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Houthis fire cluster munition for first time

By JNS STAFF

(JNS.org) – The Israel Defense Forces attacked several key locations in Yemen on Sunday, including in the capital Sanaa and the port city of Hodeidah, following the first-ever cluster missile fired by the Houthis at Israel on Friday night.

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World Zionist Congress lifts ban on Betar USA head, permitting him to serve as a delegate

By ANDREW LAPIN

(JTA) — The head of the militant pro-Israel group Betar USA will be permitted to attend this fall’s World Zionist Congress as a delegate, months after the congress had barred him from the position over his “aggressive,...

Global hunger monitor declares famine in parts of Gaza; Israel rejects the determination

By PHILISSA CRAMER

(JTA) — An international hunger monitoring group says portions of Gaza now meet its standards for declaring a famine, crossing a threshold that it said had not previously been reached.

The declaration on Friday by the Integrated...

Reform movement urges against death penalty for alleged Capital Jewish Museum shooter

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — The Reform movement’s Washington-based advocacy arm is urging Attorney General Pam Bondi not to seek the death penalty for the man accused of killing two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., in May.

Rabbi Jonah...

Most Americans believe UN members — including the US — should recognize Palestinian statehood

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Most Americans — 58% — believe that countries in the United Nations should recognize a Palestinian state, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll.

The poll surveyed U.S. adults from Aug. 13 to 18, as several...

Israel approves vast West Bank settlement plan that far-right minister said ‘practically erases the two-state delusion’

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Israel has approved a long-delayed settlement project that would build 3,400 housing units for Jews in the West Bank, in a move that both its backers and its many critics say would undercut Palestinian ambitions...

State Dept press officer fired over Israeli-Palestinian policy clash

By MIKE WAGENHEIM

(JNS.org) – The U.S. State Department has fired its top press officer for Israeli-Palestinian affairs, Shahed Ghoreishi, following disputes over language and terminology to be disseminated to the public, according to the Washington Post.

Internal disputes had reportedly...

Trump says remaining hostages will be released when Hamas is ‘confronted and destroyed’

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — President Donald Trump said Monday morning that the remaining hostages in Gaza will only be returned when Hamas is “confronted and destroyed.”

“We will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is...

Katherine Clark, a House Democratic leader, becomes highest-ranking lawmaker to call war in Gaza a ‘genocide’

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — House Minority Whip Katherine Clark, a member of the Democratic leadership team, last week became the highest-ranking member of Congress to characterize the war in Gaza as a “genocide,” according to a video clip obtained...

Jewish Democrat Jamie Raskin joins list of lawmakers backing bill to restrict arms transfers to Israel

By GRACE GILSON

(JTA) — Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Jewish Democrat in Maryland, has joined a growing list of Democrats backing a bill that would withhold the transfer of offensive weapons to Israel from the United States.

Raskin’s backing of...