As thousands of Muslims gathered at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City for prayers on the first night of Ramadan, a video shared on social media depicts Israeli Border Police officers using batons against worshippers at the entrance of the Haram al-Sharif sacred area, also referred to by Jews as the Temple Mount.
Five people were killed Friday after being hit by aid dropped by the United States in Gaza as at least one parachute failed to deploy correctly and one or more parcels fell on them, according to Israeli sources and Gaza officials.
Facing a backlash within his Democratic Party over his support for Israel’s war against Hamas, U.S. President Joe Biden was to announce that the U.S. military would construct a port in Gaza to get humanitarian aid into the territory by sea.
This week, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declared that during the first week of Ramadan, the level of access for Muslim worshippers to the Temple Mount would remain unchanged from previous years. The decision was made against the backdrop of concerns about attempts by terrorist organizations to provoke violence at the holy site following calls for a “month of terror” during the Muslim holy month.
Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese terrorist organization, fired a massive barrage of rockets at the Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona on Tuesday evening after a White House senior adviser visited Beirut in a diplomatic effort to cease hostilities along the Israel-Lebanon border.
The Iranian-backed terror groups, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas, have declared their intention for Ramadan to be a “month of terror,” calling for the “continuation of the Battle of al-Aqsa” as they called for Islamic nations to unify against Israel.
Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered a 2,000 year-old coin inscribed ‘Year One of the Redemption of Israel,’ from the time of the Jewish Bar Kochba Revolt against the Roman Empire in Judea, the Jerusalem Post reports.
A coalition of Arab states is pressing the United States and its Western allies to convince Israel to consider a renewed plan for Palestinian statehood that would result in a permanent ceasefire in the current war against Hamas, Fortune reports. Led by Saudi Arabia, the coalition includes Egypt, Jordan, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates.
The United States last week imposed sanctions on a small Israeli metal company that makes parts for the Iron Dome, an air defense system which has protected civilians from tens of thousands of rockets fired at the Jewish state from Gaza by the Hamas jihadist terror group respectively, First Post reports.
As fierce fighting continued in Gaza Sunday, delegates of the Iran-backed Palestinian group Hamas, deemed terrorists by the West, were in Cairo on Sunday for talks on a ceasefire with Israel, their sworn enemy, sources said.
The United States carried out its first airdrop of aid for Gaza in the Israel-Hamas war with more than 30,000 meals parachuted by military aircraft, officials said Saturday.
U.S. President Joe Biden says the U.S. will begin airdropping humanitarian aid into Gaza, where Hamas claimed Friday that seven Israeli hostages were among those killed in Israeli bombardments.
French President Emmanuel Macron demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza on Friday and said the situation in Gaza is “terrible.”
An Israeli company has launched a cutting-edge AI-based app that will provide cancer patients with customized, round-the-clock care as they progress in their recovery plan, i24News reports.
Israel’s military denied Thursday that it had killed more than a hundred Palestinians when desperate crowds gathered around aid trucks in Gaza.
Syria’s official SANA news agency reported that Israeli fighter jets launched attacks on multiple locations near Damascus, resulting in “material losses.”
tense calm returned to the Netherlands’ parliament Wednesday after pro-Palestine activists interrupted a memorial service for Dutch ex-Prime Minister Dries van Agt, who branded Israel’s leader Benjamin Netanyahu “a war criminal” and became a voice for Palestinians.
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi has warned the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon that it will “pay a very high price” if it continues firing rockets at Israeli communities, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu angrily rejected U.S. President Joe Biden’s suggestion that American support was waning for Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza and that a ceasefire should be reached by next week.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed that Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas are planning to exploit the upcoming Ramadan period as a catalyst for escalating the war, saying that it was planning “the second stage of October 7.”