Tag: Israel at War
Reflections of a father
Written on Friday afternoon, Erev Shabbat, Oct. 13, 2023
It has been a week since the war started, and I feel a need to write.
I am not a writer. I am not writing this for...
PA chief Mahmoud Abbas condemns violence ‘on both sides’
Five days after a murderous terror spree by Hamas—infiltrating Israel’s southern border from the Gaza Strip and leaving 1,300 dead, thousands wounded and as many as 150 civilians taken captive—Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas...
Pentagon Spox: ‘Our message to Israel is that we stand with you’
Pentagon spokesperson Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder has been close to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin since Hamas attacked Israel and Israel launched “Operation Swords of Iron” on Oct. 7.
The Biden administration has...
IDF chief Halevi vows to probe mistakes, ‘but now is the time for war’
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi admitted the army failed to protect Israel's citizens and properly guard the border fence with the Gaza Strip in a speech to reporters on Thursday.
That failure...
Older couple survives three Hamas assaults on home in Kibbutz Yitzhak
“You're not going out. You are not going out.”
Those were 63-year-old Vivian Roitman's fateful words to her 72-year-old husband Menachem on the morning of Oct. 7, after the Hamas terrorists who had ransacked their...
A desolate Sderot waits for the rockets to stop
SDEROT, Israel—This city, at its closest barely a half-mile from the Gaza Strip, lies forlorn, its storefronts shuttered and its tens of thousands of residents mostly gone.
An eerie hush, punctuated by the booms of...