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Live Updates: Sinwar's second-in-command eliminated, IAF conducts airstrikes in Beirut

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 Israeli troops and a tank operate in the Gaza Strip. Photo published October 3, 2024. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
Israeli troops and a tank operate in the Gaza Strip. Photo published October 3, 2024.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

IAF intercepts suspicious aerial target off coast of Gush Dan after explosions were heard in center

Areas included Ramat Hasharon, Herzliya, Tel Aviv, and Petah Tikva, according to reports.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
 Rockets being intercepted over northern Israel, 22 September 2024 (photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X)
Rockets being intercepted over northern Israel, 22 September 2024
(photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X)

The IAF intercepted a suspicious aerial target off the coast of Gush Dan early Thursday morning, the IDF stated.

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Israel’s 68,000 evacuees celebrate Jewish new year apart — and wonder when they will return home

Families have had to spend the Jewish holidays separated, as Hezbollah continues to fire at civilian communities.

By DEBORAH DANAN/JTA
A woman and a girl hold pet carriers and other belongings as they prepare to depart from Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, Oct. 19, 2023.  (photo credit: JALAA MAREY/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
A woman and a girl hold pet carriers and other belongings as they prepare to depart from Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, Oct. 19, 2023.
(photo credit: JALAA MAREY/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

(JTA) — At this point, Gabi Hasin had grown used to fleeing his home ahead of missile fire from Lebanon. A resident of the northern border city of Kiryat Shemona, Hasin has spent the past year on the move, relocating seven times to keep himself and his family out of harm’s way.

So when he packed his bags and moved south again over the past couple weeks — this time from the northern city of Tiberias to Jerusalem — it was the least of his problems. He’s taking sleeping pills for the first time in his life.

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‘I discovered I’m much more Israeli than I thought’: How Oct. 7 changed being Israeli in America

Israelis living abroad speak of antisemitism, lack-of-sympathy in the wake of October 7.

By JACOB GURVIS/JTA
 Pro-palestinian demonstrators marched at a park near Chicago's West side, August 21, 2024  (photo credit: JULIE MANGURTEN WEINBERG)
Pro-palestinian demonstrators marched at a park near Chicago's West side, August 21, 2024
(photo credit: JULIE MANGURTEN WEINBERG)

(JTA) — While she was studying last year at Columbia University’s journalism school, Eleanor Reich would walk by protests calling for her country to be destroyed. When she would pass by classmates in the hallways, she said, some would avoid her gaze.

Only when she returned home to Tel Aviv did she feel like she could exhale. She said when she arrived for her first trip back in December, she immediately started crying.

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Aziz Salha, photographed preparator of Ramallah lynching, killed in IAF strike in Gaza - report

Salha became famous for waving his hands out the window that were covered in the blood of two IDF reserve soldiers that he and other perpetrators of the lynching had murdered.

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 Aziz Salha with bloody hands during lynching in Ramallah in 2000. (photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Aziz Salha with bloody hands during lynching in Ramallah in 2000.
(photo credit: Wikimedia Commons)

Aziz Salha, one of the perpetrators of the Ramallah lynching in 2000, was killed in an IAF strike in central Gaza, Army Radio reported early Thursday morning citing Palestinian reports.

Salha became famous for waving his hands out the window that were covered in the blood of two IDF reserve soldiers that he and other perpetrators of the lynching had murdered.

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Israel allegedly striking targets in western Syria, state media claims

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Israel allegedly struck targets on coastal cities in western Syria, the country's state media claimed.

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Israel-Hamas war: What you need to know


  • Hamas launched a massive attack on October 7, with thousands of terrorists infiltrating from the Gaza border and taking some 240 hostages into Gaza
  • Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 at the Re'im music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across Gaza border communities
  • 101 hostels remain in Gaza
  • 48 hostages in total have been killed in captivity, IDF says