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The IDF on Tuesday announced that it had captured a number of Hamas governmental sites in the heart of Gaza City as its troops engaged in fierce battles with Hamas gunmen in the city, while continuing to enable humanitarian corridors to allow for civilians to evacuate to the southern part of the Strip.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The IDF confirmed on Tuesday that 19-year-old Noa Marciano, a soldier in the Border Defense Force, was killed while being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.
On Monday, Hamas published footage showing Marciano’s body. The circumstances of her death remain unclear.
Read more: Jerusalem Post
The Israeli Air Force has struck 200 Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, including terrorist operatives, weapon production sites, anti-tank missile launchers and operational command centers, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel’s Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi signed an order on Monday morning banning the activities of Al-Mayadeen, a Hezbollah-affiliated television station based in Beirut.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Troops from the IDF’s 188th Brigade eliminated a terrorist squad operating in the area of the Al-Quds hospital in Gaza City, an IDF statement said on Monday, after an anti-tank missile was shot at IDF soldiers, damaging an Israeli tank.
Read more: Jerusalem Post
The United States struck two Iranian-linked sites in Syria on Sunday in response to recent attacks on American forces, according to U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli forces killed 21 terrorists after a squad embedded with civilians and fired rocket-propelled grenades and an anti-tank missile at them from the entrance to Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City, the IDF said on Monday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
U.S. lawmakers from across the political spectrum expressed on Tuesday their absolute support for Israel and called for Jerusalem to be given full backing to defeat the Hamas terrorist group.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has reportedly told his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, that the expansion of the Israel-Hamas war is “inevitable.”
Read more: The Times of Israel
Despite extensive reporting on surging antisemitism in the United States and globally, including a 214% spike in New York, per new NYPD data, Jewish and non-Jewish Americans have very different views about the state of Jew-hatred today.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
An anti-tank missile was fired by Hezbollah from Lebanon toward northern Israel near Menara on Friday morning, with IDF artillery striking the source of the missile fire in response, according to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Terrorists in the Land of the Cedars unleashed a barrage of anti-tank missiles towards the northernmost Israeli town of Metula on Thursday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israel on Thursday demanded that international media outlets explain the circumstances under which photographers in their pay were present at the scene of the surprise October 7 assault by the Hamas terror group on southern Israel, and warned they could be held complicit in the crimes.
Read more: The Times of Israel
A drone of unclear origin crashed and exploded at a school in the southernmost city of Eilat Thursday, causing damage to the building, as the country remained on high alert on all its borders due to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Israel forces captured a Hamas stronghold in western Jabaliya after 10 hours of fighting, the IDF said on Thursday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The IDF said it would open a civilian evacuation corridor on Salah al-Din Street in the Gaza Strip from north to south Gaza from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
While nearly a million residents of Gaza are displaced by war, Hamas’s top leaders and their families have been enriching themselves.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Thousands of Gazans on Wednesday again made use of a humanitarian corridor opened by Israel to leave the northern Gaza Strip as Israel pressed ahead with its offensive to oust the Hamas terror group.
Read more: The Times of Israel