Alon Pelta

1 month ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Justin Cohen |Alon Pelta

Emily Damari has revealed that surgery on wounds she sustained while being kidnapped from Israel went “much better than expected” as she said she looks forward to thanking supporters in the UK after all the hostages return. The British-Israeli citizen , who was held for 471 days by Hamas in Gaza, has undergone a series of complex operations on her hand and leg to correct complications from gunshot wounds sustained on October 7th.

2 months ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Hen Mazzig |Alon Pelta

There are moments in human history when evil announces itself so clearly, so vividly, that silence becomes impossible. Or so one might think. On February 22, 2025, Hamas released six Israeli hostages, among them Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed—two mentally disabled men who had spent a decade in captivity. But this was no act of mercy; it was theatre of the grotesque, designed specifically to humiliate.

2 months ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Justin Cohen |Alon Pelta

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2 months ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Jotam Confino |Alon Pelta

The Syrian opposition’s three starred flag is waving in the strong-wind. It’s held by Sultan Al-Atrash, a Druze icon and national hero, who led a revolt against French colonial rule in the village of Swuedia in southern Syria in 1925, about 150 km from the village of Buqa’ata in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights where he has been immortalised in the form of a statue.

2 months ago | jewishnews.co.uk | Justin Cohen |Alon Pelta

The chief imam of the UK’s Bosnian community has spoken of the importance of keeping alive the memory of the Holocaust during an historic event at Wembley Stadium. Sedin Sahman was among the speakers at a commemoration last Thursday in the lead-up to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.