Gaza Region

What would G-d want for post-war Gaza?

Why would a logical person ever want to give what is precious to him and was given to him by G-d over to someone who wants him murdered?

Report:

Soldiers not permitted to open fire on Gaza border

IDF's rules of engagement do not make it possible to enforce new security zone that was announced at the beginning of the war.

Bennett on Al Arabiya:

'We destroy terrorist bases threatening our people'

Former Prime Minister when asked why Israel exposes Gazan civilians to its strikes: When someone fires upon your family and hides in a house, that home becomes a terrorist base.

Pelosi condemned by Muslims for Gaza ceasefire claim

US Muslim group condemns Pelosi for saying Gaza ceasefire protests have Russia link; Pelosi: "Some of these protesters are spontaneous, and organic, and sincere. Some I think are connected to Russia, their “financing should be investigated."

Minister of Defense:

Terrorists surrender and give sensitive information

Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant spoke to reserve soldiers in the 11th Brigade: 'We will not end this war with points; only with a knockout'

Watch:

Combat and rescuing injured soldiers under fire

'Throw another grenade, be ready for rescue': the combat team of a paratrooper patrol unit encountered terrorists, and rescued soldiers and wounded under fire.

Reservist suspended for protest using IDF vehicles

A reservist has been suspended from duty for half a year for displaying protest signs on IDF vehicles leaving Gaza.

UN Humanitarian Chief:

'Now is not the time to let the people of Gaza down'

UN Humanitarian Chief Martin Griffiths urges countries to reconsider their decision to cut funding to UNRWA.

Report:

Deal that would halt Gaza war for two months close

New York Times report: American-led negotiators are edging closer to an agreement in which Israel would suspend Gaza war for about two months in exchange for release of hostages.

Two children cross into Gaza, holding Israeli flags

Two Israeli children crossed into Gaza near Jabalya, IDF forces brought them back into Israel.

Sky News apologizes

UK presenter compares Gaza migration to Holocaust

Sky News issues apology after its presenter compared MK Danon's suggestion of voluntary migration of Gazans to the treatment of Jews in the Holocaust.

Psychological terror:

Hamas releases video of three female hostages

Hamas releases propaganda video showing three women in captivity: Karina Ariev, 19, Doron Steinbrecher, 33, and Daniela Gilboa, 19.

Gaza war

US, Israel set up channel on civilian casualties

Reuters report: The United States has created a channel with Israel to discuss concerns over incidents in Gaza in which civilians were killed or injured.

Gallant to soldiers:

'Hamas is collapsing into the tunnels it dug'

Defense Minister: The places that were safe for Hamas have become a trap. In the last two days, over 100 terrorists were arrested or turned themselves in.

Haredi minister:

Jewish settlement in Gaza? 'I won't oppose it'

Housing Min. Yitzhak Goldknopf won't rule out Jewish settlement in Gaza, urges Israelis to back the government during wartime.

US Opposes:

Israel building 1km buffer along Gaza border

US officials have condemned Israel's effort to clear everything within a kilometer of the Gaza border, saying that it is an indication of an attempt to displace Palestinians and seize Gazan land permanently.

"Choose life, and fight for it"

Something of priceless value is emerging on the battlefields of Gaza. Opinion.

Report: Hamas' leader avoiding IDF

A new report shows some of the ways that senior Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is still alive despite Israel actively hunting him.

US 'gravely concerned'

Israel blamed for strike on UNRWA facility in Gaza

IDF investigation rules out an Israeli aerial or artillery strike hit an UNRWA facility in Khan Yunis. US: We will continue to seek further information.

'A local Mukhtar Will Rule'

MK Moshe Saada's plan for the day after the war

MK Saada, Likud, proposed an outline plan for civil rule in Gaza the day after the war. 'There will be no central government. They don't deserve it.'

Yesh Atid MK to Arutz Sheva:

'We need to continue fighting with all our might'

MK Moshe (Kinley) Tur-Paz comments on the importance of the operation in Gaza that claimed the lives of 21 soldiers, calls for unity among Israelis.

