Israel rejects calls for cease-fire in Hamas war as Gaza hospitals go dark

The Israeli Defense Forces announced Monday that evacuation corridors will remain open for a period of time to allow civilians to exit Gaza.

"The evacuation corridors will remain open between 09:00-16:00 for civilians through the Salah Al-Din route southward of Wadi Gaza," the IDF wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. "Additionally, all those located on the northern coastline, from 10:00-16:00, the evacuation corridor will remain open from Youssef Al-Azmeh Street and the to Salah Al-Din route and from there to the south of Wadi Gaza."

"There will be a tactical pause of military operation for humanitarian purposes between 10:00-14:00 in the the city of Rafah in the area west of Salah Al-Din street," the IDF said.

The Israel Ministry of Defense has published footage showing the operational launch of an "Arrow" interceptor during the "Swords of Iron" war.

"The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) in the Ministry of Defense's Directorate of Defense R&D (DDR&D) captured the operational launch in southern Israel," a Ministry of Defense Spokesperson said. "The Israeli Air Force's Air and Missile Defense Array executed the launch and intercepted the designated target."

The Israeli Defense Forces said dozens of ADANIM, or Deployable-level Intel, are operational for the first time and are providing intelligence to troops in Gaza amid Israel's war against Hamas terrorists.

"The Center for Defense and Operational Maneuvers is an integrative organization in the Intelligence Directorate tasked with producing, researching and making tactical intelligence accessible to the operational front in order to improve the operational effectiveness of the forces in the field in both defense and offense and lead to quick coordination of firepower combining accurate intelligence and effective firepower," the IDF said in a press release. "During times of routine, the center focuses on force-building for emergencies, and now for the first time, it is supporting IDF operational activity."

The IDF said each division and operating brigade has a back office named ADAN that is used to "integrate and use the variety of sources of gathering and analysis in the Intelligence Directorate and the intelligence community, making the intel accessible to forces in the field."

"The operational demand comes from the division and the brigade to ADAN, where a complete response is given," the IDF added. "In one office, signal monitors, network intelligence officers, analysts, and researchers sit together with the goal of protecting our forces and eliminating Hamas terrorists."

The Intelligence Officer of the 401st Brigade, MAJ Y., said, "One of the most significant challenges for intelligence on the ground is receiving information available in the Intelligence Directorate across its plethora of units: 8200, 9900, 504 and turning it into knowledge for the soldiers in the field."

"The ADAN allows us as a division in the field to sharpen that edge," the intelligence officer said. "The relationship with the ADAN works effectively since it is an organic part of the brigade, which also routinely trains with the brigade and participates in its combat procedures. In this war, we took this multidisciplinary organization and raised it to a new level - all the intelligence personnel in the field are connected by earpiece to the ADAN personnel, thus succeeding in maintaining close coordination against terrorists. This is expressed in operating firepower or directing a tank in the field towards those terrorists. ADAN 401 is responsible for many terrorists who were killed following that close coordination."

The Israeli Defense Forces announced that troops have sent 300 liters of fuel to the Shifa Hospital in the past day but said the fuel has not been touched.

"In the last 24 hours, the IDF delivered 300 liters of fuel to the Shifa Hospital's doorstep, yet the fuel remains untouched after Hamas threatened hospital staff," the IDF said on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

The IDF said it is working to mitigate harm to civilians in Gaza and increase humanitarian aid.

The military emphasized that its war is against Hamas terrorists and not the people of Gaza.

A senior U.S. defense official told Fox News that at least 6 Iranian proxy fighters were killed in the U.S.'s attacks on Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stations in the Middle East Sunday.

The IRGC stations are located in the Syrian cities of Abu Kamal and Mayadin, according to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin. The buildings were reportedly a safe house and training facility, but a senior defense source told Fox that the safe house functioned as a headquarters.

An official told Fox that secondary explosions were seen at one of the locations, suggesting that there was a large amount of flammable ammo or weapons in the facility.

Referencing the two previous recent strikes that the U.S. military had against Iran-backed targets, the U.S. official said that, “This one will hurt them a lot more than the past strikes."

Austin said that the airstrikes were "in response to continued attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria."

"The President has no higher priority than the safety of U.S. personnel, and he directed today’s action to make clear that the United States will defend itself, its personnel, and its interests," Austin's statement read.

Fox News Digital's Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.

Sellers on Amazon’s website are selling a variety of merchandise bearing the pro-Palestinian phrase "from the river to the sea" that Jews see as an antisemitic battle cry.

"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" was emblazoned on merchandise ranging from face masks and t-shirts to banners, flags, stickers, pins and notepads when Fox News Digital performed a search on the online retail giant’s website.

Amazon did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

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Rep. Carlos Gimenez, R-Fla., denounced a video on Sunday showing an antisemitic woman during a pro-Hitler tirade in Miami.

