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IDF tanks stationed near the Israel-Gaza border on March 26, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

The Gaza Strip and learning to live with insoluble problems

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Upon its conclusion, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rightly lauded the Israel Defense Forces for its brilliant work during “Operation Shield and Arrow.” The five-day campaign exacted a heavy toll on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)...
A bomb shelter donated by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is unloaded in Ashkelon, May 10, 2023. Photo by Yossi Zeliger/IFCJ.

International Fellowship of Christians and Jews rushes bomb shelters to Ashkelon

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On Wednesday, the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews placed five bomb shelters in areas of Ashkelon identified by local authorities as lacking ample protection. The locations included residential neighborhoods where homes had no shelters...
Israel's Foreign Minister Yair Lapid with Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry, as he arrives to the the Negev Summit in Sde Boker in southern Israel, March 27, 2022. Photo by Flash90.

Egypt: Ceasefire talks so far unsuccessful

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Attempts to broker a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian terror groups in Gaza have made no headway, with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry admitting that “efforts continue for now without success.” A senior Israeli...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks about Operation Shield and Arrow on May 9, 2023. Credit: Avi Ohayon (GPO)

Netanyahu: ‘Expanded campaign’ possible amid enemy rocket onslaught

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“We are ready for the possibility of an expanded campaign and harsh strikes against Gaza,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday amid a series of rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip. He spoke during...
IDF closed access to roads in the area of southern Israel close to the border with Gaza following a night of IAF massive airstrikes on targets of the Islamic Jihad terror organization killing three commanders, Ghannam, Tareq Izzeldeen and Khalil Al-Bahtini, who were responsible for the last month's rocket attacks on southern Israel. Gaza Envelope, May 9, 2023. Photo by Adele Raemer/TPS.

Terrorists fire hundreds of rockets at Israel as IDF strikes PIJ assets in Gaza

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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...
Rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip towards Israel, in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on Aug 7, 2022. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

‘PIJ is firing rockets at Israel with Hamas’s approval’

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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...

First Sderot rocket victim to become IDF officer

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Shila Naamat was 20 months old when a Palestinian rocket struck his home in March 2002. Back then, there wasn’t a bomb shelter on every block or an Iron Dome air defense system. Naamat was...
Sderot Mayor Alon Davidi. Photo by Judy Lash Balint.

Sderot flourishing in the crosshairs of Hamas terror

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In any other country, Sderot would be just an idyllic, well-maintained small town. But in southwestern Israel, less than a mile from the border with Gaza, it’s all that as well as a place...
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leads a Cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on April 10, 2022. Photo by Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL.

Bennett criticizes UN for not condemning Gaza rocket attacks

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Israel’s premier told the secretary general of the United Nations on Saturday that Jerusalem was disappointed at the lack of U.N. condemnation of the recent rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. The international community “must...
Palestinian workers wait at the Erez Crossing in Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, as they wait to enter Israel for work, on March 13, 2022. Photo by Attia Muhammed/Flash90.

Israel seals Erez Crossing ‘until further notice’ following rocket attacks

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Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories announced on Saturday the closure of the Erez Border Crossing between Israel and Gaza, following the launch of two rockets at Israel by Gazan terrorists on...