Tag: PA War against Israel

Resolution risked not having nine out of 15 votes in its favor, minimum required to adopt provided there is no veto by permanent member.

Netanyahu warned Sunday that Israel will not tolerate any aggression from Gaza and is prepared to conduct "devastating action" against their terror groups.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip launched what appeared to be the warhead from a rocket-propelled grenade attached to balloons into southern Israel on Friday.

Jared Kushner, the architect of the US peace plan for the Middle East, on Thursday blamed PA Pres. Abbas for a recent spike in violence in Israel, West Bank

Three Palestinian attacks on Israeli soldiers and police officers took place within 12 hours on Thursday, leaving 14 service members wounded.

Earlier on Thursday, a border police officer was lightly wounded in an attack on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, just hours after 12 Israeli soldiers were rammed by a car.

According to the Police, this was a hit-and-run. The driver escaped from the scene in his vehicle and a large number of officers are scouring the area.

The EU warned that the alliance would not let any Israeli steps aimed at annexing territories "pass unchallenged" in an apparent jab at Trump peace plan.

Soldiers intercepted boat, arrested 2 on board who were moving arms to terror group’s naval operatives in Gaza Strip some 3 months ago, military reports.

On Sunday, an IDF soldier was struck by a Molotov cocktail during clashes between Israeli security forces and Palestinians in Hebron, according to reports.

PA leader Mahmoud Abbas said he's cutting security ties with Israel and the US on Saturday, in reaction to a U.S.-brokered peace plan.

Hundreds of Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers in the West Bank on Friday in protests over US President Donald Trump’s newly released peace plan

At least three projectiles originating from the Gaza Strip were launched into Israel Thursday evening, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed in a statement.

Jared Kushner slams Palestinian factions as 'professionals' in failing to see deals through; showed they were not ready for statehood

Pres. Trump unveiled his “Deal of the Century” peace plan, giving Israel full control of settlements, undivided Jerusalem & an established Palestinian state

Preliminary reports Thursday indicated that the plan would give Israel sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and all the settlements and formalize Israeli control over Jerusalem.

Just days before dozens of world leaders are expected to gather in Jerusalem, a cluster of explosive balloons landed close to the capital. They were dismantled by Israel Police bomb disposal experts.

Nearly 120 US Congress members express support for the anti-Israel organization CAIR; Connections exist between Radical Islamic groups & CAIR, such as Hamas

Police disperse crowd at holy site following Friday morning prayers; Hamas had called for mobilization at Al-Aqsa Mosque against ‘Zionist occupation’.

Popular game show “Jeopardy!” have issued an apology after they were penalized for saying that the Church of the Nativity was located in Israel.

It’s no coincidence that Iran labels its fight against America & Israel as “The Resistance,” & the Democrats have labeled their war on Pres. Trump, as “The Resistance.”

The UK must stop funds for UNRWA unless it agrees to stop anti-Israel and antisemitic incitement in its schools, Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum plans to tell the UK House of Lords on Wednesday.

In 2020 I challenge American Jews to have the chutzpa of our British brothers and sisters to stand up to antisemitism in the Democrat party or abandon it.

Those in American higher education who push for creation of psychological “safe spaces” could learn a thing or two by touring the towns of southern Israel.

Developed by the Israel Police and the IDF, the Light Blade system is the first of its kind in the world to target airborne incendiary devices.

One rocket was fired into Israel and successfully intercepted by the Iron Dome system causing rocket sirens to sound in Ashkelon and areas north of the city on Wednesday evening. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was holding an event in Ashkelon as the rocket sirens went off.

Vox has written a piece about the post-Oslo Accords modern history of the city of Bethlehem that is, in the words of one venerable pro-Israel Twitter user, “inexcusably dishonest.” And it is.

Jewish leaders denounced the International Criminal Court over its announcement that it will investigate Israel for so-called war crimes in the Palestinian territories.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday evening lambasted a decision by the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor to proceed with an investigation into war crimes allegedly committed in the Palestinian territories.

The BDS movement was funded by terrorists, and it is being led by terrorists across the world. There must be a wide recognition of these connections, and countries must wake up to that fact and take action,” Yifa Segal, director of the International Legal Forum told JNS.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement on Saturday that the United States did not believe Palestinians qualified as a sovereign state, meaning that the recent ICC decision to open an investigation into alleged Israeli war crimes against them is unfounded.

For the second time in a month, Canada has voted to back Palestinian self-determination at the UN, the CBC reports.

Several nonprofits have urged Canada to stand with Israel at the United Nations on Wednesday when the General Assembly votes on a resolution in favor of Palestinian self-determination.

Reports indicate that Turkey has been allowing Hamas to plan terror attacks against Israel from Istanbul; These attacks include many failed attempts to assassinate Israeli officials; Erdogan: 'We will keep on supporting our brothers in Palestine.'

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett is working to escalate Israel’s steps against Iranian forces in Syria with the aim of persuading the Islamic Republic to withdraw its forces from the war-torn country in the near future.

