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After a night of rain, the army’s routes into southern Lebanon were coated in a very thick layer of mud. A soldier driving a Humvee with a group of journalists this week came prepared with a waterproof suit and goggles.
Read more: The Times of Israel
As Israel defeats its enemies on the battlefields in Gaza and Lebanon, the intifada has gone global. The fronts of the war against the Jewish state encompass America’s cities, the United Nations, the U.S. Senate, and the International Criminal Court. Marches, resolutions, embargoes, arrest warrants—these are the tactics by which Hamas sympathizers…
Israel placed sanctions on dozens of clients of a bank closely tied to the Hezbollah terror movement in Lebanon, Defense Minister Israel Katz’s office said Thursday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
An Israeli man was killed by a Hezbollah rocket on Thursday in the northern city of Nahariya.
He was identified as Brian Director, 27, from Maalot-Tarshiha. He is the fourth person killed in cross-border attacks on the Jewish state’s northernmost seaside city in less than a month.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The United States on Wednesday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that called for a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and the unconditional release of all hostages, but did not make one contingent on the other.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Roughly a third of Senate Democrats voted in favor of three failed bids to block the sale of offensive weapons to Israel in measures that tested the strength of the party’s progressive wing, which has pushed for a harder line against the Jewish state over its prosecution of the war against Hamas in Gaza.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes committed during the ongoing Gaza war, the court said in a statement Thursday.
Read more: Ynet News
The Biden administration targeted Hamas with sanctions on Tuesday, blacklisting six leaders of the Iran-proxy militia on accusations they aided it in raising funds and smuggling weapons into Gaza.
Read more: United Press International
Italy’s defense ministry admits Hezbollah staged an attack on itself when a UN Interim Force in Lebanon base was hit by rocket fire that it initially blamed on Israel, Barron’s reported on Tuesday.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed on Tuesday that Hamas would not rule in Gaza after the war, seemingly rejecting efforts to reach a ceasefire with the terror group still partially intact as he visited an Israeli military position in the enclave.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The United Nations Security Council will convene on Wednesday to vote on a resolution for an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Biden administration is lobbying Democratic senators to vote against legislation being advanced by several of the party’s most progressive members that would block more than $20 billion in weapon shipments to Israel, two US officials told The Times of Israel on Tuesday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel is frequently framed as a Jewish issue. However, many of Israel’s most ardent American supporters are Christians. Nothing spotlights that truism more than President Donald Trump’s burgeoning administration, and it’s worth considering the implications for its Israel policy.
Read more: The Jewish Chronicle
The Jerusalem District Court ruled on Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority must compensate the victims of the 2001 Sbarro suicide attack in Jerusalem.
According to the report, the ruling is based on a 2022 Supreme Court ruling, which stipulates that the Palestinian Authority is a party to the crimes caused by terrorists since it financially…
Israeli forces operating in Southern Lebanon have found a far greater amount of Russian weaponry there than the military had expected, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Washington has made it clear to Turkey that there can be no more “business as usual” with regard to the Hamas terrorist organization, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told a Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on Monday that Israel will review its ability to act against Iran once the new U.S. administration takes over.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Five people were lightly wounded by Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israel on Tuesday morning, four in central Israel and one in Karmiel in the country’s north.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate