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United Hatzalah EMS vehicles in Ashkelon on Nov. 12, 2018. Credit: United Hatzalah.

One man killed, two women injured after Hamas rocket hits Ashkelon apartments

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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...
U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem on May 23, 2017. Credit: U.S. Embassy Tel Aviv.

State Department on Gaza attacks: ‘We stand with Israel’

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As the latest attacks against Israel from Hamas have taken place in Gaza, the U.S. State Department condemned the terrorist group and reaffirmed that Israel has the right to defend itself. “We are aware of...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hugging the children of Lt. Col. M at their father's funeral, telling the children “your dad was a hero, the greatest hero.” Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.

Israelis mourn loss of special-forces soldier killed in Gaza operation gone awry

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his condolences for the death of a special-forces soldier in an intelligence gathering operation gone awry in Gaza overnight on Sunday. “I bow my head in sadness at the...
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces near the Gaza-Israel border on Sept. 28, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Is Iran trying to drag Israel into a war in Gaza?

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Hamas, the rulers of the Gaza Strip, and Palestinian terrorist group ‎Islamic Jihad both were quick to deny launching rockets from Gaza ‎on Wednesday, after a Grad rocket fired on Israel scored a direct hit on...
Israeli security forces at the scene where a building was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba, on October 17, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Be’ersheva home destroyed by powerful Gaza rocket, family miraculously saved

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A medium-range grad rocket fired by terrorists in the Gaza Strip destroyed a home in Be’ersheva, Israel’s third largest city, deep inside Israeli territory. The Red Alert warning system was activated at 3:39am in Be’ersheva...
The site where a mortar shell from Gaza hit an apartment building and cars in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, near the border with Gaza, on Aug. 9, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Congress and Jewish groups express solidarity with Israel after Hamas rocket barrage

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Members of Congress and the American Jewish community are reacting to the most recent escalation between Hamas and Israel, with the former firing rockets from Gaza into the latter. Rep. Ted Deutch (D-Fla.) posted on Twitter,...
An Israeli police officer examines where a mortar shell from Gaza hit a construction site in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, near the border with Gaza on Aug. 9, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Barrage of Gaza rockets continue, with Beersheva hit for first time since 2014

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The barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip continued on Thursday, with Beersheva—the largest city in southern Israel—being targeted for the first time since “Operation Protective Edge” in 2014. The mayor of Beersheva, Ruvik Danilovich,...
View of the damage caused by a rocket that hit a rooftop of a building in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on July 14, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Israel calls for a return to normal life after 200-rocket barrage from Hamas in...

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Israeli authorities removed restrictions on Gaza-area communities on Sunday morning, allowing Israeli citizens to gather in public, stray farther than sprinting distance from bomb shelters and work their agricultural fields, due to a ceasefire...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley addresses a U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria on April 27, 2017. Credit: U.N. Photo/Rick Bajornas.

US calls for UN Security Council emergency meeting on rockets fired from Gaza

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley called on the U.N. Security Council to hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday to condemn rocket and mortar attacks against Israel by terrorists in Gaza. The United...