By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel transfers 7.3 million shekels to 265 Palestinians in Gaza on an annual basis, primarily disability payments.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The military expects full operational control of the southernmost Gaza city in two weeks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Only when Jewish children are playing in the Strip will the Nukhba terrorists realize that they have lost," said MK Zvi Sukkot.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara have requested more time to study the proposed measures, which include the approval of 10,000 new housing units in Judea and Samaria.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"If there is a change in the fighting and our hostages are returned, and we do what needs to be done in the Gaza Strip in a year, or in two years, that's not an issue."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
As the Netherlands’ minister for foreign affairs, her ministry had paid part of the salaries of two terrorists involved in the murder of an Israeli teen.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Unit 8200 is responsible for some 80% of the information gathered and produced for all intelligence branches.
The decision comes after discussions with the UN and international organizations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The decision to temporarily relocate the pier is not made lightly but is necessary to ensure the temporary pier can continue to deliver aid in the future," U.S. Central Command said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Police are still waiting for the identification process at the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in Tel Aviv.
The tunnel, which was 30 meters underground, contained several operational spaces and blast doors and reached within one kilometer of the Israel-Gaza border.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some 1.1 million pounds of aid came across the pier on since Saturday, the U.S. Defense Department says.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The national security minister bemoaned the move to return them to Gaza without conditions.
“Hamas has proposed numerous changes to the proposal. … Some of the changes are workable, some are not,” the secretary of state said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel was notably not invited to the conference, which didn't stop Blinken from repeatedly criticizing Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The soldiers were killed when a blast brought down the building they were searching in Rafah. Six additional troops were wounded, five seriously.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The top American diplomat will also visit Egypt, Jordan and Qatar this week.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Samantha Power, the USAID administrator, announced the additional $90 million on the same day that the Pentagon said the temporary pier will cost $90 million less than projected.
Khaled Doudin in Hebron has accused Israel of initiating the current war with Hamas and expressed “respect” for terrorists incarcerated in Israel.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Why would the UAE give assistance to the Palestinian Authority without real reforms?" asked Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
There were no casualties in the incident.
The terrorists were trying to cross over from the Rafah area.
The IDF said precise munitions were used to minimize harm to civilians in the area.
"If famine were to occur in Gaza, it is unlikely to be due to any limitations posed by Israel on the food supply entering the Gaza Strip"
The Netzarim Corridor has become a tourniquet right around the neck of Hamas in Gaza
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Multiple senior Hamas terrorists eliminated in recent days, IDF says • Remains of seven hostages recovered from Jabalia, over 6 miles of a tunnel destroyed • IDF establishes new maternity complex in Deir al-Balah.
Francesa Albanese’s “support for terrorism and promotion of antisemitism” “is now compounded by serious financial improprieties,” said the NGO in a complaint filed to the U.N. secretary general.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“War should not continue indefinitely,” the Chinese leader said.
The UNRWA is under fire amid revelations that its staffers participated in Hamas’s October 7 attacks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli military published internal records appearing to confirm earlier reports about the suspected robberies.
Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Arieh King noted,"They’re building illegal buildings, they have petrol stations in places they’re not allowed to have."
Hamas is trying to regroup in Jabalya.
The birthday boy dressed up as a Hamas terrorist.
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“To maintain its judicial integrity, the court must avoid reacting to every shift in the conflict and refrain from micromanaging the hostilities in the Gaza Strip, including Rafah,” wrote Julia Sebutinde.
"What, are they a Lebanese faction? What's wrong with you?" Mansour Abbas said.
The US is concerned by Israel's plans to respond to Abbas's unilateral actions.
By Joshua Marks
No aid was delivered to the UN warehouse from the floating pier on Sunday and Monday.
The missiles and launchers found in Jabalya were destroyed.
Hamas has seized an estimated 60% of the aid entering Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"Very shortly, I think you'll see aid starting to be delivered," said Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary.
IDF soldiers found weapons inside a UN Relief and Works Agency facility in Jabalya. No surprise there.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Approximately 300,000 to 400,000 Gazans remain in Rafah.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israeli Minister Benny Gantz's party does, however, want an "international civilian governance mechanism for Gaza" that includes "Palestinians."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hamas terrorists divert at least 60% of the goods entering Gaza for their own purposes. The US wants to ship in even more.
The Palestinian Authority is taking advantage of the war to continue building a new city in the Ha-Masrek nature reserve atop the Judean Desert in eastern Gush Etzion.
Daqqa was actively involved in smuggling weapons and funds into Gaza for Hamas.
“Calling something a genocide, again and again, does not make it genocide,” said Gilad Noam, an attorney for the Jewish state. “Repeating a lie does not make it true.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Lily Greenberg Call said the president “is making Jews the face of the American war machine.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"What Israel has done is take the effort to minimize civilian casualties as no other army has done," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
It is believed there are numerous smuggling tunnels between Egypt and Gaza under Rafah, and Egypt profited from the smuggling of goods and weapons to the Hamas enclave.
