Tag: Gaza Strip
Hamas claims health of captive Israeli is ‘deteriorating’
A Hamas spokesman announced on Monday that the health of one of the Israeli civilians held captive by the group in the Gaza Strip has deteriorated, according to Israel’s Channel 12.
Hamas is holding Israeli civilians...
Sderot flourishing in the crosshairs of Hamas terror
In any other country, Sderot would be just an idyllic, well-maintained small town. But in southwestern Israel, less than a mile from the border with Gaza, it’s all that as well as a place...
How Western dupes help propagate murderous Palestinian lies
A Palestinian Arab journalist with Al Jazeera, Shireen Abu Akleh, was shot dead this week in a firefight between Hamas and the Israelis in the West Bank city of Jenin.
Western news outlets initially reported uncritically the Hamas...
Israel keeps Gaza crossing closed to Palestinian workers
Israel’s Security Cabinet decided on Sunday evening to maintain the closure on the Erez border crossing linking the Gaza Strip to Israel, preventing the flow of some 12,000 Palestinian Gazan workers into Israel for...
Israel seals Erez Crossing ‘until further notice’ following rocket attacks
Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories announced on Saturday the closure of the Erez Border Crossing between Israel and Gaza, following the launch of two rockets at Israel by Gazan terrorists on...
Gaza terrorists prepare tunnels for ‘battles to come,’ says report
Palestinian terrorists in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip are building tunnels as it prepares for the next war with Israel, according to a report.
A Palestinian Islamic Jihad official told AFP that the movement has defensive and offensive...
IAF strikes Hamas weapons site in Gaza post-rocket attack
The Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas weapons manufacturing site in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in a pre-dawn sortie, following a Gazan rocket attack on southern Israel on Monday evening.
In a statement, the Israel Defense...
Iron Dome battery intercepts rocket launched from Gaza over Israel’s south
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired a rocket at Israel on Monday night, triggering warning sirens in Israeli communities across the border. The Israel Defense Forces said an Iron Dome air-defense battery successfully intercepted...
Gantz: Time for Palestinian Authority to take ‘concrete action’ against terror
In a broad interview hosted by the Washington Institute (TWI), Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said that Israel is taking an approach that it hopes would strengthen Palestinian society to avoid violence.
In an hourlong...
IDF arrests terrorist’s brother, four other suspects, in raid near Jenin
In a counter-terrorism raid, Israel Defense Forces soldiers apprehended the brother of Diaa Hamarsheh, 27, on Wednesday, a day after Hamarsheh entered Israel illegally from the West Bank village of Yabad, near Jenin, and...