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TEL AVIV – Three children — a year-and-a-half, three-years-old and twelve-year-old — were among the seven injured in Monday morning’s rocket attack on a residential building in central Israel which saw the building leveled. 

Israel’s army accused Hamas of firing a rocket that hit a house north of Tel Aviv on Monday, wounding seven people, and announced it was sending reinforcements to the Gaza area.

All of Israel is within range of Hezbollah’s missiles, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Maj.-Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari said in an interview with Iranian media on Sunday.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian teenage girl who tried to sneak a knife into the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the West Bank city of Hebron on Sunday was detained by security forces, police said.

Two suspicious packages attached to balloons, at least one of of which was reportedly an explosive device, were found Monday at different locations in a southern community near the Gaza Strip.

TEL AVIV – Senator Lindsey Graham, on a visit to Israel’s north with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said Israel must keep the Golan Heights or face a “strategic nightmare,” and vowed that he would work to get U.S. recognition of the area as part of sovereign Israel.

TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump reportedly told a room full of Republican donors on Friday night that he would gain 98% of the vote if he ran in the upcoming elections in Israel.

TEL AVIV – In a first, the U.S. military deployed THAAD, its most advanced missile defense system, in Israel as part of a drill with the IDF. 

The government will do everything it can to expedite the demolition of the homes of the terrorists responsible for the ramming attack on IDF soldiers early Monday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of a meeting with the prime minister of Samoa.

Two Israeli soldiers were wounded in a predawn car-ramming attack in the northern West Bank on Monday, one of them seriously, the army said. The force opened fire on the three occupants of the vehicle, killing two and wounding the third.

Israeli aircraft have struck two Hamas observation points in the Gaza Strip, a security source said Sunday, after the army reported balloons carrying an “explosive device” were sent toward Israel.

TEL AVIV – The IDF on Tuesday concluded a major spontaneous drill simulating a future war against Gaza-based terror groups. 

TEL AVIV – European nations must follow the U.S. and cancel the nuclear agreement with Iran which seeks to conquer Europe as part of its hegemonic project, Syrian opposition activist Issam Zeitoun told Breitbart News.

TEL AVIV – The Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group on Sunday boasted that it possessed a new missile that can reach further than Tel Aviv, and turn Israeli cities into “hell.”

TEL AVIV – Israel is too lenient with the Palestinians and should have cut funds to the Palestinian Authority a long time ago, Syrian opposition activist Issam Zeitoun told Breitbart News.

Security forces were gearing up Friday morning for anticipated violence ahead of Friday prayers at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount as police announced 60 people were arrested overnight on suspicion of planning violence.

Iran’s foreign minister accused Israel of “adventurism” with its campaign of airstrikes against Iranian targets in Syria, and said he could not rule out the possibility that they could lead to a war between the Mideast arch-foes.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secretly met with Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita in New York last September during the UN General Assembly, Israel’s Channel 13 news reported.

Nabil Abu Rudeina, spokesman for Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, warned that Israel’s decision to deduct funds by withholding tax fees will have consequences, in a statement on Sunday night.

The IDF and the US European Command (USEUCOM) held a joint exercise, codenamed Juniper Falcon, that concluded Thursday. The two militaries examined a scenario in which an attack by Israel on Iranian interests in Syria or Lebanon elicits an Iranian retaliatory missile strike with the US coming to Israel’s’ aid.

The Hamas terror group may seek to spark a war with Israel in the near future in an attempt to elicit international sympathy and an influx of international aid money to the Gaza Strip, which it controls, according to an Israeli Military Intelligence assessment released Wednesday.

JERUSALEM – Two days after the violent murder of an Israeli teen by a Palestinian terrorist, official Palestinian Authority TV broadcast a song celebrating the grief caused to mourning families of victims of terror. 

TEL AVIV – A group of Palestinian peace activists paid a condolence call to the family of an Israeli teen brutally raped and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday confirmed that Israel had carried out a military strike in the Syrian Golan Heights the night before, further breaking from Israel’s previous policy of ambiguity around its activities against Iran in Syria.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian man who confessed to the brutal murder of an Israeli teen told interrogators that he had purposely entered Israel to find a Jewish victim to kill because he wanted to be a martyr, Channel 13 news reported Monday.

TEL AVIV – The Shin Bet security agency has deemed the violent rape and murder of a 19-year-old Israeli by a Palestinian to be a terror attack.

The Times of Israel reports: The Israeli Navy arrested a Palestinian man who attempted to swim into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Sunday night, the military said. The man was spotted as he approached the Strip’s northern maritime border and

TEL AVIV – The IDF on Sunday began preparations for the demolition of the home of a Palestinian man who confessed to brutally murdering a 19-year-old Israeli woman in Jerusalem last week, suggesting that security forces believe that the murder constituted an act of terror. 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to begin cutting funds to the Palestinian Authority over its payments to convicted terrorists and their families.

TEL AVIV – Iran has mounted precision-guided warheads on its most advanced, longest-range missiles, the regime-affiliated Fars news agency reported Sunday.

Iran controls the new Lebanese government via its proxy Hezbollah group, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, in his first public comments on the government formed in Beirut last week.

TEL AVIV – In a damning report released Sunday, Israel’s Strategic Affairs Ministry said that there are more than 100 links between terrorist organizations Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and NGOs promoting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel, some of which are the recipients of millions of euros in funding from European states and philanthropic funds.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that despite the upcoming elections, Israel will not hesitate to act against Hamas in Gaza and added that construction of a new barrier along the border with the Gaza Strip had begun.

Iran warned Israel on Tuesday that Islamic terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah are ready to unleash an “inferno” against the Jewish state.

TEL AVIV – Former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot denied Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s claim about the existence of additional cross-border tunnels that the army doesn’t know about. 

TEL AVIV – The deputy head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps on Monday said that if Israel attacks Iran, it would respond by wiping Israel off the map.