Iranian operatives have been smuggling weapons to PA Arab terror groups through the Jordan Valley, due to its proximity to Syria and Lebanon.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A new report by the Kohelet Policy Forum cites support for terrorism and corruption as key issues that need to be addressed before the P.A. can be considered for the role of governance in Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli finance minister also called to encourage voluntary migration from Gaza, saying the Strip's population could be reduced by more than half within two years.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Brett McGurk was heading to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to discuss using an Israel-Hezbollah truce as a "catalyst" to end hostilities with Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The four suspects "held important positions within the organization with direct ties to senior officials in the military wing," authorities said.
According to reports from Gaza, there were casualties on both sides.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"There is no equivalence—none—between Israel and Hamas. We will always stand with Israel against threats to its security.”
The robbers collect transit taxes of $27,000 and sometimes the tax is $50,000 or 50% of the value of the truck’s contents.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Whoever controls the aid controls the Strip. Stop strengthening Hamas, and make sure that the aid will not get to them," Tzav 9 announced.
Hamas operatives however still loot the aid trucks with impunity.
Seven Israelis were killed and 16 injured when two terrorists attacked them on the light rail.
Under the ruling, victims’ families may claim around 10 million shekels ($2.6 million) per fatality.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Kleptocracies are expensive to maintain.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
More than 10% of UNRWA principals and senior educators in Gaza are members of Hamas or Islamic Jihad, according to Israeli NGO IMPACT-se.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The discovery marked the first time that a "high quality" (e.g., non-improvised) rocket warhead was found in Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The delay in delivering 134 D9 bulldozers will likely delay completion of the Gaza buffer zone. extending the war even longer.
In total, 86 Gazan patients accompanied by 124 family members were taken to the UAE. The rest were flown to Romania.
By Max Gelber
"We urge Trump to learn from Biden's mistakes," Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri told Reuters.
By Max Gelber
Israeli Air Force fighter jets attacked and killed Hossein Abdelhalim Harab, the commander of the Hezbollah battalion in the Al-Hiam sector.
575 trucks of aid are waiting on the Gaza side for someone to collect it.
By Max Gelber
The illegal Bedouin village of Khan Al-Ahmar is expanding and new structures are being added to the existing ones strategically situated on Highway 1, despite several court orders to have the squatters removed. The Regavim Movement, which has been waging a legal battle for the removal of the illegal outpost, published photos showing that the […]
By Max Gelber
"The truth must be told – there will be no deal now. Not a small one, not a big one, not a crumb."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Qatari media cited a Hamas official as saying the talks yielded a deal to form a committee of independent "Palestinian" leaders to run Gaza after the war.
By Max Gelber
The IDF is building a series of outposts along the Beeri Corridor.
By Max Gelber
As the convoy passed by the Kamal Adwan Hospital, terrorists detonated an explosive device only a few hundred meters away from the hospital.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
UNRWA employees took part in the October 7 massacre and many of its workers are Hamas operatives.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. vice president said at a Michigan campaign event that it's been a hard year "given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon."
By Max Gelber
Israel has firm forensic and Halachic information on the death of 37 abductees, definitive information it lacks on the other 13 it believes are no longer alive.
“Cutting off these banking ties would create significant economic turmoil in the West Bank, threatening the security of Israel and the broader region,” stated Antony Blinken and Janet Yellen.
Senior Hezbollah commanders eliminated; 401st Armored Brigade continues the fight in Gaza after losing commanders.
The footage showed two men emerge from a car outside the hospital and pass at least one rifle to another man.
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will extend a waiver allowing Israeli banks to do business with their Palestinian Authority counterparts for one month only.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The intention might be for the Palestinians to leave Gaza, for others to occupy it," Guterres told The Guardian.
The bill strips entities that transfer funds associated with terror — including the Palestinian Authority’s stipends to imprisoned terrorists and their families — from approaching the High Court.
Ofir Akunis spoke with JNS after he was one of those who addressed more than 600 attendees at an Oct. 7 memorial in Manhattan.
After Mohammad Abu Itiwi’s death, Israeli officials provided a photograph placing him at the scene of the Oct. 7 bomb-shelter killings.
By David Isaac
Four reports from ELNET identify some 30 organizations and people affiliated with Hamas who work in Europe.
Col. Ehsan Daqsa, who commanded the Israel Defense Force’s 401st Armored Brigade, was killed in battle in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Several PA Arab factions expressed their condolences on the death of the terror leader, mourning his “martyrdom.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Naim Qassem's latest speech, in which he threatened to depopulate more of northern Israel, marked a stark shift in tone.
Failure to comply "may have implications for U.S. policy," U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin reportedly wrote.
In March, Israeli authorities thwarted a deadly terror attack directed from Hamas’s offices in Turkey.
By David Isaac
"In all likelihood, the Biden-Harris administration has prolonged the Gaza war and allowed aid to flow to Israel’s enemies," Sen. Tom Cotton said.
The incident took place at Kherbet Umm A-Ros, an archaeological site located in the Judean Lowlands of central Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit an explosive device in the Jabalia area in the northern part of the Strip.
By Israel Hayom
13-year-old Eitan Yahalomi from Kibbutz Nir Oz shared the harrowing details of his captivity at the hands of Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Hamas leader asked mediators in Qatar whether he could receive immunity as part of an agreement to free the remaining hostages.
Some of the terrorists were shot.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel has estimated that 17,000 combatants have been killed in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7, 2023.
"Hamas perpetrated the massacre with the support of and in the name of the majority of Palestinians. Say 'the Palestinian massacre.' That's the way Palestinians see it."
