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Lucy (Lucianne) Dee died of her wounds on Monday, three days after a West Bank terror shooting in which her two daughters were slain, hospital officials said.
Dee, 48, was critically injured in the Friday shooting in the northern Jordan Valley and her condition remained dire since then.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi ordered on Friday the call-up of reserve troops amid an explosion of terror emanating from Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
In the event of rocket attacks on Israel’s north, the escalation would find about 50,000 people living in homes without an adequate sheltered area, despite a NIS 5 billion ($1.38 billion) plan to address the issue.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel launched airstrikes in the Gaza Strip overnight Thursday-Friday, hitting a series of sites belonging to the Hamas terror group, in retaliation for a barrage of rockets from the Palestinian enclave as well as from Lebanon — attacks Israel blames on Hamas.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Two Israeli sisters were killed and their mother was critically wounded on Friday in a Palestinian shooting attack in the Jordan Valley.
The attack took place on the Route 57 highway near the Hamra Junction, the Israel Defense Forces said.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Azerbaijan on Thursday arrested six men it said were linked to Iranian secret services and were plotting a coup in the Caspian nation, in the latest friction between Baku and Tehran.
Relations between the neighbors have long been strained, with Azerbaijan being a close ally of Iran’s historical rival Turkey and holding close ties with arch-foe…
Police clashed late Wednesday with residents of the northern Arab Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm, in a spillover of violent tensions at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The rioting came as clashes erupted at the mosque for a second straight night and Palestinians terrorists in the Gaza Strip again fired rockets toward Israel, further stoking concerns…
Rocket sirens sounded in the communities of Chavat Shikmim and Dorot near Sderot and in the towns of Patish and Ranen, close to Ofakim near the Gaza Strip early on Thursday morning, the IDF stated. While no interceptors were required, seven rockets were fired and exploded in air, with five fired toward Israeli territories and two fired into the…
Several rockets were fired from southern Lebanon on Thursday afternoon with at least one intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system over northern Israel, the military said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the launches came just hours after Lebanon’s Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah said it would support “all measures”…
Suspected Israeli airstrikes in Syria in recent weeks have killed two Iranian military advisers, temporarily put the country’s two largest airports out of service, and raised fears of regional escalation.
While Israel has fought a shadow war with Iran in Syria for years, it has intensified recently, with near-daily airstrikes attributed to…
The Arab League was set to meet for an emergency session Wednesday after Israeli forces entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque overnight and clashed with Palestinians inside.
Jordan, in partnership with the Palestinian Authority and Egypt, had earlier called for the body to hold an emergency session.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israeli police arrested more than 350 Muslim rioters on Wednesday who had barricaded themselves inside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The rioters, who had smuggled fireworks, clubs and stones into the mosque, blocked the doors inside using iron rods, closets and other objects, police reported.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Sirens went off in Israel on Tuesday night—the night before Passover—as terrorists launched a total of 16 rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israel.
Ten rockets were launched overnight and six in two separate barrages in the early morning hours on Wednesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A military court in the Gaza Strip on Monday convicted six people of “collaboration” with Israel, sentencing two of them to death.
The court said in a statement that the death sentences would be carried out “one by firing squad and the other by hanging.”
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Biden administration has reportedly discussed a proposal for an interim Iran agreement with European and Israeli officials in recent weeks, Axios reported on Monday evening.
According to the report, the proposed agreement would see some sanctions being eased in exchange for a partial freezing of the Iranian nuclear program.
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Two Syrian civilians were killed in an Israeli airstrike near Damascus early Tuesday, Syrian state media said.
The incident was the fourth airstrike attributed to Israel to hit targets in Syria in less than a week, and came a day after the Israeli Air Force downed a suspected Iranian drone in Israeli airspace.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a terrorist stabbing on Tuesday morning near Rishon LeZion in central Israel.
Civilians on the scene subdued the Palestinian attacker from Hebron, who has since been transferred to authorities for questioning, according to police.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The IDF has confirmed that the drone that invaded Israeli airspace from Syria and that it brought down on Sunday was Iranian and that it was shot down using special physical electronic means.
Initially, the details of the identity of the drone and how it was brought down were partially censored, since usually the IDF has shot down such invading…