IDF planes on Monday targeted and eliminated another four senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists. The four were eliminated as part of the IDF's efforts to dismantle the Hamas terror infrastructure in Gaza, and to restore calm and quiet to southern Israel, the army said in a statement. The four were eliminated in a
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Cabinet Israel is ready to "significantly expand" its operation against terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza, but United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is pressing for a truce. "The army is prepared to significantly expand the operation," Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. "The soldiers are
The Israeli army on Monday took over programming at a Gaza-based Hamas television station "to broadcast warnings” on the sixth day of Operation Pillar of Defense. Al-Aqsa television, the official station of Gaza's Hamas regime, said in a statement the Israeli army "is interfering with Al-Aqsa TV," with the picture going on and off
The IDF Sunday night bombed a Gaza City soccer field that camouflaged a Hamas underground missile launching site it used to attack Tel Aviv last Friday. Use of the soccer field to attack Israel explains several Hamas claims in the past that Israel has attacked children playing soccer. Covering an underground missile site
Israel has delivered an ultimatum to Hamas through Egypt, according to which the IDF will widen its offensive in Gaza in 36 hours unless Hamas ceases firing rockets and smuggling arms into Gaza, IDF Radio reported Monday morning. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz told the station that the time left before Israel steps up its
“Almost 400 of us, mostly Egyptian activists in AlShifa hospital #Gaza for solidarity rally. We got convoy through Rafah, who would've thought?” tweeted an Egypt-based activist late Sunday as the group begun their visit to the city by visiting a Gaza hospital. A bus convoy transporting members of several Egyptian parties and political movements
The IDF attacked more than 130 targets in Gaza on Sunday, as Operation Pillar of Defense continued. According to statistics released by the IDF, since the operation began last Wednesday, the IDF has attacked 1,110 targets in Gaza. The Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted more than 35 rockets on Sunday, and a total of
Senator Saxby Chambliss, vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and Senator Joe Lieberman, head of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, both expressed support on Sunday for Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense in Gaza. Both men appeared on Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace. “I don't think the Israelis really want a ground
President Mohamed Mursi was absent at the installation ceremony of the new Coptic Pope Tawadros II on Sunday to the dismay of Christians who fear being sidelined in the new Islamist-led Egypt. Pope Tawadros II was installed at Cairo's Abbasiya Cathedral in a ceremony attended by Christian leaders from several countries as well as
Israel has sent a representative to Cairo for mediated talks with Hamas regarding the possibility of a ceasefire – but these talks have failed, according to a Hamas spokesman quoted by Channel 2's Ehud Yaari. Yaari said that Hamas is broadcasting fantastic claims of its alleged military successes against Israel, including the supposed shutting
