EU, UN Urge ‘Restraint,’ Call for ‘Independent Investigation’ of Hezbollah Rocket Attack on Majdal Shams

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By  Hana Levi Julian  – 22 Tammuz 5784 – July 28, 2024  The European Union and United Nations condemned a horrific Hezbollah rocket attack Saturday on northern Israel that killed 12 children and wounded 30 others while they were playing soccer in the Israeli Druze village of Majdal Shams. The rocket used in the attack was an Iranian-made Falaq-1 that carried a warhead with 53-kilograms explosives, the Israel Defense Forces found in its initial investigation. But despite their condemnations, top officials in both international bodies urged “restraint,” while offering no proposals that would end the threat to northern Israel posed by …

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Time Is Short, You Need To Make A Decision

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Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved! In the New Testament, a jailer at Philippin asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?” (Acts 16:30). Paul and Silas answered, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved” (Acts 16:31). What does it mean to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ? What does it mean to be saved? First of all, it means being saved by faith, not works, Ephesians 2:8-9 says, “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not …

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Israel, US consider land blockade against Iran to increase economic isolation – report

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A land blockade would likely involve cooperation with Iran’s neighbors, which include Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. An Iranian flag flies at half-mast at the Pakistan-Iran border crossing at Taftan, Balochistan province on March 1, 2026 after the death of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei amid US-Israel strikes; Illustrative.(photo credit: Banaras KHAN / AFP via Getty Images)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFFAUGUST 1, 2026 02:48 The United States and Israel are considering implementing a land blockade against Iran to further Tehran’s economic isolation, The Telegraph reported on Friday, with US President Donald Trump believing that the naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz has …

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Trump Orders Fresh Attack Against Iran as War Enters Sixth Month

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President Trump has ordered a fresh attack on Iran aimed at getting Tehran to surrender that could begin as soon as this weekend and would last a few days, U.S. officials said. Earlier on Friday, he told reporters that he planned to resume heavy military strikes to force the regime to come to the negotiating table. He predicted that if the U.S. hit Iran hard enough, the hard-line regime would eventually “peter out.” “We will be hitting them very hard,” Trump said Friday at the televised cabinet meeting. “And you know at some point, they’re going to say, ‘We just can’t take …

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Hamas official says group will reject Board of Peace disarmament deal if Israel does not approve

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The official said that the Gaza agreement is a phased agreement which must be implemented by stages. Gunmen stand guard at the funeral of Marwan Issa, a senior Hamas deputy military commander who was killed in an Israeli airstrike during the conflict between Israel and Hamas, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in the central Gaza Strip, February 7, 2025.(photo credit: REUTERS/Ramadan Abed)ByREUTERSJULY 31, 2026 10:51Updated: JULY 31, 2026 11:06 If Israel does not approve and endorse the Board of Peace’s disarmament deal with Hamas, the terror group will refuse to implement it, a Hamas official told Reuters on Friday. The official said …

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United States strikes dozens of IRGC sites in ‘powerful response’ to Iranian attacks

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The airstrikes came hours after Trump warned Washington would be “hitting them hard.” JNS Staff (July 30, 2026 / JNS)  The U.S. military launched what it described as a “heavy wave of strikes” against Iranian targets on Wednesday, hours after U.S. President Donald Trump warned Washington would be “hitting them hard” in response to Tehran’s recent attacks on American forces. U.S. Central Command said the “powerful response,” which lasted for some two hours, hit dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites across the Islamic Republic. According to CENTCOM, it struck military command centers, missile and drone facilities, coastal surveillance and …

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Hamas has agreed to disarm, Trump says

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The pact, which the terrorist group has yet to confirm accepting, “is a critical step toward Gaza finally being governed by a new Palestinian ‌government,” the U.S. president and Board of Peace chair said. Mike Wagenheim (July 30, 2026 / JNS)  U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that the Board of Peace, which he chairs, reached an agreement with Hamas for the complete disarmament ‌of the terrorist groups that rule and control the Gaza Strip. Trump said that it was a “major milestone in the implementation” of his 20-point plan to bring an end to the Israel-Hamas war and …

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US officials: If Israel refuses the deal, Trump will be disappointed

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US and Board of Peace officials brief reporters on Gaza demilitarization deal, reveal that Tehran attempted to sabotage negotiations and warn that a rejection from Israel would disappoint Trump. Israel National News Published: Jul 31, 2026, 4:24 AM (GMT+3) Signing of Gaza Peace DealMichael Kappeler/dpa via Reuters Connect US administration officials and members of the Gaza Board of Peace spoke with reporters on Thursday night regarding the historic agreement announced by President Donald Trump, under which Hamas and other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip will disarm. Senior administration officials emphasized the close coordination with Jerusalem throughout the negotiation process, saying that the …

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IRGC officials urged Hamas not to sign disarmament deal during late-stage negotiations – report