In the video posted by StopAntisemitism, a woman with a stroller was seen shouting that Hitler should have "finished the job" in the presence of children.

"Hitler should have f--king finished the job, he knew what the f--k he was doing," the woman was heard saying.

Gimenez swiftly condemned the video, calling the woman a "hateful individual."

"Miami prides itself as one of the most pro-Israel cities on earth," he wrote on X. "Disgusted by these hateful individuals who are clearly tasked with trying to provoke our community."

"Anti-semitic hate like this has NO PLACE anywhere!" the Republican added. "We will ALWAYS stand with #Israel!"

Hearst, a media company that owns Esquire, Cosmopolitan and other major brands, reportedly told employees to be careful about "controversial" statements after a senior fashion editor commented on the Israel-Hamas war. 

"On Monday, Hearst — whose magazine titles include Esquire, Cosmopolitan and Town & Country — sent staffers an email announcing the new restrictions, which were detailed in an internal document that employees were encouraged to sign," according to The Washington Post. 

"We should be careful to consider the impact that a controversial statement on a hot-button issue may have on Hearst’s reputation," the policy reads, per documents obtained by The Post.

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The head of a watchdog group that identifies acts of antisemitism says she and her team are stunned by the Jewish hatred being expressed by so-called pillars of our society – including doctors, nurses and professors.

Liora Rez, a refugee from the Soviet Union, founded StopAntisemitism in 2018 to expose bigoted behavior toward the Jewish people and Israel by using social media.

Since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel Oct. 7 and massacred 1,200 people, reports of alarming anti-Jewish conduct have skyrocketed.

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Over 100,000 people took to the streets in Paris on Sunday to protest the rise in antisemitism taking place since Oct. 7, when Hamas-led terrorists invaded Israel to execute a deadly massacre.

As of the day before the protests, French officials had counted 1,247 antisemitic acts in the country since Oct. 7, which is about triple the number of antisemitic acts during 2022, according to the Interior Ministry.

The Associated Press reported that many elected officials attended the protest, including Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne, far-right leader Marine Le Pen, and representatives of parties on the left, conservatives and centrists of President Emmanuel Macron’s party, though Macron himself did not attend.

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The U.S. military retaliated over recent attacks on American bases by bombing two facilities in eastern Syria, a senior U.S. official tells Fox News.

Two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stations in the Middle East were hit on Sunday night. One was an IRGC training facility, while the other was used by IRGC proxy forces.

Sunday night's airstrikes were the third set of retaliatory attacks against Iranian proxies on behalf of the U.S. since October 27.

American forces have been attacked in the Middle East dozens of times since mid-October, with terrorists firing drones and rockets towards bases.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin released a statement about the strikes on Sunday evening.

"U.S. military forces conducted precision strikes today on facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Iran-affiliated groups in response to continued attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria," the statement read. "The strikes were conducted against a training facility and a safe house near the cities of Abu Kamal and Mayadin, respectively."

"The President has no higher priority than the safety of U.S. personnel, and he directed today’s action to make clear that the United States will defend itself, its personnel, and its interests," he added.

Fox News Digital's Jennifer Griffin, Stephen Sorace and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

A senior European Union official criticized Hamas and urged them to release hostages as soon as possible amid a worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Josep Borrell Fontelles, who serves as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, made his plea on X on Sunday.

"As EU & its 27 member states, we are gravely concerned about the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza," his post read. "We call for immediate pauses in hostilities and the establishment of humanitarian corridors, so that humanitarian aid can safely reach the population of Gaza."

"We call on Hamas to immediately & unconditional release all hostages," he added.

Fontelles also accused Hamas terrorists of using civilians as "human shields" and making the humanitarian crisis worse.

"We condemn the use of hospitals and civilians as human shields by Hamas," Fontelles continued. "Civilians must be allowed to leave the combat zone. Hostilities are severely impacting hospitals & taking a horrific toll on civilians."

The five U.S. service members killed in an aircraft crash on Saturday were special operations personnel, Fox News has learned.

The aircraft that the service members were flying in had "suffered a mishap" and crashed, according to U.S. European Command (EUCOM). It was on a routine refueling air mission.

The aircraft was a spec ops Black Hawk helicopter. The training accident is under investigation.

President Biden said in a statement that he and his wife are "praying for the families and friends who have lost a precious loved one."

"Our service members put their lives on the line for our country every day," Biden's statement read. "They willingly take risks to keep the American people safe and secure. And their daily bravery and selflessness is an enduring testament to what is best in our nation."

Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren emphatically rejected calls for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war on Sunday, claiming that it would mean "death" for Israel.

Oren appeared on "Fox News Live" on Sunday to discuss the war, which has evolved into an aggressive Israeli offensive in Gaza.

