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Arab countries, including those who have peace deals with Jerusalem, slam Israel for Gaza airstrikes that killed senior terrorists.

By Adina Katz, World Israel News

Countries throughout the Arab world, including those who have signed peace agreements with Israel, condemned IAF airstrikes that killed three senior Islamic Jihad commanders, along with 10 other people, in the Gaza Strip overnight Tuesday.

Qatar, a major patron of Hamas that is believed to provide millions of dollars in funding each year to the terror group, framed Israel’s targeting of terrorists as a human rights violation.

The Gulf Kingdom called the bombings “a new episode in the series of horrific occupation crimes against the defenseless Palestinian people, especially women and children,” without mentioning the more than 100 rockets fired at Israel by Gaza-based terror groups last week.

The country placed the blame for rising tensions squarely on Jerusalem, bemoaning the “fading chances of peace and the widening of the cycle of violence due to the provocative Israeli escalation.”

The United Arab Emirates, which inked the Abraham Accords normalization agreement with Israel in 2020, rushed to condemn the “Israeli operation that targeted areas in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the death and injury of numerous people.”

The statement, from the UAE Foreign Ministry, did not place any responsibility on terror groups for firing a volley of rockets at communities in southern Israel last week, and instead demanding “Israeli authorities to halt escalation and avoid exacerbating tension and instability in the region.”

Jordan, another Arab nation that signed a peace deal with Israel, slammed Jerusalem for the airstrikes.

A spokesman for the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said the bombings illustrated “the need for the international community to move immediately and effectively to stop this aggression, and to provide protection for the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in all the occupied Palestinian territories.”

Egypt stressed that the airstrikes “are inconsistent with the rules of international law,” but did not mention in its statement that the indiscriminate firing of rockets at Israeli civilians in communities bordering the Strip is a war crime.

Palestinian Authority officials released statements which failed to acknowledge that the targets of the bombings were terror leaders, instead falsely claiming that all those killed in the airstrikes were civilians.

“We condemn this dangerous Israeli escalation against our people, which targeted children, women, and homes in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including Jerusalem, the latest of which was the killing of 13 civilians, including women and children, in the Gaza Strip, and the injury of 13 people from bullets in Nablus, in addition to the ongoing storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque,” said PA Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas’ spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh.

Echoing that falsehood, Abbas’ spiritual adviser Mahmoud Al-Habbash condemned the airstrikes, saying that all those who died were civilians.

“We hold the Israeli government fully responsible for this dangerous escalation that drags the region into the square of violence, tension and instability.”

PA President Mohammed Shtayyeh said that the “aggression against our people in the Gaza Strip is organized state terrorism and an attempt to export the internal crisis that the government of extremism in Israel suffers from… a practical translation of the doctrine of killing, incineration, and genocide, which those in power in Israel have long professed… [it is] an extension of the Nakba (catastrophe) that befell our people in 1948.”

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A security guard from a nearby base attacked the ancient Djerba synagogue during Lag B’omer festivities, also killing two police guards and injuring nine.

By Batya Jerenberg, World Israel News

Two Jewish men and two Tunisian police officers were murdered Tuesday night in a synagogue shooting in Djerba, Tunisia.

The ancient El Ghriba synagogue was packed with hundreds of Jews, both locals from the tiny extant community on the island and overseas visitors, including from Israel, who were celebrating Lag B’omer, a minor Jewish holiday that has become a local five-day festival.

According to the Tunisian Interior Ministry, a guard at a nearby naval base fatally shot his colleague before heading towards El Ghriba. He opened fire “indiscriminately” at the personnel securing the site, the ministry said, killing two guards and two worshipers. Nine more people sustained bullet wounds, five guards and four worshipers. The ministry did not give the medical status of those injured.

The assailant was then killed by the police in an exchange of fire. According to one report, this occurred when he was already fleeing the scene.

Social media was full of threads describing the scene,  with people commenting on the “great hysteria” and saying they were “besieged” within the walls of the synagogue.

In one video uploaded to social media, people appeared to be panicking inside the synagogue while the man holding the camera says “Everyone is closed in,” “everyone is scared,” and repeating the words, “there’s some kind of terror attack going on here.”

The two Jewish victims were cousins, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, and one of them held Israeli citizenship. Tunisian authorities identified them as a 30-year-old Tunisian and a 42-year-old French national. They were later identified as Aviel and Ben Hadad, who were in the parking lot of the synagogue when they were shot and killed.

