2014 Gaza war

TEL AVIV — Senators Dianne Feinstein and Bernie Sanders this week released statements about the orchestrated Israeli border assault that must make Hamas terrorists proud.

TUNIS, Tunisia — A Tunisian court has banned the US film “Wonder Woman” which stars Israeli actress Gal Gadot, more than a month after it had been scheduled to open at cinemas in the Arab state, a legal source said Wednesday.

Israelis stood silent for two minutes while sirens wailed across the country on Monday marking an annual day of remembrance for fallen troops and slain civilians.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Sunday dismissed a recent report saying there are 15 Hamas attack tunnels reaching into Israel from the Gaza Strip.

The IDF last week conducted a five-day drill simulating a confrontation with Hamas including infiltrations by Hamas commandos from the land, sea and air.

A senior Hamas official confirmed Wednesday to The Times of Israel that Qatar and Egypt are involved in mediating between his organization and Israel, but stressed that Hamas will not even begin to talk about releasing Israeli civilians it has detained along with the remains of two IDF soldiers unless Israel first releases dozens of Palestinians it is holding.

The Security Cabinet on Sunday ruled that it would not release to their families the bodies of Hamas militants killed during attacks on Israelis but would instead bury them, the government said.

A Palestinian who tried to stab an Israeli soldier was shot dead on Tuesday and an Israeli aircraft intercepted a drone launched by Hamas, the army said, as violence surges in the run-up to next month’s Jewish new year holiday.

With an eye on October’s municipal elections in the Palestinian territories, the Hamas terror group has produced a slick video showing a supposedly prosperous Gaza Strip under its rule, featuring smiling people holding up signs with the hashtag “Thank you Hamas.”

An Israeli from the country’s Bedouin Arab minority illegally crossed into Gaza on Tuesday, Israel’s military said, an incident that may affect a proposed prisoner swap with the Palestinian enclave’s Hamas authorities.

Shortly after the Security Cabinet on Wednesday approved the reconciliation deal with Turkey, a senior Hamas official claimed that Turkey is currently mediating a prisoner swap between the Palestinian terror organization and Israel.

The families of two soldiers whose remains are held in the Gaza Strip on Monday condemned the Israeli government for failing to secure the release of their sons’ bodies as part of the rapprochement deal with Turkey.

The United States borrowed an Israeli military tactic known as “roof knocking” to try to warn civilians before it dropped a bomb targeting Islamic State fighters in Iraq this month, but a woman was killed in the attack, a U.S. military official said on Tuesday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli man was convicted on Tuesday of murdering a Palestinian teenager in Jerusalem, as a court rejected his insanity plea for a crime that helped trigger the 2014 Gaza war.

A Hamas official downplayed Israel’s announcement on Monday that an attack tunnel reaching into Israeli territory was discovered and destroyed. “The Israeli statements are motivated by domestic politics,” the official claimed to Breitbart Jerusalem. “It’s an old tunnel that wasn’t part of

Danny DeVito introduced Sen. Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally in St. Louis, Missouri last month, and has been acting as a surrogate of sorts for the presidential candidate. Speaking to the Daily Beast on Friday, DeVito criticized Israel’s response during the

The Times of Israel reports: Simone Zimmerman, the Bernie Sanders campaign’s newly hired national Jewish outreach coordinator, is quite familiar with the American Jewish establishment. She is used to fighting against it. During the 2014 Gaza war, Zimmerman was one

Bernie Sanders will likely in fact pay a price for supporting the linkage of American support for Israel to progress on the peace process, for dramatically overstating Palestinian casualties in the 2014 Gaza War, and for branding Israel’s responses to Palestinian violence as disproportionate.

JERUSALEM – Israel’s Home Front Command finished development of a new radar system that will give residents time to reach shelter if they are targeted with mortar shells fired from the Gaza Strip, according to a radio report broadcast Monday. Existing

JERUSALEM – Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton on Sunday expressed support for Israel’s right to defend itself against Palestinian terrorism, setting herself apart from rival Bernie Sanders, who infuriated Jews and Israelis when he wrongly claimed that Israel had probably killed “more than 10,000” Palestinian civilians in the 2014 Gaza war.

Sen. Bernie Sanders kept up his criticism of the Jewish state, this time accusing Israel of a “disproportionate” response during the 2014 Israel-Gaza War.

TEL AVIV – Sen. Bernie Sanders’s anti-Israel statements go “even beyond Hamas terrorist propaganda,” declared Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief and senior investigative reporter Aaron Klein during a radio interview on Wednesday night. Klein was referring to an interview given by the far-left

The Times of Israel reports: Bernie Sanders should retract and apologize for his “libelous” suggestion that Israel killed more than 10,000 innocent Palestinians during the last Gaza war, MK Michael Oren (pictured) said Thursday, asserting that the Democratic candidate’s misrepresentation

An Israeli cabinet minister described as “loony” on Thursday an account by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of the number of Palestinian civilians killed in the 2014 Gaza war that went well beyond any official assessments. The minister, Zeev Elkin,

JERUSALEM – Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said this week he would urge the Israeli government to pull out of West Bank settlement and accused the Israel Defense Forces of using “disproportionate” force in its war against Hamas in Gaza in 2014.

The Times of Israel reports: Israel has revoked permission for Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to travel to Jerusalem for Friday prayers on the Temple Mount, claiming exploitation of the system and misuse of permits granted by Israeli authorities. As