Israel envisions a demilitarized Gaza where Palestinian civilians receive humanitarian aid and supplies, but Hamas is cut off from getting resupplied with materials or money, according to Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. Livni headed the Israeli peace negotiations with the Palestinians, but has been a mainstream supporter of Operation Protective Edge. She presented...
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Two rounds of attacks on the Kerem Shalom crossing Sunday saw rockets and mortars exploded in the goods loading area, forcing Israel to close the border and temporarily halt the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza. An Israeli Defense Ministry statement said: Footage from security cameras showed several shells hitting the ground, exploding with...
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Hamas published a statement on its military website threatening to kill thousands of Israelis and damage Israel’s economy unless their demands were met. The statement mentioned no compromise for an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, but said Hamas wanted to expand the fighting to a ”war of liberation.” Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said: There...
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Reuters reported today that Israel has accepted an extension of the current 72-hour ceasefire, now in middle of its third day, but Hamas has refused any extension, threatening to renew hostilities as soon as the ceasefire expires. According to Reuters: An Israeli official said late on Wednesday that Israel “has expressed...
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The IDF today released an annotated aerial map of the Shuja’iya neighborhood in Gaza City showing all of the terror positions located in this residential area. Two weeks ago, in response to 140 rockets fired from that neighborhood, including from locations adjacent to civilian structures, the IDF warned its residents to leave...
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A Palestinian took an excavator from construction site where he was working and rammed it into a bus this afternoon in Jerusalem. During the attack one man was killed and several more were reported injured. The Times of Israel reports: A tractor driven by a Palestinian man rammed into a bus in...
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Jonathan Kay, an editor at Canada’s National Post and a visiting fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, observed in an article published Friday that compared to previous wars against Palestinian terrorists since 2002, Israel seem less isolated internationally as it conducts Operation Protective Edge to fight Hamas’ terror infrastructure. Kay notes that...
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A statement released by the office of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon blamed Hamas for the kidnapping of Israeli soldier Hadar Goldin. According to the latest reports, two IDF soldiers were killed and one taken captive after the humanitarian ceasefire came into effect. This would constitute a grave violation of...
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The building housing Al-Aqsa TV, Hamas’ broadcasting network, was among the targets in Gaza hit by the IDF on Tuesday. Both Al-Aqsa TV and Hamas, the station’s owner and operator, are designated by the U.S. government as terrorist organizations. The Telegraph reported: An Israeli air strike hit a media building housing Hamas’s...
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Tablet magazine yesterday explained how Israel knows that the leaders of the terrorist group Hamas are headquartered the Shifa hospital in Gaza: It was Israel that build the hospital – including the bunker in the basement that Hamas uses as its headquarters. The Israelis are so sure about the location of the...
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