"The major thing is to keep resisting pressure for a ceasefire. And that pressure is mounting," he explained. "And Hamas knows it, it wants civilians to get killed. It wants hard pictures, pictures coming out of Gaza in the press. And those will trigger protests."

Despite calls for a ceasefire for humanitarian reasons, Oren said that Hamas would "get away with mass murder" if a truce was called now.

"A ceasefire for Israel, and I mean this, there's no hyperbole: a ceasefire means death," he argued. "And so we need our American allies to keep running that interference for us from the world and give us time to fight the enemy that we need to destroy."

IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht appeared on "Fox News Live" on Sunday to discuss the latest developments with the Israel-Hamas war, which recently entered its second month.

Hecht stressed that the war is a fight between "dark against good," and said that the chaos around the world is at a "biblical scale."

"This is a war, and it's not only with Hamas, although that's our focus," he said. "And I think our prime minister hit the nail on the head. That is something a bigger, larger scale, historic scale."

Hecht also reported that the IDF is "closing in" on Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

"We countered it, we contained them and they were closing in on them," he explained. "And very cynically, they're now moving to the hospitals, which are the most sensitive locations."

The spokesperson also said that the biggest challenge of his job is to "keep remining the world what we're up against."

"To see the pure horror and ruthless ruthlessness of how they slaughtered and killed babies, mothers, kidnaped grandmothers ridiculed the hostages through the streets of Gaza...This is this is something different. This is something different," Hecht explained.

A Jewish school in the Canadian city of Montreal was the target of gunfire early Sunday for the second time in a matter of days, antisemitic acts the city’s mayor says cannot be accepted.

Bullets struck the Yeshiva Gedola of Montreal in Quebec city’s Côte-des-Neiges neighborhood, a Montreal Police spokesperson told the CBC. Officers arrived and found impact marks from gunfire on the building and shell cases nearby.

While it was unclear whether anyone was inside the building at the time, no injuries were reported. Police said no arrests have been made.

Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante wrote on X that such acts of violence will not be accepted in the city.

"The @SPVM is fully mobilized to shed light on this event and find the culprits," the mayor wrote. "We absolutely must combat anti-Semitism. All Montrealers have the right to feel safe."

Yeshiva Gedola and the Talmud Torah Elementary School were both the targets of gunfire on Wednesday night, police previously said.

Fox News' Stephen Sorace contributed to this report

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz confirmed his opposition to an "immediate" cease-fire in Israel's war against Hamas on Sunday.

Scholz made the comments during a televised debate organized by German newspaper Heilbronner Stimme. The comments signify that Germany remains stanchly in the Israel-U.S. camp after French President Emmanuel Macron bent to pressure and called for a cease-fire this weekend.

"I don't think the calls for an immediate ceasefire or long pause -- which would amount to the same thing -- are right," Scholz said during the debate. "That would mean ultimately that Israel leaves Hamas the possibility of recovering and obtaining new missiles."

Scholz joined the U.S. in calling for humanitarian pauses instead, something that Israel has begun implementing.

Five U.S. service members were confirmed to have died when their military aircraft crashed over the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Saturday morning during a routine training mission, military officials said Sunday.

U.S. European Command (EUCOM) said the aircraft "suffered a mishap" and crashed into the sea during a routine air refueling mission. Search and rescue efforts began immediately, including nearby U.S. military aircraft and ships. All five service members on board the aircraft were determined to have died.

An investigation into the crash is underway, though military officials have said that there are no indications of any hostile activity involved.

President Biden said in a statement that he was mourning the loss of the five service members.

"Our service members put their lives on the line for our country every day," the statement said. "They willingly take risks to keep the American people safe and secure. And their daily bravery and selflessness is an enduring testament to what is best in our nation."

Fox News' Stephen Sorace contributed to this report

Israel attempted to deliver 300 liters of fuel to the Shifa hospital in Gaza on Sunday, but Hamas authorities blocked the fuel from reaching the facility, Israeli Defense Forces say.

Pro-Palestinian groups have sounded alarms for weeks at the conditions inside Gaza's hospitals. Doctors and administrators have warned of dwindling supplies, with fuel being a key resource to keep the facility's systems running. The IDF says it attempted to deliver a fuel shipment to the hospital early Sunday morning, but Hamas officials "forbade" it.

The IDF released audio of a phone call that they say indicates that Hamas Health Ministry director Yosef Abu Rish blocked the delivery.

Last week, Rish had lamented at the hospital's lack of fuel supply.

“We are just trying to keep the hospital working... Even the admin part now, as you see, it’s in complete darkness," he said in a recording obtained by CNN. “All the other services directly related to the electricity will stop. For example, the oxygen generator, as there is no fuel, it stopped.”