The White House doesn't know what it will do if Gazans approach the port seeking asylum and to escape Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"JVP and their ilk see Israel as an irredeemable evil in a binary world composed of victims and oppressors," wrote David May, of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Hamas is trying to regroup in the Zeitoun area
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The government voted unanimously to reject the United Nations' decision to grant the Palestinian Authority unprecedented rights for a non-member state.
The Hamas war room was embedded in a UN Relief and Works Agency school in the central Gaza area of Nuseirat.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel called on the United Nations to investigate.
OCHA is a very hostile agency to Israel.
Israel seized control of the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt after launching an overnight ground operation in parts of the southern Gaza city.
“It’s outrageous that only seven months later, the United Nations is questioning the Hamas-supplied casualty numbers,” an HonestReporting board member told JNS.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Egypt is not allowing aid to enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to reports, Israel is considering a gradual transfer of control to local bodies believed not to be hostile to the Jewish state.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The incident occurred on Route 44 at the Ofer checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The NGO urged the White House to take "all necessary steps" to stop Israel from launching a large-scale operation against Hamas in Rafah.
The global body is paving the way for “the establishment of a Palestinian terror state, which will be led by the Hitler of our times,” Israel’s envoy said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Forecasted high winds and high sea swells” have delayed the floating pier, per a U.S. Department of Defense spokeswoman.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Jewish state will stand alone if it must, the Israeli prime minister said, a day after U.S. President Joe Biden said he would cut off arms to Israel if it attacks Rafah.
Israelis reacted with scorn and disappointment at President Joe Biden, who threatened to halt arms deliveries if Israel invades the southern Gaza town of Rafah, Hamas’s last stronghold.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In another incident, an “unidentified aerial object” from the Gaza Strip crossed into Israeli airspace.
File this under: Ripley's Believe It or Not.
The president’s decision drew criticism from the American Jewish Committee and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“I believe that Israel and America have an ironclad relationship, and I have faith in what the Biden administration is doing,” the Senate majority leader said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Biden administration opposes an IDF incursion into Rafah which would finish off Hamas.
Three IDF soldiers were killed in a Hamas attack that preceded the Israeli retaliation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"This is the first admission that it lacks an essential data point necessary to establish these deaths have even taken place."
Rafah, on Gaza’s border with Egypt, is the last stronghold of Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Helicopters evacuated the wounded to hospitals.
Mahmoud Abbas boycotted Antony Blinken on Friday.
By David Isaac
ICRC administrator Haythem Abid marches in anti-Israel rallies and posts Hamas propaganda.
“This is a package deal,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said of the components of a Saudi-Israeli agreement. “None go forward without the others.”
The Pi Kappa Phi men at the University of North Carolina faced off pro-Hamas students.
The Shin Bet seized explosives ready for use.
Gilad Erdan told the U.N. General Assembly that body’s anti-Israel animus is the reason U.S. “universities are permitting this Nazi-like behavior.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New York City Mayor Eric Adams said "outside agitators" played a key role in pro-Hamas protests at Columbia University.
Missiles and rockets were launched at Israel from Gaza and Lebanon over the weekend.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
New terms conveyed to mediator Egypt include a willingness to discuss the "restoration of sustainable calm" in Gaza.
By Joshua Marks
"The release of the hostages is the top priority for us," said Israel Katz.
There's only one film industry in Gaza, it's called Pallywood, and it appears on the nightly news and on propaganda videos.
Matzab Halaf led and promoted attacks against Israeli border communities.
It is unclear how that figure was tabulated; it would mean that some 28,000 children have been killed since Oct. 7—a number not even claimed by Hamas.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
U.S. hopes to begin delivering aid using the new pier by early May.
Barbara Leaf defended the U.S. decision to veto Palestinian membership at the United Nations.
The Marmara 2 is looking for trouble.
A few months ago, Gazans uploaded videos of Gazans burying people.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"This critical legislation will make our nation and world more secure as we support our friends who are defending themselves against terrorists like Hamas," Joe Biden said.
The terrorist launchers were just 15 meters away from the closest shelter tent.
“Hamas has infiltrated UNRWA so deeply that it is no longer possible to determine where UNRWA ends and where Hamas begins,” a ministry spokesman said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Sabah Haniyeh stand accused of incitement and identifying with a terrorist organization.
By Ariel Kahana
"There is no food shortage in Gaza, and there never was," says an Israeli official familiar with the situation in the Strip.
Hamas never delivered the medicine to the hostages either.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Qatar's premier said his country's position was being "misused" for "narrow political interests."