The foreign ministry said it was “in contact with the family members of the deceased and is prepared to assist additional Israelis as needed.”

Tunisian authorities, who said the synagogue had been secured, have not yet determined officially that this was a terror attack.

“Investigations are continuing in order to shed light on the motives for this cowardly aggression,” they said in a statement.

Both the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency have been working towards encouraging members of the the local Jewish community to immigrate to Israel, amid growing threats against them in Djerba.

Al Jazeera reported that the attacker was a member of the country’s security forces who had been removed from his position.

Tunisian security forces allowed the crowds to leave the site a few hours after the incident was over.

El Ghriba is a popular year-round Jewish tourist destination due to its status as Africa’s oldest synagogue. According to legend, the first Jewish settlers came to the island after the destruction of the First Temple. A stone, supposedly from the Temple, lies in a cave in the synagogue complex, and it is believed that eggs placed near it during the Lag B’Omer pilgrimage will help infertile women to conceive.

The site is heavily guarded since Al-Qaeda terrorists blew up a truck bomb at the synagogue in 2002, killing 21 tourists, mostly from Western Europe.

Senior Tunisian officials had attended the synagogue for the opening ceremony Monday night, along with American ambassador Joey Hood and visiting US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Deborah Lipstadt, in what the ambassador tweeted was an “example of coexistence in Tunisia” that “reinforces our shared commitment to multiculturalism and the protection of religious freedom.”

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Emergency UN session on brewing conflict between Israel and Gaza-based terror groups scheduled for late Wednesday afternoon.

By World Israel News Staff

The United Nations Security Council scheduled an emergency meeting to discuss escalating tensions between Israel and terror groups in the Gaza Strip.

The meeting, which is set to take place late Wednesday afternoon, comes after terrorists in the coastal enclave fired more than 100 rockets at civilian communities in Israel’s south and Jerusalem responded with airstrikes that killed 10 people, including three senior Islamic Jihad commanders.

The United Arab Emirates, which signed the Abraham Accords normalization agreement with Israel in 2020, said it had called the meeting over “concerning developments” in the region, and that France and China supported the move.

In a statement on Wednesday morning, the UAE’s Foreign Ministry said it “condemned the Israeli operation that targeted areas in the Gaza Strip, which resulted in the death and injury of numerous people.”

The statement avoided acknowledging the role of the terror groups who recently targeted Israel in the conflict, instead calling on “Israeli authorities to halt escalation and avoid exacerbating tension and instability in the region.”

The closed-door, emergency meeting will see diplomats from the U.S., Russia, the United Kingdom, Japan, Switzerland, Brazil and several other countries discuss their concerns over the conflict.

The Palestinian Authority’s representative to the Security Council, Riyad Mansour, has made it clear that he will use the session to slam Israel for the airstrikes.

“We condemn this murderous aggression against the Palestinian people and call for immediate action to hold responsible the criminal perpetrators, both government and military officials of Israel, the occupying power, who are planning and implementing this endless series of systematic human rights violations,” Mansour said.

Notably, Mansour’s statement did not mention the heavy bombardment of Israeli civilian communities near the Strip which took place last week, and falls under the definition of being a war crime.

He also did not mention that the targets of the airstrikes were responsible for the planning and execution of brutal terror attacks against civilians, including a member of the cell behind the slaughter of the Hatuel family.

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“The impact extends far beyond the subway and the stadium. They are copied by children in the classroom who think it’s cool to use ‘Jew’ as a term of abuse.”

By Ben Cohen, Algemeiner

The arrest of more than 150 soccer fans on Saturday by Dutch police as they chanted antisemitic slogans on their way to a top-flight match in Amsterdam has been greeted as an “important” signal that hatred of Jews will no longer be met with impunity, the Netherlands national coordinator for combating antisemitism said on Monday.

The 154 supporters of Dutch team AZ Alkmaar were detained by police officers as they made their way to Saturday’s match against Amsterdam’s flagship side Ajax, which is widely regarded as a “Jewish” club in the mythology of Dutch soccer. As they traveled to the city’s Johan Cruyff Arena on the metro, police officers repeatedly ordered the fans to stop chanting antisemitic slogans that are frequently heard at soccer matches in the Netherlands, among them “Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas,” “all Jews must die,” and “we burn Jews together, because Jews burn best.”

