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Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, the president of the ICRC, said that Israel must accommodate Hamas’s demands before her organization can get access to the captives.
The Hamas weapons storage facility was located near a school, clinic and mosque.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The terror organization continues to hold Haggai’s body, and his wife reportedly also remains a Hamas hostage.
Hamas terrorists have been trying to flee southward.
“I wanted to tell you that I love you very much and I know that what happened is not your fault, it is the fault of no one except Hamas, may their names and memory will be erased from the earth.”
A vote on a Security Council resolution was pushed off for a second straight day at the Biden administration’s behest.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to visit Egypt to hold talks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli forces are also close on the heels of Hamas military commander Mohammed Deif, Both Hamas leaders are marked for death.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A Foreign Ministry spokesman had no comment on the report about the alleged document.
The director of a Gaza hospital admitted to Israeli interrogators that he was recruited by Hamas to help turn the Strip’s medical centers into military facilities.
The monument depicted a fist coming out of an APC and three dogtags, one of which bore the name and ID number of the late Oron Shaul, an IDF soldier killed in the APC incident.
Meanwhile, UN and USAID sacks were being used by Hamas to construct terror tunnels in Gaza.
By Joshua Marks
The money was located in suitcases, along with a cache of weapons.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. defense secretary arrived in Israel to discuss shifting to a more targeted approach in Gaza.
The military also seized the office of the commander of Hamas’s Khan Yunis Brigade.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Red Cross has also drawn criticism recently for reportedly telling the family of another hostage: “Think about the Palestinian side. It’s hard for the Palestinians, they’re being bombed.”
The official added that former Palestinian Authority security force members could help secure a post-Hamas Gaza, as Biden’s national security advisor visited the region.
The sites that were struck in the Rafah area where Hamas terrorists were operating.
“Palestinians’ voices and aspirations must be at the center of post-crisis governance in Gaza," said the US State Department spokesperson.
The complex was struck by aircraft, tanks and engineering forces and a tunnel shaft was destroyed.
The body of 28-year-old Toledano was identified by medical officials and military rabbis together with the Institute of Forensic Medicine and the Israel Police.
Israel began dropping leaflets on the Gaza Strip offering a bounty for information leading to the capture of Yahya Sinwar and three top other Hamas leaders.
The terrorists were operating inside the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya neighborhood.
By Sveta Listratov The discovery of UN and USAID sacks being used by Hamas to construct terror tunnels in Gaza raises new questions about the security of humanitarian aid falling into the hands of the terror group. The Tazpit Press Service has learned that Israeli soldiers recently made an unusual discovery in a tunnel underneath […]
“Today’s sanctions on Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad will continue to cut off their access to funding and isolate them further."
When asked who should rule Gaza, 60% of respondents selected the Hamas terror group.
Residents report widespread looting of food rations and medicines delivered from Arab countries through the Rafah border crossing. In particular, trucks are hijacked by armed Hamas operatives or criminals, who then sell the aid themselves.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This government in Israel is making it very difficult for him to move,” the U.S. president said of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The difference between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority is only that Hamas wants to destroy us here and now, and the P.A. wants to do it in stages."
“I greatly appreciate the correct stance that the U.S. has taken in the U.N. Security Council,” said Netanyahu.
It was a busy Shabbat for the IDF in Gaza.
Reports indicate that the Hamas leadership controls an investment portfolio estimated at close to $1 billion dollars and owns assets in Sudan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Algeria, Egypt and other places.
U.S. officials visited Ramallah earlier this week to discuss a plan for the day after the war in Gaza.
Egypt is still not allowing displaced Gazans to flee the war and enter the Sinai.
The terrorists are from Hamas's Shejaya battalion.
The rockets were launched near a UN facility. Did the UN notice?
The mosques have tunnels under them leading them into Egypt.
By COLlive.com
Tzach of Israel will also be distributing personal Menorahs and sufganiot (Hanukah donuts) to more than 10,000 Israeli soldiers currently deployed in Gaza.
Hamas drugged Israeli hostages before freeing them, “to make them look happy.”
A barrage of rockets was also launched at Tel Aviv.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
John Kirby said the administration wants a “reformed and revitalized Palestinian Authority” helping to govern the Str
The extraordinary delegation of Muslim women leaders traveled, in extraordinary times, through war-torn southern Israel this weekend, braving renewed Hamas rocket attacks as the cease-fire collapsed and taking cover outside as the projectiles struck nearby.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“This operation will reach every point that needs to be reached. We are going for the absolute elimination of the Hamas terror organization."
The IDF also said it struck more than 400 Hamas sites in Gaza in the 24 hours since the temporary ceasefire broke down.
The IDF has discovered rockets being stored in UNRWA schools and clinics during past conflicts as well.
By David Isaac
Israeli hostages recount beatings, death threats in captivity.
Gazans will know where to go to avoid the fighting.
None of the children held hostage were included in this release.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
As Israel and Hamas negotiated (and eventually agreed) to extend their ceasefire swap for hostages agreement . . . Egypt reportedly imposed heavy pressure on Yahya Sinwar.
