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An emergency meeting of the Israeli security cabinet attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, as well as other senior defense officials. Credit: Ariel Harmoni/Defense Ministry.

Israel’s security cabinet orders IDF to continue airstrikes on Hamas in Gaza

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After an emergency meeting late Thursday, Israel’s security cabinet ordered the IDF to “continue taking strong action against the terrorist elements,” said the Prime Minister’s Office. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor...
Members of the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades attend the funeral of six Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades fighters at a cemetery in Deir Al Balah refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, May 6, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90

Hamas is taking the region to the brink of war

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The security escalation in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours shows that Hamas is prepared to take the region to the brink of war, and that it believes it...
The annual International Hot Air Balloon Festival, held at the Besor National Park in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, on Aug. 11, 2017. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.

Annual hot-air balloon festival in Negev cancelled due to Gaza rocket fire

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A yearly hot-air balloon festival scheduled to take place in the Besor National Park in the Negev Desert was cancelled on Thursday, following a barrage of rockets into Israel from Gaza overnight on Wednesday. The...
The site where a mortar shell from a Gaza-launched rocket hit a house in southern Israel near the border, on Aug. 9, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Hamas launches almost 200 rockets into Israel, thousands of Israelis run for cover

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Some 180 rockets were lobbed at Israel from Wednesday night through Thursday, obliterating discussion of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Residents of the coastal city of Ashkelon also scrambled to bomb shelters—a...
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh speaks during a meeting in Khan Yunis in southern Gaza on Jan. 7, 2016. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Hamas-Israel truce would be like a ‘painkiller, not an anti-biotic,’ say observers

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Intensive efforts are underway to reach a long-term, comprehensive truce arrangement between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel. Former members of the Israeli defense establishment, however, have expressed skepticism about the feasibility of...
Smoke rises from a location, reportedly belonging to Hamas, following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on July 14, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

IDF strikes Hamas after soldier hit by Palestinian sniper, using kids as shields

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The Israel Defense Forces hit several targets in the Gaza Strip late Wednesday after a Palestinian sniper moderately injured a soldier patrolling near the border. “In response to the shooting attack aimed at IDF soldiers...
A fire breaks out near Sderot in southern Israel last week as a result of a Hamas-launched incendiary device. Credit: Josh Hasten.

Strategic Affairs Ministry leads tour of beleaguered Gaza-area region

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Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs led a group of more than 30 pro-Israel social-media professionals on Tuesday on a guided tour in English of the Israel-Gaza border region. The goal was to showcase the vast...
Givati Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi

In first Gaza-border fatality since 2014, Israeli soldier shot and killed by Hamas

Givati Brigade Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi, 21, from Petach ‎Tikvah, was killed on Friday by a Hamas sniper during a clash on ‎the Israel-Gaza Strip ‎border, the military said on Saturday.‎ Levi was wearing a...
Palestinian Hamas militants set fire to a coffin wrapped with U.S. flag during an anti-Israeli rally in al-Nuseirat refugee camp in the center of the Gaza Strip on Dec. 11, 2009. Photo by Wissam Nassar/Flash90.

Hamas refuses to work with Greenblatt, Kushner, calling them ‘spokesmen for the Israeli occupation’

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Hamas has rejected working with the United States on fostering peace between Gaza and Israel on Friday, despite U.S. agreements to work with the organization if it renounces terrorism. U.S. Middle East envoys Jared Kushner...
Hamas members take part in a rally marking the Palestinian terror group’s 29th anniversary Dec.16, 2016, in Gaza. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

A failure at state-building, Hamas sticks to military build-up in Gaza

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Tensions between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip remain high, following a period when Gazan terror factions fired large numbers of projectiles at southern Israeli regions, drawing return Israeli airstrikes. Mass arson attacks...