By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Cairo's recent military buildup in the Sinai "requires clarification," said Knesset member Ruth Wasserman Lande
The IDF located the drone and three weapons.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The drone and weapons were handed over to security forces for examination.
By Canaan Lidor
"If Israelis don’t control it, they don’t control Gaza,” Middle East analyst Daniel Pipes says of the Philadelphi Corridor.
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.
“Egypt is able to protect its interests and sovereignty and these will not be surrendered to a group of extremist Israeli leaders seeking to drag the region into a state of conflict,” said the head of Egypt's State Information Services.
Some 20 suspected smugglers converged on the Nitzana commercial crossing, prompting IDF forces to open fire on them.
Gazan are calling the IDF simply to vent their anger at Hamas and encourage the Israelis to continue their offensive.
By Ariel Kahana
Israeli intelligence did not know the severity of the smuggling situation before the war.
The sites that were struck in the Rafah area where Hamas terrorists were operating.
The mosques have tunnels under them leading them into Egypt.
(TPS) Former Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot revealed earlier this month that Israel was asked by Egypt in 2015 to conduct airstrikes against Islamic State targets. “There aren’t many countries in the world that know how to locate targets the size of a podium and to put a missile on […]
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Cairo would take a broader role in the economy and Israel would get "quiet."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The blast caused a fire but no casualties, Egyptian security officials said.
In Gaza, it is said that Sahib, Matawa’s brother, also joined ISIS in Sinai.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The Israeli Counter-Terrorism Bureau has classified Sinai in its most severe terrorism level—“a very high concrete threat—for 17 years.
Egyptian gas companies halted deliveries of natural gas between 2011 and 2013 after terrorists blew up the pipeline in the SInai.
By JNi.Media
The size of the fish indicated a transition to marine agriculture: as of 3,500 years ago, they were down to "plate size," about one pound in weight and 15 inches in length.
Recent surveys show that most Gazans still support Hamas, so they aren't likely to use this opportunity to leave Gaza forever.
"You’ll have the son of ISIS and the grandson of al-Qaeda that will be fighting [for] this new Shi’ite force."
Rocket Alert 8:55 PM -1 Rocket launched.
What comes around goes around.
The IDF said nothing hit southern Israel.
The IDF is checking if the rocket succeeded in crossing over into Israel or not.
Hamas and ISIS-Sinai have a ongoing cooperative relationship.
By JNi.Media
The discussion, then as now, revolved around annexation versus a two-state solution, although at the time the most these Israeli ministers could imagine was a Palestinian autonomy under Israeli rule (a solution that's to the right of today's Likud).
ISIS is claiming it was a terror attack, and they are responsible.
By JNi.Media
Some Israelis were trying to find alternative routs to reach the Sinai beaches, possibly via Jordan.
A rocket alert went off in the Eshkol region in the Negev at 11:33 AM.
By JNi.Media
President-Elect Donald Trump engaged in his first act as leader of the free world on Thursday, when his tweet stopped the game clock on an Egyptian anti-settlements UN Security Council resolution.
Two Gazan bodies were recovered today, after Egypt flooded the tunnels.
The epicenter was just 5 kilometers north of the Sea of Galilee.
By JNi.Media
We went looking for those items that best reflect how the report turns facts and figures on their heads to come up with the preconceived conclusion: it's all the fault of the Israeli occupation, and once Israel is out of the picture you'll see how those Palestinians will become Switzerland of the Middle East.
By JNi.Media
On Monday Minister Yisrael Katz (Likud) told reporters: “I do not think it is right to lock up two million people without any connection to the world."
Tremors were felt in Eilat and the Negev.
Arabs in Gaza protested at the Rafah crossing today, demanding that Egypt open the gates and let them out.
The report from the al-Sisi government totally contradicts a Russian investigation that concluded a bomb brought down the plane that killed 224 people.
By JNi.Media
IEC said it had sustained heavy damages as a result of Egypt’s blocking of gas supplies, forcing it to purchase more expensive fuel to generate electricity.
By JNi.Media
“The [ISIS] statement does not say they shot it down, but that they destroyed it,” Trotignon said. “You could imagine explosives on board, or sabotage.”
By JNi.Media
Israeli companies will continue flying to Eilat normally because their airplanes are protected in three envelopes.
A few rockets fell short this morning...
If we're already being creative, here's another thought...
By JoeSettler
Israel needs to start pushing the jungle back.
The Gaza City terrorist used a surgeon's house as a base when planting bombs on IDF patrol routes.
Cairo shut down the Rafah crossing. Israel continues to allow shipment through Kerem Shalom crossing but refuses passage for Haniyeh's sisters.
Jihadists in Sinai continued their war against Egypt Saturday evening and killed three soldiers and wounded four others in the northern Sinai. Egyptian military spokesman said soldiers staged counter attacks on Saturday, killing 39 jihadists and destroying two vehicles loaded with bombs.
Hamas sent the missing Israeli back to Israel, only they were trying to pull a fast one.
"Dano" was wounded in action. The Multinational Force turned to a Hebrew University veterinarian.
Billboards promote the burka, and perfumed clothes are forbidden. Obama in 2011: The US invasion protected civilians.
Egyptian soldiers prevented another deadly Islamic State (ISIS) suicide attack on Wednesday, according to military sources. A suicide bomber drove a vehicle loaded with explosives towards a military post between Cairo and Suez when the vehicle was destroyed. Egypt did not explain if its soldier actually foiled the attack or if a malfunction in the […]
Islamic terrorists in the Sinai bombed a bus carrying Egyptian army soldiers Thursday and injured 25 people near el-Arish. The jihadist group linked with the Islamic State (ISIS) and which calls itself the "Sinai Province" is one of the leading terrorist groups in northern Sinai, but it has not claimed responsibility for the attack. It […]
"Unfortunately, there are those who seek to exploit the sanctity of Ramadan, and distort its meaning in favor of … terrorism."
