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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The battalion commander, who had gotten engaged a few days earlier, had never celebrated the rite of passage.
According to Smotrich, the Israel Defense Forces and the security establishment “did not tell us the truth, and said it wasn’t the P.A.”
Israeli forces are positioned around the crossing and there is no passage without [Israeli] supervision, oversight and advance approval.'
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.
During the past day, the Air Force struck approximately 30 Hamas targets across Gaza, including an anti-tank missile launch post, weapons storage facilities and other structures.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Nine soldiers from the same Hesder yeshiva were wounded in the incident.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The military expects full operational control of the southernmost Gaza city in two weeks.
The terrorists were trying to cross over from the Rafah area.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Approximately 300,000 to 400,000 Gazans remain in Rafah.
By Joshua Marks
“A public ultimatum must be issued to Hezbollah that they completely stop shooting and withdraw all forces to beyond the Litani River," the minister said.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Israel called on the United Nations to investigate.
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)
The NGO urged the White House to take "all necessary steps" to stop Israel from launching a large-scale operation against Hamas in Rafah.
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.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Helicopters evacuated the wounded to hospitals.
By Joshua Marks
"The release of the hostages is the top priority for us," said Israel Katz.
Barbara Leaf defended the U.S. decision to veto Palestinian membership at the United Nations.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The U.S. president was apparently referring to Rafah, Hamas' last terror stronghold in Gaza.
Sen. Chris Coons said the House must “promptly” pass the Senate foreign aid bill “to ensure that our Israeli allies have everything they need to defend themselves from attacks by Iran and its proxies.”
The deal wants a US commitment to supporting a Rafah operation in exchange for the ceasefire.
"We will reach a point when Hamas no longer controls the Gaza Strip and does not function as a military framework that poses a threat to the citizens of the State of Israel.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"The lack of a decisive victory in Gaza may bring us closer to a war in the north," Gallant said ahead of meetings in Washington.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The former US president's secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, also gave public backing to the pending Rafah operation.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The French president has accused Israel of killing women and children in Gaza.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
"We have been clear in multiple conversations and in every way that any major military operation in Rafah would be a huge mistake," Harris said.
Beijing and Moscow said the draft resolution wasn’t sufficiently strong in calling for a halt to fighting in Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Senior U.S. officials have said both that Israel needs a plan to protect civilians before going into Rafah and that such protection is impossible.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
According to U.S. officials, a "flood" of humanitarian aid and the construction of temporary shelters will be necessary.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Four U.S. officials confirmed to "Politico" the president is mulling the option.
By Joshua Marks
Israel is readying a major military offensive in the last Hamas stronghold in southern Gaza.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Plans for the IDF offensive in Hamas's last stronghold in the Gaza Strip will be reviewed by the political echelon on Sunday.
Evidence suggests that control of the Rafah crossing has shifted unofficially to Ibrahim al-Arjani, a Bedouin businessman with close ties to prominent figures including Mahmoud al-Sisi, the son of the Egyptian president.
"They can surrender, release the hostages, and this way, the citizens of Gaza can celebrate the holy holiday of Ramadan," said the War Cabinet member.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
As Egypt and the US are not allowing the Gazans to escape from the Gaza strip, Israel has put forward an evacuation plan for the residents of the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
The two were being held in Rafah, where international pressure has been trying to hold back IDF operations.
The DM put new pressure on the Gazans with talk of the upcoming IDF operations in Rafah.
Egypt is still not allowing displaced Gazans to flee the war and enter the Sinai.
Targets included tunnels where Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists were hiding, military compounds and observation posts.
Two of the four were evacuated to a hospital.
The man split his life between Rafah (Gaza) and Rehovot.
Baby chicks that are on sale at the market in Rafah, Gaza.
By JNi.Media
Surveillance cameras have been installed throughout the crossing terminal.
The man's family demanded he be executed.
Despite the reconciliation agreement, Gazans are still having trouble escaping from Gaza into Egypt.
What comes around goes around.
Hamas and ISIS-Sinai have a ongoing cooperative relationship.
By JNi.Media
According to Human Rights Watch, the Egyptian authorities demolished at least 3,255 residential, commercial, administrative, and community buildings along the border, forcibly evicting thousands of people.
By JNi.Media
Arabs who work near the buffer zone on occasion attempt to attack, even fire on the machinery and are repelled with fire.
Arabs in Gaza protested at the Rafah crossing today, demanding that Egypt open the gates and let them out.
Palestinian Arab baby girl named "Knife in Jerusalem."
Or as John Kerry said, "It's a hell of a pinpoint operation."
