Three Palestinians were spotted crawling towards the Gaza border fence in the early hours of Friday morning before they threw a pipe bomb at soldiers patrolling the area, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
The Israeli military fired on several Palestinian boats attempting to breach the naval blockade of Gaza on Monday, during a waterborne version of the long-running ‘Great March of Return’ protests.
Jerusalem – An Israeli military official said Tuesday the army had carried out some 200 strikes in Syria over the past 18 months against mainly Iranian targets, a rare confirmation of such action.
Israel has threatened to attack any Iranian military assets in Iraq as it has done in Syria, following reports Tehran has moved ballistic missiles closer to the Jewish state.
TEL AVIV – The IDF on Tuesday razed the home of a Palestinian terrorist who killed an Israeli man in a stabbing attack last month, the Defense Ministry said, adding that rioting Palestinians hurled Molotov cocktails and pipe bombs at soldiers involved in the demolition.
Avi Yemini, a Jewish-Australian IDF veteran, conservative political blogger and political candidate, has been banned from Facebook allegedly for publishing “hate speech.”
A subconscious therapy that was developed in Israel has been used to help Israeli Defense Force (IDF) veterans overcome their post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
TEL AVIV – Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman warned that Israel’s next round of conflict with the Hamas terror group was a “matter of when, not if,” ahead of a meeting between senior defense officials to discuss easing up on restrictions imposed on the Gaza Strip following mortar and rocket fire.
TEL AVIV – Israel could oust the Gaza-ruling Hamas, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Sunday as a report emerged that the terror group’s leaders were in the IDF’s crosshairs.
The military has field-tested a new fighting method combining infantry, tanks and combat engineering into one unified force, as part of a major military reform meant to streamline the Israel Defense Forces, the army said Sunday.
TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned Hamas that Israel will continue to do whatever it needs to combat the terrorism coming from the Gaza Strip and will accept nothing less than a blanket ceasefire, at the
TEL AVIV – Satellite images released on Saturday by an Israeli intelligence firm show the destruction resulting from an alleged Israeli airstrike on an Iranian missile production facility in northwestern Syria last month.
The Israeli navy fired warning shots at a flotilla that set sail from a Gaza Strip port on Saturday in the latest attempt to breach the maritime blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt on the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave.
A large incendiary kite launched from Gaza landed on power lines near Kibbutz Sufa, sparking a quick operation Saturday by employees from the Israeli Electric Corporation to remove the device before a fire was started.
Israeli tanks struck two Hamas posts in the Gaza Strip Friday evening after a grenade was hurled at troops and amid intense violence during mass riots in several locations along the border
The Israeli Air Force on Thursday evening destroyed a building in the northern Gaza Strip, which reportedly served as a headquarters for the Hamas terrorist group, hours after a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave struck just outside the southern city of Beersheba.
TEL AVIV – Following a barrage of more than 180 rockets, the IDF issued directives to residents of southern Israel on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, instructing them to close down summer camps and stay near bomb shelters.
With rockets falling on Sderot and snipers firing from Gaza on civilians, the security cabinet was scheduled to meet Thursday to discuss a possible five-year truce with Hamas.
The Israel Air Force retaliated by striking targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday evening after 19 people were treated for injuries resulting form rocket attacks from Gaza against southern Israel.
A woman was seriously injured early Thursday morning when a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip hit a home in the Eshkol regional council near the Palestinian enclave.
Israel’s air force bombed 12 Hamas positions across the Gaza Strip Wednesday night, the military said, as dozens of rockets and mortar shells were fired at southern Israeli communities from the Palestinian enclave, including one barrage that slammed into the city of Sderot, injuring several Israelis.
The Israel Defense Forces on Wednesday posted footage of Israeli children running for shelter, some of them screaming, as a terror rocket from the Gaza Strip exploded nearby.
TEL AVIV – The Israel Air Force on Tuesday appointed the first female head of a flight squadron.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli military says it has targeted a Hamas military post in northern Gaza after militants opened fire, and Hamas says two of its fighters were killed.
Syria said late Thursday that its air defenses had destroyed an unspecified enemy target during an attempted an airstrike west of Damascus, as residents reported a series of loud explosions around the Syrian capital.
TEL AVIV – The IDF on Tuesday released a video showing Israel’s raid on Syria in May that destroyed more than 50 Iranian targets in the most extensive military strike in the country since 1974.
TEL AVIV – Israel will join an international coalition to thwart any more attempts by Iran to block a key waterway in the region, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned on Wednesday, after Iranian proxies last week launched an attack on two Saudi oil tankers sailing through the narrow strait.
The Israeli military says it targeted and killed seven “armed terror operatives” who had crossed into Israeli territory in the southern Golan Heights.
TEL AVIV – Israel has asked Russia to ensure that Syrian troops refrain from massacring civilians in the south of the country while the Assad regime continues its takeover of the area near Israel’s border from rebel groups, Channel 2 news reported.
TEL AVIV – Israeli authorities on Sunday threatened to expel two Italian artists from the country over a giant mural they painted of recently imprisoned Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi on the security fence in the West Bank.
Self-proclaimed Palestinian “protest icon” Ahed Tamimi vowed to continue fighting the Israeli military in her first public appearance since being released from prison Sunday morning.
TEL AVIV – In an extreme case of life imitating art, footage of a 12-year-old Palestinian who Hamas said was shot dead by IDF snipers on Friday during the Gaza border protests has emerged showing the boy playing a “martyr” killed by the Israeli army.
Israel should insist on a complete Iranian military withdrawal from Syria and must continue to protect and demarcate its borders by countering any enemy aircraft that penetrates the Jewish state’s airspace, argued Breitbart Jerusalem Chief Aaron Klein.
The former head of the IDF’s military intelligence said Thursday that the firing of a pair of missiles from Syria into the Sea of Galilee a day earlier was likely an effort by the Islamic State group to draw Israel into a confrontation with the Syrian regime.
Israel’s military has sent forces to the West Bank after a Palestinian killed one Israeli and wounded two others.
A Palestinian terrorist stabbed three Israeli men after entering the West Bank settlement of Adam, northeast of Jerusalem, on Thursday night, the IDF said.
TEL AVIV – A group of 20 Palestinian children were used as “bait” in an attack from a Palestinian sniper that left one IDF officer moderately wounded, the IDF said late Wednesday night.
Three Palestinian terrorists in Gaza were killed and another critically wounded on Wednesday evening in a retaliatory IDF attack along the border after a sniper opened fire on Israeli soldiers in a latest round of violence that has gripped the region in recent months.
A rocket shot from Gaza was shot down by the Iron Dome anti-missile system early Thursday, the Israel Defense Forces said, as cross-border violence in the volatile region persisted for a second day.
TEL AVIV – The IDF on Wednesday identified Captain Or Na’aman as commanding the Patriot missile which downed a Syrian fighter jet the day before and said she was also the soldier responsible for intercepting a Syrian drone that infiltrated Israeli airspace earlier this month.
