Tag: Gaza Strip
Ex-British commander, foreign-affairs minister debate meaning behind Hamas actions
Speaking during a webinar on the ongoing conflict in Israel on Wednesday, former commander of British Forces in Afghanistan Col. Richard Kemp said the Israeli government should be the determiner of when a ceasefire...
IDF returns fire following rockets from Lebanon; Gaza fighting slows
The Israeli Air Force announced on Tuesday that it had shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that intruded into Israeli airspace at Emek Hamaayanot, in northern Israel, near the Jordanian border. Its fragments...
‘AP,’ ‘Al Jazeera’ and the mainstream media are tools in Hamas’s war against Israel
Journalists are expressing their outrage that the 12-story Al-Jalaa building housing the Gaza headquarters of Associated Press and Al Jazeera was targeted during retaliatory Israeli airstrikes on Saturday.
Al Jazeera Jerusalem bureau chief Walid al-Omari said that by striking the building,...
Netanyahu: Gaza media tower housed terrorist intelligence office
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the Israel Defense Force’s strike on a Gaza high rise that housed the Associated Press and Al Jazeera bureaus, saying that it hosted a terrorist intelligence office.
“An intelligence office for the Palestinian...
IDF demolishes building used by Hamas, media agencies
The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday demolished a multi-story building in Gaza that it said contained military assets belonging to Hamas’s military intelligence division.
The building also hosted the Al Jazeera and Associated Press media agencies.
The Hamas terror organization...
For Palestinians, the past remains the future
Judging by the present pattern, the next conflagration over Gaza—and by extension, the still-unresolved Palestinian question—will occur in 2028 or so, just in time for the 80th anniversary of Israel’s creation. And judging by...
US envoy Hady Amr arrives in Israel to de-escalate conflict
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israel and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr arrived in Israel on Friday as part of efforts by the Biden administration to de-escalate the conflict in the region.
The U.S. embassy in...
At an Israeli embassy, supporters rally to get out truth about Israel
American supporters of Israel rallied in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, expressing their solidarity with the Jewish state that they feel is being misrepresented by the international community and...
Biden believes Israel’s response to Gaza rockets has been proportionate
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Thursday that he considers Israel’s response to two days of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip as proportionate.
“One of the things I’ve seen thus far is that there...
Failed Hamas rockets killed Gaza civilians, says security official
Rockets fired by Hamas in the Gaza Strip killed a number of Gazan civilians in the first hours of attacks on Monday, an Israeli security official said on Thursday.
After Hamas fired rockets at Jerusalem...