If there's one you can't accuse Hamas of, it's discrimination. Whether your a female, or a child, or a female child, Hamas is happy to dress you up in uniform and give you a rifle. The photo is from a "military" parade on August 21, marking the first anniversary of the killing of Hamas's terror […]
Cairo shut down the Rafah crossing. Israel continues to allow shipment through Kerem Shalom crossing but refuses passage for Haniyeh's sisters.
Egypt attacks jihadists with F-16 warplanes. Israel closes borders to Gaza and Egypt.
Pro-Arab activists are warning that they will charge the IDF with a war crime if it stops the flotilla.
The self-inflicted daily decline of humanity of the Gazans has reached another new low.
The "international community" would be denouncing left and right Israel if it even dared to think what Cairo is doing.
A rocket launched from Gaza landed in the Sinai, in the Egyptian half of the town of Rafiach (Rafah).
Mortar fire awakened southern Israelis living near the border with Gaza as two shells were shot from the city of Rafah.
Egypt closed the crossing due the ongoing terror attacks against Egypt emanating from the Gaza Strip.
After discovering a tunnel from Gaza into the Sinai that extended 1850 meters, Egypt has decide to extend it sterile zone along its 14 kilometer Gazan border from 500 meters to 1000 meters.
Egyptian soldiers have killed a field commander in the Al Qaeda-linked Ansar Beit al-Maqdis terror organization in Sinai.
Members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis Wahhabi have been responsible for multiple terror bombings in Egypt.
On Thursday, the Israel Air Force hit a motorcycle transporting 2 terrorists in Rafah.
IAF fighter pilots eliminate 20 terror targets in Gaza since midnight, killing six in the region.
Hamas is frustrated. Their missiles turned out to be useless, their tunnels were destroyed, they lost hundreds of terrorists, and the IDF effectively routed them both in war and now at the diplomatic table. So to vent some of those frustrations (and to keep the populace angry), they've been running angry anti-Israel protests. At this […]
Money can’t buy love from Hamas. It can by a short cease-fire. It can buy war. It can’t buy peace.
By Shalom Bear
Lt. Eitan charged into the tunnels with his men to try and rescue Lt. Hadar Goldin in Rafiach.
By Rachel Levy
The IAF returned fire towards Hamas terrorists using the entrance of an UNRWA school for a shield; 10 Gaza civilians were killed.
By Rachel Levy
Hamas has learned the art of kidnapping from Hezbollah. Israel neeeds to figure out quickly how to deal with that.
3:31pm IDF Spox notifications: Hamas terrorists killed two IDF soldiers during the suspected kidnapping of 2nd Lt. Goldin this morning. We suspect that a group of Hamas terrorists, including a suicide attacker, kidnapped 2nd. Lt. Goldin at 9:30AM & dragged him into a tunnel. If our suspicions about today's events are accurate, Hamas took advantage […]
This time Hamas may have succeeded in kidnapping a soldier.
The southern Gaza border town of Rafah became the latest target for Israeli fighter pilots Thursday morning.
Wednesday night’s retaliation leaves Hamas in a smaller corner of survival.
Tens of thousands of Arabs worked in Gush Katif and Israel before the Intifada in the late ‘80s. Today, literally today, a Gaza man said he is so poor he is ready to sell his daughter. Can the West connect the dots?
Here is the latest jihadist history lesson: Israel killed Yasser Arafat because he refused to sign an agreement at Camp David in 2000. Islamic Jihad leader Mohammed al-Hindi, speaking during a rally in Gaza City, claimed that Arafat was put under siege after returning from the summit, before being poisoned for his unyielding position, the […]
A double suicide bombing attack by Al Qaeda terrorists killed at least 11 Egyptian soldiers and civilians on Wednesday at its intelligence headquarters and a checkpoint in Rafiah, on the border with Gaza. The terrorist attack came 24 hours after the Egyptian military carried out helicopter gunship raids on Al Qaeda-linked terrorists in the Sinai […]
A terrorists' ambush in the northern Sinai killed 24 Egyptian police who drove by in two vehicles, Kol Israel reported. The attack took place in a village near Rafah. 3 police were injured.
The activists do not care about the Palestinians' suffering as much as they are interested in advancing their anti-Israel agenda. They rarely have anything good to offer the Palestinians.
By Shalom Bear
Hamas PM Ismail Haniyeh left Gaza to Egypt on Saturday with a delegation of 21 senior Hamas members. Haniyeh is meeting with senior Egyptian security personnel. The Hamas delegation are trying to improve relations with Egypt, which have been on a down-slide ever since the terror attacks began in the Sinai which many suspect are […]
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