Tag: Gaza Strip
Report: Netanyahu expresses reservations about possible West Bank-Gaza passage
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed reservations about a $5 billion proposal for a highway and railway between the West Bank and Gaza as part of the Trump administration’s Mideast peace deal for...
As Hamas loses tunnels option, terror faction takes to the air and sea
The discovery of the latest cross-border Hamas tunnel this week stretching from the Gaza Strip into Israel is a reminder of the fact that Hamas will soon lose this attack capability.
The tunnel was discovered during the...
IDF shoots down Gaza drone that crossed Israeli border
The Israeli military on Monday shot down a drone from the Gaza Strip that had breached Israeli airspace, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.
“Israeli troops spotted the drone entering from the Gaza...
Hamas ‘investigating’ latest rocket attack on Israel
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said Saturday that his organization is “investigating the rocket fire on Israel, as there was no order to any group to do it.”
Haniyeh was referring to Thursday’s rocket fire on southern Israel, which...
Hamas endorsement of UNRWA elections underscores the agency’s inherent flaws
Following the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine (UNRWA) union elections in Gaza on April 24 and the publishing of the results mid-May, various terror groups, including the Islamic Jihad, Popular Front...
Gaza rocket hits yeshivah in Sderot in second attack of day
A rocket launched by Hamas in Gaza struck a building in the southern Israeli town of Sderot late on Thursday, causing damage but no injuries.
According to the Israel Defense Forces, the building hit belong...
Former deputy chief of Israel Defense Forces: We’ll have to fight a war in...
For former Israel Defense Forces Deputy Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yair Golan, the question is not whether Israel will fight a war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, but when.
Golan, who is...
Why Israel has been reluctant to launch a full-scale ground operation in Gaza
In the past year alone, Gaza’s terror factions fought eight rounds of conflict with Israel, signaling a collapse of the four-year period of quiet. Yet despite the frequent flare-ups, Israel stayed clear of launching...
Israel’s fire authority declares all blazes, both wildfires and arson, have been extinguished
Israel’s National Fire and Rescue Authority announced on Saturday night that it had succeeded in containing the massive rash of fires which ripped through the country in recent days, causing the evacuation of 3,500...
World Health Organization’s singling out Israel over health conditions in disputed territories a ‘fantastic...
The 72nd assembly of the U.N.’s World Health Organization (WHO) voted 96-11 this week for a resolution, co-sponsored by the Arab bloc and the Palestinian delegation, which singled out Israel over “health conditions in the occupied...