Tag: Gaza Strip

Say what you will about Defense Minister Benny Gantz, this week he appeared to have a backbone.

Now, remember, all they have to do to get their electricity back is stop trying to burn down Israeli fields and kill Israeli civilians.

In response to the rocket launches, IAF fighter jets attacked Hamas terrorist targets in the southern Gaza Strip, among them a military rocket storage compound.

To date, only one Israeli defense minister—Naftali Bennett—has found a solution to this problem, by targeting and killing the members of balloon launching squads.

This week it's pretty clear that Gantz is not interested in going back to that war, which is really the only way to stop the balloons, the rockets, and the terrorist tunnels.

Gantz and his successor, Chief of Staff Gadi Eizenkot, were determined to bury Winter’s career.

On Sunday, the Southern District Attorney's Office filed a severe indictment against him in the Be'er Sheva District Court, alleging that Abdullah Da'ma participated in the murder of IDF soldiers.

Sources said that Hamas reacted "hysterically" to the discovery, and the terrorist organization launched a wave of arrests, picking up dozens of suspects.

Shaath said that the PLO would not revoke its recognition of the state of Israel as long as the PA leadership is not convinced that all hope for a two-state solution is lost.

Jason Greenblatt says he wants to hear from the settlers how the Trump plan can be improved. The settlers have been attempting to do just that, but have been ignored.

A large majority of 73% expects the new Israeli government to deepen the normalization steps with some of the Arab Gulf countries

The family finally managed to bypass the Palestinian Authority and scheduled the operation in Israel, but by then it was too late.

Ambassador Dermer hopes the very act of unilateral "annexation" would be the kick in the pants the Palestinians need to recognize that "the Jewish state is here to stay."

Egypt's absence is a message to Ramallah as to how much they actually care if Israel applies Israeli law over Jewish communities.

At least one rocket was launched at Israel from Gaza.

On Sunday, a bundle of balloons with an attached suspicious package was discovered in Moshav Tidhar near Ofakim in southern Israel.

Israel and the UAE do not have formal diplomatic relations.

But according to Netanyahu, July 1 is not a deadline – July 1 is the day before which Israel will certainly not apply sovereignty and after which it might.

The IDF chief—probably the best man at that helm in decades—is preparing to give the prime minister the security cover he would require to carry out the partial annexation.

The tablet depicts the scene of a man leading a captive. This is an important person, wearing a skirt, holding a captive man whose hands are tied behind his back.

Captagon is an amphetamine which numbs pain and fear and has become popular in Middle East conflict zones as it significantly ups fighters’ short-term combat capabilities.

With Netanyahu's de facto recognition of a Palestinian State for the next four years, expect a Joe Biden White House to take this concept, adjust and amend it as they see fit, and recognize a Palestinian State.

The IDF noted that the reason for the crash was a technical malfunction.

Residents of the Gaza Strip are complaining that donations collected on their behalf in Arab countries are not reaching them, and even as the economic hardship in the Strip intensifies Hamas is not transferring budgets from its funds to deal with the Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.

Many fear that the humanitarian crisis in the Strip would become much worse should the coronavirus begin to spread there.

There isn't even one singular word of sympathy for their fellow Jews in Israel who are engaged in a battle for their lives even as we speak – nothing.

In Israel, 425 new patients have been identified by Shabbat morning, bringing the total number of infected Israelis to 3,460, with 12 dead and 89 recovered.

Absurd? Not at all.

37 of the patients have recovered and were released from quarantine conditions.

Khatib transferred hundreds of thousands of shekels to Hamas operatives, while scamming aid organizations and donors who believed their money was coming to the sick and needy.