The IDF is using the ceasefire to enhance readiness, learn from recent battle experiences and develop future operational plans.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. secretary of state added that "the events of Oct. 7 only further confirm" the U.S. commitment to a two-state solution.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Polls show that most Arabs in Judea and Samaria support the Oct. 7 massacre. That's insane.
First Sergeant Tomer Yaakov Ahimas, 20, Sergeant Kiril Brodski, 19, and Sergeant Shaked Dahan, 19, were officially declared deceased.
An educator who worked with at-risk youth, Katz was last seen at Kibbutz Nahal Oz on Oct. 7. It was believed he was taken captive by Hamas.
The 84 year-old spent more than 50 days in Hamas captivity without medicine for pre-existing conditions.
The Biden administration has “reinforced in very clear language” that renewed fighting must not “produce significant further displacement of persons.”
By Joshua Marks
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is returning to the region on Thursday to discuss a further extension of the ceasefire.
The youngest known hostage is 10-month-old Kfir Bibas.
A few weeks ago, Elon Musk pledged to step in and offer internet services to Gaza from his Starlink, which would help the terror group Hamas continue with its killing of innocent civilians.
In addition to being used to hide Hamas leaders and hostages, the terror group is known to have launched rockets, tortured suspected collaborators and hoarded a half-million liters of fuel in the hospital compound.
12-year-old Hila was separated from her mother 2 days ago, after they were told they were going to be released.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
On Saturday, the 13 captives released the previous day continued to be reunited with their families.
Hamas has agreed to release the first 13 hostages on Friday at 4:00 PM.
Everyone expects Israel to look away and ignore the breach.
Eitan’s death is the third of his class from the Neve Shmuel Yeshiva High School in Efrat
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
John Kirby said the United States won’t support Israel “moving forward with operations in the south..."
Bosso and Bar Siman Tov call on the WHO to “publicly and immediately” acknowledge Hamas’s use of medical infrastructure for terrorism and to condemn it.
"Negotiating with terrorists never works. Biden's insistence that Israel bargain with Hamas is as tragically wrong as his swapping $6 billion with Iran for five U.S. hostages," wrote the former U.S. official John Bolton.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The system's interception of a rocket fired by terrorists in Gaza is the first-ever operational use of a laser defense system.
By Joshua Marks
Fighter jet destroys launch site from which rockets were fired at central Israel on Monday • Haniyeh says hostage release deal close • Two more fallen soldiers named.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
PEN America condemns the decision, saying it is a “shocking overreaction.”
Hamas takes human shields to a new level.
Noa Marciano was murdered by Hamas inside Shifa Hospital.
Archaeologists identified Liel Hetzroni's remains.
Explore the Hamas terror tunnel found underneath the Shifa hospital.
It is expected that the next focus of fighting will be in Khan Yunis, the Strip’s second largest city and a Sinwar stronghold.
Another 40 attendees of the all-night rave were taken to Gaza as hostages.
The recording did not indicate a precise number of patients or staff.
72% said they favor a “national unity government” that includes Hamas and the Palestinian Authority Fatah terrorist groups.
Marciano, a resident of Modi’in in central Israel, was abducted on Oct. 7 from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she served as a lookout.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"One horror does not justify another," said Josep Borrell after touring the devastated Kibbutz Be'eri.
Her body was found near Shifa hospital in Gaza.
Soldiers searching the rest of the house also found rifles, ammunition, explosive devices, bomb belts, cellular equipment and dozens of kilos of explosives.
Weapons and ammunition were found in the hospital.
The IDF dropped warning leaflets in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to Israeli estimates, about 900,000 Gazans have moved from the north of the Gaza Strip to the south.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Tell Hamas leaders that they we be held responsible for every civilian casualty," stated Rabbi Abraham Cooper, a leader of the center.
There are still hundreds of bodies yet to be identified because so many were burned.
Hamas appears to have murdered her after making the video.
The woman had already been in her ninth month of pregnancy when she was abducted by Hamas terrorists on Oct. 7
Netanyahu said there would be total Israeli security control over Gaza.
Hamas terrorists weren't targeted to avoid harming Gazan noncombatants.
The brigade located and destroyed many terror tunnel shafts, took control of military and even civilian buildings where a large amount of weapons, maps and intelligence materials of the terrorist organization Hamas were found.
The raid was near Shifa hospital.
IDF soldiers also captured a key Hamas outpost in the northern Gaza town of Jabaliya after 10 hours of fighting.
IDF soldiers raise the flag and sing Hatikva on the Gazan shores. One more victory.
By David Isaac
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about "concrete steps" to minimize civilian deaths in Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Jewish shul is Gaza is older than Islam.
While nearly one million Arab residents of Gaza are displaced by war, Hamas’s top leaders and their families have been enriching themselves. Reports indicate that the Hamas leadership controls an investment portfolio estimated at close to $1 billion dollars and owns assets in Sudan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Algeria, Egypt and other places. Gaza […]
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
"When we don’t have that security responsibility, what we have is the eruption of Hamas terror on a scale that we couldn’t imagine."
August 21, 2026 
