Tag: IDF
250,000 Israelis displaced, bodies identified three weeks after mass murder
Some 250,000 Israelis have been displaced by the war so far, and the Israel Defense Forces are working with local councils to care for devastated communities of traumatized people from the south, including children...
‘Let the arms cease,’ Pope Francis says
Pope Francis called for a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas during his weekly, Sunday address in Saint Peter's Square in Vatican City.
"In Gaza, spaces must be left to guarantee humanitarian aid and the hostages...
Gallant promises ‘absolute victory’ over Hamas
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday night vowed to lead the Jewish state to victory over Hamas, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to rebuild and expand the border communities destroyed in the...
US Jews supply thousands of tzitzit to Israeli soldiers
As the Israel Defense Forces prepare to move into Gaza to destroy the Hamas terrorist group, an American rabbi affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic movement has launched a campaign to supply Israeli soldiers with tzitzit,...
A paramedic recounts Israel’s black Sabbath
Early in the morning on Simchat Torah, my husband woke me up and told me that there were many rocket launches towards central Israel. As a volunteer paramedic with United Hatzalah, I am available...
Israel strikes more than 250 Hamas terror targets in 24 hours
Over the past day, Israeli fighter jets struck over 250 Hamas terror targets in the Gaza Strip, including terror infrastructure, operational command centers, tunnel shafts and rocket launchers placed in the heart of civilian...
IDF conducts targeted raid inside the Gaza Strip
Israeli tanks rolled into the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday night in a pinpoint raid "as part of preparations for the next stages of combat," the army said.
Under the lead of the Givati Brigade,...
Unsung Heroes: Lone soldiers on the frontline against Hamas
“When we first got there, there were terrorists still alive, some dead... a lot of injured soldiers, dead soldiers, dead civilians, bodies everywhere.”
These are the words of D., a member of the Israel Defense...
‘Return my daughters’: A mother’s appeal for her captive children
Mayan Zin hasn’t seen her two daughters since they were kidnapped on Oct. 7. Hamas terrorists entered Kibbutz Nahal Oz, killed her ex-husband and 17-year-old stepson Tomer, and took daughters Dafna, 16, and Ella, 8,...
New ‘olim’ show up to support their new homeland in time of war
As rockets from Gaza continue to rain down across Israel following the carnage of the Hamas attack on the western Negev that began on Oct. 7, and foreign nations including the United States consider...