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IDF retaliates against Hamas for rocket attacks
Posted on Thursday, December 7, 2017
The IDF confirmed it struck two terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said. The IDF confirmed the use of a tank and an IAF to strike Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip.
Is Trump eyeing a plan to expand a Palestinian state into Sinai?
Posted on Monday, December 4, 2017
US President Donald Trump could be eyeing an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal that would include transferring sections of the Sinai Desert from Egypt to a newly created Palestinian state, the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm reported on Saturday.
Iran army chief vows next war will see ‘eradication’ of Israel
Posted on Sunday, November 26, 2017
Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, the chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), issued new threats against Israel on Thursday, vowing that any future conflict will be the Jewish state's last.
Iran’s Syria Bases Near Israel Have Apocalyptic Intent
Posted on Friday, November 24, 2017
The locations of some of Iran’s military installations in Syria, including some within 30 miles of Israeli territory in the Golan Heights, may be motivated more by Tehran’s desire to provoke an Islamic end-of-the-world cataclysm than for strategic…
Netanyahu presses Putin on keeping Iran out of Syria
Posted on Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone about a ceasefire deal in the Syrian civil war and Iranian presence near Israel’s borders with the war-torn country, the Prime Minister’s Office said.
IDF fires at Syrian army position in Golan
Posted on Sunday, November 19, 2017
Israeli tank units in the Golan Heights fired a warning shot at a Syrian army position inside a no-man’s land along the Israeli-Syrian frontier Sunday evening.