The wartime event that probably most hurt Israel’s efforts during Operation Guardian of the Walls last year was thebombing of the al-Jalaa building, where the Associated Press had its Gaza offices.The IDF said it struck the site because Hamas had equipment in the building that was jamming th...
Had all these measures been taken, the entire event would have turned into a monumental failure for Hamas.Footnote8 How can this be? How could Israel’s top security echelons so callously betray the country’s border communities and the soldiers tasked with their protection, many of whom were...
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...
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 t...
fighting – none go as far as Israel. Islamic terror groups such as Hamas deliberately involve their civilian population by digging tunnels underneath homes, hospitals and schools. They launch rockets from densely populated neighbourhoods and encourage children to violently confront heavily armed soldiers...
“Many people don’t want to go out anymore because rockets are falling. [In this context] Simchat Torah is such a small blip on our radar.” TheMagazinecommented that perhaps this was a taste of how residents of the South, near the Gaza border, have been living for many years. “Yes...
Barak: There are many rockets. Our people have been attacked before. We disagree with Hamas. We do not have a problem with the Gaza Strip. Oglu: Were the dead civilians in Flotilla directing missiles towards you? How can you kill them? Turkey is not any state. Turkey has the strength...
Israel’s Iron Dome system has been in the headlines often since the country began its military offensive in Gaza in response to the October 7 Hamas attacks inside Israel that sparked the current hostilities in the region. The Iron Dome is the bottom layer of Israel’s missile defense, accor...
Crew Dragon, Starliner and NASA’s own Orion capsule — designed to return humans to the moon later this decade — all launch atop rockets rather than being strapped to the side of them. In this new era of rocketry with commercial companies largely leading the way, Hale said the challenge ...