The Obama administration on Tuesday issued a range of statements firmly and repeatedly expressing support for an Israeli campaign aimed at halting weeks of escalating rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, hours after Jerusalem announced that it had launched a series of air strikes as part of what the...

Reuters on Tuesday published remarks by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei regarding Tehran’s nuclear program, with Khamenei insisting that Iran has an “absolute need” to build 190,000 centrifuges, ten times the number of centrifuges the Islamic republic already possesses, and far more than what has been proposed by P5+1...

The IDF blog yesterday highlighted the Hamas tactic of using human shields. Innocent bystanders can be killed as a result of Hamas’ abuse of its own civilians. Instead of keeping its citizens out of harm’s way, Hamas encourages and even forces Gazans to join its violent resistance against Israel. …...

The New York Times reported yesterday on Israel’s policy of warning residents of targeted buildings to leave for their own safety. A Gaza resident, Salah Kaware, told his story. A further warning came as they were leaving, he said in a telephone interview, when an Israeli drone apparently fired a...

Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor has called on the Security Council to condemn the rocket fire from Gaza that threatens Israel’s southern residents. The Jerusalem Post reports: “At this time missile sirens are going off in different parts of Israel and rockets are being fired at Beersheba,...

With Gaza rockets reaching Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and even further north to Hadera, five-million Israelis are now in range of Hamas’ arsenal, the Israel Defense Forces told The Tower on July 9. For a second day, residents of Israel’s largest cities went running for cover as terrorists targeted them during...

As Operation Protective Edge got underway, The Jerusalem Post reported that early in the day Tuesday the IDF had killed “a commander of Hamas’s naval commando unit, Muhammad Sa’aban.” Later, three other Hamas leaders were targeted: Later on Tuesday, the air force struck three homes in Gaza used by Hamas...

Israel will not rule out any military action until there is an end to rocket fire, one of the masterminds behind Israel’s Operation Protective Edge told a conference call organized by The Israel Project on July 8. “(Hamas is) attacking civilians as usual and we are determined to defend ourselves,”...

Nahum Barnea, one of Israel’s best known columnists who writes for the daily Yedioth Ahronot and is often a critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote a column today observing that “Hamas is doing a lot” to provoke Israel into invading Gaza but that it is “facing Benjamin Netanyahu, one of...

The Israel Defense Forces announced late Monday that it had launched Operation Protective Edge against Gaza-based Palestinian military infrastructure, a day after at least 80 rockets slammed into Israel and after multiple Israeli efforts at deescalation – including a last-ditch gesture last Friday – had failed: #IDF has commenced Operation Protective...