Maya Sweedler

1 month ago | post-gazette.com | Jon Gambrell |Wafaa Shurafa |Maya Sweedler |Laura Esposito |Mohammed Jahjouh

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — At least 60 people were killed by Israeli strikes across Gaza in a 24-hour period, Gaza's health ministry said Friday, as Israel pressed ahead with its military offensive and let in minimal aid to the strip. The dead included 10 people in the southern city of Khan Younis, four in the central town of Deir al-Balah and nine in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the north, according to the Nasser, Al-Aqsa and Al-Ahli hospitals where the bodies were brought.

1 month ago | reporter.net | Maya Sweedler

WASHINGTON — Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., were shot and killed while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested, police said. The stunning attack on Wednesday evening, which FBI Director Kash Patel described as an act of “targeted anti-Semitic violence,” prompted Israeli missions to beef up their security and lower their flags to half-staff.

1 month ago | timesdaily.com | Maya Sweedler

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1 month ago | post-gazette.com | Maya Sweedler

When Jeff Finkelstein awoke Thursday to the news of a deadly shooting outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington D.C., he said he was immediately brought back to Pittsburgh’s 2018 synagogue shooting massacre, which left 11 worshippers dead. “It’s overwhelming,” said Mr. Finkelstein, president of the Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh.

1 month ago | thesunchronicle.com | Maya Sweedler

The two people killed, identified as Yaron Lischinsky, an Israeli citizen, and Sarah Milgrim, an American, were a young couple about to be engaged, according to Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli ambassador to the U.S.Lischinsky told others at an event he attended before he was killed that he was looking forward to returning to Israel to celebrate an upcoming Jewish holiday, said Ted Deutch, the chief executive of the American Jewish Committee, which had put on the reception.