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Limor Simhony Philpott

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How will Israel hit back against Iran?

Iran’s attack on Israel signals a new era. For the first time, Iran targeted Israel directly, not only through proxies – and not in a way that...

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Bibi / How will Israel respond to Iran’s attack?

Iran’s retaliatory attack, which Israel has been expecting since it killed Iranian commanders in Damascus on 1st April, has started this evening....

14.04.2024 10

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Israel is still committed to eliminating Hamas

On Wednesday, three sons of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh were killed by an Israeli airstrike. The three were killed when their car was bombed in...

12.04.2024 5

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Will Netanyahu take Biden’s ceasefire ultimatum seriously?

When Netanyahu claimed that he had a ‘good’ talk with American President Joe Biden on Thursday, he was hiding a bombshell. It was shortly revealed...

05.04.2024 10

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How will Iran respond to Israel’s drone assassination in Damascus?

Last night, six missiles fired from an Israeli F-35 combat aircraft hit and destroyed a building belonging to the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria....

02.04.2024 10

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The UN’s ceasefire call will only strengthen Hamas

The UN has passed a draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to last until the end of Ramadan in two weeks’ time, possibly...

25.03.2024 1

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Why Israel targeted Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital

Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa, was once again turned into a battlefield yesterday. Five hours of fighting between Israel and Hamas at the...

19.03.2024 9

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Why a Ramadan ceasefire in Gaza looks unlikely

Hopes for a temporary ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas during Ramadan were dashed over the weekend, when it became apparent that no such deal...

11.03.2024 5

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Netanyahu’s plan won’t deradicalise the Palestinians

Four months after the beginning of the Gaza war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has finally presented his security cabinet with a post-war...

24.02.2024 40

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Why the US is suddenly calling for a ceasefire in Gaza

In a surprising move, the United States has put forward a draft for a UN Security Council resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire between Israel...

20.02.2024 5

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Hamas can’t hide behind hospitals anymore

Israeli special forces are operating in Nasser hospital, one of the main hospitals in the city of Khan Yunis, where the Israel Defence Forces have...

15.02.2024 9

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Israel has to invade Rafah if it wants to destroy Hamas

When news broke that Israel planned to start an offensive in the city of Rafah, in the southern part of the Gaza Strip, it was faced with a barrage of...

14.02.2024 7

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Israel cannot accept Hamas’s hostage deal

Following weeks of stagnation in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas over a deal for the release of Israeli hostages, Hamas has finally...

07.02.2024 5

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Israel has suffered its deadliest day in Gaza

It’s only Tuesday, and already Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had one of the worst weeks since the war against Hamas started last...

23.01.2024 10

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The real reason Netanyahu is opposed to a Palestinian state

When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Biden administration earlier this week that he objects to the establishment of a Palestinian...

19.01.2024 2

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America’s support for Israel has strings attached

On his fourth visit to Israel this week since its war with Hamas started, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a message of strong support...

10.01.2024 4

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Why everyone is worried about Hezbollah

Hezbollah has escalated attacks against Israel in the last few days. The Iran-backed Lebanese militant organisation started firing missiles into...

09.01.2024 4

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The risk behind Israel’s assassination of 7 October ‘architect’

Israel today killed top Hamas leader Saleh al-Arouri, in the most significant assassination since the war against Hamas started almost three months...

02.01.2024 3

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Israel’s supreme court verdict spells trouble for Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s supreme court has overturned a law passed by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government last year that would have limited the power of the Israeli...

02.01.2024 5

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Inside the Hamas split over its war with Israel

Hamas leaders based in Qatar have been holding talks with Palestinian officials from Fatah, the political organisation that dominates the Palestinian...

22.12.2023 3

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Why Hamas isn’t willing to strike a deal with Israel

Hamas’s chairman, Ismail Haniyeh, is in Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials about a new temporary ceasefire deal with Israel. Haniyeh only...

21.12.2023 7

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How much longer can Netanyahu resist a hostage deal?

Thousands of protestors have taken to the streets of Tel Aviv following the killing of three young Israeli hostages by the Israeli Defence Forces...

18.12.2023 6

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Netanyahu has finally realised Russia is no friend of Israel

When Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a 50-minute phone call with Russian president Vladimir Putin last weekend, it was only the second...

