Families of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza plunged into mourning on Saturday, the Jewish sabbath, after Israel said its troops had found the body of a second woman held hostage by Hamas.

Syria says it shot down Israeli missiles fired from the Israel-controlled Golan Heights towards the surroundings of the capital, Damascus, early Friday.

Israel’s army confirmed Friday that its troops in Gaza found the body of hostage Yehudit Weiss, a 65-year-old woman abducted by Hamas on October 7.

According to the most recent Israel Channel 12 poll, the coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu, which secured 64 seats in last November’s elections, would plummet to just 45 seats in the 120-member Knesset if elections were held today. Conversely, the anti-Netanyahu “change” parties would surge to 70 seats, with the Hadash-Taal alliance claiming the remaining five.

The Israel Defense Force (IDF) carried out two significant airstrikes targeting Hamas’ underground infrastructure in the Gaza Strip this week, according to IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.

A new survey shows that the percentage of Arab Israelis who feel they are part of the Jewish state and its problems has skyrocketed since the Oct. 7 surprise brutal attack on Israeli civilians by the Hamas Palestinian terror group, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports. Hamas murdered around 1,200 mostly civilian Israelis in the Oct. 7 disaster, including around 70 Arab Israelis.

Police investigators in Israel are building rape cases against Gaza terrorists who joined in the surprise attack launched by Hamas against Israeli civilians on October 7, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports. The Palestinians murdered at least 1,200 mostly civilian Israelis and abducted around 240 others, amid an attack which included the torture of children, the rape of women, and the burning down of kibbutzim in southern Israel.

Israel’s army blew up Hamas’s parliament building in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, two days after soldiers in the Golani Unit pictures themselves holding Israeli flags there, footage obtained by Worthy News showed.

The troubled Gaza enclave appeared to be without a functioning government on Wednesday after Israeli forces captured several governmental sites in the territory, footage obtained by Worthy News confirmed.

The Pentagon quietly boosts military aid to Israel, delivering military armaments on a “near-daily basis”, according to Bloomberg News.

At least 18 Israelis were injured, one critically, after the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia fired anti-tank missiles from southern Lebanon in a further sign that Israel was dealing with another front and potentially a broader international conflict, officials said Monday.

Footage obtained and carefully reviewed by Worthy News appears to confirm that Hamas is using hospitals in Gaza to hide its fighters, hostages, and weapons and to launch attacks against Israel, despite denials from the Hamas-run Health Ministry and medical staff.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant asserted on Monday that Hamas had lost control of the Gaza Strip, a claim supported by the ongoing efforts of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which are delivering “significant blows” to the Palestinian terror group.

All 27 European Union member states have signed a joint resolution condemning the Hamas Palestinian terror group for using hospitals and civilians in the Gaza Strip as “human shields” in its war against Israel, the Associated Press reports. Israel has long asserted that Hamas terrorists embed themselves and their weaponry within civilian areas as a deterrent, knowing that, unlike them, Israeli forces seek to avoid civilian casualties in both airstrikes and ground operations.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that Gaza’s largest hospital, Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, “is not functioning as a hospital anymore,” but Israel blamed Hamas. 

Israel was preparing Sunday to help evacuate babies from Gaza’s largest hospital after several died but denied accusations that it deliberately attacked the facility.

Thousands of anti-war protesters rallied in Tel Aviv, Israel’s economic hub, calling for a ceasefire and the release of some 240 Israeli and foreign hostages held by Hamas.

Thousands of Palestinians fled northern Gaza for the fourth consecutive day through a corridor established by the Israel Defense Forces on Friday, but Hamas fighters tried to prevent a mass exodus by shooting at civilians, Worthy News learned.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has targeted and struck more than 15,000 sites identified as terrorist targets within the Gaza Strip, according to an IDF statement since the beginning of the war that started after the “Black Sabbath.”

Iran warned that the extensive civilian suffering resulting from Israel’s conflict with Hamas would inevitably lead to an escalation of war in the Middle East.  Officials in Gaza are reporting heavy fighting in and around area hospitals where Israel claims Hamas has established a terror base in an underground tunnel network.