Tag: Israel at War
Blinken: Pause ‘came to an end because of Hamas’
Speaking to reporters at Al-Maktoum Airport Dubai in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that it is important to remember why the "pause" in Gaza ended.
"It came...
137 hostages remain in Hamas captivity as fighting renewed
The Israel Defense Forces resumed combat operations in the Gaza Strip on Friday morning after Hamas broke a week-long ceasefire, throwing into doubt the further release of hostages.
"The Hamas-ISIS terrorist organization has violated the framework. It...
Blinken questions Israel’s war plans, suggests clock running out
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, attending a meeting of Israel's War Cabinet on Thursday, questioned Israel's strategy for resuming war against Hamas and suggested that Israel was running out of time.
In a leaked,...
Refusing to leave captivity without her husband, Hamas threatened her
Rimon Buchstab, a 36-year-old woman who was held hostage by Hamas, was released on Tuesday after 50 days in Gaza. Her husband Yagev, remains in Hamas captivity.
According to a relative of Yagev, Rimon shared...
Jerusalem summons Spanish envoy over PM’s ‘shameful comments’
Jerusalem summoned on Thursday the Spanish ambassador following "shameful comments" by the prime minister questioning the legality of Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza.
“The footage we are seeing and the growing numbers of children...
Israeli hostages recount beatings, death threats in captivity
Israeli hostages recovered from captivity in Gaza have largely kept out of the public eye, but accounts slowly reaching the press from their family members point to widespread abuse by Hamas.
Hostages report having been...
‘Oct. 7 was just a rehearsal,’ warns Sinwar
Hamas's Oct. 7 slaughter was "just a rehearsal," the Islamist group's leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar threatened on Thursday, in his first public statement since the terrorist organization massacred more than a thousand people...
The unexpected details of war
The agonizing dilemmas faced by Israel’s leaders in dealing with Hamas’s evil manipulation of infants and the elderly are by now well known. Military and strategic analyses of the war against Hamas are widespread,...
Netanyahu meets with Blinken in Jerusalem
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at his office in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon.
It is the fourth time the top U.S. diplomat has visited the Jewish state since the war...
Hamas expected to hand over 10 hostages, three bodies
The hostage-release list received by the Israeli government for Thursday includes 10 women and children, including two dual-citizen Russian nationals.
The terrorist group will also reportedly release the bodies of three hostages.
Previous statements by the...