It is now believed that Sinwar may still be alive.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The girl had been kidnapped at age 11 by ISIS in Iraq and sold to a Gazan terrorist.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Aziz Salha, among those who murdered Israeli reservists Vadim Norzhic and Yosef Avrahami, was released as part of the 2011 Gilad Shalit exchange deal.
Karnei Shomron residents have taken to blocking the entrance to the town with their vehicles to prevent the entry of PA workers, arguing that the IDF is not enforcing its own rules.
Sherif was the principal of UNRWA’s Deir Yassin School in Tyre and also headed the UNRWA teacher’s union in Lebanon.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Eshtemoa Synagogue south of Hebron dates to around the 4th century C.E. (which predates Islam).
The Muslims built their mosque on top of our Temple Mount, and then have the nerve to call us the "occupiers"!?
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
On Aug. 21, Ramallah claimed its economy was at risk of collapsing within "days" after Israeli banks stopped accepting Palestinian Authority cash deposits.
The eight-page resolution lacks any mention of Israeli security concerns, historic ties to the land or the Hamas massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The terror group currently holds 101 hostages, including 97 of the 251 captured on Oct. 7.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Protesters urge swift action to free the captives, back the government proposal to free them in a single-phase release.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Every time the Palestinian Authority was given access to weapons, they were eventually used against Israelis," the coalition lawmakers said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The single-stage deal presented to the United States would free all of the hostages held by Hamas and allow the terror group's leadership to exit the Strip.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
If passed, the ethnic cleansing resolution would signify an escalation from the anti-Israel language previously endorsed by the UNGA.
By David Isaac
"There is some leverage that we have had and used,” she said.
By David Isaac
“This isn’t a joke. It’s not a publicity stunt. Our offer is real,” said NTC President Gregory T. Angelo.
Three of the nine terrorists eliminated were also UNRWA employees.
Lazzarini issued a statement charging that UNRWA was “forced to close all its schools turning them into shelters for displaced families” because of the war in Gaza.
By David Isaac
The US-led humanitarian aid is the main oxygen pipeline for the terrorist organization.
The Hamas-run Government Information Office in Gaza has consistently broadcast lies and false information throughout the war.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Knesset member Zvi Sukkot calls on the head of IDF Central Command to end "discrimination" against Judea and Samaria residents.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Egypt had agreed to allow the P.A. leader entry via the Rafah crossing with Israel's approval, which was denied.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
One of the suspects was apprehended by police officers after he was pulled over on Israel's busy Route 6 highway.
The resolution is expected to be brought to a vote at the U.N. General Assembly, which is scheduled to open on Sept. 10
“The ISM has a long history of cooperating with and protecting Palestinian terrorists," an expert said.
“We can’t allow what’s happened in Gaza to happen,” said the Democratic vice presidential nominee. “It’s a humanitarian crisis.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Iran has indicated that it intends to retaliate, so we will continue to take that threat seriously,” said Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
The indictment accuses Osama Bani Fadl of making preparations for a mass infiltration of Jewish communities.
After completing the entrenchment in the Jenin and Tulkarem area, Hezbollah is sending arms to Nablus.
“Palestinian terrorists exploit the civilian population and exploit roads and infrastructure – but the ones who pay the price are the citizens,” tweeted Col. Avichay Adraee, the Israel Defense Force’s Arabic-language spokesman.
“The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas’s operations,” Merrick Garland said. “These actions will not be our last.”
By Hanan Greenwood / Israel Hayom
The recent dramatic surge in terrorist attacks emanating from the area has convinced Israel's security establishment that a shift in strategy is required.
The PA is afraid the IDF will enter in force to capture and kill the terrorists.
By David Isaac
Two new polls show that the Israeli public backs the Netanyahu government's position that holding the Egypt-Gaza border is critical to Israel's security.
Thousands of Israelis gathered in Jerusalem on Monday to pay their final respects to Hersh Goldberg-Polin, who became one of the best-known of the hostages held by Hamas.
The terrorists murdered the hostages within the past 48-72 hours.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Gazan terrorists breached the border through 119 holes they created in the fence separating Israel from the Strip.
The process to identify the bodies could take several hours.
The released terrorists rushed to carry out terror attacks and to rejoin the terror groups.
Most of Operation Summer Camps is taking place in areas where the IDF abandoned in 2005 and were taken over by the Palestinian Authority.
Relatives with bullhorns called out messages to their loved ones from the border near Kibbutz Nirim.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"We want to return to martyrdom operations," but Khaled Mashaal hasn't yet volunteered to do the job himself.
By David Isaac
"We must deal with the threat just as we deal with the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza," said Israel's Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz.
The IDF said it took several months of effort to locate the soldier's body.
“Advancing U.S. support for the Palestinian people will be critically important in the months and years ahead,” the diplomat said.
Operation Summer Camps will fight Iran's encroaching tentacles in Judea and Samaria.
By David Isaac
Off-and-on negotiations have continued for months with the United States, Egypt and Qatar acting as mediators.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
A total of 337 Israeli troops have been killed in action since the start of the Gaza ground incursion on Oct. 27.
By Josh Hasten
"It will not be easy to enforce this decision, but I hope the Civil Administration will now act," said Knesset member Simcha Rothman.
(TPS) A sense of nervousness pervades Israel’s Jordan Valley. In recent days, a PA Arab drive-by shooting killed an Israeli man and injured another. On Tuesday, several PA Arabs terrorists planting a bomb in the nearby village of Tammun were injured when a bomb they were planting exploded prematurely. And on Wednesday, Israel assassinated a […]