Targeted Killings

The 48-hour battle between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group last week, dubbed Operation Black Belt, stuck to a well-worn script: An inciting incident — in this case, the elimination of Islamic Jihad terror leader Baha Abu al-Ata by Israel…

Gaza Palestinian rockets, Israeli airstrikes jolt tenuous Gaza truceJERUSALEM (Reuters) 15 Nov by Nidal al-Mughrabi & Ari Rabinovitch — Palestinian militants fired two rockets deep into southern Israel from Gaza on Saturday, and the Israeli military resp…

Ending a surge of fighting in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel, a cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian groups was reached Thursday morning, some 48 hours since the targeted assassination of top Islamic Jihad leader Baha Abu al-Ata, who was killed with …

Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad reportedly agreed to a cease-fire on Thursday morning, putting a tentative end to two days of hostilities that killed at least 34 Palestinians.  skip - Haaretz Weekly 12/11Gaza factions launched massive rocket barrages …

Gaza factions launched massive rocket barrages at Israel for the second straight day Wednesday, a day after Israel assassinated a top Islamic Jihad commander, Baha Abu al-Ata. At around 11:15 P.M. a massive barrage of rockets reached as far north as Rehovot …

In a surprise attack today, the Israeli air force assassinated Bahaa Abu Al-Ata, an Islamic Jihad military official in northern Gaza. Israel accused him of firing rockets. Al-Atas wife was also killed in the attack. The killings have prompted Palestinian resi…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to kill Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror chief Baha Abu al-Ata after a rocket forced the premier off stage at an election rally a week before the September 17 Knesset vote, multiple Hebrew-language media outlets report…

The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday afternoon launched a campaign of retaliatory airstrikes against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the Gaza Strip following approximately six hours of rocket attacks on central and southern Israel from the encla…

The Israel Defense Forces on Tuesday ordered schools and non-essential businesses closed in southern and central Israel, including the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, as terror groups in the Gaza Strip began firing rockets at cities and towns throughout the count…

Once again, Israeli politicians and former generals are calling for a “major military operation” in Gaza to beat Hamas to the ground, to chop off the heads of the snake, to mow the lawn of terrorism, to round up the weapons, to rebuild deterrence. Some of the…