Tag: Swords of Iron
Ben-Gvir: IDF must stay in Netzarim Corridor
National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Thursday visited Israeli communities near Gaza and the Netzarim Corridor that divides the Strip between north and south. He warned against IDF withdrawal from the corridor and advocating...
Tactical menorahs: A new first for the IDF Rabbinate
Under the shadow of the war in the Gaza Strip, Lebanon and Syria, the Israel Defense Forces are preparing for the holiday of Chanukah.
In the past few weeks, the IDF Rabbinate worked to distribute...
Israel calls HRW ‘genocide’ report a ‘blood libel’
Israel's Foreign Ministry on Thursday slammed as a "blood libel" a report by Human Rights Watch in which the NGO accuses the Jewish state of genocide.
The report alleges that Israel did this by depriving Palestinians in...
Palestinians sue State Department over aid to Israel
A lawsuit filed Tuesday by Palestinians from Gaza and their U.S. relatives accuses the State Department of circumventing a law that prohibits U.S. military aid to foreign forces implicated in gross human rights abuses...
Katz: ‘We are the closest to a hostage deal since the last one’
"We are the closest to a hostage deal since the last one," Defense Minister Israel Katz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.
One-hundred-and-five captives—81 Israelis and 24 foreign nationals—were released during...
Sullivan meets with Netanyahu in Jerusalem
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Thursday amid a last-ditch effort by the Biden administration to forge a hostages-for-ceasefire-and-terrorists deal between Jerusalem and Hamas.
U.S....
Entertainment, sports and war top 2024 Google searches in Israel
A mix of entertainment, sports and the war against Hamas in Gaza were the top Google search items in Israel over the last year, according to statistics released this week by the world’s most...
Hamas hands hostage list to Egypt
The Hamas terrorist group in Gaza has given Egyptian authorities a list of hostages it is holding as interlocuters continue to push for a ceasefire agreement, the Saudi-based Al-Arabiya channel reported on Tuesday.
The list included names...
IDF names soldier killed alongside civilian in Lebanon
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday morning identified the soldier killed in Southern Lebanon on Wednesday alongside a civilian researcher as Sgt. Gur Kehati, 20, of the Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion, from Nir Banim.
He...
Tzav 9 to resume protests against aid to Hamas
Israel's Tzav 9 ("Order 9") protest group that opposes humanitarian aid going to Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip announced on Wednesday the resumption of its activities after a five-month hiatus.
"Tomorrow, Thursday, 411 days...