Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military Friday to prepare a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians from the Gaza town of Rafah, on the Egyptian border, and to attack and destroy the last Hamas battalions there.
Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in front of government buildings Thursday night to demand victory in the war against Hamas, and to urge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reject any hostage deal that allows Hamas to survive.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken tried to meet privately with Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi on Wednesday, without Israel’s elected leaders present, before the meeting was blocked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday during a visit to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops that half of Hamas’s terrorists had been killed or wounded, and that 18 of its 24 battalions had been destroyed thus far.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Monday with the family of Ahmad Abu Latif, a Muslim Bedouin Arab soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who died last week in an explosion that killed twenty-one soldiers inside the Gaza Strip.
If Hamas survives the current war with Israel, then “they’ve won,” according to retired United States Army Major and urban and subterranean warfare expert John Spencer, who slammed the terror group’s use of “human sacrifice” tactics and warned that if Israel did not completely dismantle the organization then “massive genocidal attacks” and the taking of civilian hostages would be replicated by terrorists across the globe.
Idan Amedi, 35, who has starred in the Fauda series on Netflix, addressed reporters Thursday after recovering from serious injuries he suffered while on reserve duty with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and sounded a message of hope and resilience.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that Israeli soldiers had achieved “operational control” in the center of Khan Yunis, the most important Hamas stronghold in the Gaza Strip, where terrorist leaders are thought to be hiding underground.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said early Tuesday local time that ten soldiers had been killed in the central Gaza Strip when Hamas terrorists fired rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at soldiers in buildings that were being prepared for demolition.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed videos and photos Thursday of an underground weapons manufacturing complex that Hamas had built underneath the main humanitarian corridor in the Gaza Strip.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that Israel cannot defeat Hamas — that there is no “military solution,” and that Israel will have to accept a Palestinian state.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi warned Wednesday that war with Hezbollah in Lebanon is closer than ever before.
Hamas issued a new video on Monday in which it forced an Israeli hostage, Noa Argamani, announced the death of two other hostages who had appeared in another video with Argamani the day before.
Two Palestinian terrorists killed a woman and injured 17 other civilians in a terror attack in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ra’anana on Monday, ramming their car into pedestrians and stabbing others.
Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shia Muslim terror organization that illegally occupies southern Lebanon, killed two civilians in northern Israel on Sunday when it fired an anti-tank missile at their home.
Soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found a Jewish grave in recent operations in central Gaza in a British cemetery devoted to soldiers that fell during the First World War, and recited the kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, for the soldier.
South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Monday released a photo of a North Korean F-7 rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) that was reportedly used by Hamas terrorists.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed a massive Hamas rocket production facility on Monday that the terrorist group used to build the long-range rockets that it fires at Israeli cities in its efforts to kill civilians and terrify the population.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Monday that it had killed leading Hamas terrorist Hassan Hakashah, who was based in Syria and had allegedly directed rocket fire from Syria toward Israel.
A mob of anti-Israel protesters took over three New York City bridges and Manhattan’s Holland Tunnel, leading to more than 300 arrests.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that an Al Jazeera journalist and another reporter who were killed in an airstrike in Gaza on Sunday were riding in a vehicle with a Hamas terrorist who was a drone operator.
On the 3-month anniversary of October 7, Israel issued a stern warning to the Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon not to provoke it into a second war front.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released footage Friday of a network of Hamas terror tunnels that it found under the Blue Beach Hotel, a luxury resort for Gaza’s elite.
Col. Elad Goren, Head of Israel’s Civil Department of the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), told reporters Friday that the humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip had “stabilized,” and that there was enough food entering the area.
An Israeli woman confirmed that Hamas held her against her will at a Gaza hospital where she underwent “psychological warfare.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released footage Monday taken from a GoPro camera found on the body of a dead Hamas terrorist in which another terrorist is shown disguised as a civilian while firing an anti-tank rocket-propelled grenade (RPG).
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said Saturday that Hamas terrorists continued fighting because they believed that Israel would soon have to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) evacuated Palestinian civilians from a school in central Gaza that was being used by Hamas terrorists to fire at Israeli soldiers, and arrested and interrogated the terrorists from the building, Israel announced Saturday.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Friday that soldiers had found a “hideout” belonging to Gaza-based Hamas leader Yayha Sinwar, as well as a tunnel underneath the building that led to a large underground command center, which was later destroyed.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released the results of its investigation into the accidental shooting of three Israeli hostages on December 15 who had escaped their Hamas captors in northern Gaza and were trying to signal to Israeli soldiers for help.
Israel has become dangerously dependent on American munitions, according to conservative Middle East analyst and commentator Caroline Glick, who is calling for Israeli self-sufficiency, while slamming the Biden administration’s push for a “hideously anti-Israel” two-state solution policy, declaring it a “plan to annihilate Israel, piece by piece.”
The dying mother of a young Israeli woman abducted by Palestinians during the October 7 massacre has issued a plea to President Joe Biden imploring help in releasing her daughter.
The government of Israel accused the United Nations (UN) on Wednesday of putting Palestinian civilians in danger by allowing terrorists to use UN facilities in Gaza to launch attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Shaul Greenglick, 26, from the town of Ra’anana, was on his way to becoming a household name before being killed in action in fighting Hamas in the northern Gaza Strip this week: he was a contestant on The Next Star, Israel’s version of American Idol.
“I have never been afraid of death. I made this choice myself and followed it through to the end. I fell with honor for the sake of my people. I have no regrets.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Tuesday that it had begun fighting in the central Gaza Strip, one of the last major Hamas strongholds, and the source of much of the remaining rocket fire that terrorists have managed to launch from at Israeli civilians.
A guest op-ed in the New York Times by Gaza City’s Hamas-appointed mayor, Yahya R. Sarraj, decrying damage to buildings as Israeli forces have worked to free hostages has drawn equal measures of ridicule and disgust.
Israel has seized 30,000 explosives in the Gaza Strip since Hamas launched a war on October 7, a spokesman for the Israeli government confirmed on Tuesday.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed Monday that the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza, where Hamas links had previously been found, was a terrorist base, where a car belonging to the late Arab Israeli hostage Samer Talalka had been found.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu paid a visit on Christmas to Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip, where the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have engaged in heavy fighting in recent weeks, and are on the verge of complete control of the area.