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Hamas representatives reportedly met with IRGC officials on a recent visit to Iran for the funeral of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei, per Axios.  (FILE PHOTO) Members of security forces look on during a funeral procession held for IRGC Navy Chief Alireza Tangsiri, alongside other senior naval commanders and their families who were killed in US-Israeli strikes in late March, on April 1, 2026 in Tehran, Iran.(photo credit: Majid Saeedi/Getty Images)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFFJULY 31, 2026 07:36Updated: JULY 31, 2026 07:47 Officials from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) urged Hamas delegation members not to sign Thursday’s disarmament deal, Axios reported on Friday, citing a source familiar with the …

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Turkey’s Ottoman Revival: A Warning For Christians & Jews

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Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen has issued a stark warning about Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ambitions to revive the Ottoman Empire’s regional dominance, including a claim on Jerusalem itself.  In an in-depth strategic analysis with the TOV Hebrew media network, Hacohen laid out a pattern of Turkish behavior, cross-border military expansion, sweeping maritime claims, and highly symbolic religious reversals, that he says amounts to a systematic project to project Turkish power far beyond its borders, reviving a 400-year Ottoman legacy (1516-1917) that once ruled almost the entire Middle East and stretched deep into Christian Europe.  That history is exactly …

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The Wars Have Found Each Other: How Iran, Russia, China, Israel and Ukraine became part of the same conflict – Tania Koenig

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July 29, 2026 Within twenty-four hours, the shape of the Iran war became unmistakable. A reported contract placed as many as 400 Chinese-made air-defense systems on a possible route toward Iran. Then, at 8 p.m. Eastern Time on July 29, American strikes against Iran resumed. Between those developments stood President Trump’s meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, Volodymyr Zelensky’s presence in Washington, Lindsey Graham’s funeral and a Senate vote joining pressure upon Russia and Iran. The immediate reason for the bombing was Iran’s attempted missile attack against American forces in Jordan. Yet the larger meaning lay in everything that had gathered around …

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US strikes Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in ‘powerful response’ to attacks on its forces

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Command centers and other sites hit, says CENTCOM; Trump said ‘exasperated’ by war’s lack of progress By ToI Staff, Jacob Magid Follow and AgenciesToday, 9:25 am A screenshot of video released by US Central Command on July 29, 2026, shows a strike on a target in Iran. (X screenshot) US Central Command carried out “a heavy wave of strikes” on dozens of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps targets in Iran, it said early Thursday, a day after the Iranian military force targeted American troops in the region with ballistic missiles. CENTCOM described the strikes as “a powerful response to yesterday’s attempted Iranian attacks on US forces …

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New Hamas leader meets with Turkish foreign minister, reaffirm backing – report

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This appears to be the first high-level meeting that Hayya has had since being elected to his new role on July 20. Hamas said Khalil al-Hayya had been elected head of its political bureau. Current leader of Hamas, Khalil al-Hayya (R), holds a press conference in Damscus, Syria.(photo credit: LOUAI BESHARA / AFP via Getty Images)BySETH J. FRANTZMANJULY 30, 2026 11:06 Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan recently met Khalil al-Hayya, the new leader of Hamas, according to Turkish state-run media reports. Anadolu Agency media in Turkey reported on July 30 that “Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan met Wednesday with Khalil al-Hayya, the newly …

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Drones launched from Iran caused US tanker explosion at Egyptian port- report

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On Wednesday, maritime security firm Ambrey said that a drone hit a US-owned gas storage tanker at the port of Damietta. (Illustrative) Fishing boats in Ezbet Al-Borg, the most famous place to sell fish in Egypt on July 2, 2024 in Damietta, Egypt.(photo credit: Ali Moustafa/Getty Images)ByJERUSALEM POST STAFFJULY 30, 2026 08:36Updated: JULY 30, 2026 10:46 The explosion of a US tanker at Egypt’s Mediterranean port of Damietta on Wednesday was the result of an Iranian drone attack, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing two Iranians who requested anonymity.  The NYT‘s sources did not specify which group launched the drone, saying only that …

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Iran threatens to expand war if US resumes strikes, which it says Israel is pushing for

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Ahead of Trump-Netanyahu meet, Iran says conflict will spread ‘geographically’ if US renews strikes after 2 days of quiet; reports progress on talks with Oman on Strait of Hormuz By Agencies and ToI Staff26 July 2026, 1:31 pm This screen grab made on July 26, 2026 from footage released by the US Central Command (CENTCOM) on July 25, 2026 shows what CENTCOM says are operations enforcing its naval blockade against Iran. (US CENTRAL COMMAND (CENTCOM) / AFP) TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s army warned on Sunday that the Middle East war would widen if the United States chose to press ahead with attacks on …

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Report: US special forces preparing potential raid to seize Iran’s enriched uranium

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Possible targets included the damaged Fordo and Isfahan facilities, as well as the underground Pickaxe Mountain complex near Natanz i24NEWS 3 min read July 25, 2026 at 12:33 PM US special operations forces were preparing for a possible mission to seize enriched uranium from Iran’s fortified nuclear facilities, the New York Post reported, citing a source familiar with military planning and US security experts. The operation could involve thousands of troops securing nuclear sites, clearing damaged or booby-trapped entrances and establishing protected routes to an airfield. A smaller team of special operators would then enter the facilities and remove the nuclear material, …

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