Operation ‘Protective Edge’ Launched
Israel announced the launch of Operation Protective Edge last night against Hamas, in order to stop terror attacks against its citizens.
Israel announced the launch of Operation Protective Edge last night against Hamas, in order to stop terror attacks against its citizens.
In response to over 30 rockets fired on Monday, Israel Air Force destroyed underground rocket launchers, and an underground terror tunnel. Israel also called up 1,500 reservists, in anticipation of an escalation of hostilities.
Israel is taking ‘significant steps’ in preparation for a Gaza campaign, military sources told the Jerusalem Post.
Rioting continued into its fourth day, as clashes between Palestinians and Israeli Police spread from East Jerusalem to Israeli-Arab towns in the West Bank.
Israel and terrorists in the Gaza Strip continued to exchange fire overnight. At least 29 rockets and mortars were fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. Followed by Israel striking and destroying 10 terror related sites including rocket launchers, and a weapons manufacturing site.
As thousands of Palestinians laid to rest an East Jerusalem teenager, chants of “Intifada, Intifada” led to another night of riots that spread throughout Israel to surrounding towns outside of Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Israel and terrorists in Gaza continued to exchange fire overnight as a supposed cease-fire was being brokered by Egypt.
On Friday, Palestinian youth clashed with Israeli Police on the Temple Mount on the first Friday prayers of the month-long fast of Ramadan.
Israel issues sends message to Hamas: calm will be met with calm, however as of Friday morning rockets continued to fall in southern Israel. Over the past month, more than 125 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip, 45 of which have fallen in the past 24 hours.
A recent poll conducted by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy show that a majority of Palestinians say their “national” goal should be “reclaiming all of historic Palestine from the river to the sea.”
Israel struck fifteen terrorist related sites and injured at least ten Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as at least twenty rockets and at least seven mortars were fired into Israel yesterday.
A Palestinian teenager from Beit Hanina, a East Jerusalem neighborhood, was reported kidnapped Tuesday night in a suspected act of revenge for the three Israeli youths found dead on Monday.
Israel carried out targeted and pinpointed strikes against 34 terror targets throughout the Gaza Strip last night, as Hamas warned against waging war saying it would “open the gates of hell.”
If the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) attacked Jordan, officials believe the Jordanians would enlist the support of the United States and Israel, dragging the entire region into a full-blown war.
As negotiations for a nuclear agreement with Iran enters its final stage with a deadline looming just weeks away, Israel sent an emergency high-level delegation to Washington to express its concerns.
Security cameras appear to have captured a pin-pointed Israel Air Force (IAF) assassination of two senior members of a terrorist organization.
Roughly 95 percent of the Syrian side of the Golan Heights is controlled by jihadists associated with the Al-Nursa Front and the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), an IDF commander told Israel’s Channel 10.
The Israel Air Force (IAF) targeted and killed two senior members of a terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip.
Israel released the names of two Hamas members from Hebron whom they believe is directly responsible for the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers.
The Shiite-Sunni sectarian war breaking out in Iraq is threatening a widespread regional war. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) is on the move as it threatens to cut off ‘supply routes to Baghdad.’ ISIS forces are within miles of the Haditha Dam, Iraq’s second largest dam, located on the Euphrates River. Meanwhile, Syria bombed ISIS targets inside of Iraq. The NY Times reported Iran is sending military aid including drones to Iraq. Those are just a few of the headlines we cover in today’s Full Coverage Report.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued Operation Brother’s Keeper in search for the three abducted teenagers Wednesday night with the arrest of ten suspected Palestinians.