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Gaza Children Treated in Israeli Hospital

SACH doctors operate on a Palestinians child at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel.

Only one week after Hamas rockets cease to fall over Israel, the two-week-old daughter of an officer in the Palestinian Authority was successfully treated in Israel and given a new chance at life. Fajar, who is from the Gaza Strip, needed open-heart surgery which she received at Holon’s Wolfson Medical Center on Tuesday with the help of the Save a Child's Heart (SACH) organization.

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Former Israeli President Peres and Pope Unite Against Terrorism

Pope Francis and former president Shimon Peres discuss the problem of terrorism.

Former Israeli president Shimon Peres met with Pope Francis this week to discuss the rise of terrorism in the Middle East. The two talked about “Operation Protective Edge” and the many terrorist activities that Hamas attempted to carry out during the recent conflict. Peres told the Pope, “Hamas’ use of schools, hospitals and mosques as launching pads, and its use of human shields, are opposed to all religious beliefs,” adding, “The war on terror is painful and harms innocents on both sides.” They also discussed the growing threat of the Islamic State in Syria and the threat of Al-Qaeda forces on Israel’s northern border.

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Terrorist Leader Haniyeh Leads in West Bank Polls

Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas

A special Gaza War poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PCPSR) reveals that the war resulted in increased popularity for Hamas and its approach of armed resistance. The poll reported that the change in popularity for Hamas is unprecedented since 2006 and that if parliamentary and presidential elections were held today, Hamas would win.

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Hamas Prisoners Detail Hamas War Crimes and Planned Paraglider Attack

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Hamas prisoners captured during Operation Protective Edge have admitted that Hamas has been raising up a paraglider team to attack Israel using rocket-propelled grenades, semi-automatic Kalashnikov rifles, and commando knives in a surprise move on Israeli forces near the Gaza Strip. Cell leader Mohammad Kadara, 28, confessed that the group had been sent to Malaysia by way of Cairo for training in paragliding. “The plan was to cross the border into Israel with a paraglider, reach an Israel Defense Force Post (IDF) post or settlement near the border, shoot at soldiers and civilians and kill as many Israelis as possible,” said Kadara.

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Kerry Warns World That ISIS Is Perilously Close to Israel

An IDF soldier stands guard at a military base in the Golan Heights.

After the abduction of United Nations' forces in Syria by rebel forces, the Syrian army and rebel Islamic forces continue to battle along Israel’s Golan border with Syria, placing the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) on high alert in the Golan Heights. The IDF also ordered farmers and civilians to vacate the Syria border area amid fierce fighting at the Quneitra crossing. On Friday, United States Secretary of State John Kerry called on the world to unite to defeat ISIS terror. “They have already demonstrated the ability to seize and hold more territory than any other terrorist organization, in a strategic region that borders Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey and is perilously close to Israel,” he wrote in a New York Times piece published Friday.

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Gaza Ceasefire Holds as Hamas Declares Jerusalem the Ultimate Goal

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas

At a news conference in Doha Qatar on Thursday, Khaled Meshaal described the latest Gaza conflict as being only “a milestone to reaching our objective.” That objective includes taking Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site. Another statement after the truce announcement by Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri confirmed Jerusalem was among the long term goals: “The time has come for us to say that the true war is not aimed at opening border crossings. Our true war is aimed at the liberation of Jerusalem.”

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Canaanite Wine Cellar Found in Galilee

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A recently released study by archaeologists who last year unearthed what was thought to be a Bronze Age royal wine cellar at the northern Galilee site of Tel Kabri confirmed that the bottles originally contained wine. “The presence of both tartaric and syringic acids in relative abundance as biomarkers indicates that all of these vessels originally held wine and that we may be confident in identifying this space as a wine storage room—that is to say, a wine cellar,” they said.

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At Risk Israeli Farmers Get Bomb Shelters and 500 Helping Hands

A farm hand in Israel maintains greenhouse legumes.

Many of the rockets that are fired from the Strip fall in agricultural fields. Until now, no farmer has been hurt, but the crops and fields have suffered. The government has committed to assisting those farmers who have suffered losses to crops and livestock. The director of Yofi Shel Yerakhot (Beautiful Vegetables) a cooperative of farmers in the Negev, said that their members as well as their workers (many of whom are Thai foreign workers), are committed to working the extra hours needed to assure a steady supply of vegetables to Israeli tables despite the crisis of Hamas bombing. Another group of foreign workers—500 Christian volunteers—will be arriving over the next three months to help farmers in Judea and Samaria. They have come as a part of a trip organized by the American Christian organization HaYovel (the Jubilee).

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School Year Opens in Israel Despite Gaza Rockets

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Despite the continued barrage of rockets fired at Israel from Gaza, the school year will start on September 1. In order to help students who are suffering from the stress of continually being bombed by Hamas, Israel’s teachers have been directed to lead discussions in which students talk about what they have experienced during the ongoing Gaza conflict.

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