 election.

Mandelblit said that Netanyahu will be indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in Case 4000, “the Bezeq-Walla affair,” for breach of trust in Case 1000, “the Illegal Gifts Affair,” and that he would charge him with fraud and breach of trust in Case 2000, “the Yediot AharonotIsrael Hayom affair.” Continue Reading »

IDF destroy Hamas military base after Gaza ‘balloon bomb’ explodes in Israel

The air attack by the Israel Air Force was carried out in response to the attack on an Israeli home not far from the Gaza border, by a ‘balloon bomb’ that exploded in the air, luckily, only damaging the home.

By Elad Benari

 

IAF airplanes and helicopters attacked a number of terrorist targets in a military compound belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.

Israeli airstrikes targeting Hamas outposts in Gaza on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. – Photo: Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades

The attack was carried out in response to the attack on a home in a community in the Gaza envelope by a balloon bomb that exploded in the air. Continue Reading »

British Charity Commission warns Palestinian Aid group on funding misuse

The complaint highlighted how the Palestinian aid organization links funding from the NGO to the terror organization, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and uses antisemitic, racist & misleading propaganda on its website, including blatant antisemitic videos by former KKK leader David Duke.

By ZACHARY KEYSER

 

The Charity Commission for England and Wales recently warned Medical Aid for Palestinians that it must “take care” in heeding regulatory guidelines, following a complaint that portions of the money raised by the Palestinian organization are being used “towards political propaganda rather than for its stated purpose of providing medical aid.”

The complaint was filed by UK Lawyers for Israel and the Lawfare Project. Continue Reading »

UK blacklists Hezbollah as terror group, Jeremy Corbyn objects

Opposed to the government’s decision to designate all of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, whose party has been drenched with accusations of anti-Semitism since he assumed leadership in 2015, had referred to Hezbollah in the past as his “friends.”

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

The British Labour party rejected the government’s decision to define Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its totality.

“Decisions on the proscription of organizations as terror groups are supposed to be made on the advice of civil servants based on clear evidence that those organizations fall foul of the proscription criteria set out in legislation,” Labour said in a statement Tuesday, adding, “The Home Secretary must therefore now demonstrate that this decision was taken in an objective and impartial way, and driven by clear and new evidence, not by his leadership ambitions.” Continue Reading »

Turkey assists Palestinian-Jordanian maneuvers to control ‘East Jerusalem’

ANALYSIS: Saudi Arabia, Marocco and Erdogan’s Islamist regime in Turkey are strategically interfering in Israel’s internal affairs by funding & inciting Arab activists, and it’s no coincidence that the Wakf & Palestinians are now taking steps to control the Temple Mount, just as Trump’s special advisor has begun to advance the ‘Deal of the Century.’

By Yochanan Visser

 

Once again Palestinian Arab Muslims, backed by foreign actors, try to stir up unrest over the Temple Mount where they have built numerous unauthorized buildings and mosques.

Last Friday, thousands of Arab Muslims chanting “Allah Hu Akbar broke the status quo on the Temple Mount again when they entered an area known as the Golden Gate or Bab al-Rahma (Gate of Mercy) in Arabic. Continue Reading »

President Sisi: We’ll build Synagogues, should Jews return to Egypt

The Egyptian President promised a US delegation that Egypt has committed itself to clean up the ancient Bassatine Cemetery in Cairo, that dates back to the 9th century and believed to be the 2nd-oldest Jewish cemetery in the world. In December, Sisi also announced a multimillion-dollar project to restore Jewish heritage sites in Egypt.

By HERB KEINON

 

If Jews are interested in establishing a Jewish community in Egypt, the government will build synagogues and other communal institutions, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi told a US delegation during a two-hour meeting last week.

The delegation was made up of the Anwar Sadat Congressional Gold Medal Commission that advocated the granting of the US Congressional Gold Medal posthumously to the slain Egyptian president who made peace with Israel. Continue Reading »

Oscar winner: “This is completely an Israeli win”

Israeli Director Guy Nattiv and producer wife Jaime Ray Newman win the Academy Award for Live Action Short Film with ‘Skin,’ a film on teaching kids about racism.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Director Guy Nattiv, who has won an Oscar last night for best live action short film, ‘Skin’. In an interview with Army Radio on Monday he said, “This is completely an Israeli win”.

“All the brains behind ‘Skin’ are Israelis, and my entire work stems from where I grew up,” Nattiv explained.

