Israel-Palestinian Conflict

Israel came closer Wednesday to an all-out war with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah group, which it views as a terrorist organization backed by Iran, as hostilities escalated.

A young German Evangelical Christian has been killed fighting Hamas in Gaza as a volunteer combat soldier with the Israeli Defense Forces, the Jerusalem Post reports. A member of the Maglan Special Forces unit of the IDF’s Nahal Brigade, 20 year-old Sgt.-Maj. Urija Bayer died on Sunday after being critically wounded in the southern Gaza Strip on December 14.

The Syrian defense ministry, in a statement relayed by state media, reported that Israeli air strikes targeting areas near Damascus resulted in injuries to two Syrian soldiers on Sunday.

Israel’s military has confirmed an “incident” at the last Catholic Church in Gaza after accusations from the Vatican that troops shot and killed two Christian women in what Pope Francis called an act of terrorism.

Lebanon-based Hezbollah, condemned as a terrorist organization by Israel, has claimed responsibility for killing an Israeli reservist soldier and injuring two others, one seriously.

Three Israeli hostages killed mistakenly in Gaza by Israeli forces had been holding up a white flag, according to an initial inquiry into the incident, the military said Saturday.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will “go to the end, to victory” despite “international pressures” to halt the military operation and a mounting death toll among Israeli troops.

Before the outbreak of war on October 7, the Biden administration had plans to establish a two-state solution. These steps were intended to facilitate the establishment of a Palestinian state, a key element in the potential agreement for the normalization of relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

As heavy fighting continues in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that ten of its soldiers died in battle, including two senior commanders. Since the ground incursion into Gaza, the death toll has risen to 115.

Israel’s military has started the process of flooding Hamas’ tunnel network in Gaza with seawater to destroy the massive underground infrastructure the terrorist organization uses to wage war against Israel, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported.

Israel came under more world pressure Wednesday after the United Nations General Assembly and even its ally, the United States, criticized the Jewish nation’s military operations against Hamas in Gaza.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed opposition to the United States’ proposals to install a reformed Palestinian Authority in Gaza following the completion of Israel’s military operation to remove Hamas from the Strip.

Israel has made clear it is preparing for war against the Iran-backed Hezbollah group after its military operations against Hamas in Gaza have ended.

Israel’s prime minister has condemned Russia’s close cooperation with Iran, which publicly seeks the destruction of Israel, and Moscow’s refusal so far to condemn the Hamas massacres in the Jewish nation.

Intense fighting continued in and around Khan Younis, a key Hamas stronghold in Southern Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) disclosed that an additional seven soldiers had been killed, bringing the total IDF fatalities in the Gaza offensive to 104.

Alleged overnight airstrikes carried out by the Israeli military near Damascus resulted in the deaths of two Hezbollah fighters and two Syrians, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. This incident adds to a series of such attacks occurring amid Israel’s ongoing conflict with Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced that they had conducted airstrikes on over 450 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past day as ground operations intensified.

Israel’s political establishment has plunged into mourning after the son of the country’s former army chief, Gadi Eisenkot, a minister in the country’s war cabinet, was killed in Gaza.

Clashes broke out late Thursday in Jerusalem, where Israeli police rushed to stop a march demanding Jewish control over the entire ancient city.