TEL AVIV – Israel’s UN envoy Danny Danon slammed the global body’s Secretary-General Antonio Guterres for proposing ways to “protect” Palestinians in Gaza from Israel, saying that the only protection they need was from their terrorist leaders.
JERUSALEM – US President Donald Trump’s national security adviser arrived in Israel on Sunday for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a time of shared concerns over Syria, Iran and the Gaza Strip.
The head of the Shin Bet security agency has warned cabinet ministers that excluding the Palestinian Authority from a long-term ceasefire deal between Israel and the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip will send a message that terrorism is rewarded, Israeli television reported Thursday.
A key coalition ally of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday harshly criticized any deal for a long-term ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas terror group in the Gaza Strip, adding that ministers in his party will oppose it.
TEL AVIV – Israel and the Gaza-ruling terror group Hamas are said to be on the verge of reaching a ceasefire agreement, an Israeli official told the Los Angeles Times.
TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman warned that Israel’s next round of conflict with the Hamas terror group was a “matter of when, not if,” ahead of a meeting between senior defense officials to discuss easing up on restrictions imposed on the Gaza Strip following mortar and rocket fire.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned Hamas that Israel will continue to do whatever it needs to combat the terrorism coming from the Gaza Strip and will accept nothing less than a blanket ceasefire, at the
The Israeli navy fired warning shots at a flotilla that set sail from a Gaza Strip port on Saturday in the latest attempt to breach the maritime blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt on the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave.
A large incendiary kite launched from Gaza landed on power lines near Kibbutz Sufa, sparking a quick operation Saturday by employees from the Israeli Electric Corporation to remove the device before a fire was started.
Israeli tanks struck two Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip Friday evening after a grenade was hurled at troops and amid intense violence during mass riots in several locations along the border
Wrapping up a four-hour meeting on Gaza, Israel’s high-level security cabinet on Thursday instructed the military to “continue acting forcefully” against terror groups in the Strip, amid an intense flare-up in violence over the last day that saw the worst exchange of fire since the 2014 war.
TEL AVIV – Israeli ambassador to the UN urged Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the UN Security Council to condemn Hamas following the firing of over 180 rockets into Israel from the Gaza Strip.
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Foreign Ministry says it is “surprised” by Colombia’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood.
After two days that saw the worst exchange of fire between Israel and Hamas since the 2014 war, a fragile truce prevailed Friday in Gaza, with no rocket attacks or airstrikes since an apparent ceasefire went into effect at midnight.
The Israeli Air Force on Thursday evening destroyed a building in the northern Gaza Strip, which reportedly served as a headquarters for the Hamas terrorist group, hours after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave struck just outside the southern city of Beersheba.
TEL AVIV – Following a barrage of more than 180 rockets, the IDF issued directives to residents of southern Israel on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, instructing them to close down summer camps and stay near bomb shelters.
TEL AVIV – Moments after a Palestinian official from the Gaza Strip declared the end of violence early Thursday afternoon, a fresh barrage of rockets was launched at southern Israeli towns.
Hamas said Wednesday it was treating Egypt’s efforts to broker an Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire “with an open mind,” as a delegation from the terror group reportedly left the Gaza Strip through the Rafah Border Crossing for meetings with Egyptian officials in Cairo.
The Israel Air Force retaliated by striking targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening after 19 people were treated for injuries resulting form rocket attacks from Gaza against southern Israel.
A woman was seriously injured early Thursday morning when a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip hit a home in the Eshkol regional council near the Palestinian enclave.
Israel’s air force bombed 12 Hamas positions across the Gaza Strip Wednesday night, the military said, as dozens of rockets and mortar shells were fired at southern Israeli communities from the Palestinian enclave, including one barrage that slammed into the city of Sderot, injuring several Israelis.
The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday posted footage of Israeli children running for shelter, some of them screaming, as a terror rocket from the Gaza Strip exploded nearby.
The Security Cabinet discussed the proposed ceasefire agreement with Hamas in Gaza for five hours on Sunday. During the meeting, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot briefed the ministers on the situation in the strip.
Hamas said on Sunday it was “disgusted” by the stance its rivals in Fatah have taken toward Egyptian and UN efforts to end the crisis in the Gaza Strip, and charged Fatah with wanting Gaza to remain under siege and shelling.
The ruling Palestinian Fatah faction on Saturday warned Hamas against reaching a cease-fire agreement with Israel in return for humanitarian and economic aid to the Gaza Strip and said such a deal would be a “free gift to Israel.”
IAF aircraft attacked two cells launching incendiary balloons toward Israel from Gaza on Saturday afternoon. So far, no injuries have been reported.
Exiled terrorist members of Gaza’s ruling Hamas decision-making bureau have entered the territory for discussions about an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire deal with Israel.
Israel reimposed a blockade on fuel deliveries to Gaza on Thursday citing a resurgence in kites carrying firebombs over the border and signalling a brief pause in tensions may be ending.
Twenty-nine fires erupted in Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip border Tuesday, as Palestinian arson terrorism continued to wreak havoc near the volatile frontier.
TEL AVIV – Israel’s navy on Sunday intercepted the Al Adwa vessel that was attempting to breach the country’s maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip, organizers of the Freedom Flotilla said.
TEL AVIV – A group of 20 Palestinian children were used as “bait” in an attack from a Palestinian sniper that left one IDF officer moderately wounded, the IDF said late Wednesday night.
The military wing of Gaza’s rulers Hamas on Thursday vowed revenge after Israeli strikes killed three militants in the latest flare-up of violence.
Three Palestinian terrorists in Gaza were killed and another critically wounded on Wednesday evening in a retaliatory IDF attack along the border after a sniper opened fire on Israeli soldiers in a latest round of violence that has gripped the region in recent months.
A rocket shot from Gaza was shot down by the Iron Dome anti-missile system early Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces said, as cross-border violence in the volatile region persisted for a second day.
The U.N. human rights chief attacked Israel on Monday, calling acts of self defense by IDF soldiers during Palestinian Hamas terrorist riots along the Gaza border fence “shocking.”
