This photo released on April 24, 2024 shows Israeli soldiers in a military training in Israel. Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces Herzi Halevi informed Israel's wartime cabinet on Thursday that the army had completed preparations for a ground attack on Rafah, Gaza's sout...
Meanwhile, Israel Defense Forces announced in a statement on Thursday that Israeli soldiers have launched military operations in these areas.■ People are seen near Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on April 11, 2024. Israeli forces have conducted intensive bombardments in the vicinity of...
A unit of Golani, an infantry brigade that uses Namer armored personnel carriers, was inside Gaza fighting terrorists. “We were up in the air and collecting intelligence and keeping them [the soldiers] safe and watching them, and then all of a sudden we saw them being targeted by anti-tan...
The Israel Defense Forces said five of its soldiers, all between 20 and 22 years old, were killed byIsraeli tank firein northern Gaza on Wednesday evening. An initial internal investigation found that two tanks fired at a building in the Jabalia refugee camp where the soldiers had gathered. T...
"Hamas has had 15 years to prepare a dense 'defense in depth' that integrates subterranean, ground-level and above-ground fortifications," said Michael Knights of the Washington Institute think tank. Speaking to Qatar-based Al Jazeera media network, Yousri al-Ghoul, ...
It took a unit of 14 Israeli soldiers storming her apartment to force her out. They ordered al-Haddad, her husband and his elderly parents — one half-blind and the other in a wheelchair — their two teenage sons and seven other family members to leave in the middle of the night o...
The infection was spread using a catfishing campaign. Members of Hamas made attractive female profiles on social media and used them to talk to Israeli soldiers. They’d claim to be immigrants to the region, which allowed them to use basic Hebrew without raising suspicion. They’d also only ...
It claimed that the Israeli army prevented ambulance and civil defense crews from reaching those struck by fresh attacks, some of whom were still under the rubble. Israel has been launching a large-scale offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the ...
The call with Blinken came after Israeli media reported that the U.S. State Department might sanction the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)'s Netzah Yehuda battalion, accused of human rights violations in the West Bank. Gantz told Blinken that the move would "harm Israel's legitimacy in time of...
In a written statement to CNN responding to the claims, an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson said: “The IDF operates according to the law and within the framework of the law when it comes to the treatment of detainees. Every procedure is documented and supervised, and is done with...