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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition, already under pressure from left-wing protests and U.S. intelligence agencies’ predictions of collapse, faces a new challenge: a fight over a law drafting religious soldiers.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that it had killed 170 terrorists and arrested 480 more during operations at Shifa Hospital over the past week, as Israeli forces surrounded another two hospitals in Gaza.

South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor says citizens who fight on Israel’s behalf in the Gaza war will be arrested.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Friday that Palestinian gunmen had opened fire on civilians in Gaza waiting for aid, and that its troops had nothing to do with what Hamas and anti-Israel media sources had called a “massacre.”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released aerial footage Thursday of a stampede in northern Gaza in which Palestinians mobbed aid trucks, resulting in dozens being killed in the ensuing chaos, as Hamas accused Israel of a “massacre.”

Former Lebanese President Michel Aoun slammed the country’s Hezbollah terrorist organization for its persistent attacks on Israel, stating that “one party cannot make decisions about a conflict like this all by itself,” and noting that Lebanon has no obligation to defend the Gaza-based Palestinians as it has “no treaty with Gaza.”

Hamas has reportedly moved the roughly 134 Israeli hostages it continues to hold from the town of Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, to the Egyptian border town of Rafah, further south.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) entered the Nasser Hospital in Khan Yunis, in southern Gaza, on Thursday in a “precise and limited operation” seeking Hamas terrorists hiding there, as well as the bodies of Israeli hostages that may have been held there.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released footage Tuesday of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader in Gaza, fleeing through underground tunnels, as well as footage of one of his hiding places, where he had abandoned millions of dollars in cash.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned the government of Israel on Tuesday for engaging in self-defense operations in Rafah, Gaza.

The improbable rescue Monday of two Argentinian-Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity in Gaza has sparked speculation about the role of Argentinian president Javier Milei’s visit to Israel just a few days before, in which he prayed repeatedly in Jerusalem.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released footage Monday from a daring overnight raid to rescue two Israeli hostages in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip.

There were tears of joy and tight embraces as freed Israeli hostages Fernando Simon Marman, 61, and Louis Har, 70, reunited with their families after four months in captivity and a daring overnight rescue operation by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released aerial footage Monday of the daring overnight raid into Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, that rescued two Argentinian-Israeli hostages who were abducted by Hamas terrorists from Israel in the October 7 attack.

The Palestinian Hamas terrorist organization issued a statement Monday morning complaining about the overnight rescue of two Israeli hostages by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), claiming that the rescue had caused a “massacre” in the city of Rafah.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Israeli military Friday to prepare a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians from the Gaza town of Rafah, on the Egyptian border, and to attack and destroy the last Hamas battalions there.

Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in front of government buildings Thursday night to demand victory in the war against Hamas, and to urge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reject any hostage deal that allows Hamas to survive.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken tried to meet privately with Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi on Wednesday, without Israel’s elected leaders present, before the meeting was blocked by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday during a visit to Israel Defense Forces (IDF) troops that half of Hamas’s terrorists had been killed or wounded, and that 18 of its 24 battalions had been destroyed thus far.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Monday with the family of Ahmad Abu Latif, a Muslim Bedouin Arab soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) who died last week in an explosion that killed twenty-one soldiers inside the Gaza Strip.

If Hamas survives the current war with Israel, then “they’ve won,” according to retired United States Army Major and urban and subterranean warfare expert John Spencer, who slammed the terror group’s use of “human sacrifice” tactics and warned that if Israel did not completely dismantle the organization then “massive genocidal attacks” and the taking of civilian hostages would be replicated by terrorists across the globe. 

Idan Amedi, 35, who has starred in the Fauda series on Netflix, addressed reporters Thursday after recovering from serious injuries he suffered while on reserve duty with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), and sounded a message of hope and resilience.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that Israeli soldiers had achieved “operational control” in the center of Khan Yunis, the most important Hamas stronghold in the Gaza Strip, where terrorist leaders are thought to be hiding underground.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said early Tuesday local time that ten soldiers had been killed in the central Gaza Strip when Hamas terrorists fired rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at soldiers in buildings that were being prepared for demolition.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed videos and photos Thursday of an underground weapons manufacturing complex that Hamas had built underneath the main humanitarian corridor in the Gaza Strip.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week that Israel cannot defeat Hamas — that there is no “military solution,” and that Israel will have to accept a Palestinian state.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi warned Wednesday that war with Hezbollah in Lebanon is closer than ever before.

Hamas issued a new video on Monday in which it forced an Israeli hostage, Noa Argamani, announced the death of two other hostages who had appeared in another video with Argamani the day before.

Two Palestinian terrorists killed a woman and injured 17 other civilians in a terror attack in the Tel Aviv suburb of Ra’anana on Monday, ramming their car into pedestrians and stabbing others.

Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Shia Muslim terror organization that illegally occupies southern Lebanon, killed two civilians in northern Israel on Sunday when it fired an anti-tank missile at their home.

Soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found a Jewish grave in recent operations in central Gaza in a British cemetery devoted to soldiers that fell during the First World War, and recited the kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, for the soldier.

South Korea’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) on Monday released a photo of a North Korean F-7 rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) that was reportedly used by Hamas terrorists.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed a massive Hamas rocket production facility on Monday that the terrorist group used to build the long-range rockets that it fires at Israeli cities in its efforts to kill civilians and terrify the population.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Monday that it had killed leading Hamas terrorist Hassan Hakashah, who was based in Syria and had allegedly directed rocket fire from Syria toward Israel.

A mob of anti-Israel protesters took over three New York City bridges and Manhattan’s Holland Tunnel, leading to more than 300 arrests.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Sunday that an Al Jazeera journalist and another reporter who were killed in an airstrike in Gaza on Sunday were riding in a vehicle with a Hamas terrorist who was a drone operator.