At the time, Hamas had an arsenal of some 10,000 rockets and many of them were destroyed or used in the war. Iron Dome was now increasingly a key to Israel’s defenses as the volume of rocket fire increased in each conflict. For instance, Hamas fired more rockets in just a few hours...
It did not seem to occur to the security leaders that if Hamas was powerful enough to exact a high human toll from manoeuvring forces, it was also capable of inflicting similar pain on the Israeli homeland. With memories of the ‘al-Aqsa Intifada’s’ daily suicide bombings and shooting ...
The day after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Hezbollah militants rained rocket fire on Israeli towns near the border of Lebanon. What followed was over a year of escalating combat. Israeli air strikes hit parts of Beirut and southern Lebanon. Anti-tank missiles and rockets were fired...
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire since Oct. 8, 2023, when the militant group began launching rockets at Israel in solidarity with its Palestinian ally Hamas. In the wake of the device attacks, Israel has launched a full-on war on Hezbollah, includin...
Sinwar cynicism:Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren also said that the pier project posed a problem and predicted to JI that it was not beyond Hamas to fire rockets at the pier in an attempt to destroy it. Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’ leader in Gaza, “has an interest in hav...
While the insurgents were attacking the festival, Hamas militants were also infiltrating kibbutzim to the north and south. They launched their attack by firing more than 2,000 rockets and were able to disable the Israeli military’s communications and remote-controlled machine guns using drones,...
Many influencers know they're peddling lies, and barely bother to correct themselves. Far-right podcaster Joey Mannarino claimed in a tweet that Ukraine was selling weapons to Hamas. Only after his tweet went viral (it has been viewed more than 7 million times) did Mannarino add an ass-cove...
There was collateral damage, and reports of children and civilians being wounded and killed are coming out. When you launch an operation involving explosives, like Israel did here, that is something that has to be answer for. Still, the cries from Hezbollah, supporters, and sympathizers that ...
As a resident of the North, “during the first several weeks of the war, we really felt the threat of terrorist infiltration,” she told the Magazine. “The first thing we did was to make sure my 96-year-old mother-in-law and my daughter and her children moved to what we considered...
Rockets are fired at Israeli civilians, Israel targets terrorists, civilians in Gaza inevitably get killed, and images of dead children fill social media.Media reporting in the west has descended into farce. Israel and Hamas (or Islamic Jihad) are held up as if they are equals. Somehow Israel...