U.S., Israel Militaries Conclude Largest Joint Exercise in History
U.S. Central Command reported a successful joint exercise with the Israeli Defense Force Thursday, calling it the largest exercise between the ally nations in history.

U.S. Central Command reported a successful joint exercise with the Israeli Defense Force Thursday, calling it the largest exercise between the ally nations in history.
Pope Francis on Wednesday vowed to work towards securing the release of four Israelis being held hostage by the Hamas terror group in Gaza.
The Israel Defense Forces has announced a company of all-women tank operators would become a permanent feature of the Israeli military following the success of a two-year pilot program integrating women in the Armored Corps.
Israel’s military on Thursday announced its probe into the death of a 7-year-old Palestinian during an operation last week found no connection with IDF troops, despite a Palestinian claim to the contrary.
Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Wednesday forcefully rejected the U.S.’ call for Israel to change its rules of engagement after the death of Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh during a firefight between the IDF and Palestinian terrorists, saying “no one would dictate” Israel’s open fire policy.
Wonder Woman actress Gal Gadot on Wednesday visited a southern Israeli town on the border with Gaza, two weeks after the area was subject to hundreds of rocket attacks from terrorists in the Strip.
An Arab resident of eastern Jerusalem shot seven people, including four American citizens, near Jerusalem’s Old City overnight Saturday, before turning himself in to police after an intense hours-long manhunt.
More Palestinians died in the recent conflict between Israel and Gaza by botched rocket launches by Gaza terrorists than from Israel Air Force strikes, the army said on Monday.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas hailed two terrorists who were killed by Israeli troops a few days ago as “heroes,” telling their families in a phone call this week the nation of “Palestine” was in mourning for them.
Squad member Rep. Cori Bush (D., Mo.), who claims to “unequivocally condemn” anti-Semitism, has for years maintained a close working relationship with Neveen Ayesh, an activist who thinks Israel should “burn to ashes” along with all the Jews inside it.
Israel’s military chief on Sunday said the country has a “moral obligation” to prepare for military action against Iran’s nuclear program, in the wake of an Iranian claim warning that Tehran is capable of building a bomb.
Ballistic analysis of the bullet that killed veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh in May was inconclusive, the U.S. State Department said on Monday, but added it was “likely” an Israeli soldier mistakenly fired the fatal shot.
The Jews of Israel can “go to hell” and face their fate of either leaving “Islamic land” or being “buried in Palestinian soil,” according to a prominent Palestinian scholar who claimed the European Jews who originally emigrated to Israel were “murderers” and “schemers” who were a nuisance to Britain — which was more than happy to rid them from its society.
Pro-Palestinian and socialist activists gathered in London over the weekend to condemn what they called the “apartheid state” of Israel.
Ex-soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Golani brigade have joined the fight against Russia alongside the Ukrainian army, Hebrew-language media reported Wednesday.
The NYPD arrested and charged a suspect for an antisemitic attack on a Jewish man who was wearing a sweatshirt with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) symbol in Brooklyn.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday the military was always fighting “bad forces” in the region, after Syrian state media reported an Israeli airstrike targeting an arms shipment from Iran at the the Latakia port overnight.
The Israeli Border Police officer who was shot at point-blank range by a Palestinian terrorist gunman last week during riots on the border with Gaza succumbed to his wounds and died on Monday.
In a rare occurrence, the Soros-funded anti-Israel Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Thursday admitted Hamas was guilty of committing war crimes during its May conflict with Israel by indiscriminately firing thousands of terror rockets toward Israeli population centers.
Portraying herself a victim of “character assassination,” now-former BBC journalist Tala Halawa published a lengthy statement on Wednesday blaming
More Palestinians were killed by rocket attacks launched by the Gaza-ruling Hamas terror group in the 11-day conflict in May than Israelis, according to a new report released by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center.
Hamas’ military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, as well as the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have opened registration recently for their annual summer camps for Gaza youth, where children as young as nine are trained in marksmanship, kidnapping, and tunnel warfare as they’re encouraged to become next-generation terrorists.
The Palestinian Islamic terror group Hamas presented an award on Wednesday to Al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based network known for its anti-Israel news.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) admitted the discovery of a terror tunnel under a Gaza school it operates.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) paid respects to the U.S. military on Memorial Day, tweeting a message honoring the men and women who gave their lives to defend America.
The sharp rise in antisemitism that convulsed cities in the U.S. and around the world last month was predicated on the lie Israel’s actions were those of an aggressor, Aaron Klein, a senior adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outlined Monday.
Appearing on Steve Malzberg’s weekly Sunday commentary show Eat the Press, conservative American-Israeli columnist Caroline Glick blasted congressional leftists and the left-inclined media for a recent wave of violent attacks against Jews, accusing the left wing and its lawmakers of hating the Jewish state and having “the blood of Jews” on their hands, while blaming the media for “transforming America into an antisemitic state.”
Israel’s military chief alleged in private Gaza-based journalists of the Associated Press (AP) drank their morning coffee with members of the Hamas terror group in the building the Israel Defense Forces felled during the recent 11-day war, a new report said.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Israel “took very significant steps” to avoid civilian casualties in Gaza during the recent 11-day war with the Hamas terror group.
Yahya Sinwar, the Gaza leader of the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group, emerged out of hiding this week to attend a rally at which he held up a child in military fatigues, a green Islamist headband, and brandishing an object resembling a machine gun.
The head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees apologized Tuesday for telling Israel’s Channel 12 in an interview Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip were “precise” and “sophisticated.”
In a video posted on the Al-Jazeera Network’s official Facebook page on Friday, the channel’s senior Gaza correspondent Wael Al-Dahdouh was greeted with applause and cheers by crowds in the coastal enclave celebrating the Hamas terror organization’s “victory” following a ceasefire with Israel after the terror group launched over 4,000 rockets at civilian population centers throughout the Jewish state.
In response to the Biden administration’s “dysfunctional” handling of the recent Hamas-Israel conflict and caving in to pressure by left-wing Democrats, Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) stated that he was “deeply disturbed,” adding that the U.S. and Republicans such as himself will always have Israel’s back.
A recording making the rounds on social media appeared to show a Palestinian in Gaza telling an IDF soldier who warns him to evacuate a targeted building that if Palestinian children “need to die, then they’ll die.”
As reports of a ceasefire emerged Thursday, a poll showed the majority of Israelis want the current operation against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas to continue.
The Israel Defense Forces began bombarding southern Lebanon on Wednesday in response to incoming terror rocket attacks.
An Israeli soldier helping to transfer humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip was wounded by a Hamas mortar round fired at the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Tuesday.
Former Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Dannon told Breitbart News on Monday that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) notified people within a building in Gaza holding Associated Press (AP) offices prior to striking it with warplanes.
Associated Press (AP) Washington Bureau Chief Julie Pace announced she was “stunned” after Israeli forces bombed a Gaza building housing media offices. Jerusalem claimed it was also a terrorist headquarters, housing Hamas’ military intelligence and research and development unit as well as offices of the terrorist-designated Islamic Jihad.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed Thursday the “incarceration of children in Palestine” is similar to the conditions of migrants at President Joe Biden’s managed southern border.