Tag: Gaza Strip
The 2019 Intelligence Assessment: The policy implications for Gaza
Military assessment warns of high risk of war with Gaza — The Times of Israel, Feb. 13, 2019
Israeli military report predicts high probability of clashes in Gaza … in 2019 — i24News, Feb. 13, 2019
Chief of Staff: Prepare...
Gaza’s self-inflicted health crisis shows why peace remains a fantasy
Gaza’s health system is on the verge of collapse, Israeli defense officials warned last week. Their report echoed an international aid agency’s findings that Gaza hospitals are severely short of doctors, especially specialists, and...
Sick kids from Gaza are being abandoned at Erez crossing
The Israel Defense Forces’ Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit revealed a disconcerting phenomenon: Sick children from the Gaza Strip who have received medical treatment in Israel are being abandoned at...
Israel reveals: Hamas exploits ill Palestinians for terrorism
Hamas’s military wing has grown more sophisticated in recruiting personnel for its terrorist networks in Judea and Samaria, Israel’s Shin Bet security agency revealed.
In an unusually detailed statement, the agency said on Thursday that...
Did Israel-Hamas ceasefire strengthen Hamas for the next round of fighting?
The ongoing violence perpetrated by the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and the recent barrage of rocket fire—more than 450 rockets and mortars in less than 48 hours—pointed at Israel’s south had an unintended consequence. In...
Lieberman’s sudden resignation exposes deep rift over Gaza strategy
For several weeks, outgoing Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman had made his dissatisfaction with Israel’s approach to Hamas in Gaza public—very public.
Assuming the position of the internal dissenter, Lieberman made it clear that his call...
‘I wish I could reveal’ actions to combat Gaza terror, PM says amid criticism
“Sometimes being a leader means fielding criticism when you know classified and sensitive things,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday amid political upheaval following the resignation of Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
Netanyahu was speaking at an...
Is the situation with Gaza ‘the problem from hell?’
Avigdor Lieberman announced that he was stepping down as defense minister on Wednesday in protest of what he called the government’s “capitulation to terror.” His decision came after the security cabinet decided to pursue...
One man killed, two women injured after Hamas rocket hits Ashkelon apartments
A man was killed and two women were seriously injured when a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck an apartment building in Ashkelon in southern Israel by the Mediterranean.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMS teams...
Hundreds of rockets fired from Gaza at southern Israel amid renewed tensions
Hundreds of rockets have been fired from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel on Monday amid renewed tensions following the death of an Israeli special-forces soldier earlier in the day.
According to the Israeli Defense...