Tag: Gaza Strip
PM: Goal of Rafah op is to return hostages and eliminate Hamas
Hamas’s unilateral ceasefire proposal failed to thwart the Israel Defense Forces’ operation against the terror group’s last bastion of Rafah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday evening.
“Hamas’s proposal was intended to torpedo...
IDF will act in Rafah, Netanyahu again says
The Israel Defense Forces will do whatever is necessary to win the war against the Hamas terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip, including in Rafah, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again vowed on Thursday.
“There were,...
What the World Central Kitchen strike tells us about Israel
More than two dozen Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to the Biden administration on April 16 criticizing Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza and expressing concern about “civilian harm and military targeting,” among other topics.
The...
Turkey joins South Africa genocide lawsuit at The Hague
Ankara, which has outright supported Hamas in the terrorist group’s current war against Israel, has decided to join South Africa’s lawsuit at the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan...
War Cabinet meeting canceled amid infighting over Rafah
A meeting of the Israeli War Cabinet scheduled for Tuesday evening was canceled amid coalition infighting over a possible hostages-for-ceasefire deal with the Hamas terrorist organization.
The proposal currently being discussed with Hamas reportedly includes significant compromises...
Netanyahu: IDF will enter Rafah ‘with or without a deal’
The Israel Defense Forces will enter the Hamas stronghold of Rafah in southern Gaza irrespective of the outcome of hostages-for-ceasefire-and-terrorists talks, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday.
“The notion that we will stop the...
Smotrich: Gov’t has ‘no right to exist’ if Rafah op canceled
The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will lose its legitimacy if it accepts the “humiliating surrender” proposed to Hamas during ongoing hostages-for-ceasefire-and-terrorists negotiations, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said on Sunday.
Axios reported on...
Blinken to visit Israel as Rafah battle looms
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to fly to Israel this week following talks with Arab leaders in Riyadh, officials in Jerusalem told The New York Times on Friday.
According to the Times, the visit will take...
‘There is a problem of deep rot at the United Nations’
The United Nations has always been an extremely challenging arena for Israeli representatives. During the six months of Israel’s war with Hamas, with pro-Hamas protesters flooding the streets outside and supporters of the terrorists...
‘Must do all we can’ to save hostages, says Rep. Brad Schneider
A video clip that Israelis of a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen being held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip has provoked a rebuke from a vocal pro-Israel Democrat in Congress.
“For 201 days, Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s family...