A third Grad rocket was found in the Eshkol region on Saturday.
Israel, like the non-radical Islamic world. will be happy see the ISIS beheaded for once.
IDF okays Egypt's heavy arms in Sinai. Al-Sisi claims it is in total control over the Sinai.
Egypt attacks jihadists with F-16 warplanes. Israel closes borders to Gaza and Egypt.
No damage was reported. The quake occurred on the East African rift.
A Sinai ISIS chapter launched rockets at an airport used by MFO peacekeepers in the Sinai.
The "international community" would be denouncing left and right Israel if it even dared to think what Cairo is doing.
If the ISIS can gain a foothold in the Sinai, it will be on the doorstep of both Israel and Egypt.
Islamic State executed an Egyptian soldier over the weekend, in the Sinai.
Texas-based Noble Energy is the field's operator.
By J. E. Dyer
Israel has never invoked the agreement, but Israel sources say that its importance lies in its very existence.
This is not satire and not a Purim joke. It is courtesy of the Iranian regime's Fars [read: Farce] News Agency.
This is all the proof anyone needs to know why there is a maritime embargo clamped on Hamas.
This was the 28th time it's been blown up.
When the IDF destroys terror tunnels, it is reported as aggression. When Egypt does so, it is against terror.
Egyptian police announced that the found the bodies of 2 beheaded men in their 30s in northern Sinai. No other information is available at this point.
Egypt has deployed heavy security around foreign embassies in Cairo because of increased fears of terrorist attacks, according to the Saudi daily Ukaz. Authorities said that terrorists from the Sinai are planning to attack an embassy and that the Muslim Brotherhood is planning to strike several targets throughout Egypt to undermine the Al-Sisi regime.
Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan all have much to gain in fortifying Gaza's borders.
By Shalom Bear
Egypt's al-Sisi is in an expansionist mood. He wants Israel's permission to take over Judea and Samaria.
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.
Israel trusts al-Sisi for now, but what about tomorrow?
Israel and Egypt are responding to the terror emanating from Gaza.
The Egyptian soldiers were killed with weapons acquired from Hamas.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency Saturday after terrorists carried out a deadly assault in the northern Sinai, killing 33 Egyptian troops. Al-Sisi charged that “this operation had a foreign fund to execute” he attack against the Egyptian army… to break the back of Egypt and Egyptians.” A car bomb […]
With all due respect to the IDF, since when is drug smuggling not linked to terror?
Members of Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis Wahhabi have been responsible for multiple terror bombings in Egypt.
By JoeSettler
Smuggling Gazans into Europe is cheaper than fighting with Gaza, and then rebuilding all the destruction.
Egypt generously offered to help end the refugee issue once and for all. Abbas refused...
The number of rockets and missiles fired on Israel is decreasing, but the war is far from over.
Multiple rockets were launched at Israel from the Sinai.
By Shalom Bear
Hamas denies that ISIS is in Gaza, but the facts seem to disagree.
Security officials have issued a warning of an imminent terror attack in the Sinai Peninsula in northern Egypt, and Germany has advised its citizens to flee the area. Intelligence agents in Egypt reportedly tapped phone conversations between a Sinai terrorist group and Palestinian Authority Palestinian terrorists outside of Egypt, who instructed the group how to […]
30 tourists of different nationalities were on the bus when it exploded.
The head of IDF Intelligence said on Wednesday that enemy countries have 170,000 missiles ready to be fired on Israel, a threat that is worse than the Iranian nuclear program. The numbers have been known before the sum total was announced by Intelligence Director Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi. It has been reported dozens of times […]
Hamas, Islamic Jihad and brethren may be able to blow up the “peace talks” with a bit more war.
The “Champions of Jerusalem” Al Qaeda-linked terrorist cell, which calls itself Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, has claimed it was behind Tuesday's deadly suicide bombing of the police headquarters in the northern Sinai city of Mansoura. A statement by the terrorist group asserted that the attack, which killed at least 15 people, was in retaliation for Egypt’s […]
By Shalom Bear
After solidifying Turkey's support for Hamas, Khaled Mashal flies to Iran to get their financial support too.
A car bomb exploded in the Sinai on Thursday morning, killing 3 Egyptian soldiers and 1 Egyptian policeman.
Egypt has finally decided to tackle the security threat from the Sinai Peninsula.
Terrorists in the Sinai, south of Gaza, killed three Egyptian policemen, a soldier and one civilian and wounded at least six others Monday in three separate sniping attacks. Masked gunmen shot at policemen in El Arish, attacked a checkpoint near the border with Gaza and shot at a police car in an El Arish neighborhood. […]
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 […]
On Tuesday, Egyptian helicopter gunships attacked and killed dozens of Islamic terrorists in northern Sinai. The operation is reportedly still ongoing. Since the military coup which overthrew the elected Muslim Brotherhood president, Egypt has been stepping up operations to stamp out the Islamic terrorists who have been attacking Egyptian, and even Israeli interests. On Monday, […]
The European Union Wednesday decided to suspend export licenses to Egypt for equipment that could be used for “internal repression” in the wake of the massive violence and increasing instability in the country. European Union Foreign Ministers also agreed to review security assistance to the military regime that has ruled Egypt since the ouster of […]
Near the Sinai peninsula, the Israeli Defense Forces continue on high alert, watching every suspicious movement in the sands near the Egyptian border for signs of the next attack.