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After the rise in anti-Asian hate crimes during the COVID-19 pandemic, I felt a new kind of loneliness. It was the loneliness of feeling not cared about, or worse – hated – for simply existing as an Asian person. It was the loneliness of feeling like your community was isolated and in danger because the rest of the world legitimately was blaming you for something that had nothing to do with you, and didn’t seem to care if you were harmed because of it.
IDF calling up more reserves
Yoav Zitun |
Published: 05.13.21 , 16:33
The IDF said on Thursday it is calling up 7,000 more reservists for the Artillery units and for the Iron Dome Missile Defense System. It also said that leaves have been suspended in the combat units.
According to the military, 25 rockets were launched at the greater Tel Aviv area on Thursday in the early afternoon. Since this morning, the IDF attacked eight terror squads that were firing anti-tank rockets at Israeli targets across the border, four of them from inside buildings in the southern Gaza Strip, the military said.
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Benjamin (Bibi) NetanyahuMORE amid an outbreak of deadly violence between Israel and Hamas.
“I had a conversation for a while with the prime minister of Israel, and, I think, my hope is that we’ll see this coming to conclusion sooner than later,” the president said during remarks to the press about the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The president said his national security and defense staff have been in “constant contact” with their counterparts in the Middle East, including the Israelis but also the Egyptians, Saudis and Emiratis.
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Egypt, which maintains a border with the Gaza Strip, previously helped implement a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, the militant Islamic group that controls the blockaded territory. The group has been on the U.S. State Department s list of Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations since 1997.
An Iron Dome Missile Defense battery in Sderot fires an intercepting missile, August 9, 2018.
The Israel Air Force attacked Hamas terrorist positions in Gaza overnight Friday into early Saturday in retaliation for rocket fire that was aimed at southern Israel by Gaza terrorists from the enclave.
The Red Alert incoming rocket alert siren was triggered at around 8:15 pm, interrupting Sabbath Eve dinner for thousands of Jewish families across the city of Ashkelon and surrounding area, as well as in western Lachish, Zikim, Karmiya, Netiv HaâAsara, Mevakim, and the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council district (Hof Ashkelon), and sending all of them racing for cover into bomb shelters and safe spaces.
america s security partnership with israel is stronger than ever. under my administration, you see the difference. big, big beautiful difference. [applause] including the iron dome missile defense program which has been keeping the israeli people safe from short range rockets, launched by hezbollah and hamas. and david s sling which guards against long range missiles. it is my hope that some day very soon israeli children will never need to rush towards shelters again as sirens ring out loud and clear. finally the united states is