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Recently, the National Intelligence Directorate alerted the defense establishment about a potential escalation in the West Bank, possibly reaching the scale of an intifada, with bombings and suicide attacks within Israel. The attack near a synagogue in Tel Aviv on Sunday might be yet another sign that the warning of an imminent armed escalation in...
US President Joe Biden accused Hamas on Monday night of “backing away” from a hostage deal with Israel that would halt the ongoing fighting in Gaza, as the Wall Street Journal reported that the terror group’s chief, Yahya Sinwar, believes the latest round of negotiations is a “bluff” meant to grant Israel further time to continue its military...
Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah launched a 55-rocket barrage at the Upper Galilee and Golan Heights on Tuesday morning, followed by a 20-rocket barrage in the afternoon, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Kasim Hafeez grew up in a Pakistani Muslim immigrant community in Britain that was rife with antisemitism and Israel hatred. Every day, he was exposed to anti-Western ideas. As a student he decided to join a terrorist organization to kill or be killed for the cause, but an accidental intervention of fate caused him to change course, and walk a...
The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday morning recovered the bodies of six hostages kidnapped on Oct. 7, from a tunnel in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel for a trip focused on bridging the significant gaps between Israel and Hamas on a U.S.-sponsored cease-fire proposal aimed at ending 10 months of fighting in the devastated Gaza Strip.
Read more: Washington Post
Palestinian Authority leaders have started contacting countries and global bodies, including Israel, to receive backing and lay the groundwork for a visit by P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas to the Gaza Strip, Ramallah’s official Wafa news agency reported Sunday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Rep. Mike Turner, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that Iran could declare itself a nuclear weapons state "by the end of the year," blaming Biden administration policies for what would mark a major escalation that the U.S. has sought for years to avoid.
Read more: CBS News
The military said that Hamas used two schools a field hospital and a cemetery to launch rockets at Israeli communities in the south. "This is a further example of the systematic abuse of civilian and humanitarian infrastructure by the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza," the military said adding it had killed the terrorist responsible for rocket...
An IDF chief warrant officer was killed and a combat officer was seriously wounded on Monday morning when a drone launched from Lebanon slammed into Moshav Ya’ara in the Western Galilee, the army confirmed.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The “military” wings of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist groups accepted responsibility on Monday afternoon for a failed suicide bombing attack in south Tel Aviv the previous night.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
A federal judge in California ruled on Tuesday that UCLA must permit Jewish students equal access to campus spaces and events, finding that Jewish students who refused to denounce Israel were barred from accessing certain parts of campus by activists who erected a large anti-Israel encampment in the spring.
Read more: Jewish Insider
Top Pennsylvania political leaders are condemning an effort to put forward a ballot measure in Pittsburgh that would require the city to cut ties with any entity that does business with Israel.
Read more: Jewish Insider
Israel Defense Forces troops have killed more than 17,000 terrorists in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war against Hamas on Oct. 7, IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari revealed on Thursday night.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hezbollah’s increased deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles into northern Israeli airspace is designed to expose vulnerabilities in the Jewish state’s air defense systems.
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The Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group on Friday posted a video on Friday showing the Amad 4 underground facility from which missiles would be launched against Israel. The clip shows vast tunnels wide enough for trucks to drive through easily, equipped with computers and electric power. Trucks can be seen driving one after the other and missile...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told visiting Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday that Turkey will continue to support the Palestinian cause and push the international community to increase pressure on Israel, his office said.
Read more: The Times of Israel
An Israeli drone strike killed two gunmen who threatened troops in the Balata camp on the outskirts of Nablus (Shechem) in central Samaria early Thursday, including a terrorist released in last November’s hostage/ceasefire deal.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Omar Shehada, 35, a Palestinian from Judea and Samaria who appears on a terror watchlist for alleged prior “explosives/arms” use, was arrested on the southern U.S. border in Santa Teresa, N.M., the New York Post reported.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli forces killed 20 terrorists and dismantled a structure concealing a tunnel entrance during operational activities in the former Hamas stronghold of Rafah in southernmost Gaza, the IDF said on Thursday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
