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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...
File photo: An Israeli Iron Dome interceptor rocket flies above the Tel Aviv skyline as seen from a rooftop on July 17, 2014. Credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90.

Rockets on Tel Aviv an escalation that could cost Hamas dearly

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Thursday night’s twin rocket attack on greater Tel Aviv from the Gaza Strip marks a dramatic escalation of the security situation that could prove to be highly costly for Hamas. While it remains unclear at...
A view of the UN General Assembly hall. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

UN fails to pass first-ever resolution censuring Hamas

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The United Nations rejected a resolution on Thursday that required a two-thirds majority to pass condemning the terrorist group Hamas for launching rockets from Gaza into Israel in addition to its infrastructure such as...
The border fence with Egypt in Eilat in southern Israel, on Oct. 18, 2017. Photo by Yaniv Nadav/Flash90.

Egypt outraged by Gaza rocket launch amid truce mediation efforts

Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel has called off a planned visit to the Gaza Strip, Ramallah and Israel, officially citing a scheduling conflict, but commentators surmised that the cancellation may be a response to rocket...
Israel Military Industries’ surface-to-surface Romach (“spear” in Hebrew) rocket. Credit: IMI.

IDF ground forces to acquire more precise rocket firepower

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A recent deal for the purchase of hundreds of millions of shekels worth of guided rockets for the Israel Defense Forces is a forward-looking step that takes into account future battlefield needs, a military...
The site where a mortar shell from a Gaza-launched rocket hit a house in southern Israel near the border, on Aug. 9, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Hamas launches almost 200 rockets into Israel, thousands of Israelis run for cover

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Some 180 rockets were lobbed at Israel from Wednesday night through Thursday, obliterating discussion of a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Residents of the coastal city of Ashkelon also scrambled to bomb shelters—a...
A man seen at the entrance to a bomb shelter that was open tonight in the Golan Heights, in northern Israel, May 8, 2018, following an order of the Israeli army to open all the bomb shelters in the Golan Heights. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90

Early morning rockets once again target citizens in southern Israel

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Thousands of Israeli citizens once again scrambled to bomb shelters early Wednesday when Palestinians in Gaza launched over a dozen rockets at southern Israel. Red Alert warning sirens rang out in Eshkol, Sha’ar Hanegev, Sdot...

Israel pounds Gaza terror targets in response to rocket fire

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The Israeli military pounded terror targets in Gaza early Monday, following a rocket launch from Gaza into southern Israel. The Gaza City-based Safa news agency reported heavy damage from 10 IDF airstrikes in southern Gaza....