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Israel turned down offers of ceasefire with Hamas, Netanyahu says

Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Israel rejected offers of truce on behalf of the Hamas terrorist group, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, at a meeting of the top military brass and security officials occasioned by the sharp escalation between the Jewish…

Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome stretched to limit by Hamas rocket barrage

Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Israel‘s state-of-the-art Iron Dome missile defense system is facing its toughest test to date amid rapid-fire rocket attacks from Hamas, with military analysts in Israel openly wondering whether the Palestinian militant group has found a strategy to partially…

1,200 Rockets in 48 hours – and counting – as cities around Israel teeter on the brink of civil war

Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Hamas has launched 1,200 rockets in 48 hours from the Gaza Strip and shows little sign of letting up as we enter the third night of Israel under fire.

Netanyahu declares State of Emergency in city of Lod amid “civil war between Arabs and Jews”

Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2021

Israel declared a state of emergency in the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Lod on Wednesday after Mayor Yair Revivo said a “civil war between Arabs and Jews,” was taking place there.  The rioting, including the torching of three…

UN Fears “Full-Scale War” Over Jerusalem

Posted on Wednesday, May 12, 2021

The United Nations says it fears a “full-scale war” amid ongoing deadly exchanges between Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli military.

‘Kristallnacht in Lod’: State of emergency as Arab mobs set synagogues on fire

Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Intense Arab rioting broke out in the central Israeli city of Lod late Tuesday, with three synagogues and numerous shops reportedly set on fire, and dozens of cars set alight. The Israeli government declared a state of emergency…

Church Leaders Fear For Jerusalem As Death Toll Rises In Battles

Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Church leaders have expressed concern about the future of Jerusalem and its neighborhood as several people were killed Tuesday in nearly non-stop Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel and Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip.

IDF kills 4 Islamic Jihad, Hamas commanders in targeted strikes in Gaza

Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Three Islamic Jihad commanders and a Hamas commander were killed in targeted strikes by Israeli forces on Tuesday afternoon, as the Israel Defense Forces expanded its airstrikes in the Gaza Strip in retaliation for the firing of hundred…

Gaza terrorists fire hundreds of rockets at Israel; IDF pummels Hamas targets

Posted on Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip fired massive barrages of rockets at southern Israel throughout Tuesday, wounding at least 24 people and drawing deadly retaliatory airstrikes from the Israel Defense Forces.

Netanyahu: Gaza terrorists ‘crossed a red line,’ Israel ‘will respond with great force’

Posted on Monday, May 10, 2021

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the Gaza terrorist had "crossed a red line" by firing dozens of rockets into Israel's south.

‘Dozens Killed, Hundreds Injured In Israel-Palestinian Clashes’

Posted on Monday, May 10, 2021

Palestinian officials in the Gaza Strip claimed Monday that some 20 people were killed in fighting with Israel in one of the bloodiest clashes in years.

Rare 2,000 year-old oil lamp uncovered in Jerusalem

Posted on Monday, May 10, 2021

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a very rare bronze oil lamp that was buried at the foundation of a Roman-era building constructed in Jerusalem’s City of David almost 2,000 years ago, the Times of Israel (ToI) reported last…

UN Security Council to hold emergency meet on escalating Jerusalem violence

Posted on Sunday, May 9, 2021

The UN Security Council will convene an emergency session on Monday morning to discuss the escalating violence in Jerusalem, including major clashes on the Temple Mount.

IDF strikes Gaza after rocket launched at Israel amid Jerusalem unrest

Posted on Sunday, May 9, 2021

The Israeli Air Force struck a Hamas military site in the southern Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire earlier on Saturday night, according to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

17 policemen, 200 Palestinians hurt as hundreds riot on Temple Mount

Posted on Sunday, May 9, 2021

Israeli police burst into the Temple Mount compound on Friday evening after Palestinians threw rocks and bottles at officers, as widespread clashes in Jerusalem spread to the holy site following prayers held there on the last Friday of…

‘Coalition agreement might be reached in next 24 hours’

Posted on Sunday, May 9, 2021

The factions looking to replace Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister are close to reaching a coalition agreement paving the way for a new government, senior opposition officials said Sunday night.

Israel launches largest-ever multi-front war exercise

Posted on Sunday, May 9, 2021

The Israel Defense Forces launched a month-long war exercise on Sunday—the largest in its history—simulating a multi-front conflict.

On al-Quds Day, Iran’s Khamenei says Israel ‘is a terrorist base, not a country’

Posted on Sunday, May 9, 2021

In a speech to mark the annual al-Quds Day, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday called Israel “not a country, but a terrorist base” and said its downfall was imminent.

15 arrested in fresh clashes in East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood

Posted on Thursday, May 6, 2021

Palestinians and Israelis hurled rocks and chairs at each other in the tense East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah on Thursday before Israeli police moved in to separate them, arresting at least 15 people, all of them Palestinians.…

Netanyahu fails to form government; Rivlin tasks Yair Lapid with forming coalition

Posted on Wednesday, May 5, 2021

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ran out of time to form a new government and, on Wednesday evening, President Reuven Rivlin asked Yair Lapid, who leads the centrist Yesh Atid party, to try and form a coalition. Yesh…

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