The metro was eventually stopped at the Strandvliet station at 7.30 pm, where police officers arrested the fans after they failed to heed repeated warnings to stop the chants, Dutch news outlet De Volksrant reported. Following the arrests, violence broke out on the bus transporting the fans to a local jail, with windows smashed and two police officers assaulted and verbally abused. Eleven fans subsequently spent the night in the cells. The public prosecutor is currently deliberating on whether to press further charges against the group.

The willingness of the police to overcome the logistical challenge of arresting large numbers of soccer fans proved that the Dutch authorities were no longer willing to tolerate antisemitic agitation, the Netherlands national coordinator for combating antisemitism, Eddo Verdoner, told Dutch media outlets.

“This is a signal that impunity does not exist,” Verdoner said. Referring to the observance of the annual Remembrance Day for World War II victims on May 4, Verdoner added that “we should learn from that: Antisemitism has no place in society.”

Verdoner emphasized that the scenes witnessed on Saturday should not be regarded as merely a problem in the country’s soccer stadiums.

“We shouldn’t pretend that these are ‘just’ antisemitic chants from football supporters,” he said. “The impact extends far beyond the subway and the stadium. They are copied by children in the classroom. They hear this in stadiums and think: it’s cool to use ‘Jew’ as a term of abuse. The tolerance, the indifference, it has to stop.”

The incident was widely condemned by Dutch officials, including Amsterdam Mayor Femke Halsema, who called the chanting “unacceptable” and “painful.” Halsema has already adopted a tougher approach to antisemitic soccer fans, having earlier this year banned supporters of Ajax rivals PSV Eindhoven from attending a match in Amsterdam because of chants that targeted Jews at a previous game.

Separately, the management of AZ Alkmaar issued a statement condemning the chanting, while the city’s mayor, Anja Schouten, said she was “extremely angry and disappointed.”

“Antisemitism is unacceptable and does not belong anywhere, not in our municipality, not in football, not at AZ,” she stressed.

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No rockets on South more than a day after senior Islamic Jihad commanders killed in airstrikes; Hamas officials hint at multi-front war on the horizon.

By Lauren Marcus, World Israel News

After Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip killed three senior Islamic Jihad commanders, along with 10 other people, Israel geared up for a fiery response from terror groups in the coastal enclave.

Schools in Israel’s southern Negev desert communities near the Strip were shuttered, weddings were canceled, and tens of thousands of Israelis hunkered down near their bomb shelters and waited.

Hebrew-language TV news channels fixed their cameras on the skylines of Tel Aviv and Gaza City, with journalists reporting live from the streets of Sderot – just 5 kilometers (3.1 miles) away from the Strip – in a race to be the first outlet to broadcast the inevitable retaliatory rocket fire.

But more than a day after the strikes, Islamic Jihad and other terror groups in the region have yet to respond, and a tense silence has fallen over the region.

Some analysts have claimed that Islamic Jihad is scrambling to figure out who’s in charge after their top leaders were killed, or suggested that their rocket arsenals were severely damaged in later IAF strikes the same day as the assassinations.

Others, including senior IDF officials, have said that the lengthy response time signals that terror groups may be coordinating a response against multiple fronts. Last month, Israel sustained rocketfire from Lebanon, Syria, and the Strip, with all of the attacks occurring within days of each other.

Despite generally not getting involved in clashes between Israel and Islamic Jihad, Hamas has said it plans to support the terror group in reprisal efforts. Hezbollah leaders also made similar statements.

“The response will be unified through the joint military of the resistance factions, and it will teach Israel a great lesson,” a Hamas member told the Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper, which is affiliated with Hezbollah. “The responses will not be limited to a certain faction, but all fronts are to participate.”

Notably, the source hinted that terror groups may save their response for the upcoming Jerusalem Flag March celebration, which is expected to see thousands wave and dance with the Israeli flag throughout the Old City’s Muslim Quarter.

“The leadership of the resistance has put all options on the table, based on the assessment that the enemy started the battle at the time of their choosing, in order to bring the resistance into the campaign under the title ‘reaction to the elimination [of the Palestinian Jihad officials]’ and not about the crimes it intends to carry out in the [Jerusalem Day] Flag March on May 18,” he added.

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By Philip Giraldi, May 09, 2023

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