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Statehouse menorah lighting reaffirms SC support of Israel amid ongoing conflict

COLUMBIA — At the annual menorah lighting on the Statehouse steps, elected officials and Jewish leaders echoed one refrain: South Carolina stands with Israel. Even as major events celebrating the eight-day festival of lights were canceled or toned down elsewhere amid the conflict between Israel and Hamas that has so far claimed thousands of Israeli and Palestinian lives, the 18th annual Isadore E. Lourie Memorial Hanukkah Menorah Lighting in Columbia […]

todayDecember 12, 2023 4

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‘Bulletproof’: The brief, beautiful life of Danielle Waldman | Israel-Palestine conflict

KNOW THEIR NAMESDanielle was just 24 when she and her partner, Noam Shay, were brutally killed by Hamas at Supernova Festival.As the daughter of Israeli tech billionaire, philanthropist and peace ambassador Eyal Waldman, 24-year-old Danielle inherited her father’s belief that Jews and Arabs could work together. He hired more than 200 Palestinian engineers at Mellanox, the tech firm he co-founded in 1999 and led until 2020, believing that working together […]

todayNovember 25, 2023 9

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Hamas had not planned to attack music festival, Israeli report says | Israel-Palestine conflict News

First police investigation of Supernova festival also found Israeli forces responsible for some deaths.Hamas fighters who attacked a music festival in Israel on October 7, killing hundreds, likely did not know in advance about the event and decided to target it on the spot, Israeli media has reported citing police and security sources. According to a copy of the first Israeli police report into the attack, obtained this week by […]

todayNovember 18, 2023 4

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The UN is calling the Israel-Hamas war a ‘graveyard of children’. In an adult conflict, the young are suffering most

Too often, it’s the most vulnerable who suffer most in the throes of war. This remains true, with children accounting for many of the deaths and casualties in the war between Israel and Hamas. Just this week there have been two bombings of the Jabalia Refugee Camp, a densely populated area of the Gaza strip home to many families with children. International agencies are particularly worried. The United Nations International […]

todayNovember 3, 2023 4

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Sullivan on Israel-Hamas war escalating into regional conflict: ‘Risk is real’ 

National security adviser Jake Sullivan warned on Sunday that the “risk” of the Israel-Hamas war escalating into a wider regional conflict is “real,” vowing the U.S. will continue to respond to attacks from Iran proxies to deter the escalation of the conflict in the Middle East. Asked on ABC News’s “This Week,” about what’s expected if Iran-backed groups continue attacks on U.S. forces, Sullivan said, “The president has been very […]

todayOctober 30, 2023 5

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Berlin music academy rocked by Mideast conflict

BERLIN - On stage, the musicians of the Barenboim-Said Akademie in Berlin still play in perfect harmony. But inside, they are reeling. The recent escalation of fighting between Israel and Hamas poses the greatest existential challenge yet for the music academy, founded to build bridges between young Israeli and Arab musicians. "The situation has always been complex, but this is the biggest test since the academy was created in 2016," […]

todayOctober 28, 2023 2

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‘I want him back’: Families of Israeli hostages demand government save them | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Tel Aviv, Israel – Miri Benami tells Al Jazeera she was worried when she could not get through to her son, Yosef Ohana, on October 7. He was at the Supernova Sukkot gathering, and she had heard that Hamas fighters attacked the trance music festival when they infiltrated southern Israel that day. After trying his phone several times, she eventually reached his friend, who had been with Yosef when the […]

todayOctober 25, 2023 3

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Israel-Hamas conflict: A mother shielding her son, a 26yo at a music festival, brothers among Americans killed in Israel

An academic who was 'pro-peace'  Hayim Katsman was "very pro-peace" and had supported "a solution for this bleeding conflict" between Israel and Palestinians before he was killed, his sibling told CNN.  Noy Katsman, who is non-binary and uses they/them pronouns, last heard from their brother that Saturday morning when he wrote to say there were terrorists in Kibbutz Holit, in southwest Israel near Gaza, they said.  When they tried to […]

todayOctober 19, 2023 4

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What to know about the deadly Hamas attack on an Israeli music festival | Israel-Palestine conflict News

At least 260 people died at the Supernova music festival after fighters arrived in trucks and on motorcycles, wearing body armour and brandishing AK-47 assault rifles.On Saturday, thousands witnessed a massacre at an Israeli music festival where Hamas fighters killed at least 260 people and took captives back into Gaza. Here is what to know: What happened and when? About 3,500 young people attended the Supernova music festival, which became […]

todayOctober 10, 2023 5

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