Push for Gaza ceasefire

British Foreign Secretary to visit Israel

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron expected to advocate for a pathway out of the war during visit to Israel on Wednesday.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner:

'The world ignores what happened on October 7'

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, founder of Shurat HaDin: The world has to wake up and the only way to wake up the world is to bring the terrorists to justice, both internally but also outside.

Report:

Israel, Hamas mulling one-month truce

Reuters reporting that Israel offered to end the war if Sinwar and five other Hamas leaders leave Gaza. Hamas rejected the proposal.

Bereaved mother:

'Call out for unity. Let's show the good'

Miriam Peretz, bereaved mother of two sons, speaks about the tragedy in Gaza and heavy price we had to pay: “We must see the light”.

Chief of Staff at site of disaster:

'We paid the painful price of war but we will go on'

IDF Chief of the General Staff says 21 soldiers killed in action fell during a mission to enable the safe return of the residents of southern Israel to their homes. 'We grieve this loss; we will learn the necessary lessons.'

19 years later:

Reservist raises flag he lowered leaving Gush Katif

The IDF reservist who lowered the last Israeli flag of the IDF leaving Gaza raised the very same flag again today in Khan Younis.

Tragedy in Gaza:

21 reservists fell in the southern Gaza Strip

The names of the fallen have been cleared for publication, and the other families have been notified. 556 soldiers have fallen since the start of the war, 221 of them in maneuvers in Gaza.

Analyst:

'Biden's plan is a surrender agreement for Israel'

Analyst Zvi Yehezkeli warns that the offers to end the war are only getting more lucrative for Hamas as time goes on.

Fallen Bedouin soldier:

'Hamas makes no distinction between Jew and Arab'

Sergeant First Class (res.) Ahmad Abu Latif, 26, from Rahat, said that the Bedouin community was part of Israel and determined to fight Hamas.

IDF spokesman:

'Buildings rigged to explode collapsed on soldiers'

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari reveals initial details of the explosion that killed 21 IDF soldiers in Gaza.

Netanyahu:

'The most painful day since the war broke out'

Prime Minister Netanyahu says that the disaster in southern Gaza is under investigation to protect soldiers in the future.

Report:

Israel proposed Hamas leaders leave Gaza

Sources tell CNN that Mossad chief proposed that Hamas senior leaders could leave Gaza as part of a broader ceasefire. Qatar's PM said the idea "would never work".

MK Danon to Arutz Sheva:

'We have to count only on ourselves'

MK Danny Danon, chairman of World Likud, believes Israel should go back to the way it was operating in the beginning of the war

Report:

Foreign Minister Katz's post-war plan for Gaza

Foreign Minister Israel Katz once proposed building an artificial island off the coast of Gaza. A new report claims he raised the plan again in a conversation with EU foreign ministers in Brussels.

Fallen soldier held by Hamas:

'Don't risk soldiers for my brother's body'

The brother of fallen IDF soldier Shay Levinson says that he does not want other soldiers to risk their lives trying to recover his brother's body from Gaza.

IDF:

We provide medical aid and field hospitals in Gaza

Since the beginning of the war, 12,000 trucks with 1,052 tons of medical equipment have entered Gaza.

Pfizer CEO joins efforts; contributes to Israeli PR

The emotional meeting of the CEO of Pfizer with the hostages’ families promoted an awareness campaign aimed at influencing policy makers in the US.

Combat officers urge:

'Do not leave northern Gaza'

About 130 commanders and officers, who participated in the fighting in Gaza, signed a letter to the cabinet in which they clarified: 'There is no reason for Ahmed to return to his home before Ziv and Gali return to their homes.'

UN chief at it again:

'Killings of Gazans are utterly unacceptable'

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres criticizes Israel again, calls for “immediate humanitarian ceasefire to relieve the suffering in Gaza".

Gallant:

'Smoke will cover Gaza until we achieve our goals'

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant takes part in flight over Gaza, sees up close the attacks against Hamas targets.

