Tag: Swords of Iron
IDF casualty statistics highlight toll of Swords of Iron war
A total of 891 soldiers have died and 5,569 have been wounded since the Swords of Iron war began nearly 15 months ago, according to detailed casualty statistics the Israel Defense Forces released on Thursday.
The data...
MK: Trump’s call for hostage release vital for pressure on Hamas
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's call for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza plays an important role in maintaining international pressure on Hamas, Knesset member Shelly Tal Meron (Yesh Atid) told JNS on Wednesday.
Tal...
Herzog lights eighth Chanukah candle with freed hostages
Israel's President Isaac Herzog and first lady Michal Herzog lit the eighth Chanukah candle in Kibbutz Hatzerim, west of Beersheva, on Wednesday evening together with former Hamas captives Shoshan Haran, Shiri Weiss, Raaya Rotem...
At anti-Israel rally, Erdoğan’s son says Gaza will win
“Gaza will emerge victorious,” the son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan told tens of thousands of attendees at an anti-Israel rally in Istanbul on Wednesday.
Businessman Bilal Erdoğan, 43, said in his speech on...
Hamas: Full list of living captives only after ceasefire in force
A senior Hamas official has denied reports that the Gaza-based terrorist group is refusing to provide a full list of the living hostages, according to Qatar's Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news outlet.
The official explained that Hamas has already...
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...