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For the first time in over a month, Hamas launched a barrage of rockets into Central Israel on Monday while rejecting a hostage deal and would only accept a deal that included a full withdrawal of Israel Defense Forces from Gaza.

California is bracing for a powerful “fire hose” storm with fresh rounds of extreme rainfall, after being hit with a historic 9 inches of precipitation a week ago. The storm is expected to hit from Wednesday to Thursday this week.

A new survey shows that 28% of Americans would check the box “None” if asked to indicate their religious affiliation, compared to 16% in 2007. The survey was conducted by the Pew Research Center between Aug. 6-31 last year, with 11,201 respondents who are members of Pew’s American Trends Panel.

A new survey shows that nearly half of Britain’s Jews are thinking of leaving the UK because of the massive rise in antisemitism that followed the genocidal Oct. 7 attack on Israel by the Palestinian jihadist group Hamas, the Jerusalem Post reports.

Archaeologists in Israel have discovered two Byzantine-era coin weights that may be evidence of a Christian presence on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount before the Islamic conquest of the city between 636–637 AD, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports. The weights are believed to be official imperial weights required by 6th-century Byzantine law to be present in major churches and may even indicate a church on the Temple Mount before the Al Aqsa Mosque was built there in the 7th-8th centuries.

Pope Francis on Sunday condemned an attack by masked assailants who opened fire during Sunday Mass at an Italian church in Turkey’s largest city, Istanbul, killing one person.

U.S. President Joe Biden confirmed Sunday that three American service members were killed and “many wounded” in an unmanned aerial drone attack by Iran-backed groups on U.S. forces stationed in north-eastern Jordan.

Worldwide, people observed Holocaust Remembrance Day on Saturday to remember the 6 million Jews as well as Sinti, Roma, and millions of others killed by the German Nazis and their collaborators during World War Two at a time of growing concerns about the future of Israel. Saturday’s ceremonies came amid mounting concerns about rising antisemitism after the October 7 attack by Hamas in Israel that killed more than 1,200 Israelis and others.

The European Union said Friday it demands “full openness” about the possible involvement of United Nations aid workers “in Hamas’ terrorist attacks” on Israel.

Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump fumed on Friday after he was ordered to pay more than $83 million for allegedly defaming journalist E. Jean Carroll who accused him of raping her in a New York department store decades ago.