50-year-old man wounded outside of kibbutz east of the Gaza Strip. An Israeli man is in critical condition Thursday, with a second man also wounded, following a terrorist stabbing attack outside of a kibbutz in southern Israel. The attack took place at approximately 2:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon at a coffee shop off of the Beit Kama traffic junction, just outside of Kibbutz Beit Kama in southern Israel, 12 miles north of the city of Beersheba and 14 miles east of the Gaza Strip. During the attack, an Arab terrorist entered the coffee shop and stabbed a man roughly 50 years…
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In an interview with the BBC, Itay Regev, a former Hamas hostage freed in late November, shared harrowing details of his captivity experience. Regev, kidnapped from the Nova music festival on October 7, described his captors as “very, very vicious” and recounted the brutal treatment he received. Regev recalled the terrifying kidnapping, where terrorists sprayed fleeing vehicles with bullets “without any mercy,” injuring him and his sister Maya. He shared the heart-wrenching moment when Maya said goodbye, fearing she wouldn’t survive. “I saw my sister Maya injured and crying. Maya also that day said goodbye to me and told me…
Senior Biden administration officials told Israeli security officials that the US will back Israel in targeting “high-value Hamas targets in and underneath Rafah” but not a large-scale invasion, Politico reported on Wednesday evening. In other words, the Biden administration will support “surgical” counterterrorism operations in Rafah rather than an all-out war, a strategy it claims can still decimate Hamas while minimizing civilian casualties and avoiding “scenes that have led to souring public opinion on Israel’s campaign and Biden’s handling of the war.” The US has asked Israel to present a plan to protect the large civilian population in Rafah but…
Hamas issued a statement criticizing Israel for refusing its demands for a permanent ceasefire and a complete withdrawal troops from the Gaza Strip. As the US and Arab countries scrambled to push for a days-long pause in fighting to build trust between Israel and Hamas, the terror group has reportedly rejected the deal and has reverted to its earlier demands for a permanent ceasefire. The Biden Administration was desperate to implement a 6-week long ceasefire before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in exchange for the over 130 Israeli hostages remaining in Gaza and says the ceasefire deal now “lays…
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Lebanese Al-Akhbar newspaper, affiliated with the Hezbollah terror group, has reported that Israel has set a deadline for a diplomatic agreement to calm tensions on the border. According to the report, Israel informed Western countries that it will wait until March 15 in order to achieve a diplomatic agreement with Lebanon. If such an agreement is not achieved by March 15, Israel is preparing to expand the IDF’s operations in Lebanon to a widescale war. Since the start of the war with Hamas, Hezbollah terrorists have fired missiles on a near-daily basis towards northern Israel, injuring…
Families of the hostages have requested that some of the 12 torches be lit in the areas attacked by Hamas on October 7. Israel canceled fireworks displays at national Independence Day celebrations because of the war with Hamas, Transport Minister Miri Regev said on Wednesday. “In light of the events of Oct. 7 and the war, we are adjusting the format of the ceremony,” said Regev, who is overseeing Israel’s official Independence Day celebrations. Regev also called on municipal leaders organizing celebrations in their localities to do likewise. Independence Day, Israel’s 76th, begins at sundown on May 13. Israel’s Memorial…
(JNS) — Family members of 16 soldiers from Gush Etzion and Efrat who fell defending the State of Israel since Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre gathered on Monday at a military base in the Gush’s western foothills to dedicate the base’s newly expanded synagogue in memory of their loved ones. The synagogue was also dedicated in memory of Ari Fuld, a well-known Israel activist, educator and Israel Defense Forces reservist who was murdered by an Arab terrorist just before Yom Kippur 2018. Family members of IDF soldiers who have fallen in Gaza since Oct. 7 participate in the dedication of a…
A shooting attack took place at a gas station in the yishuv of Eli in Binyamin late Thursday afternoon. The attack left two Israelis murdered. Their identities have not been released. One victim is reportedly 17 years old, and the second is 31. According to initial reports, the attack was carried out by a terror cell of three terrorists. One terrorist was neutralized by the owner of “Chummus Eliyahu,” next to the gas station, and one reportedly barricaded himself inside a store next to the gas station. A large number of Israeli security forces launched a manhunt for additional terror…
Former US ambassador accuses Biden of ‘malpractice,’ slamming president for ‘ice cream shop’ prediction on hostage deal with Hamas. Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman blasted President Joe Biden Thursday, accusing the president of “negotiating malpractice” for his comments on a possible hostage deal with Hamas earlier this week. Speaking with NBC‘s Seth Meyers in an interview recorded on Monday, Biden claimed that Israel and Hamas were “close” to reaching an agreement for the freeing of Israeli hostages in exchange for a ceasefire during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and the early release of jailed Arab terrorists. “Well…
In what could be seen as a show of evenhandedness, Wellington simultaneously sanctioned alleged Jewish extremists in Judea and Samaria. New Zealand on Thursday declared that in light of Hamas’ horrific massacre of 1,200 people during its surprise invasion of Israel almost five months ago, it now considers all of Hamas to be a terrorist organization. “The terrorist attacks by Hamas in October 2023 were brutal and we have unequivocally condemned them,” Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said. “What happened on 7 October reinforces we can no longer distinguish between the military and political wings of Hamas. The organization as a…