Tag: Rocket Fire
King Charles condemns ‘barbaric’ Hamas attacks on Israel
King Charles III of the United Kingdom called Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Wednesday to “express his condolences and deep shock at the criminal and barbaric actions of the terrorist organization Hamas in its...
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...
Grandmother outsmarts Hamas terrorists in her home
The Hamas gunman aimed his rifle at the elderly couple in their home in southern Israel early Saturday morning. He held a grenade on Rachel Edri’s head, began screaming "Allah Akbar" and announced that...
Can Israeli resilience inspire alienated Americans?
Israelis had a rough week. The country was subjected to a barrage of nearly 1,000 rockets and missiles fired at it by Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists. Though for the most part, the Iron Dome air-defense...
IDF assessment: Iran is pushing Palestinian Islamic Jihad to fire rockets at Israel
Iran has been encouraging the senior leadership of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), whose members are based in Damascus and Beirut, to instruct the terror faction’s Gazan rocket squads to keep firing at Israel, the...
Israeli killed as Gaza rocket makes direct hit on building in Rehovot
An Israeli man was killed when a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck a four-story building in Rehovot, 12 miles south of Tel Aviv, on Thursday evening.
The unidentified man’s body was reportedly found...
Terrorists fire hundreds of rockets at Israel as IDF strikes PIJ assets in Gaza
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip unleashed several barrages of rockets at Israel on Wednesday afternoon, breaking a tense day-long calm following the IDF’s targeted killing of three top Palestinian Islamic Jihad members on...
Security Council to discuss Israel-Gaza flare-up
The U.N. Security Council was set to hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday afternoon to discuss the situation in Gaza as widely expected Palestinian rocket fire failed to materialize.
Terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip...
‘PIJ is firing rockets at Israel with Hamas’s approval’
Israel’s deterrence is eroding, and Hamas is allowing Palestinian Islamic Jihad to fire rockets from Gaza as part of a “controlled escalation,” a former Israeli defense official has warned. In the past three weeks, Gazan...
Actress Gal Gadot visits children in Gaza border town
Israeli actress Gal Gadot paid a visit to the southern Israeli town of Netiv HaAsara on Wednesday, surprising a group of youngsters there.
Netiv HaAsara is one of the closest Israeli towns to the border...