Yocheved Lifshitz, an 85-year-old Israeli woman, was released after being held hostage for 17 days by Hamas militants in Gaza, beaten in the ribs by her captors, and held in a “spiderweb” of underground tunnels. Lifshitz was abducted from a kibbutz in southern Israel and on Tuesday, a day after …
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken accused militant group Hamas of blocking Americans and citizens of other nations from crossing into Egypt from Gaza and said that “some significant number” of the 10 unaccounted for Americans are being held hostage by Hamas. “We have several hundred Americans and other nationalities, other …
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Omar Ayuso, who shares the same name as his character, is a pillar of the teen telenovela Elite. He’s been around since the first season of Netflix’s Spanish hit, captivating viewers via his tender romance with heartthrob Ander, played by Arón Piper, and the jarring disapproval his character faces in …
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During President Joe Biden‘s Oval Office address on Thursday, he drew attention to Wadea Al-Fayoume, the six-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was stabbed to death in an alleged hate crime. “His name was Wadea,” said Biden during his address to the nation. “A proud American, a proud Palestinian American family. We …
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Since Elon Musk‘s takeover of X, formerly Twitter, the company’s dismantlingof content moderation teams, shift to a pay-for-verification model, and the launch of engagement-based revenue sharing have led to a flood of misinformation on the site. This has led to a social media platform struggling to keep up with misinformation …
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While conventional wisdom has long held that Republicans, and particularly evangelicals, are the staunchest allies of Israel in the U.S., the latest bloody exchanges between the state and Hamas militants have revealed fault lines in that critical base of support. Rather than close ranks to back Israeli attacks on Gaza, …
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Omer Shem-Tov has been missing for nearly two weeks – the same amount of time the light in his bedroom in central Israel has remained on, day and night. The aspiring DJ was attending the Supernova rave in the Negev Desert close to Gaza when Hamas gunmen ambushed the party …
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Winged unicorns dance to a slow lullaby across a pink field of rainbows, cotton candy clouds, and smiling pastel stars. Black text interrupts the scene. “40 INFANTS WERE MURDERED IN ISRAEL BY THE HAMAS TERRORISTS (ISIS). JUST AS YOU WOULD DO EVERYTHING FOR YOUR CHILD. WE WILL DO EVERYTHING TO …
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In the aftermath of a blast at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, which killed hundreds of Palestinian patients and refugees in the medical complex, rampant misinformation has once again clogged online information avenues. As has been observed since the outbreak of the conflict last week, instances of misinformation have …
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Alicia Keys was pressured to clarify that her Instagram post about wanting to learn how to paraglide was definitely not in any way an allusion to an incident in the Israel–Hamas conflict, as some extremely online commentators suggested. On Monday, Keys shared a photo of herself with a banal caption …
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