Islamic Jihad threatens attacks on Dimona nuclear facility, Ben Gurion Airport

Gaza-based, Iran-backed terror group issues video showing members loading projectiles into a rocket launcher, as well as footage of Ashdod port and Haifa refineries By TOI STAFFToday, 6:27 pm  0 67shares Volume 90% The military wing of the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad terror group on Saturday released a video threatening rocket attacks on the nuclear facility in Dimona […]

Egypt insists that Israel stop air raids in Gaza

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF May 4, 2019 17:21   Breaking news. (photo credit: JPOST STAFF) Egypt released a statement demanding that Israel stop the air raids in the Gaza Strip after IDF tanks and helicopters began attacking terrorist targets belonging to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza strip.

Two Israelis injured – first casualties of day’s 2nd Palestinian rocket barrage

Direct rocket hits to their homes seriously injured a woman of 80 in Kiryat Gat and a man in Ashkelon, when the Palestinians, more than an hour after shooting more than 100 rockets into Israel on Saturday, May 4, widened their scope to the Lachish region (59km NE of Gaza) – targeting the towns of […]

Iran to continue nuclear enrichment despite U.S. move-parliament speaker

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will continue uranium enrichment under its nuclear deal with world powers, Iranian parliament speaker Ali Larijani was quoted as saying on Saturday, despite a U.S. move to stop it. The United States acted on Friday to force Iran to stop producing low-enriched uranium and expanding its only nuclear power plant, intensifying […]

IDF strikes throughout Gaza amid rocket barrages; Israeli woman seriously hurt

Army hits 30 targets as over 150 rockets fired from Strip; sirens sound in Rehovot, Ashdod, Beit Shemesh and numerous other towns; home hit after family flees to shelter By TOI STAFFToday, 3:58 pm  0 0shares Smoke rises from an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Saturday, May 4, 2019 (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) The […]

Gaza officials say ‘Israel will endure painful hours’

Elior Levy |Published:  05.04.19 , 14:10   The headquarters for all militarist groups in the Gaza Strip issued a statement Saturday saying that “the next few hours will difficult and painful for Israel.”   “The resistance will not stand by, it will react to the direct hits on Palestinian citizens,” said the stamen.   “The […]

Over 100 rockets launched into Israel from Gaza; Iron Dome intercepts dozens

No casualties as sirens sound in Rehovot, Ashkelon, Ashdod; home suffers direct hit after family flees to shelter; Palestinians say 1 killed, terror groups threaten ‘surprises’ By TOI STAFF and JACOB MAGIDToday, 8:43 amUpdated at 10:28 am  9 1,854shares The interior if a house hit by a rocket in the Eshkol Regional Council. The family had escaped to a […]

Iran to Launch Development Project for New Satellite in Late May

TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Morteza Barari said on Saturday that experts and scientists at the Tehran-based Amirkabir University of Technology will start the development project of a telecommunication satellite dubbed “Payam 2” by late May. Barari said today that three development plans for building “Payam 2” are being reviewed and […]

Russia Pressures Iran to Pull out Sophisticated Drones from Syria

Moscow has started exerting pressure on Tehran to reduce its presence in Syria by demanding that Iran pull out Revolutionary Guards from military bases there and remove its sophisticated drones, Israeli intelligence sources said Friday. The DEBKAfile website, an Israeli intelligence and security news service, reported that “surprising Russian changes have begun to be noticed […]

Iran’s Rouhani urges unity in face of America’s ‘war on hope’

Iranian president says US seeks to divide nation by cutting its foreign currency supply; ‘They want us to be divided, to stand against each other’ By AFPToday, 11:13 am  1 0shares Iranian President Hassan Rouhani at a ceremony commemorating the ‘National Day of Nuclear Technology’ in Tehran, Iran on, April 9, 2019. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP) […]

(5th LD) N. Korea fires short-range projectiles into East Sea

(ATTN: ADDS spy agency’s assessment in paras 11-12, other details) By Oh Seok-min SEOUL, May 4 (Yonhap) — North Korea fired a barrage of unidentified short-range projectiles into the East Sea on Saturday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said, in apparent saber-rattling amid stalled nuclear talks with the United States. The JCS had […]

Around 90 rockets launched into Israel from Gaza; Iron Dome intercepts dozens

Alerts sound in Ashkelon, Ashdod, Gaza periphery; no reports of casualties, though teen lightly hurt running to shelter; Palestinians say 4 wounded by IDF tank fire By TOI STAFF and JACOB MAGIDToday, 8:43 amUpdated at 10:28 am  2 337shares An Israeli army jeep patrols on the Israeli Gaza border on March 25, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90 Around 90 rockets were […]

Iron Dome intercepts rockets fired from Gaza by Hamas, IDF tanks fire back

The IDF reportedly attacked several Hamas posts in Gaza in retaliation to earlier rockets launched. JERUSALEM POST STAFF May 4, 2019 11:24 About 90 rockets were fired from the Gaza strip into Israeli territory as Iron Dome batteries intercepted dozens of rockets fired at Ashkelon and the Gaza border communities on Saturday, according to the […]