Free Gaza's people - from Gaza

Millions of refugees from countries like Iraq, Syria, and Yemen fled wars in their homelands and sought refuge in other countries. So why, suddenly, when it comes to the voluntary migration of the Gazans, does the matter become so controversial?

Finance Ministry official:

Residents of Gaza region must prepare to return home

A senior official in the Finance Ministry warns that the costs of keeping evacuees out of their homes is growing too great for the Israeli economy.

PMW director:

'The massacre was a result of PA education'

The director of the Palestinian Media Watch explains how the Palestinian Authority is responsible for the October 7th massacre.

Sister of murdered hostage:

'He was shot by his captor after an Israeli strike'

Merav Svirsky, sister of Itay Svirsky, in TV interview: The goals of eliminating Hamas and freeing the hostages do not go hand-in-hand. We are being lied to.

EU foreign policy chief:

'Israel financed Hamas to weaken the PA'

Josep Borrell says Hamas was financed by the Israeli government in an attempt to weaken the Palestinian Authority, repeats call for two-state solution.

Reliving Parshat Bo in Gaza

Only in Israel, where we have a holisitc identity as a people, do mitzvot take on their full meaning, as we build a society committed to the ideals of Judaism. In Gaza: Pidyon haben by means of tefillin.

Islamic Jihad psychological warfare leader killed

Wael Abu-Fanounah, who was responsible for publishing videos of the Islamic Jihad’s rocket attacks against Israel, as well as the creation and distribution of documentation of the Israeli hostages, killed in Gaza.

IDF takes bodies of suspected hostages from Gaza

IDF spokesman for foreign media confirms to NBC News that the IDF conducted search and rescue operations, including for the bodies of dead hostages, in a cemetery in Gaza.

Rockets and ammo in tunnels:

Hamas' weapons industry in the center of Gaza

IDF found that the area near Salah Al-Din Road consisted of weapons factories and lathes, both above and below ground, that were used to produce ammunition and weapons for Hamas operatives.

Freed hostage reveals:

Dozens of hostages were held at Nasser hospital

Sharon Aloni Cunio, who was freed together with her 3-year-old daughters in November, describes to CNN the harsh conditions hostages faced in Khan Yunis hospital, fight to free her husband who is still captive.

Report:

US laying the groundwork for post-Netanyahu era

NBC News reports: Biden administration working with other Israeli leaders after Netanyahu rejected plan for Arab countries to rebuild Gaza, which includes normalization with Saudis in exchange for a Palestinian state.

Qatar:

Medicine for Israeli hostages entered Gaza

It is believed the medicine will be transferred to the Israeli hostages on Thursday.

After criticism:

PM orders security check of Gaza medicine shipment

After saying he had nothing to do with decision to exempt shipment of medicines for the hostages from security check, PM orders IDF perform check on the shipment.

Erdan to UN chief:

'Very least you can do is call out the terrorists'

Israel’s UN Ambassador responds after Antonio Guterres says "we cannot allow what has been happening in Gaza to continue".

Pop star Dua Lipa:

'A humanitarian ceasefire has to happen'

Pop star Dua Lipa on Israel-Hamas war: I don’t condone what Hamas is doing. At the moment, what we have to look at is how many lives have been lost in Gaza.

International pressure:

Hostages’ families to join President Herzog in Davos

As part of the Israeli effort to free the hostages, President Herzog will join a series of policy meetings at the World Economic Forum.

Intelligence Min. to int'l community:

Don't disregard Gazans' suffering

Government Minister Gila Gamliel in a call to the international community: 'Open the door to the Gazans! No one should be compelled to leave. You cannot disregard their suffering.'

UN chief calls for 'immediate ceasefire' in Gaza

As Gaza war marks 100 days, Antonio Guterres says the humanitarian situation in Gaza is "beyond words."

Chief of Staff:

Hamas reorganizing in northern Gaza

The Chief of Staff and other security officials warn that without a civilian plan for the future, the IDF will lose its achievements in northern Gaza.