In a press conference following the meeting of the G7 in Tokyo, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken lays out what the US envisions for a post-war future in Gaza, urging the Israeli regime not to reoccupy Gaza but admitting there may be a “transition period.” “The only way to en...
Israeli official says Jenin casualties inevitable result of war
"Hamas's strategy is to deliberately deteriorate the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip and increase the number of Palestinian casualties in order to motivate the UN and the Security Council to stop Israel," the ambassador continued.
1 of 7 | Israeli soldier Jonathan Ben Hamou, 22, wounded in the war with Hamas, sits in his room at Sheba hospital’s rehabilitation division, in Ramat Gan, Israel, Monday, Dec. 18, 2023. Ben Hamou was wounded in the Gaza Strip when a rocket-propelled grenade struck the bulldozer ...
The Arab armies showed greater aggressiveness and fighting ability than in the previous wars, and the Israeli forces suffered heavy casualties. The Israeli army, however, reversed many of its early losses and pushed its way into Syrian territory and encircled the Egyptian Third Army by crossing ...
have a protracted history of Israeli navy service. “Unfortunately, among the casualties of war are Bedouin and Druze soldiers, Muslims and Christians, who fell as heroes in the course of the protection of the country,” Abu Latif wrote. Ahmad Abu Latif, a Bedouin Israeli who previously serve...
Avrom Sutzkever was a Yiddish-language poet whose works chronicle his childhood in Siberia, his life in the Vilna (Vilnius) ghetto during World War II, and his escape to join Jewish partisans. After the Holocaust he became a major figure in Yiddish lette
The Persian Gulf war in 1991 presented Israel with its first experience of a threat of chemical attack on the home front. Ground-to-ground missiles were aimed directly at civilian populations, threatening and destruction over a period of several weeks. Uncertainty as to time, place, and nature...
“I am appalled by the increasingly large numbers of Palestinian civilian casualties, including many women and children, from Israeli strikes in Gaza. I also deplore Israeli fatalities from rockets launched from Gaza.” he said....
war proved costly for Israel, Egypt, and Syria, having caused significant casualties and having disabled or destroyed large quantities of military equipment. Furthermore, although Israel had staved off any advance by Egypt to recapture the Sinai Peninsula during the war, it never restored its ...