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IDF pounds Gaza for 2nd night in retaliation for rocket & mortar fire The Israeli Defense Forces have launched a counter-attack on Gaza after a pair of mortars were fired into Israel, the second night in a row of tit-for-tat strikes. Though the mortar attack late on Wednesday triggered no emergency sirens and reportedly landed in an unpopulated area, resulting in no damage or injuries, the IDF responded with air strikes on a number of targets near Rafah, according to Palestinian media. It is unclear whether there were any casualties in the reprisal. The strikes come on the heels of over a dozen similar rocket and mortar attacks from southern Gaza over the last week, which Tel Aviv has blamed on Hamas, the Islamist political and militant group that’s controlled the territor...

Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas dead at 103 Kirk Douglas, legendary actor from the golden age of Hollywood, has passed away at the age of 103, his son and fellow actor Michael has announced. “To the world, he was a legend,” the younger Douglas said in a statement on Wednesday. “But to me and my brothers Joel and Peter he was simply Dad.” Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky to impoverished jewish immigrants from Russia, Douglas worked a variety of odd jobs before making it big in Hollywood. He is perhaps best known to modern audiences for his titular role in Stanley Kubrick’s ‘Spartacus’ (1960), but film connoisseurs remember him for a range of roles, from Vincent Van Gogh in ‘Lust for Life’ (1956) to a cowboy in ‘Lonely are the Brave (1962). He suffered a stroke in 1996 that impaired...

Syrian air defenses engage ‘hostile targets’ over Damascus (VIDEOS) Syria’s air defenses have intercepted a number of enemy projectiles over the capital of Damascus, according to Syrian state media. There are so far no reports of damage or injuries, and the nature of the targets remains unclear. A series of blasts were reported on the outskirts of Damascus late on Wednesday, with unconfirmed images surfacing online purporting to show the attack in progress. Our AD is on it?? pic.twitter.com/pCbyRBEfBN— Marina Syria (@Shiva_sy007) February 5, 2020 https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js Syrian air defenses shot down “most” of the missiles before they reached their targets, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency, which said the at...