Israel-Palestinian Conflict

The United States, long Israel’s closest ally, made clear Friday that it expects the Israel-Hamas war to lead to a two-state solution.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanon’s Hezbollah group that Israel’s enemies will suffer “unimaginable costs” after its leader said Lebanon had joined a coalition seeking the destruction of the Jewish nation.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has employed artificial intelligence (AI) to carry out precision strikes on over 11,000 terrorist targets in Gaza since October 7 according to a senior IDF intelligence officer, the Jerusalem Post reported.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has arrived in Israel, where he was due to hold discussions with the Israeli government after fierce overnight clashes in Gaza.

According to an Israeli military source, an elite Iran-backed unit has recently arrived in Lebanon, with intentions to engage in attacks on Israel. This development comes as the conflict in the Gaza Strip has been escalating and spilling over into other areas, according to Newsweek.

With Israel facing massacres, kidnappings, and war, many have put aside political differences to unite at Jerusalem’s Western Wall to pray for the Jewish nation.

Israel’s army said Thursday that it has effectively surrounded Gaza City and that it killed “over 130 terrorists” in its ongoing ground operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Military officials declared Wednesday that Israeli forces had breached Hamas’s first line of defense and were approaching Gaza City, saying the deaths of 16 soldiers this week in and near Gaza were a “heavy price.”

A senior Hamas official has warned that his fighters will repeat the October 7 massacres in Israel until the Jewish nation is annihilated.

Israel’s military said Wednesday that 11 troops died in ground fighting in the Gaza Strip, taking the number of Israeli military killed since October 7 to at least 326.

Senior Hamas official Musa Abu Marzouk says the tunnels his fighters build are for themselves and not to hide civilians despite thousands reportedly dying in Israeli air strikes provoked by them.

Israel’s army said Tuesday it suffered its first casualties in Gaza, where it hit a refugee camp and killed a “commander” of “terrorist organization Hamas” and “many other terrorists.”

srael’s National Unity Party leader Benny Gantz, the retired army general who now leads Israel’s emergency war cabinet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on Monday published a video address to Arab citizens of Israel, telling them that they are an “inseparable part of Israeli society” and share Israel’s “destiny,” the Jerusalem Post reports.

As Israeli forces continue the fight to dismantle the Hamas terror organization in Gaza, Israel’s government has agreed to allow 100 trucks into the coastal enclave each day, a US official told The Times of Israel (TOI) on Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flatly rejected calls for a cease-fire in comments to the press on Monday.

American and allied forces in Iraq and Syria have been attacked with drones and rockets 23 times this month, a senior US defense official said Monday, as regional tensions soar over the Israel-Hamas war.

Israel on Monday urged Russia’s government to act against antisemitism after an anti-Israel mob stormed an airport in Russia, but Moscow blamed “outside interference” for the incident.

Israel says its military has freed an Israeli soldier held in Gaza by Hamas.

Israel is expanding its ground offensive with armored vehicles being seen on Gaza’s main north-south road, close to Gaza City, in an operation that Israeli leaders say is aimed at “destroying the Hamas terrorist organization.”

The Israel Defense Forces on Saturday struck a number of Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon in response to missile and rocket attacks, and additionally hit terror operatives preparing to carry out new attacks on northern Israel.