Rocket shelling

Police sappers were scrambled in the coastal city of Ashkelon on Thursday after a suspected explosive device was found tied to a bunch of balloons. Police called on the public to alert authorities to any suspicious-looking objects and refrain from approaching them. The past week has seen near-daily rocket and…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told municipal leaders in the Gaza area on Wednesday that Israel could launch extensive military operations in the Palestinian enclave before the upcoming Knesset elections if Palestinian terrorists continued launching rockets and airborne explosive devices  at southern Israel. Netanyahu told the council chairmen that while Israel…

Children in Gaza sit on November 16, 2019 in a classroom near a picture of their classmate Mo’ath al-Sawarka, aged 7, one of five children killed in an Israeli airstrike two days earlier. © 2019 Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency (Jerusalem) – Two Israeli airstrikes in Gaza during a flare-up in fighting…

A mother has told of how she used her body to protect her newborn baby as she fell while rushing to a bomb shelter during a rocket attack on Sderot last week. The three-week-old girl was hospitalized with moderate head injuries after the incident on the stairs in the family…

Israeli warplanes hit the Gaza Strip's Islamist rulers Hamas on Saturday after cross-border mortar fire by Palestinian militants, the Israeli army said.Fighter aircraft hit "Hamas terror targets in the northern Gaza Strip", an army statement said."Among the targets were weapon storage facilities and an underground infrastructure used by the Hamas…

Ofir Libstein, head of the Shaar Hanegev Regional CouncilFlash 90 Ofir Libstein, head of the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council located near the border with Gaza, on Friday night demanded that the Israeli government take action to stop the ongoing rocket fire on the south. “It’s Friday night and a fourth…

Israeli aircraft reportedly carried out airstrikes in the Gaza Strip early Friday, hours after three rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave at Israel. Explosions from apparent airstrikes were reported near Khan Younis and Rafah in the southern Gaza …

Iraq and Syria, two Middle Eastern powers where U.S. troops are deployed in active combat zones, have come out against President Donald Trump's Israeli-Palestinian peace plan, further raising questions about Washington's foreign policies at a time of heightened tensions across the region.The political side to Trump's "Vision for Peace, Prosperity…

Israeli airstrike in Gaza (archive)Flash 90 A rocket attack from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on southern Israel was followed by an IDF strike on a Hamas position in Gaza Sunday evening. Reports from the Gaza Strip claim a Hamas position was targeted by an IDF retaliatory strike Sunday night, after…

The leader of the Hamas terror organization, Ismail Haniya, said Sunday that the Middle East peace plan US President Donald Trump is expected to unveil next week "will not pass" and could lead to a surge in Palestinian terrorism. "We firmly declare that the 'deal of the century' will not…