Iron Dome intercepts two of three rockets fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip on Saturday night; Israeli Defense Force (IDF) carries out retaliatory strikes on Hamas targets.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met Wednesday with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Lisbon. At the start of the meeting, Netanyahu told Pompeo, "The first subject that I will raise is Iran. The second subject is Iran, and so is the third. And many more."

Over 1,500 rockets and mortars have been fired towards Israel over the past year from the Hamas-run Gaza Strip and over two dozen fired from Syria, a significant increase in the past four years.

Watching events unfold in Israel is an experience in split-screen living. On the right side of the screen is the chaos outside our gates, in neighboring lands. And on the left side of the screen is the chaos inside.

Rocket sirens wailed in Israeli communities near the Gaza Strip Friday night, with the army saying a rocket launched from the Palestinian territory exploded in an open field in Israeli territory.

Students at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, set up a memorial in memory of slain terrorists in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli strikes; The memorial mentions the former leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Bahaa Abu al-Atta; The group is blaming the ‘Zionist Settler Colonialism”.

Bolivia said Thursday it is restoring diplomatic relations with Israel, which it severed in 2009 under then president Evo Morales over Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip.

“Go back to the ovens, go back to Europe!” - That was what Shar Leyb and two Jewish community members heard in Vari Hall. This ugly remark was one of many that marked an evening of hate and violence at an event that was meant to promote dialogue and understanding between Israelis and Canadians.

106 congressional Democrats, including 12 committee chairs, condemn State Dept. declaration that Israeli settlements are legal.

The Dutch government has cut funding for the Palestinian Authority over its salaries to terrorists serving time in Israeli jails. The aid ministry announced the move Wednesday during annual budget talks.

The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem issued a travel warning for visiting Americans in the aftermath of the U.S. announcement that the government does not consider the establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank as illegal.

At 'emergency conference,' Israeli PM warns Tehran would 'celebrate' a Blue and White minority gov't.

The UN gave its preliminary approval to a resolution that referred to the Temple Mount solely by its Muslim name of Haram al-Sharif.

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and Hamas sort out their differences amid their common enemy, Israel; the PIJ attacked a notable Hamas representative earlier this week; PIJ has criticized Hamas for not playing a bigger role in the attacks on Israel; al-Batsh: We share the same destiny and enemy.

SOURCE: (Jerusalem Post) Israel may have provoked this round of rocket fire from Gaza through the targeting of at least one senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander. Jerusalem...

Resolution passes 170-2, with only Israel and US opposing it; one of 8 measures concerning Israel passed by body, with no actions against any other country

The Gaza border communities' regional councils announced on Friday a full return to routine and the removal of all restrictions. The announcement came after, at...

The IDF reinforced its troops and prepared for multiple possible situations. Shelters in Ashkelon were opened and school was canceled as a "severe security event." Ashdod is in a state of emergency.

Al-Ata’s assassination, the defense minister said, should send a “clear message to all of our enemies: Whoever plans to hurt us during the day, cannot be sure that he will make it through the night.”

The Israel Defense Forces killed a senior commander of the Islamic Jihad terror group responsible for the firing dozens of rockets out of the Gaza Strip, authorities said early Tuesday.

Two days after terrorists in Gaza fired rockets into Israel, the European Union on Sunday evening condemned the launching of projectiles against civilians as “unacceptable,” saying the practice “must stop immediately and unconditionally.”

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) will continue to strike its enemies wherever they may be, including through covert missions, after violence flared up Saturday in the Gaza Strip.

A photo of a five-year-old girl from Sderot cowering on the floor of her home as rockets rained down on her community went viral over the weekend, signifying to many the lasting trauma that years of repeated rocket barrages have done to innocents living near the border.

The senator from Massachusetts, who has caught up in polling with front-runners for the Democratic presidential nomination, now faces intensified scrutiny as a newly viable contender. And what has emerged is that Warren is vague about how she would pressure Israel if she perceives it to be acting contrary to US interests.

Members of the antisemitic National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) movement are continuing to influence campuses in America; Columbia University & Harvard are two of the notable schools; Sharansky: All those who value both justice and academic freedom should be resistant to it.

The IDF on Friday destroyed a number of Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip less than an hour after a salvo of projectiles were fired at Israel from the coastal enclave, according to Hebrew media reports.

An IDF tank and aircraft struck two military posts belonging the Hamas terrorist organization in the northern Gaza Strip as a response to rocket fire from Gaza on Thursday evening, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said in a press release.

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Monday that part of the $3.8 billion in annual US military assistance to Israel should instead go toward humanitarian relief in Gaza.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday said Iran was emboldened by the lack of a response to a series of attacks in the Middle East attributed to the Islamic Republic.

US presidential adviser Jared Kushner urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz in separate meetings to work together to form a unity government in order to seize the “tremendous opportunities” in the region, he said in an interview that aired Tuesday.