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Iranian Missiles Break 7am Ceasefire, and Media Mystified Why Israel Fired Back
An image showing some of the damages sustained by Colel Chabad’s daycare center in Be’er Sheva as a result of an Iranian missile strike on June 20, 2025. Photo: Colel Chabad/Chabad.org.
President Trump is calling it the 12-Day War, a nod to Israel’s lightning Six-Day War of 1967, but adjusted for inflation, as one netizen quipped Tuesday morning, shortly after the ceasefire was first triumphantly announced by Trump on social media.
As is often the case with ceasefires in this region, there was immediate confusion about whether one had actually begun. This one was scheduled to take effect at 7:00 a.m. Israel time (midnight ET) — but in the hours leading up to it, the Iranian regime launched several missile barrages at Israeli cities, including one that struck an apartment block in Beersheba, killing at least four and injuring more than 20.
Then, just minutes after the 7 a.m. ceasefire deadline, as sirens were expected to fall silent, they wailed again. More missiles. More shelters. More destruction. Iran had apparently violated the ceasefire it had just agreed to.
Israel did what it always does when a ceasefire is violated: it struck back. This, it seems, is the part the media never quite understands.
Because also par for the course — almost as predictable as a missile barrage — is the media’s Pavlovian instinct to accuse Israel of breaking the ceasefire.
Take Sky News, for example. The outlet appeared to cast doubt on Israel’s account, implying that the regime’s post-ceasefire launch was either fabricated or exaggerated, perhaps just a convenient excuse for another strike.
The Islamic Republic breaks the ceasefire by launching a missile at Israel’s north.@SkyNews treats the violation as an Israeli “accusation” while implying Israel’s response is the cause of the ceasefire breakdown.
Typical Sky News: blame Israel for everything. pic.twitter.com/osNQo4bRsD
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) June 24, 2025
NPR opted for a more classic dodge: pretend it didn’t happen. According to their reporting, both sides had simply “exchanged attacks up to the final moments.” No mention of the firing after the last minute by Iran.
The BBC, which has an entire team based in Israel yet somehow still can’t confirm when missiles land, went with a headline that read: “Israel defense minister accuses Iran of violating ceasefire and orders ‘powerful strikes’ on Tehran.”
One might think that if your correspondents are physically present in a country under attack, they’d be able to confirm whether a missile had, say, audibly screamed through the air and slammed into a residential building. Apparently not.
Perhaps the BBC’s Verify team needs a bit more time to trawl social media before they can be absolutely sure.
Meanwhile, The Telegraph, reporting on Iran’s pre-ceasefire barrage, appeared to offer a tacit justification for the targeting of the city. Beersheba, according to Global Health Security Editor Paul Nuki, has a “heavy military presence.” This, in reference to a civilian city of 210,000 people.
APPALLING: At least 4 Israelis have been murdered in an Iranian missile strike in Beersheba.
They were civilians. They lived in a civilian neighborhood. The city is a civilian target.
So no, @PaulNuki, @Telegraph, there is not a “heavy military presence living in the area.” pic.twitter.com/SZTbvoNNQB
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) June 24, 2025
Israel responded to a blatant ceasefire violation. It has since held its fire. Whether the ceasefire holds is anyone’s guess. But if it breaks again, we already know who’ll be blamed, facts be damned.
And if it holds? Brace yourself for a week of op-eds agonizing over Israel’s decision to target military sites in Iran, plus the usual handwringing over how terribly unfair it is that Israel maintains a nuclear deterrent while Iran is somehow expected not to build an arsenal of its own to obliterate the world’s only Jewish state.
In fact, we’ve already had a preview. The BBC is fretting about “essential infrastructure” destroyed (code for nuclear facilities).
The Independent, meanwhile, laments that Israel’s suspected nuclear weapons continue to get a “free pass,” as though Jerusalem routinely threatens to wipe countries off the map, rather than defend itself from those that do.
This is what @BBCNews calls analysis?
Israel did not “bombard” or target the Iranian population; it warned them to evacuate in advance.
And the “essential infrastructure?” That’s the regime’s nuclear facilities & the assets it uses to threaten its neighbors & its own people. pic.twitter.com/mb8y47Xxc8
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) June 24, 2025
The 12-Day War might be over. But for the media, the real battle has only just begun; how to frame Iran as the aggrieved party without quite saying it outright.
The author is a contributor to HonestReporting, a Jerusalem-based media watchdog with a focus on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias — where a version of this article first appeared.
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Pro-Palestinian Rioters Splatter Israeli Singer With Red Paint, Try to Storm Stage at Concert in Poland
Illustrative: Anti-Israel protesters hold a banner that says, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” standing in front of the president’s palace in Warsaw, Poland, on Nov. 5, 2023. Photo: IMAGO/Marek Antoni Iwanczuk via Reuters Connect
Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian demonstrators threw red paint on Israeli singer-songwriter and composer David D’Or and tried to storm the stage with a Palestinian flag during his performance in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday night.
