Subscribe to The Jerusalem Post Newsletter Subscribe Now On January 20, IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi had said “alongside enhanced defensive preparations in the Gaza Strip, we must be ready for significant counterterrorism operations in Judea and Samaria in the coming days to preempt and appreh...
One advantage Jerusalem had this time is that it is clear Israel didn’t actually bomb the building with children inside in Jabalya, and there were images and videos backing up the denial. That is an easier story to tell than “we did it, but here’s why it wasn’t bad.” “Past e...
Hamas is an enemy that is well known. Israel has been fighting Hamas for decades. During the Second Intifada, the group began to increase its abilities, using rocket and mortar fire to terrorize civilian communities in Gaza and on the border of Gaza. After the disengagement of 2005, Hamas b...
Fadi had been in touch with the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem to help get his parents out of Gaza. He was told the U.S. would try to get them permission to leave Gaza through the Rafah crossing in the south, but could not help them travel through the war zone to get there. Fadi ...
“This is the system that Israelis have: Inhuman. Unfair. No due process,” he said. In the Oct. 7 attack, thousands of Palestinianscrossed the border from Gazainto Israel, breaking down the country’s defenses and rampaging through sleepy communities. They kill...
Jerusalem A couple of months ago in Gaza, I found myself sitting across a table from a young...Wood, Paul
Another application making rounds is called “MapIt” which allegedlyallowssoldiers to mark their live targets on a collaborative map. The Jerusalem Post, however, doeswriteabout a “waze-like” GPS being used by the Israeli army as a secret weapon in Gaza. ...
I will say it again, a capital in east Jerusalem and two of the four quadrants of the Old City of Jerusalem, confirmed by the Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and his cabinet, and they said, “No.” I think part of it is that Hamas did not care about a homeland for the Palestinian...
IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, March 20, 2024. (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT) The economic cost caused by the extended service for women is NIS 32,000 per person per month for women in reserves, and NIS 21,000 per person per month for women in regular service, according to...
Ariel Muzicant, president of the European Jewish Congress, told The Jerusalem Post regarding the comparisons between the Holocaust, Srebrenica, and the situation in Gaza: “Not only does it belittle the memory of the Shoah, the mass industrialized premeditated slaughter of six million Jews, it als...