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IDF confirms Islamic Jihad rocket caused Gaza hospital blast

A failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket launch at Israel caused the explosion at a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday night, the IDF confirms.
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Iran’s Khamenei says ‘no one’ can stop resistance if Israel continues Gaza offensive

Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Tuesday that “no one can stop” global Islamist forces if Israel keeps up its bombardment of Hamas targets in Gaza in response to the October 7 massacre of over 1,000 civilians committed by the Palestinian terror group.

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PA to immediately reward families of Oct. 7 terrorists with nearly $3m

The Palestinian Authority will pay nearly $3 million to the families of slain Hamas terrorists who slaughtered civilians in Gaza border communities on Oct. 7, Palestinian Media Watch reports.
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Hezbollah missile wounds three in Metula

Two soldiers and a civilian were wounded on Tuesday morning in a cross-border anti-tank missile attack on the northern Israeli town of Metula.
Hezbollah took credit for the attack.
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As Israel buries its dead, volunteers honor them by digging their graves

In the military section of a central Israel Yehud cemetery, Racheli Konstantyn has been volunteering for the past week as a gravedigger.

She tells The Times of Israel this is a new experience for her, and that until now she’s only ever been in a cemetery for a funeral, and not for the surrounding preparations.

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IDF displays arms, plans, torture manuals collected from Hamas terrorists

The Israel Defense Forces displayed a large amount of weaponry, documents and sensitive material on Sunday that it had confiscated from Hamas terrorists, who penetrated into Israel a week ago.

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Hezbollah missiles kill 2 in northern Israel

The IDF on Monday identified the Israeli soldier Hezbollah killed the previous day as Lt. Amitayi Zvi Granot, 24.
Granot was killed by an anti-tank missile fired at the IDF’s Nurit border post.
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IDF notifies relatives of 199 people that their loved ones are Gaza hostages

The families of 199 people have been notified so far that their loved ones are being held in the Gaza Strip after they were abducted during Hamas’s terror onslaught in southern Israel on October 7, the military said Monday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Israelis abroad urged to take extra care on Friday as Hamas calls for ‘day of rage’

The Foreign Ministry and the National Security Council issued a joint statement on Thursday evening urging all Israelis who are abroad to take extra care on Friday, citing the Hamas terror group’s call on its supporters worldwide to participate in a “Day of Rage.”

Read more: The Times of Israel

Hamas rocket targets northern Israel as Iran threatens ‘new front against Zionist entity

Air-raid sirens blared across northern Israel on Friday as Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired a long-range rocket at the Galilee, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed.

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Israeli diplomat repeatedly stabbed by assailant in Beijing

An Israeli embassy worker in Beijing was attacked on Friday, the Foreign Ministry said, with video appearing to show the assailant repeatedly stabbing the man.

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Hamas calls on Gazans to disregard IDF evacuation calls

Hamas is telling Gazan civilians to ignore calls by the Israel Defense Forces to evacuate northern Gaza because it wants human shields to protect its military infrastructure, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday.

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Showing explicit video of Hamas crimes, Gallant tells NATO: ‘2023 is not 1943’

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant showed uncensored footage of Hamas’s brutal atrocities in Israel as he briefed by video 31 of his counterparts at a NATO meeting in Brussels, his office said Thursday.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Blinken in Tel Aviv: As long as US exists, Israel won’t have to defend itself alone

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged in Tel Aviv on Thursday that Israel will never have to defend itself alone for as long as America exists.

Having flown to Israel in the wake of Hamas’s devastating assault Saturday on southern Israel, in which over 1,300 were killed — most of them civilians — Blinken expressed horror at the killings,…

Elderly couple survive three Hamas assaults on home in Kibbutz Yitzhak

“You’re not going out. You are not going out.”
Those were 63-year-old Vivian Roitman’s fateful words to her 72-year-old husband Menachem on the morning of Oct. 7, after the Hamas terrorists who had ransacked their home in southern Israel and failed to open the door to the safe room in which they were hiding had left the house.
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Netanyahu, Gantz agree to form unity gov’t

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz reached a deal to establish a unity government on Wednesday, the fifth day of Israel’s war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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Death toll from Hamas onslaught passes 1,200, as IDF steps up attacks on Hamas

The death toll from Palestinian terror group Hamas’s shock attack on Israel on Saturday surpassed 1,200 on Wednesday, with over 3,000 injured and the fate of an estimated 150 people abducted and taken to the Gaza Strip still unclear.

Read more: The Times of Israel

Hezbollah fires anti-tank missiles at IDF post from Lebanon

Terrorists in Southern Lebanon fired anti-tank missiles at an Israeli military position near the border on Wednesday, the IDF said.

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