Tag: Gaza Border Riots
Hamas to restart weekly Gaza border riots
Hamas has decided to restart the "Great March of Return" at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel.
The decision was made on Wednesday by the "Supreme National Authority for the Great March of Return and...
Thousands attend funeral of slain Israel Border Police officer
Thousands attended the funeral on Monday of Israel Border Police Sgt. Bar-El Hadaria Shmueli at the Kiryat Shaul military cemetery in Tel Aviv on Monday evening.
Shmueli, 21, a sniper in the undercover unit of...
‘Israel will not shy away from another Gaza war’
Israel will not hesitate to launch another campaign in the Gaza Strip if tensions on the border continue to escalate, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on Monday.
“As soon...
IDF Arabic spokesman urges Gazans not to heed Hamas calls for border riots
Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee, head of the Arab media division of the Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson’s Unit, warned the residents of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday not to heed Hamas’s call to riot along...
IDF soldier critically wounded in Gaza border riot; Israel hits Hamas terror targets
Israeli Border Police officer Sgt. Bar-El Hadaria Shmueli remained in critical condition on Sunday after suffering a gunshot wound to the head during Palestinian rioting in the northern Gaza Strip a day earlier, according...
Report: IDF gears up for Palestinian ‘Day of Rage’ along Gaza border
Israel has begun reinforcing its military presence along the southern border, ahead of the “Day of Rage” planned for Saturday by Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip, Kan news reported on Thursday.
Hamas has threatened to renew violence against...
Israel’s police chief in hot seat for likening both Arab and Jewish rioters to...
Israel Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai sparked an uproar on Tuesday night during a visit to the embattled city of Lod in central Israel when he called both Arab and Jewish rioters “terrorists.”
“We will bring...
Israel strikes Hamas naval commando base after rocket fired at Israel
Tensions along the Gaza border escalated on Thursday when Israeli warplanes responded to a mortar shell fired at southern Israel with a strike on a Hamas naval commando base.
“Fighter jets and aircraft struck several...
Netanyahu: UN Human Rights Council report on Gaza riots touts ‘obsessive hatred of Israel’
Israeli leaders have dismissed the U.N. Human Rights Council’s report accusing the Jewish state of “crimes against humanity” in responding to riots along the Gaza border in 2018.
“The U.N. Human Rights Council bears no...
IDF accounts about Hamas war crimes to be submitted to International Criminal Court
Thirty-three testimonies of Israel Defense Forces’ combat soldiers were set to be submitted to the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Thursday as proof that Hamas terrorists carry out war crimes and use...