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A prayer by Rabbi Noam E. Marans, AJC Director of Interreligious and Intergroup Relations, in response to rockets being fired at Israel's cities.

Here are four media myths circulating on social media distorting the reasons behind the violence in Jerusalem that has escalated to the brink of war.   

Hamas has territorial ambitions on Israel. In fact, that's putting it mildly: It would like to replace Israel in its entirety with a Muslim Brotherhood-ruled, Sharia-based state. Israel has no territorial ambitions on Hamas-ruled Gaza. To the contrary, Israel left it totally in 2005 to govern itself, something previous rulers, including Egypt and Ottoman Turkey, never remotely did. Israel hoped never to return.

Israel is under attack, with hundreds of rockets fired in twenty-four hours from Gaza, major cities on high alert, and the threat of further violence continuing in Jerusalem. Join AJC Jerusalem Director Avital Leibovich and i24news Senior Correspondent Owen Alterman for a front-line report on this evolving crisis.