Israeli aircraft strike more than 30 Hamas targets

Israeli aircraft have struck more than 30 Hamas targets across Gaza over the last 24 hours, including terror squads, weapons storage facilities, military structures, and other terror infrastructure, the Israel Defence Forces said on Thursday morning. Read more

Netanyahu slams proposed sanctions on Israeli military

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will fight sanctions being imposed on any Israeli military units for alleged rights violations after media reports said Washington was planning such a step. Read more

Israel: ‘We intercepted 99% of the threats’

Providing the first statistics from Iran’s overnight attack, the Israel Defense Forces said on Sunday morning that of the more 320 drones and missiles launched by Iran, 99% were intercepted. Read more

Iron Dome’s naval brother makes its first operational intercept

C-Dome, the naval version of Israel’s better-known Iron Dome defence system, made its first operational intercept on Monday night, shooting down a hostile drone over the Gulf of Aqaba, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Tuesday. Read more

Double amputee joins Israel army, fulfilling dream alongside twin sister

In a moment of unity and determination, Emanuel Olgin, a double amputee with cognitive learning disabilities, realised her lifelong dream of joining the Israel Defence Forces alongside her twin sister, Maayan. Read more

Fallen Israeli soldier’s organs save five patients

The organs of an Israeli soldier killed in Gaza were donated to five different people, the National Transplant Centre said on Tuesday. Read more

Nadav Cohen: 600th IDF soldier to fall since Oct 7

The Israel Defence Forces announced on Monday the death of the 600th soldier to fall since October 7. Read more

Australian aid worker killed: Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade requests a meeting with Israel’s ambassador

Israel’s ambassador to Australia, Amir Maimon, has been requested for a call-in by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade over the death of Zomi Frankcom. Read more

Israel’s Supreme Court orders stop to yeshivah funding for haredim required to enlist in IDF

Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday issued an interim order prohibiting the government from providing stipends to some haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, Jewish men who do not serve in the Israel Defence Forces. Read more

‘Storm over ultra-Orthodox recruitment won’t topple Netanyahu’

The issue of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) army enlistment reached a boiling point this week as the Netanyahu government failed, despite feverish efforts, to draft legislation to address the issue before a High Court-mandated Wednesday deadline. Read more

IDF begins isolating Rafah, orders 40,000 tents

The Israel Defence Forces has begun isolating Rafah in southern Gaza and has started taking steps to evacuate the city’s civilian population, Channel 12 reported on Wednesday. Read more

Hamas is weakening, but the campaign against it will be lengthy

While the Israel Defence Forces is gaining ground against Hamas by the day, destroying it as a military force will take time, according to former IDF officers. Read more

Hamas rejects offer of two-month ceasefire for release of all hostages

Hamas rejected an Israeli proposal for a two-month ceasefire in exchange for the staged release of the 136 remaining hostages being held in the Gaza Strip, a senior Egyptian official told the Associated Press on Tuesday. Read more

Israel: Gaza goals unchanged after 24 troops killed

Twenty-four Israeli soldiers have been killed in Israel’s worst day of losses in Gaza, the military says, as its forces encircled southern Gaza’s main city, Khan Younis. Read more

Israeli barmitzvah boy forgoes party, treats 200 soldiers to dinner

Amichai Jackson, a bar mitzvah boy from the Gush Etzion community of Elazar, decided that in lieu of a party to mark the milestone event, his parents should use the money to treat Israeli soldiers to dinner. Read more

Hamas man wanted to sell IDF soldier’s head for $10,000

A Hamas terrorist admitted to Israeli interrogators that he tried to sell the decapitated head of an IDF soldier for $10,000. That soldier was the son of David Tahar of Jerusalem. Read more

IDF: two journalists killed in Gaza were senior terrorists

The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) said that two people in Gaza who were killed by its forces and alleged to be journalists were, in fact senior ranking terrorists from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Read more

Israeli forces find weapons and inciting games for children

Weapons and games designed to incite children to violence were discovered in a Hamas commander’s home in the outskirts of Khan Yunis as Israeli forces battled a Hamas terror squad holed up in a nearby school, the Israel Defence Forces said on Saturday. Read more

Israeli forces battle Hamas’s Daraj Tuffah Battalion in Gaza City

Israeli ground, aerial and naval forces continued operations across the Gaza Strip as the war against the Hamas terror group entered its 83rd day on Thursday. Read more

Rising from the ruins of a generation of Israeli doctrine

Two underlying assumptions guided Israel’s security establishment for the past generation. The first asserted that with the end of the Cold War, the era of conventional wars had ended. In the present age, brains, rather than brawn, would rule the roost. Read more

Hamas says contact lost with group holding five hostages

Hamas says it has lost contact with a group responsible for five Israeli hostages being held captive in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli bombardment. Read more

Israeli military completes takeover of Gaza’s Shejaiya district

The Israeli military completed its takeover of northern Gaza’s Shejaiya district, dismantling Hamas’s “core capabilities” there, the Israel Defence Forces said on Thursday. Read more

‘What happened is not your fault’: Mother reaches out to soldiers who mistakenly killed her son

Iris Haim has sent a message to the soldiers who mistakenly killed her son in Gaza to know that she doesn’t blame them for the tragedy. Read more

Israel finds tunnels from Hamas leaders’ homes found

Israeli forces have uncovered a network of tunnels running deep beneath central Gaza City from properties registered to Yahya Sinwar and other senior Hamas organisers of the October 7 attacks on Israel, the military says. Read more

South Africa threatens to prosecute citizens fighting for IDF

The South African government has threatened to prosecute citizens fighting for the Israel Defense Forces against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip, according to a Monday report by Agence France Presse. Read more

Wrath of God II: To win, Israel must assassinate Hamas leaders everywhere

Israel’s military achievements against Hamas are impressive. As part of its campaign to destroy the terrorist group, Israel has reportedly struck over 22,000 targets in the Gaza Strip and has killed some 7,000 fighters since the war broke out. Read more

Over 70 armed Palestinian terrorists captured inside Gaza hospital

Israeli soldiers captured more than 70 armed Palestinian terrorists inside a Gaza hospital, the Israel Defence Forces said on Thursday. Read more

Israel confirms nine soldiers killed in Gaza ambush

Ten soldiers were killed fighting in northern Gaza on Tuesday, the Israel Defence Forces confirmed on Wednesday morning. Nine were killed in a coordinated Hamas ambush in Shejaya. Read more

Israelis mobilise to bring the Light of Chanukah to the troops

As Israel enters the third month of its war against Hamas, fundraising efforts to provide Israeli soldiers on the frontlines with the means to celebrate Chanukah have multiplied. Read more

Israeli operations in Gaza continue as Hamas fires from schools, mosque

Israel Defence Forces troops continued to operate deep inside the Gaza Strip on Saturday as fighter jets struck Hamas assets across the Palestinian enclave. Read more

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