Image:Hamas lack heavy armour but use a variety of utility vehicles. File pic: AP And while Israel has its formidable Iron Dome air defence system, Hamas has been able to overwhelm it with sheer numbers of rockets like it did in recent days. It uses different versions of the Iranian-made...
WHAT DOES HAMAS WANT? Hamas has always espoused violence as a means to liberate occupied Palestinian territories and has called for the annihilation of Israel. Hamas has carried out suicide bombings and over the years fired tens of thousands of increasingly powerful rockets from Gaza into I...
Almost daily since the Israel-Hamas war began,Hezbollah rocketshave struck Israeli positions, including military posts, in northern Israel. Israel has also hit targets in southern Lebanon, and tens of thousands of people from border communities in both countries have been evacuated. A map shows Isr...
But the current war with Gaza’s militant Hamas group might be its stiffest challenge yet. In just two weeks, Hamas fired 7,000 rockets toward Israel, according to the Israeli military. That is more than any of the previous four wars fought between Israel and Hamas since the militant ...
The fighting is expected to come to a temporary halt: Israeli jets and troops will hold their fire, while militants are expected to refrain from firing rockets at Israel. Hamas said Israel’s warplanes would stop flying over southern Gaza during the four-day truce and for six hours da...
In the footage viewed by Sky News, at least eight missiles were seen to have exploded in the direction of the base. The number of additional rockets visible suggest many more are likely to have impacted. This is a modal window. Video Unavailable ...
Israel, the U.S. and others labelHamas fighters as terrorists. Hamas' recent acts — indiscriminately firing thousands of rockets into Israel, targeting, killing and taking civilians as hostages – are acts of terrorism in warfare and qualify as war crimes. ...
work is to turn the people of the Gaza strip against Hamas which has brought them only suffering. This makes sense to me but it clearly does not make sense to them. If it could work, they would have overthrown the Hamas regime years ago. It can’t be made more clear that Hamas rule...
Israel has a response to Hamas rockets. But not to Hamas TikTok. This is the first TikTok war. And it is apublic relations disaster for Israeland for the Jewish people in general who support Israel. Giovanna Gonzalez of Chicago demonstrates on Capitol Hill following a press conference by TikT...
"With every use of their missile defence systems, they can improve the algorithms, they can improve the operating procedures," he says. TheIron Dome, a system of radar-guided missile launchers, has consistently blocked more than 90% of short-range rockets fired towards Israel. ...