Tag: Gaza
Hamas resorts to same old playbook, but will Israel now reset rules?
As the Israeli military continued striking targets in Gaza on Wednesday in response to a two-day onslaught of rockets launched by Hamas into the Jewish state, the question many are asking is why did...
Lod placed under lockdown after Arab rioting, Netanyahu vows to ‘restore order
The central Israeli city of Lod was placed under emergency lockdown on Tuesday night to clamp down on violence undertaken by Arab residents there.
The population of about 80,000 Jews and Arabs saw rioting and...
One Israeli killed, three wounded by Hamas anti-tank missile near Gaza border
One Israeli was killed, two were seriously wounded and a third sustained light injuries when Hamas fired an anti-tank missile from Gaza at an Israeli vehicle near the border on Wednesday morning.
The wounded were...
Gazan journalist: All dialogue with Israel is collaboration
Palestinian activist Rami Aman, who participated in a two-hour video conference with Israelis earlier this month, has been arrested by Gaza police for attempting “normalizing relations with Israel” and for interrogation with regard to...
‘The world doesn’t realize the extent of the tunnel threat’
“The next war will be urban, dirty, underground,” predicts John Spencer, chair of Urban Warfare Studies and co-director of the Urban Warfare Project at the Modern War Institute at the U.S. Military Academy at...
Arab countries should pay for humanitarian relief in Gaza
We can all share Sen. Bernie Sanders’s concern for the people of Gaza: ”What is going on in Gaza right now…is absolutely inhumane.”
The senator’s scheme to relieve their pain collapses when he proposes that...
Who is calling the shots in Gaza?
Is Gaza controlled by Hamas? And is Hamas the terrorist organization widely claimed?
Or is there some degree of trust? Or at least an effort at communication between Israel and Gaza?
We hear that there are...
Arson balloon attacks on southern Israel resume
A fire that broke out on Wednesday in the Gaza-adjacent Simhoni forest was the result of an arson balloon flown over the Gaza border fence, an arson investigator from the Ashkelon Fire and Rescue...
Israel – Gaza peace possible if Netanyahu wants it
Benjamin Netanyahu has served as prime minister for the past 11 years, coinciding with Hamas’ rule over Gaza ever since it usurped power in 2007 from the Palestinian Authority after a brief violent confrontation...
Next Israeli government could soon face new Iranian terrorist challenges
During last Saturday’s early hours, when the attention of most Israelis was focused on politics and election-related matters, enormous blasts rocked a suspected Iranian surface-to-surface missile factory on the outskirts of the town of Masyaf, in...