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A Palestinian journalist working for Al Jazeera appears to also be a commander in Hamas’s military wing, according to images and documents recovered by the IDF in the Gaza Strip during the ongoing war against the terror Palestinian terror group.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Two soldiers were killed during fighting in south Gaza’s Khan Younis on Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Monday even as the hopeful news of the rescue of two hostages was celebrated as a moment of light across Israel.
Read more: The Times of Israel
An Israeli drone strike targeted a senior Hezbollah official in Bint Jbeil in Southern Lebanon, according to Arab media reports.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli forces in Gaza freed two hostages in an overnight mission Monday in Rafah.
Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Norberto Louis Har, 70, both kidnapped while visiting Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak, are in good medical condition, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
In this season of national volunteerism, he has been dubbed the “King of Falafel.”
A falafel restaurant in Be’er Ya’akov, a city south of Tel Aviv, is making waves after donating 25,000 portions of Israel’s national snack to Israel Defense Forces soldiers fighting in the war against Hamas.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hezbollah fired a barrage of at least 30 rockets from Lebanon at northern Israel late Thursday, hours after an apparent Israeli drone strike in the southern Lebanese town of Nabatieh was said to target two Hezbollah operatives, including a senior commander.
Read more: The Times of Israel
During a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Wednesday, the American diplomat was shown photos of a giant tunnel that was exposed in recent days underneath the central headquarters of UNRWA in the Gaza Strip. The meeting was attended by senior officials from both sides.
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The board of regents of Texas A&M University, a nearly 150-year-old public school with an undergraduate enrollment of more than 60,000, voted on Thursday to undergo a “multi-year process” to close its campus in Qatar.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Washington stated that the strike responds to Iran-backed militia attacks on U.S. forces in the region, including a drone strike that killed three soldiers in Jordan on Jan. 28.
Read more: JNS
The rebuilding of Kibbutz Be’eri began on Thursday morning, four months and a day after Hamas terrorists murdered more than a hundred of its members on Oct. 7.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli leaders are considering the idea of exiling Hamas leader in Gaza Yahya Sinwar in exchange for the release of all hostages held by the terrorist group and an end to its governance of the territory.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A non-commissioned officer was seriously wounded and two more soldiers were lightly hurt by a Hezbollah anti-tank missile attack in the Kiryat Shmona area in the north of the country, the IDF announced Thursday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
An Israeli army reservist stumbled upon an ancient Assyrian scarab amulet while hiking in northern Israel’s Nahal Tabor Nature Reserve during a day off, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hamas has proposed a ceasefire plan that would see a four-and-a-half-month truce during which hostages would be freed in three stages, and which would lead to an end to the war, in response to a proposed outline sent last week by Qatari and Egyptian mediators and backed by the United States and Israel.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Iran’s online disinformation activities and cyber attacks on Israel have risen dramatically since Oct. 7, according to a Microsoft report released on Monday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel Defense Forces soldiers operating in the heart of Khan Yunis in southern Gaza discovered a large tunnel, one where Hamas had held a around a dozen hostages, the military revealed on Wednesday.
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Three troop divisions have been deployed to the northern border, the Israeli military said Saturday, issuing a strident warning to the Hezbollah while detailing strikes that Israel says has killed hundreds of terror operatives seeking to enflame the restive border.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Sporadic rocket fire from Lebanon set off alert sirens in the north Tuesday with the Hezbollah terror group taking responsibility for a missile that lightly injured two soldiers.
Read more: The Times of Israel