The Gaza Time Bomb Ticks Faster Than Solutions Can Emerge

by David Hacham A rocket is fired towards Israel, in the southern Gaza Strip February 24, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa. Although the moment may come in which significant military action becomes inevitable to stop armed attacks on Israelis from Gaza, Israeli governments must exercise patience, sound judgement, and a sober assessment of consequences when […]

Israeli fighter jets down drone that took off from Gaza

Drone identified taking off from Gaza and flying, abnormally, westward over the Mediterranean.   Arutz Sheva Staff, 27/02/20 11:48   Israeli Air Force F-35 fighter jet Flash 90 Fighter jets downed a drone that took off from the Gaza Strip on Thursday afternoon and flew, abnormally, westward over the Mediterranean. The incident takes place just […]

10 bouts in Gaza later, Israel not much closer to preventing the next round

The Strip remains a powder keg, with terror groups just waiting for another excuse — like Sunday’s bulldozer incident — to set it off By Judah Ari Gross Today, 1:09 am   Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israel’s military correspondent.   Israel’s two-day battle with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group this week […]

Donald Trump, AIPAC and the Gaza opportunity

Gaza water and energy projects in the “deal of the century” could be implemented immediately, for everyone’s benefit YOSEF I. ABRAMOWITZ / THE MEDIA LINE FEBRUARY 26, 2020 01:33  WASHINGTON, DC—President Donald Trump’s Peace to Prosperity plan for the Palestinians is the most serious attempt to articulate what a final status solution could look like. […]

Rocket falls in Sderot playground, causing damage

‘We will rebuild the playground, it’ll be the most beautiful in the city,’ hesder yeshiva dean promises. Arutz Sheva Staff, 24/02/20  A rocket fired from Gaza on Monday afternoon directly hit a Sderot playground, causing damage. The playground in question is next to Sderot’s hesder yeshiva, and immediately after the rocket hit, a special staff […]

Monitor: Six dead in IDF strikes on Islamic Jihad in Gaza, Syria

Israeli army says sites attacked used for ‘research and development of armaments’ manufactured in Syria and Gaza but also produce dozens of kilograms of rocket fuel each month; Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says at least one of the dead was Syrian, other nationalities unknown; Islamic Jihad: Debt will be settled Daniel Salami, Published: Israeli […]

Bennett: Israel preparing plan to fundamentally change situation in Gaza

IDF on alert following deadly strikes against PIJ in Gaza and Syria; roads, trains closed in the south By ANNA AHRONHEIM FEBRUARY 24, 2020 10:34 Israel is “preparing a plan to fundamentally change the situation in the Gaza Strip” Defense Minister Naftali Bennett said following a night of deadly retaliatory airstrikes against the Palestinian Islamic […]

Israeli Defense Minister Explains Tough Stance as Iron Dome Moved South After Escalation Following Gaza Border Incident

by Benjamin Kerstein Streaks of light are pictured as rockets are launched from the northern Gaza Strip toward Israel, as seen from Sderot, Aug. 8, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Amir Cohen. Tensions along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip erupted on Sunday, with the Israeli Air Force striking the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group after […]

20 Rockets fired into Israeli territory from Gaza

Terrorists launch rockets at Israeli towns in latest escalation on Israel-Gaza border. Iron Dome intercepts 10 rockets. Arutz Sheva Staff, 23/02/20  Terrorists in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip launched 20 rockets at southern Israel Sunday evening, targeting border towns and coastal cities including Sderot and Ashkelon. Shortly after the rocket launches were detected, Israel’s Iron Dome […]

IDF retaliates against two terrorists on Gaza border, two hit

“The State of Israel does not want a war with Hamas in Gaza, but we have a commitment to the security of southern residents,” By ANNA AHRONHEIM FEBRUARY 23, 2020 10:43 An IDF bulldozer prevented Palestinians from retrieving the body of a suspected terrorist who was killed while reportedly placing an improvised explosive device near […]

The massive – but reversible – defeats of Iran and Turkey

With our attention focused on other things – Israel’s elections, the legal fraternity’s aggressive lawfare against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump’s peace plan, to name just a few – profound strategic shifts have upended the strategic balance in the Middle East. Israel’s two most formidable adversaries – Iran and Turkey – both came […]

Naftali Bennett: To stop Gaza terrorism, focus on Iran and Syria

“I will do everything to prevent a third Lebanon war, a 14th Protective Edge, to go to the source, to go to the same people who pay $1b. a year to Hezbollah” TZVI JOFFRE FEBRUARY 20, 2020 19:29 As Israel granted a record number of travel permits to Gaza merchants after weeks of explosive balloons, […]

Hamas said to warn of rockets on Tel Aviv if Israel kills terror group’s leaders

Gaza rulers threaten Israel via mediators, saying they don’t fear conflict, IDF ‘physical action’ in Strip will bring missile volley on Israel’s financial capital — Lebanese media TOI staffToday, 12:16 pm The Hamas terror group has warned Israel against assassinating any of the terror group’s leaders, saying the immediate response would be a rocket barrage […]

IDF: Islamic Jihad snipers fire at troops on Gaza border; none injured

Military says it fired back ‘to remove the threat’; incident comes as Israel and Palestinian terror groups in the Strip negotiate ceasefire By Judah Ari Gross Today, 12:41 pm A sniper team from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group opened fire on a group of Israeli soldiers along the southern Gaza border on Wednesday, causing […]