Human Rights

Over the course of Operation Protective Edge, the Israel Defense Forces have uncovered dozens of tunnels dug towards Israeli kibbutzim along the Gaza border. Hamas said that the purpose of these tunnels is to abduct Israelis. There have already been several attempts by Hamas terrorists to infiltrate the kibbutzim –...

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Friday The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed titled The Moral Chasm Between Israel and Hamas (Google search terms) by James T. Conway, the retired 34th commandant of the Marine Corps. To illustrate his thesis that “Israel’s military exists to protect its civilian population and seeks to avoid harming noncombatants, while...

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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday that he believes there is only one solution for the “problem” that is Israel: “Israel’s annihilation is the only real cure, but that doesn’t mean destroying Jews in this region,” he said in his speech, which was posted on his website [Persian...

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A mortar shell fired from Gaza landed on a hothouse killing a farm worker from Thailand July 23. The man was rushed to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon by helicopter but he succumbed to his wounds and died within an hour. Yair Farjoun, the head of the Ashkelon Regional Council,...

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Two groups of heavily armed Hamas terrorists were intercepted Monday morning when they emerged from tunnels on the Israeli side of the Gaza-Israel border near two kibbutzim and the town of Sderot. When the heavily armed and camouflaged terrorists were detected, residents in nearby kibbutzim were told to lock themselves...

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In a TV interview, a Hamas spokesman called on Gaza residents to act as human shields. The terror organization also urged Palestinians to ignore Israel Defense Forces warnings of impending aerial strikes. These are just the latest examples in a string of flagrant breaches of international law as reported by The...

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