The Times of Israel is liveblogging Wednesday’s events as they happen.

A group of Haredi extremists opposed to any conscription of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students demonstrates inside the apartment building where Shas MK Yinon Azoulay lives in the southern city of Ashdod.

Video shows the group yelling and banging on Azoulay’s door as a neighbor confronts them, telling them to go downstairs. They ignore her and then break into chants of “traitor” as she tells them she called the police.

The incident came as lawmakers from Shas and the fellow ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party have increasingly been targeted for cooperating in the advancement of a bill to regulate conscription for yeshiva students.

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration appears to side with Israel after a deadly exchange of fire in Gaza earlier Wednesday.

The IDF said the salvo began when Hamas operatives opened fire on Israeli troops in Gaza, leading the army to carry out a wave of strikes that reportedly left 24 killed, including three children from the same family.

“After the United Nations overwhelmingly endorsed President Trump’s 20 Point Peace Plan, Hamas is clearly lashing out and is now attempting to break the ceasefire and not fulfill their commitment to demilitarize and surrender control of the Gaza government. These desperate tactics will fail,” a US official tells The Times of Israel in a statement.

The Palestinian Hamas terror group denounces a series of Israeli airstrikes earlier today as a “dangerous escalation,” warning that they jeopardized a fragile ceasefire.

Israel has said it launched the strikes across the Gaza Strip in response to terror operatives firing on IDF troops in southern Gaza.

“We consider this a dangerous escalation through which the war criminal [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu seeks to resume the genocide against our people,” Hamas writes in a statement.

The IDF said earlier today that the attack on troops on the eastern side of the Yellow Line — meaning IDF-held territory in Gaza — “constitutes a violation of the ceasefire agreement.”

Actor Kevin Spacey performs in Hangar 11, a Tel Aviv performance space, for his one-man show, “Songs & Stories.”

The show opens with a video vignette of his top film moments, including when Spacey received an Academy Award.

Spacey is trying to make a return to public life, following eight years of accusations of sexual misconduct and being shunned by the global film industry.

He jokes about being fired from Netflix’s “House of Cards” and not being legally........

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