Tuesday, 13 February 2024 | Palestinian Authority [PA] chief Mahmoud Abbas traveled to Doha on Monday at the invitation of Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to discuss ways to incorporate Hamas into a PA-led government for Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. Sources told the Saudi-based Asharq News network that Abbas and
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 13 February 2024 | Over 500 homes and buildings have been damaged by Hezbollah rocket fire since October 7. Most homes were hit by shrapnel and debris, causing minor damages, but others took direct hits. Tal Levit, a resident of Metula whose house was damaged by a rocket, told Ynet on Monday about the
Continue Reading »Monday, 12 February 2024 | Israel freed two hostages—Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Har, 70—in an overnight mission in Rafah, according to the Israel Defense Forces [IDF]. The IDF, Israel Security Agency [Shin Bet] and Israel Police worked together to free the two, who are both from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak and in good medical
Continue Reading »Monday, 12 February 2024 | UNRWA [United Nations Relief and Works Agency] Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini responded to the Israel Defense Forces [IDF] discovery of a tunnel under the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza, where a Hamas server farm was found. “UNRWA did not know what is under its headquarters in Gaza,” he wrote in a post
Continue Reading »Monday, 12 February 2024 | Disagreements over the war against Hamas are driving United States President Joe Biden towards a “breach” with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he believes can no longer be “influenced even in private,” the Washington Post reported on Sunday, citing insiders in Washington. Quoting “19 senior administration officials and outside
Continue Reading »Monday, 12 February 2024 | During an operation at one of Hamas’s bases in the northern Gaza Strip, a laptop belonging to a journalist for the Qatari Al Jazeera network, Muhammad Washah, was found to contain photos and intelligence materials linking him to Hamas, Israel Defense Forces [IDF] spokesman in Arabic, Lt. Col. Avichay Adraee,
Continue Reading »Friday, 9 February 2024 | Sirens were heard in the Upper Galilee communities of Dalton, Kerem Ben Zimra and Kadita Thursday night after some 30 rockets were launched into northern Israel in a heavy barrage from Lebanon. All projectiles landed in unpopulated areas, causing no damage or casualties. These settlements are located near Mount Meron,
Continue Reading »Friday, 9 February 2024 | The Shin Bet [Israel’s security agency] released on Thursday footage from the interrogation of a Hamas terrorist who was arrested along with two other terrorists in a tunnel in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. According to the Shin Bet, the interrogated terrorist, who is reportedly a commander in
Continue Reading »Friday, 9 February 2024 | Argentine President Javier Milei toured a hard-hit kibbutz [collective community] near the border with Gaza on Thursday and described the October 7 Hamas massacre as “21st-century Nazism.” The unequivocal remarks by the Argentine leader during a visit to Kibbutz Nir Oz with President Isaac Herzog were the latest signal of
Continue Reading »Friday, 9 February 2024 | In the wake of the ongoing war against Hamas and its exposure of Israel’s near total dependence on the US to replenish its stocks of ammunition, Israel has begun shifting toward greater domestic ammunition production. The Israeli Defense Ministry has begun reaching out to local defense companies to boost production
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