Tag: Israel at War
Katz: ‘We are the closest to a hostage deal since the last one’
"We are the closest to a hostage deal since the last one," Defense Minister Israel Katz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.
One-hundred-and-five captives—81 Israelis and 24 foreign nationals—were released during...
In first since 1967, Syrian mayor meets Israeli officers
Community leaders in the Syrian side of the Golan, including at least one mayor, openly met with IDF officers holding the area, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday.
That revelation coincided with reports of a desire by...
‘NY Times’ confirms Hamas presence in UN schools
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the U.N. agency mainly responsible for education and social services in the Gaza Strip, employed Hamas members, The New York...
Katz orders IDF to create security zone beyond border with Syria
Defense Minister Israel Katz has ordered the Israel Defense Forces to create a secure area free of "heavy strategic weapons and terror infrastructure" beyond the buffer zone with Syria, the Defense Ministry announced Monday.
Katz said he...
Netanyahu to hostage families: Assad’s fall could facilitate deal
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told representatives of hostages' families groups on Sunday that the fall of the Assad regime, weakened by Israel's determined stand against Hezbollah and Hamas, could help advance a deal for...
Trump voices the moral clarity on hostages the world needed
We don’t know yet what impact President-elect Donald Trump’s bombshell statement about the fate of the Israeli hostages still held by Hamas will be. But in one post on his Truth Social site, he neatly summarized...
Record number of religious women enlist in IDF’s Shlav Bet
Over the weekend, more than 120 Orthodox women aged 26-50 enlisted in the Israel Defense Forces as part of the Shlav Bet ("Phase 2") program track for religious women over the usual recruitment age.
This third and...
Syria: Israeli strike kills Hezbollah rep to Assad’s army
An Israeli strike in Syria killed Salman Nemer Jamaa, Iranian-backed Hezbollah's terrorist representative to the Syrian military, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed in a statement on Tuesday night.
"As part of his role, Jamaa was...
IAF hits Hezbollah after terror group fires mortars at Mount Dov
The Israeli Air Force struck Hezbollah terrorist assets across Lebanon on Monday night in response to the Iranian proxy's firing of two mortar shells across the border hours earlier in violation of the Nov....
Hamas leadership welcomed by multiple countries, including Malaysia
Various countries—including Turkey, Iran and Russia—have welcomed Hamas members in recent weeks after the terror group's leadership was asked to leave Qatar, Israel's Kan News reported on Monday night.
Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya, once the deputy of now-slain...