Tag: Gaza Border
Ceasefire reportedly ‘not before Friday,’ as rockets, Israeli Air Force strikes persist
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas is unlikely to take effect before Friday, Channel 22 reported on Wednesday, following a situational analysis held by Israeli defense chiefs.
Hamas announced that it was withdrawing from its agreement to...
Gazan kids celebrate Ramadan in Israeli hospital, despite rockets
Twenty-one foreign children recovering from heart surgery in the Tel Aviv suburb of Holon slept in a bomb shelter last week—just like thousands of Israelis—as air-raid sirens warned of incoming missiles from Gaza.
Some of...
KKL-JNF to place portable bomb shelters in Israeli communities near Gaza
To help communities and residents living on the front lines in southern Israel and the Gaza Envelope, which are constantly exposed to rocket and mortar fire, Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael-Jewish National Fund (KKL–JNF), in coordination...
Israel has demolished major Hamas capabilities, says IDF commander
The real test of the current efforts by the Israel Defense Forces to pound Hamas will be measured over years, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, the head of the IDF Operations Branch, told N12 on Wednesday.
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Hamas explains why there is no peace
For most of the world, the Israeli-Palestinian dispute is a simple one in which two peoples claim the same land. It is not now nor has it ever been solely about land. The conflict...
On Israel’s borders, Gaza presents the biggest problem
It’s been a tough time on Israel’s southern border.
Gaza is a slim slice of land on Israel’s and Egypt’s borders.
If Israel is small, about the size of New Jersey, Gaza is tiny, about 11.5...
Turkey takes pragmatic steps towards repairing damaged relations with Israel
Amid shared concerns over Iran’s regional aggression among other interests, Israel and Turkey have been attempting to mend relations with one another despite their subtle differences, according to an Israeli media report on Monday.
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Safe play area, fire protection: Boosting life in Israeli towns on the precarious Gaza...
Ilana Safaniev of Sderot, a town on Israel’s southern border with Gaza, isn’t thinking about the barrage of incendiary kites or balloons scorching the land, homes and communities of Israel’s Western Negev. She’s also...
Footage of Gazan youth breaching Israel’s border, torching military post
Al-Jazeera TV aired footage of young Palestinian men who torched an Israeli military post after crossing the barbed wire into Israel and writing the name of Wesal Sheikh Khalil, a girl “martyred by Israeli...
New terror tactic: Balloon bombs strike Israeli communities near Gaza border, causing fires
Several fires erupted on Monday in Israeli communities near Gaza as a result of incendiary balloons sent by Palestinian rioters over the border into Israel.
A massive fire raged in Kibbutz Nir Am after a...