Tag: Gaza Strip
‘It is very hard to see your son begging for his life’
“Looking at their scared, frightened faces, begging to come out, wanting to be like their friends who got released, it is very hard to see your son begging for his life, asking to come...
So much to mourn …
How does one adequately mourn a baby of barely 9 months, who was just beginning to crawl and eat solid food? How does one mourn a 4-year-old who loved Batman and had sparkling eyes...
Netanyahu: Civilized world must condemn killing of Bibas children
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday expressed "boundless sorrow" and "indescribable pain" over Hamas's murder of the Bibas children, Kfir and Ariel, and called on the civilized world to condemn the Palestinian terrorist group's...
The ‘Hezbollahization’ of Gaza
While Israel focuses on completing Phase 1 of the hostage deal and determining the fate of its next stage, the Arab world and Hamas are accelerating discussions on formulas that could lead to "the day after"—without...
Herzog to US media: Hamas’s ‘pure cruelty’ must be ‘met forcefully’
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday highlighted to American media the cruelty the Jewish state is facing in its war against Hamas terrorists and as the country works to bring home the 70 hostages...
Israel to free 602 terrorists as part of ceasefire
Israel is set to commute the sentences of 602 imprisoned terrorists this week as part of the last two releases of the first phase of its ceasefire agreement with Hamas, Hebrew media reported on Thursday.
In accordance...
1996 bus bomber, freed in ceasefire deal, seen at Hamas ceremony
A Hamas terrorist convicted of mass murder who was released to the Gaza Strip earlier in the current ceasefire was reportedly present at Thursday morning's propaganda ceremony in Gaza to mark the transfer to...
The tragic tale of Oded Lifshitz
The purported remains of Oded Lifshitz, 84, one of the founders of Kibbutz Nir Oz, were returned to Israel on Thursday, as part of the first phase of the hostage deal after his death has...
Herzog: ‘Agony. Pain. There are no words’
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday mourned the return of the bodies of four Israelis from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip.
"Agony. Pain. There are no words. Our hearts—the hearts of an entire nation—lie...
Nation mourns Bibas family, Oded Lifshitz as bodies transferred to Israel
Israel redeemed on Thursday the bodies of four slain hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza: the three members of the Bibas family—mother Shiri, infant son Kfir and his older brother Ariel, and octogenarian Oded Lifshitz.
The...