Israel orders ’complete siege’ on Gaza Strip

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has ordered a “complete siege” of the Gaza Strip as the Israel Defence Forces prepare for a major offensive in response to Hamas’s deadly surprise attack on Oct. 7, the Defence Ministry said on Monday. Read more

Israel says forces have retaken control of Gaza border region

Israeli forces have regained control of all the communities near the Gaza Strip, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Monday morning after two days of combat with Hamas terrorists. Read more

Arab world gave Israel a green light to hit Hamas, analysts say

Horrified international reactions to Hamas’s terror attacks may have given Israel a green light to deliver an especially harsh blow to the Gaza terror groups, experts told the Tazpit Press Service on Sunday. Read more

Race to confirm welfare of Australians in war zone

Australia does not need to increase security after an “abhorrent” attack by Islamist group Hamas on Israel as the government works to determine if any citizens have been caught up in the conflict, the prime minister says. Read more

Hamas to restart weekly Gaza border riots

Hamas has decided to restart the “Great March of Return” at the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel. Read more

King Abdullah & Abbas reject Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Jordan’s King Abdullah and PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas have broken their 15 months long silence by finally rejecting the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution – first published in Saudi Arabia on 8 June 2022 – that shredded the failed two-state solution pursued by Saudi Arabia and the Arab League since 2002 (Arab Peace Initiative). Read more

Hamas releases pics of fallen IDF soldier’s rifle nine years after his death

Hamas has released photos purportedly showing the rifle of IDF Lt. Hadar Goldin, who was killed in the Gaza Strip nine years ago today, i24NEWS reported on Tuesday. Read more

Thousands protest against Hamas in rare Gaza demos

Several thousand people have briefly taken to the streets across the Gaza Strip to protest chronic power outages and difficult living conditions, providing a rare public show of discontent with the territory’s Hamas government. Read more

Not when it’s against the Jews

I believe in judging people for their actions, which is why I am so appalled that the New Zealand government would fund an organisation that teaches children to glorify terror and employs staff who incite violence and praise Hitler on social media. Read more

Over 3,600 terror attacks in first half of 2023

The escalation in Palestinian terrorism that started over a year ago shows no signs of abating, data from Rescuers Without Borders (Hatzalah Judea and Samaria) published on Tuesday indicates. Read more

Israel strikes Gaza after overnight rocket fire

Israel struck two Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip early in Wednesday morning in retaliation for overnight rocket fire. Read more

IDF seeks to shatter Jenin’s role as terror safe haven

The extensive Israel Defence Forces operation focused on Jenin is designed to reverse the trend in which this Palestinian city and parts of Samaria became a safe haven for, and hornet’s nest of, terrorism. Read more

Israel hits Gaza as Netanyahu vows enemies will pay

Israeli jets have hit sites in Lebanon and Gaza in retaliation for rocket attacks it blames on the Islamist group Hamas as tensions following police raids on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem this week threaten to spiral out of control.
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Iraqi Islamic council sets out case for fatwa against Hamas

A clerical body in Iraq that recently issued a groundbreaking fatwa—a legal ruling on a point of Islamic law—against Hamas for oppressing the Palestinians in Gaza, on Thursday released a stinging indictment of the Islamist terrorist organisation detailing its decision. Read more

Secret talks paving way for Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

The bombshell revelation that senior aides of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have been holding secret talks for almost two months further confirms the Palestine Liberation Organisation’s (PLO) acceptance of the Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution (Saudi Solution) as the basis for negotiating an end to 100 years of conflict between Arabs and Jews. Read more

Israel strikes Hamas targets after Gaza rocket fire

Israel launched retaliatory air strikes on Gaza on Thursday morning after terror groups fired rockets. Read more

Egypt wants West Bank violence quelled ahead of Ramadan

Egypt has stepped up mediation between Israel and the Palestinians in a bid to tamp down violence in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank and prevent its spread to the Gaza Strip ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Read more

Abdullah & Bibi keep moving on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Jordan’s King Abdullah and Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu continue their march forward to implementing the Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine Solution (Saudi Solution). Read more

Palestinians fire rockets, Israel aircraft hit Gaza

Israeli aircraft have struck in Gaza in response to Palestinian rocket fire, days after the United States called for calm, but there was no immediate sign of a wider escalation in violence following days of tension. Read more

UNRWA denounces tunnel discovered under Gaza school

The UN agency responsible for supporting Palestinian refugees announced that it discovered a tunnel underneath one of its schools in Gaza. Read more

Israel grants another 1,500 work permits to Gazan Arabs

Israel has decided to expand the quota of workers coming to work in the country from the Gaza Strip by an additional 1,500. Read more

Gaza-area closures enter third day as Israel prepares for possible conflict

Roads around the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip remained closed on Thursday for the third straight day amid concerns of possible retaliation for the arrest in Jenin on Monday of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) figure. Read more

Israel fortifying kindergartens in vicinity of Gaza Strip

The Ministry of Defence’s Engineering and Construction Division, in cooperation with IDF’s Home Front Command, has commenced work to fortify kindergartens in the Gaza Strip area against rocket and mortar attacks. Read more

Israel fires at Hamas target after attack

Israel has fired on a target in the Gaza Strip, in response to a rocket attack, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says. Read more

Gaza terror organisations to respond to IDF’s operation in Jenin

The Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper reported Sunday that sources in the Gaza Strip say that Egypt and Qatar are acting as mediators and have stepped up efforts to obtain calm, especially in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, following the operation in Jenin in which three Islamic Jihad operatives were eliminated by Israeli Special Forces as they were on their way to carry out a terror attack. Read more

Mahmoud Abbas plays Benny Gantz for a fool

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz must have known that hosting Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at his home in Rosh Ha’ayin would arouse the ire of the right. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have cloaked the outcome of his tête-à-tête last Tuesday night with the octogenarian honcho in Ramallah in typically euphemistic language. Read more

‘Important interest for Israel’: FM Lapid meets with Egypt’s president El-Sisi in Cairo

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi hosted Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid on Thursday at the Al-Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo for what was described by the Lapid’s office as “a long and warm meeting.” Read more

After more than three years of construction, Israel completes smart border barrier around Gaza Strip

Israel officially completed the construction of the “smart” barrier fence around the Gaza Strip, its defence line from attacks by terror groups above ground and terror tunnels running into the country below ground. Read more

Egypt’s proposal infuriates Hamas: economic rehabilitation in exchange for long term truce

A Palestinian source has told TPS that Egyptian intelligence had recently offered the Hamas leadership to open economic horizons for it in Egypt and pursue a very generous passage policy at the border crossings, in exchange for a long term ceasefire with Israel, but Hamas sees this as interfering in its internal affairs and as an Egyptian bargaining chip. Read more

‘A Ticket to Freedom’: Gaza’s rush for work permits in Israel

Hundreds of residents of the Gaza Strip lined up on Wednesday night near the Central District Chamber of Commerce building in the Gaza Strip to be the first in line to receive 2,500 permits for work and trade with Israel, after 4,500 lucky Gazans have already managed to obtain permits and left for Israel. Read more

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