A BBC documentary about children’s lives in Gaza breached editorial guidelines on accuracy because it failed to disclose that the program was narrated by the son of a Hamas official, according to a report published Monday. The broadcaster removed the program, “Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone,” from its streaming service in February after it emerged that the 13-year-old narrator, Abdullah, is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, who has worked as Hamas’s deputy minister of agriculture. A review found that the independent production company that made the program did not share the background information regarding the narrator’s father with the BBC. It said that the production company, Hoyo Films, bears most responsibility for the failure, though it did not “intentionally” mislead the BBC.

The IDF and Shin Bet reported on Monday that Muhammad Nasr Ali Quneita, a terrorist in Hamas’s military intelligence unit in the Al-Furqan Battalion, was eliminated in a joint operation in the Gaza City area about a month ago. Quneita invaded Israel during the October 7 massacre and held Emily Damari in his home at the beginning of the war. According to the Shin Bet and IDF statement, he took a central part in Hamas’s terrorist activities. (YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)

The Houthis in Yemen serve as the last functional Iranian proxy, still fighting the Jewish State and imposing an effective siege in the Red Sea. Despite a Houthi ban on interacting with any Israeli entity, Ynet managed to carry out an interview with a Houthi source, who clarified that the terror group will continue their fight to destroy the Jewish state even after the war in Gaza ends. Ynet: What do you want from Israel? “We want only one thing from the Zionist entity: its departure from the land of Arab Palestine, because we believe that its existence is invalid. Its end is an inevitable divine promise. Israel is a usurping entity, planted in the heart of the nation, based on murder, conquest, and desecration of holy places.

A military investigation released Sunday concluded that serious operational failures—including poor coordination, miscommunication, and delayed deployment—contributed to the IDF’s inability to prevent a deadly Hamas assault on the southern city of Ofakim during the October 7 attacks. The probe, led by Brig. Gen. Oren Simcha, found that 15 Hamas terrorists infiltrated Ofakim around 6:40 a.m., killing 33 people—25 civilians and 8 security personnel—within the first 40 minutes. IDF troops arrived too late to affect the outcome of the battle, the report said. One of the closest military units, from the Chaim Laskov Officers Training School (Bahad 1), was mistakenly dispatched to the wrong location.

Two major countries are in the pipeline to possibly join the Abraham Accords: Saudi Arabia and Syria. In Syria, Bakr Simantov has won the title of ‘The Last Jew in Damascus.” Like many titles, it is a bit of an exaggeration, as there are four male Jews and two female Jews remaining in Damascus. Simantov serves as the head of the congregation of the smallest Jewish community in the world, despite its geographical proximity to Israel. In an interview with Shlomo Cooperman in the Hebrew Mishpacha magazine, Simantov said that in his 60 years in the Syrian capital, he has learned to live his life as a Jew alongside the development of the Jewish state across the border. It was not always easy, but now he feels that history has opened an opportunity that never existed before.

According to sources who attended the restricted cabinet meeting on Sunday evening, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed determination to reach a hostage deal and even showed willingness to compromise on one of the sensitive issues: the withdrawal from the area between Rafah and Khan Younis, the Morag Corridor, from which he had previously refused to withdraw, Ynet reported. “Negotiations are taking place in Doha,” said one of the participants. “They’re working around the clock. Even if a deal is not closed in the coming days, the direction is clear. It’s a matter of days, not weeks.” According to those sources, the parties are discussing updated maps, and the understanding is that if the deal goes through, the concept of a humanitarian city in Rafah will not be relevant.

The rabbanim of Degel HaTorah have directed the party’s representatives to immediately resign from the government and coalition, due to the government’s failure to advance legislation protecting bnei yeshiva from the military draft. Shortly after Degel HaTorah withdrew, Agudas Yisroel followed suit. The psak was issued late Sunday night by HaRav Dov Landau shlit”a, and joined Monday morning by HaRav Moshe Hillel Hirsch shlita. Following the daas Torah of these two senior roshei yeshiva, Degel HaTorah’s MKs announced their decision Monday to exit the coalition without delay.

A powerful moment unfolded at Ben Gurion Airport this week as volunteers from Naava Kodesh warmly welcomed a group of Yeshivish families making Aliyah to Eretz Yisroel. Among the arrivals was a family from Lakewood, New Jersey — a sign of the growing trend among Bnei Torah families to establish permanent homes in Eretz Yisroel. What was once considered rare is becoming increasingly familiar: Yeshivish families, grounded in Torah values and chinuch, are arriving with a sense of clarity and purpose, fulfilling a generations-old yearning to settle in Eretz Yisroel.

A group of families affected by the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led massacre has filed a landmark lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority (PA), seeking over NIS 1 billion (approximately $270 million) in damages for its alleged role in supporting and encouraging terrorism. Filed in the Jerusalem District Court on Sunday, the suit represents 208 relatives of 122 victims killed during the Nova music festival and surrounding attacks, as well as one survivor who was permanently disabled. Plaintiffs argue that the PA bears legal responsibility for financing and promoting terror activity that contributed to the massacre, which left over 1,200 Israelis dead and 252 abducted to Gaza.