The boom of Israeli defenses knocking down missiles from Gaza echo in the sky above a sterile glass police building near Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, where terrified people are desperate to find out anything about their missing loved ones. They plead for information about friends and family who disappeared in …
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Trolls, clout-chasers, and the merely clueless are flooding social media with clips from a military video game, passing them off as footage of the unfolding conflict in Gaza. The fake videos come as misinformation about the conflict overflows on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. Following Saturday’s large-scale attack …
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Responding to an eruption of deadly violence between Hamas militants and Israeli Defense Forces that threatens to claim many more lives in the days ahead, Donald Trump and far-right allies are using the crisis to push a familiar anti-immigration narrative back home. According to MAGA world, Hamas won’t stop at …
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Amir Ben Natan, 37, is a stock trader from Herzliya who attended the psytrance Universo Paralello rave – titled Supernova Sukkot – near the Gaza Strip on the morning of October 7, 2023. He was separated from his friends as missiles and bullets rained down and hundreds of festivalgoers were …
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Americans have been captured and are being held hostage by Hamas amid the militant group’s attack on Israel that began Saturday, two Israeli ambassadors said, although the number of American hostages remains unconfirmed. Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan said that “dozens” of Americans are being held in Gaza amid a …
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As verified accounts on X, formerly Twitter, continue to spread misinformation on the violent conflict between Hamas and Israel, Elon Musk directed his nearly 160 million X followers to follow accounts known for disseminating lies. “For following the war in real-time, @WarMonitors & @sentdefender are good,” Musk posted on X …
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Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that the U.S. is “working to verify” reports that “several Americans were killed” and others were taken hostage in Israel over the weekend. “We have reports that several Americans were killed. We’re working overtime to verify that. At the same time, there are reports …
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An outdoor music festival near the Gaza-Israel border turned into a battlefield as militants opened fire on hundreds of attendees. Around 260 bodies were found at the site, according to Israeli rescue service Zaka. And now, families are begging for help to find their missing loved ones. “We didn’t even …
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Bruno Mars’ Saturday night concert in Tel Aviv was canceled amid the ongoing deadly conflict between Israeli forces and Hamas militants that began earlier in the day. Mars performed his first-ever concert in Israel on Wednesday, playing to a sold-out crowd of 60,000 people at Tel Aviv’s Park HaYarkon. The …
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President Joe Biden condemned the “appalling Hamas terrorist attacks” in Israel Saturday after Gaza militants launched a surprise assault that has so far resulted in at least 250 people killed and over 1,000 wounded, an Israeli official said late Saturday, Haaretz reports. “Today, I spoke with @IsraeliPM about the appalling …
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