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As Israel Defense Forces continued to battle the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip, the army on Thursday morning announced the deaths of three soldiers in fighting the previous day, bringing the military’s death toll in the ongoing ground operation in the Strip to 167.
Read more: The Times of Israel
In her first television interview since being released from Hamas captivity in the Gaza Strip four weeks ago, Israeli Mia Shem opens up about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Palestinian residents of the coastal enclave.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was worse than Nazi leader Adolf Hitler during a speech he gave at an event in Ankara on Wednesday, drawing charges that he himself was guilty of genocide.
Read more: The Times of Israel
In a touching display of solidarity, Noor, a local restaurant in the Druze village of Julis in Northern Israel, has become a kosher establishment. The restaurant has made the move to provide free pre-packaged meals for IDF soldiers and evacuees during the ongoing war.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Israeli embassies around the world were reportedly put on high alert Wednesday, with some of them staying closed entirely, following a blast that rattled the embassy in India a day earlier.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israeli forces on Tuesday expanded the ground campaign into urban refugee camps in the central Gaza Strip, and are continuing to fight in Khan Yunis in the south.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
On Oct. 8, 1997, the U.S. State Department designated Hamas as a foreign terror organization. On nearly the 26th anniversary of that designation, Hamas terrorists killed some 1,200 people, wounded thousands more and kidnapped at least 240 Israelis and foreign nationals and took them to the Gaza Strip.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hezbollah fired a large barrage of rockets toward northern Israel on Friday morning, as Israel warned that the terror group was endangering Lebanon’s future.
Read more: The Times of Israel
An overwhelming majority of younger voters apparently harbor contradictory views about Israel, Jews and the Jewish state’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Israeli military is pressing its offensive against Hamas, with troops uncovering and destroying rocket launchers and other weapons stockpiles, the Israel Defense Forces said on Friday morning.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The IDF’s 36th Division completed the dismantling of Hamas terror capabilities in the Shejaia neighborhood of Gaza City, the Israeli military said Thursday evening, hours after the 99th Division completed its operations in Gaza City’s southern area and has begun expanding its area of activity to the central Strip.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Since Oct. 7, the International Red Cross has been helping imprisoned Palestinian terrorists receive controversial stipends from the Palestinian Authority, according to Israeli NGO Palestinian Media Watch.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Two Israeli civilians were wounded Thursday in an anti-tank missile attack from Lebanon on the northern town of Dovev, which occurred at the same time as another missile appeared to hit cars in the nearby community of Avivim.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Hamas fired at least 30 rockets at Israel’s central region on Thursday afternoon, in the heaviest barrage in weeks.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hamas announced Wednesday morning that the leader of its political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, had arrived in Cairo to conduct talks with Egyptian officials on the latest developments in the war in Gaza and on “other files,” according to a statement released by the Palestinian terror group.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The “political” wing of the Hamas terrorist group is holding secret talks in Doha with its Fatah rivals about forming an alliance after the war in Gaza ends, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli ground, air and naval forces struck more than 300 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past day, causing heavy Hamas casualties and destroying terror infrastructure, the Israel Defense Forces reported on Wednesday morning.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Kamal Adwan Hospital director Ahmad Kahlot of Jabalya in northern Gaza has confessed to the Shin Bet that Hamas took over his hospital as a military operations center, it was revealed on Tuesday. Kahlot told his interrogators that he joined Hamas in 2010 at the equivalent rank of a brigadier general.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post