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Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on Nov. 13, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Israel strikes Hamas targets after two rockets fired at Beersheva

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Israel struck several Hamas installations in the Gaza Strip on Saturday after two rockets were fired at the city of Beersheva from the coastal territory, setting off warning sirens. According to Israeli military sources, the...
Emergency Volunteer Project Deployment director Eitan Charnoff (center) and volunteer U.S. firefighters Spencer MacWilliams (left) and Jake Papageorgio at a fire station in Jerusalem. Credit: Courtesy.

US, Israeli firefighters work side by side as rockets fall

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As rockets fell on southern and central Israel last week, a team of U.S. firefighters worked side by side with their Israeli counterparts to extinguish brush and building fires, and deal with other emergencies. The...
An Iron Dome air-defense system set up in Sderot in southern Israel near the border with Gaza on Nov. 13, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

After 50 hours of fire exchanges, Israel waits to see if Gaza Strip stabilizes

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A ceasefire that appeared fragile, and which was punctured twice by rocket fire from Gaza, went into effect on Thursday after 50 hours of combat between the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror faction and...
An Iron Dome battery is seen near the town of Sderot in southern Israel, near the border with Gaza Strip, on Nov. 13, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Ceasefire off to shaky start as sirens wail in southern Israel

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A ceasefire between Israel and Gaza-based terrorist groups that went into effect early Thursday morning was immediately put to the test as five rockets from Gaza sent Israelis scrambling for shelter in the south. The...
Israeli soldiers at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip, Nov. 13, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel seeks to prevent further escalation on second day of conflict with Islamic Jihad

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Israel carefully managed its second day of conflict with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on Wednesday, keeping airstrikes focused on the suppression of Gazan rocket-launch squads, as Hamas, despite declarations, continued to sit on the...
Children play outside in Sderot, which also has an enormous underground concrete recreational area with three bomb shelters for protection from regular rockets launched by Hamas in the neighboring Gaza Strip. Photo by Daniel Dreifuss/Flash90.

Gaza rocket triggers sirens, causes evacuation in southern Israeli town

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A rocket was fired at southern Israel on Wednesday night, triggering a siren in the town of Netiv Ha’asara, north of the Gaza Strip. According to the Israel Defense Forces, the rocket did not...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits IDF wounded soldiers at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO.

Visiting wounded soldiers, Netanyahu says ‘rules of the game’ have changed in Gaza

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited wounded soldiers at a hospital in southern Israel on Monday after a weekend of hostilities, where the Israeli leader said that the “rules of the game” have changed...
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on May 4, 2019. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Trump, Republicans, Democrats react to Gaza rocket barrage; Reps. Omar, Tlaib bash Israel

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U.S. President Donald Trump and others have reiterated Israel’s right to self-defense amid more than 600 rockets being fired by the terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the past couple days. Once again, Israel faces a...
Israeli warplanes are flying towards the Gaza Strip as it seen from the Israeli side on May 5, 2019. Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.

Is it time for the IDF to inflict ‘massive damage’ on Hamas?

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As of Sunday evening, four Israeli civilians have been killed after terror groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad launched more than 600 rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israel. By doing so, Hamas and Islamic...
Air-raid sirens sounded in Tel Aviv after two rockets were launched from Gaza at Israel on March 14, 2019. Credit: Screenshot.

Israel orders retaliatory strikes in Gaza after rocket attacks aimed at Tel Aviv

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The Israel Defense Forces announced that it ordered retaliatory airstrikes targeting “terror sites” in Gaza hours after two rockets were launched in the direction of Tel Aviv on Thursday night. “Two rockets were launched from the Gaza...