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An Israeli drone fired three missiles one after the other at a World Central Kitchen convoy escorting an aid truck to a food warehouse in Deir al-Balah, according to defense sources familiar with the details haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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According to defense sources, the cars were clearly marked as belonging to the organization, but the war room of the unit responsible for securing the route identified an armed man on the truck and suspected that he was a terrorist, sources said haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The truck reached the warehouse with the World Central Kitchen's three cars, with seven volunteers in them – two dual-national Palestinians (U.S. and Canada) and five citizens of Australia, the UK, and Poland haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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A few minutes later, the three cars left the warehouse without the truck, on which the ostensibly armed man was located.
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At some point, when the convoy was driving along the approved route, the war room of the unit responsible for security of the route ordered the drone operators to attack one of the cars with a missile haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Some of the passengers were seen leaving the car after it was hit and switching to one of the other two.
They continued to drive and even notified the people responsible that they were attacked, but, seconds later, another missile hit their car haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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The third car in the convoy approached, and the passengers began to transfer to it the wounded who had survived the second strike in order to get them out of danger. But then a third missile struck them haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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"It's frustrating," one of the defense sources told Haaretz. "We're trying our hardest to accurately hit terrorists, and utilizing every thread of intelligence" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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"And in the end the units in the field decide to launch attacks without any preparation, in cases that have nothing to do with protecting our forces" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Twelve young women live in the three-story villa at the edge of Be'er Yaakov, a town southeast of Tel Aviv. They take turns with the cooking, smoke together in the garden, and sleep in well-lit and well-kept rooms, two or three to a room haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Next to their beds they hang posters, paintings and inspirational quotes.
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But in recent months these women have been shaken. October 7 has triggered emotions they're trying to leave behind. "I unwillingly saw some very harsh video clips," says Libby Shalev Ashwal, 22 haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Five months into the war, there is almost nothing left of Gaza's substantial Ukrainian community. The women who helped found it had to flee, becoming asylum seekers scattered across Europe / @lizarozovsky haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
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"When Netanyahu and the radical right came to power, I immediately told my husband that we had to sell everything and leave. I knew there would be a war. I told him, 'With this party, there is no other possibility'" haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
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These are the recollections of Tetiana (not her real name), a 49-year-old Ukrainian citizen and a physician who fled the Gaza Strip with three of her children in early December haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…
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Israel's English-language government spokesman Eylon Levy has been suspended from his post. The Prime Minister's office confirmed this, but did not specify the reason / @shap56405 haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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According to speculation by Israeli news outlets, Levy's suspension stems from his response on X to a post by British Foreign Secretary David Cameron concerning humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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This isn't the first time Levy has found himself embroiled in controversy since stepping into his position in the wake of Hamas' attack on October 7 haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
Beyond the fact that as a journalist I never sign petitions, I have no positive expectations of Israeli academic institutions, so I didn't sign a protest letter against the suspension of Hebrew University professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian / Amira Hess haaretz.com/opinion/2024-0…
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The dean of a professor who was suspended for comments she made regarding October 7 said he opposes her return to teaching unless she recants haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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He said that without regard to a decision by the university administration regarding Prof. Shalhoub-Kevorkian, his decision "is not because of such political statements, nor is it because of disciplinary or regulatory or other infractions" haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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If you're not living this war, as Israelis and Palestinians are, then your conception of it will be constructed from selective snapshots by necessity. The pieces you see are dependent on the kind of media you consume and are exposed to haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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And then there are the snapshots you decide to believe, which in general will confirm preexisting beliefs or what you need to believe to justify your own predicament, which may have very little, if anything, to do with the war itself haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Take for example British-Jewish director Jonathan Glazer. I have no reason to believe that the words Glazer used in his acceptance speech do not reflect his real position haaretz.com/israel-news/20…
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Chuck Schumer's watershed speech calling for new Israeli elections and the end of Netanyahu's time as PM drew sharp partisan reactions, demonstrating how the Israeli PM's standing in D.C. is becoming politicized like never before / @Bsamuels0 haaretz.com/us-news/2024-0…
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The Likud Party released a statement regarding the speech, that reads: "Israel is not a banana republic, but an independent, proud democracy that elected Prime Minister Netanyahu" / @Bsamuels0 haaretz.com/us-news/2024-0…
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"In contrast to Schumer's remarks, the Israeli public supports a total defeat of Hamas, and rejects any international command to establish a Palestinian terrorist state, and returning the Palestinian Authority to Gaza," it continued / @Bsamuels0 haaretz.com/us-news/2024-0…