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Four Palestinian children killed 'after misfiring terror rocket hits Gaza home'

IDF says video proves tragic deaths were wrongly blamed on Israel

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August 7, 2022 12:13

Residents and Palestinian police officers assess the damage in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on August 7, 2022. - Gaza's health ministry blamed "Israeli aggression" for the deaths of civilians, that also included "an elderly woman", and for the 203 people wounded in Jabalia. But an Israeli government statement yesterday denied blame for the strike, that reportedly killed children, insisting that a rocket fired by Gaza militants towards Israel had fallen short. (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS / AFP) (Photo by MAHMUD HAMS/AFP via Getty Images)

Israel

Air raid sirens heard near Jerusalem for first time since launch of Gaza anti-terror op

Hundreds of rockets fired at Israel as militant leaders assassinated

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August 7, 2022 11:19

A picture taken on August 5, 2022, shows Palestinian rockets fired from Gaza City in retaliation to earlier Israeli airstrikes, and Israeli Iron Dome system missiles intercepting them. - A senior militant from Islamic Jihad was killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip today, prompting the militant group to warn Israel has "started a war". A child was among those killed in the strikes, the enclave's health ministry said, while Israel's military estimated 15 were dead. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

Survivor

Felix Kolmer, Terezin and Auschwitz survivor, dies age 100

Kolmer, former President of the International Auschwitz (survivors) Committee, said reaching age 100 was his way of defying the Nazis

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August 5, 2022 19:23

Felix Kolmer, Terezin and Auschwitz survivor, dies age 100

UK-Israel relations

Liz Truss pledges to review moving UK embassy to Jerusalem if elected PM

Her promise comes in a letter issued today to members of Conservative Friends of Israel

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August 5, 2022 16:05

CARDIFF, WALES - AUGUST 03: UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss speaks during a Conservative party membership hustings at the All Nations Centre on August 3, 2022 in Cardiff, Wales. Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss are holding hustings around the UK for Conservative party members as they vie to become their leader and the next UK Prime Minister. (Photo by Matthew Horwood/Getty Images)

Obituary

Obituary: Bernard Maurice Levy - Belsen liberator who became one of the last surviving death camp liberators later established high street chain store High and Mighty

He saw piles of the dead but also watched survivors grow strong again, as babies were born, barmitzvahs and marriages were celebrated and his people came back to life

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August 5, 2022 15:50

Obituary: Bernard Maurice Levy - Belsen liberator who became one of the last surviving death camp liberators later established high street chain store High and Mighty

Books

Book review: Saving Freud - Friends who saved the reluctant refugee

Father of psychoanalysis comes alive again in this book through the eyes of people who cared deeply that he should survive

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August 5, 2022 15:48

circa 1935: Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) the neurologist and founder of psychoanalysis. (Photo by Hans Casparius/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Holocaust

Book review: The Incandescent Threads - Mystic hokum or a popular classic?

The latest in author's Sephardic Cycle begins begins by portraying the relationship between a Jewish-American artist and his father, a Holocaust survivor from Warsaw

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August 5, 2022 15:48