Israeli Director Guy Nattiv (center), here with his wife, Producer Jamie Ray Newman, won the Oscar last night for best Live Action Short Film, ‘Skin’.

Continue Reading »

Israel’s Arab Voters Lack Real Representatives

Israeli Arabs express increased frustration with existing Arab Knesset parties, which only seem to focus on the Palestinians, neglecting the vast amount of local Arabs seeking integration, which is indicative to the ever growing enlistment of Arab volunteers into the IDF.

By Israel Today Staff

 

Israel’s Arab voters are disappointed with their options ahead of the upcoming national election.

In order to woo votes from Israel’s right-leaning Jewish public, most of the mainstream parties tout their Jewish bonafides. Meanwhile, the handful of Arab parties seem more interested in representing a hostile “Palestinian cause” than working for the benefit of the local Arab population. Continue Reading »

Hamas rallies thousands of Palestinians in Gaza demanding Abbas resignation

Autocrat Abbas, 84, whose term officially ended in 2009, has over the course of recent months substantially reduced salaries in Gaza, reduced fuel for electricity, and initiated further financial cuts on the already impoverished terrorist enclave.
– Abbas accused Gaza’s kleptocratic rulers of sharing values with Israel.

By i24NEWS, AFP

 

Thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip protested on Sunday. calling for the resignation of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas following the Ramallah-based leader’s attempts to pressure his rival Hamas with financial cuts in the impoverished enclave.

“Leave!” yelled crowds made up mainly of supporters of Hamas and Mohammed Dahlan, an Abbas rival expelled from the president’s Fatah party and who now lives in exile. Continue Reading »

China moves 1 million Muslims to concentration camps; UN to discuss Israel

Diplomatic sources said there’s no indication any country would present a U.N. resolution on China, but a U.N. report on Israel’s use of force against rioting Palestinian protestors in Gaza last year is to be issued.
• Saudi Crown Prince defended Beijing: “China has the right to carry out anti-terrorism and de-extremization work for its national security.”

By News Agencies and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Friday defended China’s use of concentration camps for Muslims, saying it was Beijing’s “right,” the Telegraph reported.

“China has the right to carry out anti-terrorism and de-extremization work for its national security,” the crown prince, who is in China signing multi-million trade deals much to the chagrin of his Western allies, told Chinese state television. Continue Reading »

A giant step for mankind, a giant leap for the Jewish State

Op-Ed: When a few young men went to speak with the chairman of the Israeli Space Agency about a decade ago, it was a ‘Genesis’ of an endeavor that exemplifies Israel’s entrepreneurial ethos.

By Isaac Ben Israel

 

The three young men who came to my office almost a decade ago were disappointed. They have just finished enthusiastically showing me their plan to build a small spacecraft that could land on the moon, send a picture from there, and then leap about 500 meters and send another picture.

“We will do this within 3-4 years, at a cost of $10 million,” said Yariv, Kfir and Yonatan, “and we will win Google’s $20 million prize for the first private (non-governmental) group to do it. Continue Reading »

50 trees uprooted/stolen, planted in memory of teen murdered by Arab terrorist

Residents of Nokdim discover further agricultural terrorism when they discovered the grove they planted in memory of 19 yr-old Tekoa native Ori Ansbacher (ז”ל), murdered by a Palestinian terrorist, was uprooted, with most of the trees stolen.

By Arutz Sheva Staff

 

Ori Ansbacher (ז”ל) – Courtesy of the family

On Friday, residents of the village of Nokdim planted a grove of trees in memory of Ori Ansbacher on the outskirts of the community, opposite Tekoa, where Ori lived.

During the planting, clashes broke out between Palestinian Arabs who invaded the area and the residents. The army kept the invaders away and the planting continued. Continue Reading »

Palestinians proclaim ‘victory’ after opening Temple Mount’s Golden Gate

The Old City’s The Gate of Mercy, (or Shaar HaRachamim in Hebrew), also called the Golden Gate, was sealed off by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1541, to prevent the Jewish Messiah, or the Anointed One, Elijah, from passing through, but last week a group of Arab worshipers removed an iron gate that was placed by the Israel Police in 2003 to prevent political activists from entering the Holy site.

BY KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

Palestinians declared victory over the weekend after reopening a site on the Temple Mount that had been closed by Israel in 2003.

Thousands of Palestinians, chanting “Allahu Akbar!” Continue Reading »