D’Or was singing the Hebrew prayer “Avinu Malkeinu” at a finale concert for an annual Jewish cultural festival in Warsaw when an anti-Israel agitator in the audience approached the stage and hurled red paint on him. While the protester was being apprehended by security, another activist emerged from the audience, carrying a Palestinian flag, and tried to storm the stage while reportedly shouting “Free Palestine.” Both activists were quickly removed from the auditorium.
D’Or posted a video of the incident on Instagram and detailed what happened in a Hebrew-language caption.
“In the middle of the prayer our father our king, when I pray for a good year and for peace in the world, I closed my eyes, when I suddenly felt a cold splash on my face, I opened my eyes to see a strong red color, similar to blood,” wrote the singer. “On the clothes on my face and on the stage and the musicians. The playlist was like stained in blood.” He said the stains of red paint reminded him “of the horror sights of October 7th,” referring to the deadly Hamas-led attack in 2023 in which Palestinian terrorists killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages back to the Gaza Strip, starting the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
D’Or said after he was splattered with red paint, “in the stunned crowd a sound of horror and crying began. I realized that I must pick myself up and encourage them.”
“I continued to sing and asked everyone to close their eyes and pray for the people of Israel,” he added. “It wasn’t easy, my eyes were teary with pain and great sadness from the situation we got to. At the end of the show the audience sang along with me and we came out strong … What terrible days, may God have mercy. Praying for better days.”
D’Or’s performance on Sunday night, accompanied by Sinfonia Viva, closed off the 22nd edition of the Singer’s Warsaw Festival of Jewish Culture. The concert took place at the Moniuszko Auditorium.
D’or’s career spans over 35 years and he has performed with many philharmonic orchestras around the world, including the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony, the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Philharmonic Orchestras of Rome, London, Moscow, Shanghai, Budapest, Beijing, and Los Angeles. He has 17 gold and platinum albums and previously performed at the Vatican six times, the United Nations, in front of former US presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, and had a close relationship with Israeli President Shimon Peres, who asked for D’or to sing at his funeral.
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Florida Man Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison for Plotting Attacks Targeting Jews, Blacks
An American flag waves outside the US Department of Justice Building in Washington, DC. Photo: Al Drago via Reuters Connect
A man from Margate, Florida, man was sentenced on Friday to 25 years in federal prison for planning attacks against Jewish and Black Americans, the US Department of Justice announced.
John Kevin Lapinski, Jr., 41, previously pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm as a convicted felon, possession of a firearm by a person subject to a court order, possession of an unregistered silencer, and possession of body armor by a violent felon.
On Oct. 31, 2024, officers from the Margate Police Department responded to a call about shots fired in a residential neighborhood and discovered that Lapinski was the shooter. Inside his home, police officers found a shooting target that depicted a Black male covered in bullet holes. They also found Lapinski’s arsenal that included five firearms, more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition, two silencers, body armor, smoke grenades, a Ghillie suit used for camouflage, and tactical gear.
Officers additionally found maps of local schools, parks, and community sites with racial slurs, written by Lapinski, that targeted Black and Jewish people. Lapinski had also compiled a “target list” for attacks based on race and religion and it mentioned a Jewish member of Congress, local synagogues, Jewish-owned businesses, and other religious and ethnically identified sites, according to the Justice Department
“This defendant stockpiled weapons, tactical gear, and detailed attack plans to terrorize Jewish and Black Americans in our communities. His intent was not abstract — it was written on his maps, his targets, and his so-called hit list,” US Attorney Jason Reding Quiñones for the Southern District of Florida said in a statement
“Thanks to the swift work of our law enforcement partners, his plan never became reality,” Quiñones added. “Instead of carrying out acts of racist violence, he will spend the next quarter-century behind bars. Let this sentence serve as a warning: hate-fueled violence will be met with decisive federal prosecution. We will disrupt your plans, seize your weapons, and ensure you never endanger the people of this district again.”
Investigators also linked Lapinski to a shooting in August 2024 that targeted the home and vehicle of a Jewish Florida resident.
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Houthi Terrorists Raid UN Premises in Yemen, Detain At Least 11 People
Houthi policemen ride on the back of a patrol pick-up truck during the funeral of Houthi terrorists killed by recent US-led strikes, in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 10, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Yemen‘s Iran-backed Houthi rebels raided United Nations offices in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Sunday and detained at least 11 UN personnel, the body said.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the Houthis, an internationally designated terrorist group, forcibly entered World Food Program premises, seized UN property, and attempted to enter other UN offices in the capital.
The raid followed an Israeli strike on Sanaa on Thursday that killed the prime minister of Yemen‘s Houthi-run government and several other ministers.
UN Special Envoy for Yemen Hans Grundberg said in a separate statement that the 11 staff were detained in both Sanaa and the port city of Hodeidah.
UNICEF, the UN Development Program and the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees are among other UN agencies with offices in one or both of the two cities.
Grundberg said the detentions were in addition to 23 other UN staff previously detained, some since 2021, and one who died in detention this year.