Joshua Marks
Sign outside the Velana International Airport (Photo by Saaremees, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia)
April 15, 2025, 3:19 pm
Maldives bans Israeli passport holders amid Gaza conflict
The move follows parliamentary approval and growing domestic pressure.
By Joshua Marks
Israeli forces operating in northern Gaza on March 20, 2025. (Credit: IDF)
March 20, 2025, 9:04 am
IDF launches ground offensive in northern Gaza
The military continues to attack Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad targets across the Strip as the renewed combat entered its third day.
By Joshua Marks
Destruction at Kibbutz Nir Oz. (Photo by Oren Cohen.Destruction at Kibbutz Nir Oz. Photo by Oren Cohen)
March 19, 2025, 10:11 am
‘Incontrovertible proof’: UK report details Hamas atrocities on Oct. 7
Three-fourths of those murdered were civilians, with the ages ranging from a 14-hour-old Bedouin Israeli to a 92-year-old Holocaust survivor
By Joshua Marks
22 hostages are presumed to be alive and the status of two is uncertain: Top row, from left: Elkana Bohbot, Matan Angrest, Edan Alexander, Avinatan Or, Yosef-Haim Ohana, Alon Ohel. Second row, from left: Evyatar David, Guy Gilboa-Dalal, Bipin Joshi, Rom Braslavski, Ziv Berman, Gali Berman. Third row, from left: Omri Miran, Eitan Mor, Segev Kalfon, Nimrod Cohen, Maxim Herkin, Eitan Horn. Bottom row, from left: Matan Zangauker, Bar Kupershtein, David Cunio, Ariel Cunio, Tamir Nimrodi, Pinta Nattapong. (Hostages Families Forum)
March 16, 2025, 6:03 pm
Netanyahu OKs talks based on US proposal to free 11 living hostages
The Witkoff plan also calls for the release of half of the deceased captives held by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza.
By Joshua Marks
Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017. (U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
February 3, 2025, 11:18 am
Trump says Mideast talks ‘progressing’ as Netanyahu arrives in DC
The Israeli premier was scheduled to meet with the president's special envoy to the region Steve Witkoff ahead of his visit to the White House.
By Joshua Marks
Israeli security forces at the scene of a stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, Jan. 21, 2025. (Photo by Itai Ron/Flash90 via JNS)
January 22, 2025, 3:35 pm
Number of wounded in Tel Aviv attack rises to six, including US tourist
Ichilov Hospital announced that two more victims were admitted with minor injuries.
By Joshua Marks
Israelis protest against the government and for the release of hostages in the Gaza Strip, at the Goma Junction in the Galilee on Jan. 11, 2025. (Photo by Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
January 13, 2025, 3:51 pm
Qatar offers hostage draft agreement, awaiting Hamas’ approval
Qatar has reportedly delivered a final draft agreement to both Israel and Hamas.
By Joshua Marks and Amelie Botbol
Israel's Fire and Rescue Services works to keep blazes at bay in northern Israel as a result of rocket attacks by Hezbollah in Lebanon, September 2024. (Credit: Courtesy of KKL-JNF via JNS)
September 23, 2024, 5:06 pm
IAF hits 1,300 sites in Lebanon as Hezbollah pummels northern Israel
The IDF warned civilians in South Lebanon to leave homes used by the Iranian-backed terror organization.
By Joshua Marks
The six hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7, 2023, by Hamas terrorists and who were murdered in Gaza. Their bodies were recovered by the IDF in a tunnel in Khan Younis on Aug. 20, 2024. (Photo courtesy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel)
August 20, 2024, 5:39 pm
IDF recovers remains of six hostages murdered in Gaza
The hostages were identified as Avraham Munder, Yoram Metzger, Nadav Popplewell, Yagev Buchshtav, Chaim Peri and Alex Dancyg.
By Joshua Marks
Haniyeh meeting with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei the day before his death (Khamenei.ir, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
July 31, 2024, 8:19 am
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh killed in Tehran
The Hamas political bureau chief was one of the terrorist group's most senior leaders alongside Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 massacre.
By Andrew Bernard and Joshua Marks
Knesset Building (Photo by Beny Shlevich, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons)
July 18, 2024, 10:16 am
Knesset votes 68-9 for resolution against Palestinian state
The motion opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state "on any piece of land west of the Jordan River."
By Joshua Marks and Amelie Botbol
The parents of rescued Israeli-Russian hostage Andrey Kozlov at the airport in Saint Petersburg on their way to Israel, June 8, 2024. (Israeli Foreign Ministry)
June 9, 2024, 2:55 pm
Journalist, doctor held Israelis hostage in Gaza
They were reportedly killed along with other family members during Israel's Nuseirat rescue operation.
By Joshua Marks
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