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Israel-Hamas War: What happened on day 363?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure across southern Lebanon  (photo credit: IDF)
IDF strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure across southern Lebanon
(photo credit: IDF)

Six dead, seven wounded in Israeli strikes on Beirut - report

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Six people were killed and seven were wounded in Israeli airstrikes in Beirut's Al-Bashoura neighborhood, Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese media outlet Al Mayadeen reported Thursday morning. 

CNN reported that this was the first strike of its kind on the neighborhood since 2006.

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IDF conducts precision strikes in Beirut

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The IDF conducted precise strikes in the Dahieh neighborhood in southern Beirut on Wednesday night, with three strikes on the southern suburbs of the city, the military announced.

In the latest Beirut attack, the IDF targeted a building where a Hezbollah member of parliament, Amin Shari, was staying, according to Maariv citing Arab reports.

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Funeral of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to be held on Friday - report

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The funeral of Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike, will be held on Friday, according to report from KAN.

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Hamas refused to take part in ceasefire negotiations for several weeks, US State Department says

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The Hamas terrorist organization has refused to take part in negotiations for a hostage release-ceasefire deal for the past several weeks, US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Tuesday.

"Hamas has been unwilling to come to the table to engage the past several weeks," Miller said.

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US resident killed in Israel's military campaign in Lebanon, friend says

"We are deeply saddened by the death of Kamel Ahmad Jawad and our hearts go out to his family and friends. His death is a tragedy...," a White House spokesperson said.

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 Dark clouds blanket the sky over Beirut suburbs during heavy rainfall, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, Lebanon October 1, 2024. (photo credit: REUTERS/AMR ABDALLAH DALSH)
Dark clouds blanket the sky over Beirut suburbs during heavy rainfall, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, Lebanon October 1, 2024.
(photo credit: REUTERS/AMR ABDALLAH DALSH)

A US resident from Dearborn, Michigan, has been killed in Lebanon, the American government said on Wednesday, with the man's friend and neighbors saying he died in an Israeli airstrike.

"We are deeply saddened by the death of Kamel Ahmad Jawad and our hearts go out to his family and friends. His death is a tragedy, as are the deaths of many civilians in Lebanon," a White House spokesperson said.

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Iran awaits Israeli retaliation as Khamenei blames US, Europe for regional instability

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei the US and the West of helping Israel with financial, logistical, and intelligence support as it battled Iranian proxy groups over the last year

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
 IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with President Masoud Pezeshkian and his cabinet in Tehran, last month.  (photo credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/West Asia News Agency/Reuters)
IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks during a meeting with President Masoud Pezeshkian and his cabinet in Tehran, last month.
(photo credit: Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/West Asia News Agency/Reuters)

Iran lashed out at the United States and Europe Wednesday as Israel looked to retaliate against the Islamic Republic for its missile attack and the region braced for the possibility of a third confrontation between the two arch-foes.

“In our region, the root cause of problems, which leads to conflicts, wars, concerns and hostilities, and such like, results from the presence of the same people who claim to advocate peace and tranquility in the region.

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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.

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 Rockets being intercepted over northern Israel, 22 September 2024 (photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X)
Rockets being intercepted over northern Israel, 22 September 2024
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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.
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(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
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(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.
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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-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