16.12.2023 9

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The IDF’s death toll is rising

The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) have suffered their deadliest day since the 7 October massacre. Nine soldiers were killed, including the Golani...

14.12.2023 6

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Israel should think twice before assassinating Hamas’s leaders

Israel knows that airstrikes alone cannot help it to win its war against Hamas. To handicap its enemy, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) must kill or...

05.12.2023 7

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How Hamas’s ceasefire gamble backfired

Hamas’s refusal to negotiate the return of the remaining women still in captivity and an early morning missile attack on Israel brought the...

03.12.2023 20

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Hamas has made a mockery of the ceasefire deal

Early this morning, Hamas fired the first shot that signalled the end of its ceasefire deal with Israel, roughly an hour before the truce was due to...

01.12.2023 3

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Can Israel’s ceasefire in Gaza hold?

Originally meant to expire on Monday, the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been extended by at least two days. During the first four days of the...

28.11.2023 6

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Why Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire deal

Following days of speculation, the Israeli cabinet last night approved a deal with Hamas for the release of 50 Israeli hostages – 30 children and 20...

22.11.2023 5

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What’s the truth about Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital?

Last week’s military operation in Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital was mired in controversy. According to the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF), the hospital...

21.11.2023 8

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How will Israel deal with the threat of Hezbollah?

From the very beginning, the war between Israel and Hamas has not been confined to just one front. The Iran-backed, Lebanon-based Islamist militant...

18.11.2023 8

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Israel’s al-Shifa hospital raid won’t be the last in Gaza

Late on Tuesday night, about a week after the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) encircled Gaza’s al-Shifa hospital, Israeli forces entered the complex in...

15.11.2023 8

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After Hamas, who will control Gaza?

Who will rule Gaza once the war is over? Israel, so far, hasn’t provided an answer. The country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been clear...

11.11.2023 9

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‘Humanitarian pauses’ will help Israel defeat Hamas in Gaza

As the IDF continues to close in on Hamas in the heart of Gaza, the US announced that Israel will implement daily four-hour ‘humanitarian pauses’...

10.11.2023 30

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Israel is in a race against time to defeat Hamas

The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) declared last night that Gaza has been encircled and divided into two separate parts: north and south. The majority...

06.11.2023 2

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What Palestinian ‘solidarity’ marchers in the West don’t understand about Hamas

The atrocities committed by Hamas on 7 October have been revealed in their terrible savagery. There are accounts of dead babies, their bodies riddled...

28.10.2023 7

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Netanyahu is looking weak

If the Israeli public had expected any sign of Benjamin Netanyahu taking responsibility for failure to foresee Hamas’s attack on 7 October, for...

26.10.2023 5

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Netanyahu has good reasons to delay the ground invasion of Gaza

Israel has called in more than 300,000 reservists in the 17 days since Hamas’s monstrous attack on 7 October. Many have volunteered for service...

23.10.2023 3

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The Gaza hospital strike changes everything

The explosion that killed hundreds in the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza has created a critical moment that may change the course of the war. Hamas claims...

18.10.2023 6

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Netanyahu’s greatest failure

Over the weekend, the IDF confirmed that it killed the Hamas terrorist who commanded the attack on Israel a week earlier. It was later disclosed that...

16.10.2023 3

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Israel is a country of lions led by donkeys

Israelis were turning against the country’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu even before Hamas’s invasion. Over the last six months, tens of...

14.10.2023 7

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A ground invasion of Gaza is hugely risky for Israel

In a sign that the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) are planning to ramp up the war in Gaza, Israel has called for evacuation of 1.1 million Palestinian...

13.10.2023 3

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What happened to ‘Never again’?

For Jews everywhere, there was an eery familiarity about the terrible violence unleashed on Israel during Saturday’s attack by Hamas. This was no...

11.10.2023 20

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Israelis are furious at Benjamin Netanyahu

Israelis are livid. Their fury is directed not only at Hamas for massacring over 700 people, wounding thousands and abducting at least 130 including...

09.10.2023 10

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Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel was meant to bring war

In the early hours of this morning, Israelis had a flashback to the surprise attack of the Yom Kippur War that started almost 50 years ago to the day,...

07.10.2023 6

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