Israel’s United Nations Ambassador Danny Danon called on members of the United Nations Security Council Tuesday to take action to help stop Iran’s funding of global terrorism — and warned that Israel will act if attacked by terrorists.
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired a single rocket into Israel early Monday, which was intercepted by the Iron Dome system, the army said. There were no reports of injuries.
The Iranian-backed Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad has committed to spark an escalation on the southern front if Israel enters a military conflict with Lebanon’s Hezbollah on the north, said the Palestinian faction’s leader, Ziad Nakhala, in an interview to the state-owned Iranian TV channel Al-Alam.
Tensions between Hamas and Fatah have intensified in the past few days as the two Palestinian rival parties continue to exchange allegations and insults.
Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, described the world body as ‘hopelessly biased’ against Israel on Tuesday in her last address to the monthly Security Council meeting in New York.
The IDF searched Thursday night for the Palestinian who killed two soldiers at a bus stop near Route 60 as a surge of unrest gripped the West Bank amid rising fears of a new wave of terror attacks against Israelis.
A U.S.-sponsored draft resolution that for the first time would have condemned the militant Islamic group Hamas, which controls Gaza, failed to win the required two-thirds majority in the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday.
Gaza border community residents represented by Shurat Hadin requested on Monday that the High Court of Justice block the transfer of $150 million in funds to Hamas that is expected soon.
The Israeli military this week concluded a combined urban and tunnel warfare exercise simulating fighting in the Gaza Strip. The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said the drill, the 11th of its kind to be held this year, was part of the military’s routine wartime readiness program.
The European Union agreed to support a US-sponsored United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning Hamas, following negotiations with Washington, diplomats said Thursday.
The United States is leading a push at the United Nations to win crucial backing from European countries for a resolution condemning Hamas, the Israeli ambassador said Tuesday.
The cycle of escalating violence across the Israel-Gaza border will not be resolved until Israel completely destroys Hamas’ and Islamic Jihad’s terrorist infrastructure in the coastal enclave, Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Chairman MK Avi Dichter (Likud) told Israel Hayom over the weekend.
Commando units of the military are currently in a 10-day-long drill to improve their preparedness for a two-front war, the IDF’s Spokesperson’s Unit announced Saturday night.
Hamas claimed on Sunday that the botched covert IDF mission in Gaza a week ago, during which Lt. Col. M. was killed, was to plant listening devices in the strip.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently holding the three most senior positions in the government– prime minister, foreign affairs minister and now the defense minister as well, following Avigdor Lieberman’s resignation on Wednesday over the ceasefire agreement reached with Hamas.
Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Lieberman announced Wednesday that he was resigning his position as defense minister and exiting the coalition.
Egyptian efforts to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas proved successful Tuesday, as the terrorist group that rules the Gaza Strip agreed to hold fire after launching a massive rocket barrage at Israeli communities near the border over the previous 36 hours.
Egypt’s and UN’s mediation efforts led to a cease-fire between Israel with Hamas Tuesady, a decision disputed by several Cabinet ministers.
The Israeli military threatened Hamas on Monday evening, in response to a barrage of more than 300 rockets and mortar shells fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip in the preceding hours, saying the terror group would ‘feel the power of the IDF’s response in the coming hours.’
Israeli aircraft bombarded the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV headquarters in Gaza City on Monday evening, destroying it, Palestinian news outlets said and video from the enclave showed.