Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said on Thursday that two industrial zones, a new power line and a hospital would be built for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as part of truce understandings between his Islamist group and Israel.
The deal, brokered by Egypt, Qatar and the United Nations, has not been publicly acknowledged by Israel, which deems Gaza’s ruling Hamas movement a terrorist organization and shuns direct negotiations.
In a briefing to foreign media, Haniyeh accused Israel of failing to comply fully with the understandings and of repeatedly reducing the size of Gaza’s fishing zone, which he said was to be widened to 18 miles under the deal.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin addressed on Thursday in Jerusalem the International Conference on Combating Antisemitism and the BDS Campaign.
The gathering — organized by the Israeli Ministry of Strategic Affairs — was attended by 350 people from 30 countries, including US Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism Elan Carr.
“BDS does not seek peace, or even to help our Palestinian neighbors,” Rivlin said. “It seeks to delegitimize Israel’s very existence. We must use all the tools at our disposal to defeat BDS — in the court room, in the board room, in civil society, in social media, in academia and in the halls of power. We must expose the modern blood libels spread by BDS and put a price on its hate and discrimination.”
He continued:

The Senate on Thursday passed three measures to block President Donald Trump from using his emergency authority to complete several arms sales benefiting Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates but fell short of the support needed to overcome a pledged veto.
Trump has cited rising tensions with Iran as justification for using his emergency powers to complete the deals.

It has been a busy week for Middle Eastern affairs. Israel announced the establishment of “Trump Heights” in the Golan, Iran has announced it will soon achieve higher uranium enrichment levels, and the United States has announced that Israel will not be attending next week’s economic workshop in Bahrain. That workshop has drawn significant attention as it is the Trump administration’s much anticipated first foray into the conundrum that is the Arab-Israeli conflict.
As a pretext to the workshop, the World Values Network, led by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, hosted an informal sit-down with Jason Greenblatt, chief Middle East negotiator to the White House, and New York Times’ columnist Bret Stephens to explore whether peace between Israel and the Palestinians is truly possible.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently told her Instagram followers that the United States is “running concentration camps” on the southern border. Aside from the insensitive nature of this statement, it also reflects a deep misunderstanding and ignorance of the Holocaust and what occurred in the concentration camps.

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says Iran should be “ready for severe pain” if they continue to escalate tensions in the Middle East.
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Ismail Haniya, the leader of the Gaza-based Hamas terrorist organization, said Thursday Hamas rejected next week’s US-sponsored Middle East economic conference in Bahrain as it would amount to Arab “normalization” of ties with Israel.
“We clearly express our rejection and non-acceptance of any Arab or Islamic country holding such a conference, which constitutes normalization with the occupation,” Haniya said, referring to Israel.
President Trump’s administration organised the conference, which is to be held on June 25 and 26 in Manama for the unveiling of the economic component of a US Israeli-Arab peace plan.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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When the 17-year-old arrived at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, his entire jaw was cracked and a chunk of the bone had been completely shattered. Several of his teeth were missing and there was a hole in his chin.
“That’s an injury we see in high-speed motor vehicle crashes,” Katie W. Russell, a pediatric surgeon who treated the teenager in March last year, told The Washington Post. “It’s a big injury.”
Jonathan Skirko, a pediatric ear, nose and throat surgeon who operated on the boy, told The Post the damage looked “kind of like a close-range gunshot wound.”
But the teen, whose mother identified him as Austin, wasn’t in a car crash, and he didn’t get shot. He was using a vape pen when it exploded in his mouth.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on “all peace-loving countries to stand by the United States in its effort to stop Iranian aggression” following Thursday’s downing of an American military drone in the Gulf region.
“In the last 24 hours, Iran has intensified its aggression against the United States and against all of us,” Netanyahu said. “Israel stands by the United States on this.”
Earlier on Thursday, US President Donald Trump tweeted that Iran had “made a very big mistake” by targeting the US Navy RQ-4A Global Hawk drone.
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Who doesn’t love nostalgia?
Music aficionados will appreciate these Hartzig masterpieces.
Presenting, some amazing Yossi Green classics, performed by the incomparable Avraham Fried.
These three featured songs are from Avremel’s repertoire spanning a decade from the early years of his career (1983-1993).
He is accompanied by an astounding 40 piece Yochi Briskman Orchestra to help bring these songs to life,
conducted by Yochi
with arrangements by Yanky Briskman.
Lending their vocal support, are the Zemiros Choir, led by the talented Yoily Polatseck with sophisticated harmonies and vocal accompaniment.
Recorded live at the Klein/Lieberman wedding – March 24, 2019 @ Ateres Avraham, Brooklyn, NY.
Songs: