Comments by Israeli leaders in the aftermath of a two-day incursion in the Jenin refugee camp indicate that the Israel Defense Forces will take repeated military action against Palestinian terror.
A rocket launched from Lebanon at Israel on Thursday morning exploded in Israeli territory, close to the northern village of Ghajar, the military said.
A new haredi city is planned for the Bnei Shimon Regional Council in the northern Negev.
Israel launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip early on Wednesday, after factions there fired rockets into Israel overnight. The military said it hit a Hamas weapons production and underground facilities. The Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted the rockets but s one house was hit by parts of a rocket, in the southern city of Sderot causing damage but no injuries.
Israeli forces initiated their withdrawal from the Palestinian city of Jenin on Tuesday, marking an end to one of the largest military operations in the occupied West Bank in recent years, according to defense sources and witnesses. The operation aimed to dismantle the infrastructure and weaponry of armed Palestinian groups in the Jenin refugee camp. Since its start on Monday, over 1,000 troops had been deployed, resulting in the death of at least 12 people, according to Palestinian officials.
Islamist terror group Hamas said Tuesday it was responsible for a car ramming and knife attack in Israel’s coastal city of Tel Aviv that injured at least nine civilians.
In a groundbreaking study that may offer cancer patients a much safer alternative to chemotherapy, scientists at Israel’s Tel Aviv University were able to permanently eliminate 44% to 60% of melanoma cancer cells in mice by encoding a toxin produced by bacteria into mRNA molecules and injecting it directly into the animals’ tumor bed, the Jerusalem Post reports.
IDF Spokesperson Brig. Gen. Daniel Hagari said Tuesday with regard to the IDF anti-terrorism operation in Jenin that all but 10 terror targets were eliminated on the first day of the campaign.
Hundreds of anti-government protesters converged on Ben Gurion International Airport on Monday afternoon, with some in the crowd scuffling with police who tried to clear them from blocking access to the terminal that handles most flights in and out of the country.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is working aggressively to expand its terrorist operations in Judea and Samaria, forming new terror cells across the area with help from Iran, a senior member of the organization said over the weekend.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched its most extensive operation in Jenin since the Second Intifada. At least eight Palestinians were killed and 50 injured on Monday as fighting escalated between Palestinian militants and Israeli forces in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank, authorities said.
The IDF launched a counterterrorism operation in Jenin overnight Sunday, as part of which it struck terrorist infrastructure in area, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said.
Israel carried out airstrikes on areas near the central Syrian city of Homs early Sunday causing material damage but no casualties, the Syrian military said in a statement.
Israel will buy 25 F-35 aircraft from the United States, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced Sunday, in a deal that increases Israel’s arsenal of the stealth fighter jets by 50%.
Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency revealed the thrilling raid on Iranian soil and arrest of a man who led a terrorist cell in Cyprus that aimed to kill Israelis on the island.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out supplying Ukraine with the Iron Dome missile defense system, reiterating Israel’s concern that the vital technology could fall into the hands of Iran.
Following the 2020 Abraham Accords normalizing diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, an Emirati senior security official has confirmed that Israel helped the UAE to defend itself against a cyber attack and is helping the Gulf state to build a “cyber iron dome,” i24News reports.
The United Nations Security Council urged Israel and the Palestinians on Tuesday to avoid actions that can further inflame tensions in the volatile region.
A network of fortified cities around Jerusalem has been dated to the time of King David, more than 200 years earlier than previously thought, offering support to the theory that King David ruled over a complex and large kingdom. The proof, however, wasn’t freshly excavated from the earth, but rather came to light after an archaeologist spent years digging through old archaeological publications.
Following their recent visit to Iran, leaders of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization, the second largest terror group in the Gaza Strip after Hamas, on Monday called for stepping up armed attacks against Israel.