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.”
The youngest known hostage is 10-month-old Kfir Bibas.
MK Zvi Sukkot: “Whoever incites terror must be in prison. What was won’t be."
12-year-old Hila was separated from her mother 2 days ago, after they were told they were going to be released.
Hamas has agreed to release the first 13 hostages on Friday at 4:00 PM.
There is literally a Chabad Mitzvah Tank in Gaza.
Everyone expects Israel to look away and ignore the breach.
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.
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.
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.
Marciano, a resident of Modi’in in central Israel, was abducted on Oct. 7 from Kibbutz Nahal Oz, where she served as a lookout.
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.
There are still hundreds of bodies yet to be identified because so many were burned.
Israeli reporter Zvi Yehezkeli has a message to the citizens of Gaza and Hamas.
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.
Photos of the Israelis abducted by Hamas line the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem.
IDF soldiers raise the flag and sing Hatikva on the Gazan shores. One more victory.
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."
Hamas deliberately places rocket launchers near and in civilian sites such as hospitals, schools, mosques and United Nations buildings.
Hamas is using ambulances to transport terrorists and weapons around Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
When Israel faces "a barbaric attack from Hamas, Obama blames Israel," says RJC CEO Matt Brooks.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Some 7.5 million gallons a day will now flow into the Hamas-ruled enclave.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. president pressed Israel to act "consistent with international humanitarian law that prioritizes the protection of civilians, the White House said.
Israel said Hamas would take advantage of Starlink.
Targets included tunnels where Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists were hiding, military compounds and observation posts.
While the rockets did not cross the border into Israel, they came close enough to set off the red alert.
Hamas has a number of models that have a very similar appearance to UAVs in the possession of Hezbollah, and in principle one can say that the inspiration for them is Iran.
The Gazan's terrorist leadership is not happy with Israel's threat to start targeting them.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. State Department released a fact sheet about the memorandum of understanding that Washington and Jerusalem signed on July 19.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Hundreds of Gazans descended on the security fence, launching explosive devices toward Israeli territory.
This week dozens of Hamas’s “Restraint Police,” stormed Rafah’s Al Awda mosque, which is considered one of the centers of power for the Islamic Jihad and a meeting place for its operatives.
A few homes in Sderot were hit by rocket fragments.
So far Hamas is staying out of this fight.
Qatar has begun sending money into Judea and Samaria.
The author attempts for the first time to examine and challenge the assumptions behind accepting an Islamist statelet committed to its destruction on its southern border.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Cairo would take a broader role in the economy and Israel would get "quiet."
By JoeSettler
Lessons learned from Operation Shield and Arrow.
A collection of videos from Gaza of the IDF destroying the homes of Islamic Jihad terrorists.
His question is actually one that many people have been asking lately. Why not simply finish the job with these terrorists?
Rocket alerts sounded in Sderot, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Rishon Lezion and surrounding areas.
The municipalities of Rishon Lezion, Yavneh, Bat Yam, Ra’anana, Kfar Saba and Herzliya — all in the greater Tel Aviv area — announced the opening of their bomb shelters, as did Sderot, Ashkelon and Beersheva.
A list of targets and how they were taken out.
Israel targeted and eliminated the leadership of Islamic Jihad.
Three foreign workers were wounded in Sderot from rocket fire from Gaza.
Iron Dome was not launched as the rockets were headed to an unpopulated area.
Saudi reconciliation with the Iranians and now Hamas is a clear act of defiance towards the US and President Joe Biden.
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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The drone did not cross into Israeli territory and did not pose a threat to civilians living close to Hamas enclave, said the IDF.
Terror operatives in the Gaza Strip were working to recruit and train young Arabs in Judea and Samaria to carry out terror attacks.
The retaliatory strike cam after an explosive device was blown up adjacent to IDF soldiers near the border.
“This is not a political issue. It is a humanitarian issue. We have four sons in Gaza. One Ashkenazi, one Sephardi, one Ethiopian, and one Bedouin.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The coalition agreement between Likud and the Religious Zionism Party requires the government to reverse parts of the disengagement and allow for the Homesh Yeshiva to remain as a first step towards rebuilding the four communities.
The IDF is no longer sure of what it shot down.
The terror factory was located just dozens of meters away from residential buildings and a hotel.
Multiple rockets were launched from Gaza, just before midnight on Thursday.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Gazans were recruiting PA Arabs in Judea and Samaria to facilitate attacks on behalf of Hamas.
“Maaz Haniyeh was forced to leave the comfortable life in the Gaza Strip and embark on the difficult and arduous resistance missions in the streets of Turkey and in its hotels.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
An explosive device hidden in a fire extinguisher was seized; the conspiracy involved operatives from Judea and Samaria directed by Gazan handlers.
There is a fight between Hamas leadership in Gaza and those abroad.
The spy received a business permit to enter Israel from Gaza.
Because of rocket fire and other security threats, Israel began reducing its use of Karni in 2007. The crossing was closed for good in 2011.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Using official Palestinian statistics, the CAMERA media watchdog proved to the Times that fishermen in the Hamas-ruled enclave have more than doubled their annual catch in the last 15 years.
“Gaza is being emptied of its residents,” the authors of the report said.
“A man-made cavity underneath the grounds of an UNRWA school in Gaza” was discovered.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Shila Naamat was a toddler when a Gazan rocket struck his home 20 years ago.
Female Hamas terrorists show off their prowess in Gaza.
Hamas doesn't want to openly bicker about their share of the gas, as that would take away focus from “igniting” the region.
The two acted on behalf of a Hamas terrorist from Gaza.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hamas is demanding “rights to Palestine’s natural resources.”
The executions required the signature of Abu Mazen, but Hamas didn't wait for it.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
These Gazans let Islamic Jihad launch rockets from their homes and property which killed and injured multiple Gazans.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The home in Khan Younis belonged to a member of a Gazan terrorist group, according to the Israeli military.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
This new move comes just weeks after the ending of Operation Breaking Dawn against the Islamic Jihad in the Strip.
Many Gazan men see this as a threat to their place in the family and to Gazan society.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The paper reportedly severed ties with Fady Hanona after a pro-Israel advocacy and media watchdog uncovered his anti-Semitic social media posts.
The Ministry of Agriculture emphasizes that in order to protect public health, and according to law, it is prohibited to sell animal products from Gaza in Israel because it is not possible to monitor the entire breeding and production chain there.
After a brief stoppage of trade during Operation Breaking Dawn, it’s back to business as usual.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The Islamic Jihad terror organization “has an open tab in Iran.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Al-Sa’adi was arrested last week by Israeli Special Forces in a counterterrorism operation in Jenin
The Palestinian Authority wants Hamas to pay for its citizens' medical treatment.