As commander of the IDF’s 98th Division, IDF Brig.-Gen. Dan Goldfus effectively commands a full division of commandos. He was entrusted with the role of taking down Hamas’s Khan Yunis brigade – considered the toughest of them all, as it is home to the largest and most byzantine tunnel network in Gaza. In two … Read more
The IDF attacked Hezbollah military sites in southern Lebanon, the IDF reported on Monday. During the operations, fighter jets attacked military sites in the Jibbain region. During the night, another military site was struck in the Taybeh region in Lebanon. Two aerial targets were identified that crossed from Lebanese territory to Israeli territory and … Read more
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh blamed Israel for failing to adhere to its demands for a hostage deal, as the holy month of Ramadan opened Sunday night without the much sought-after pause to the Gaza war. “I tell you very clearly that the one who bears responsibility for not reaching an agreement is the occupation … Read more
Benni Sabti, 52, was born in Tehran seven years before the 1979 Islamic revolution. “I remember it as being very violent; ”the country completely changed and lost its so-called ‘secular’ character – though it was never intrinsically secular to start with,” Sabti told The Jerusalem Post. “It all happened during a very formative phase … Read more
“They were all dead. Their father took them and left me behind,” said Rania Abu Anza, a 29-year-old grieving mother in Gaza. After trying to conceive for 10 years, including three rounds of in vitro fertilisation (IVF), Rania gave birth to twins in October last year. But at just five months old, babies Naeim (male) … Read more
“She knew she would die”, said Ahmad al Ghuferi after his wife, daughters and 103 relatives were killed in an Israeli airstrike on their family home in Gaza City. When Hamas launched its unprecedented attack on Israel last year, which saw around 1,200 civilians killed and more than 240 people captured by the proscribed terror … Read more
Tami Elashvili, who created a methodology for analysing people through facial features, recently declared that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “terribly emotionally and mentally scattered”. While speaking to the Israeli news outlet Maariv, a sister publication to The Jerusalem Post, Elashvili compared two pictures of the prime minister. The images of Netanyahu were taken … Read more
IDF soldiers have been voting in the municipal elections throughout the last week and will reach their peak as the rest of the country goes to vote. Throughout Election Day, around 570 polling stations will be opened in various IDF positions, including conflict zones, with the southernmost station located in Eilat and the northernmost … Read more
According to news reports affiliated with Hezbollah, the terrorist group downed an Israeli Hermes 450 ‘Zik’ drone on Monday using a surface-to-air missile. The IDF said only that a “UAV fell inside Lebanese territory” after two surface-to-air missiles were fired, adding that it was “striking Hezbollah terror targets deep inside Lebanon.” The use of … Read more
Amidst a public debate about the justification for the decades-long blanket exemption from IDF service for haredi men, the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee (FADC) debated on Monday a bill to lengthen the age of exemption for reservists by one year. The bill’s intent is to preserve the current array of reservists at … Read more
