A day with an IDF artillery battalion

Israel Defence Forces Artillery Corps units, which stand guard in the country’s north and south, ready at a moment’s notice to rain fire on the enemy, are the last thing Hezbollah and Hamas want to face across a battlefield. Read more

Iran’s missile program set back, but nuclear threat remains

Israel’s airstrikes on military targets in Iran overnight Saturday damaged the Islamic Regime’s missile program and air defences while demonstrating the Israeli Air Force’s advanced long-range capabilities. Read more

In seizing Rafah crossing, Israel turns tables on Hamas’s stalling tactics

The decision by Israel’s War Cabinet to order the Israel Defence Forces to seize Rafah Crossing is strategically significant, as it will negatively impact Hamas’s ability to smuggle weapons and people back and forth from neighbouring Sinai. Read more

IDF plans for Rafah op draw on extensive Israeli experience

As the War Cabinet waits for a reply from Hamas to the latest far-reaching, unprecedented Israeli proposal for a hostage release deal, the IDF has drawn up operational plans for large-scale urban warfare in Hamas’s last remaining bastion in Rafah, southern Gaza. Read more

Gaza aid-worker tragedy risks overshadowing IDF efforts to protect humanitarian routes

Monday night’s unintentional Israeli drone strike on a World Central Kitchen aid convoy travelling along the Gaza coast, in which seven aid workers were killed, risks overshadowing a series of recent steps by the Israeli military to facilitate the flow of aid into the Strip. Read more

Hamas is weakening, but the campaign against it will be lengthy

While the Israel Defence Forces is gaining ground against Hamas by the day, destroying it as a military force will take time, according to former IDF officers. Read more

Hezbollah’s attack on IAF base was a wake-up call

Hezbollah’s Jan. 6 attack on the Israeli Air Force’s Meron air traffic control base, likely using Iranian-supplied Kornet-EM missiles, marks a significant escalation by the Iran-backed terrorist group.  Read more

IDF destroys tunnel shafts, eliminates terrorists as intense battles rage in Gaza

The Israel Defence Forces destroyed tunnel shafts, a key part of Hamas’s underground infrastructure in Gaza, and killed significant numbers of terrorists on Thursday, as battles raged across Khan Yunis, Shejaiya and Jabalia throughout the day. Read more

IDF Commando Brigade raids Hamas stronghold of Khan Yunis in south Gaza

The Israel Defence Forces’ 98th Division, which includes the Commando Brigade and other special forces, launched a raid of Khan Yunis, Hamas’s stronghold in southern Gaza, IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari announced on Wednesday evening, adding that Hamas was surprised by the raid. Read more

‘Sinwar sealed Hamas’s fate; a mistake by Nasrallah will do the same to Lebanon’

Hamas chief in Gaza Yahya Sinwar made a mistake and sealed Hamas’s fate in the Strip, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Saturday, adding that “if [Hezbollah chief Hassan] Nasrallah makes a mistake, he will determine Lebanon’s fate.” Read more

IDF sharpens its tools against Hamas’s terror city under Gaza

Hamas’s network of tunnels and bunkers, estimated to be many hundreds of kilometres long and embedded in civilian areas, has emerged as a defining feature of the Islamists’ ability to move terrorists and weapons under the Gaza Strip, to launch strikes and stay out of the Israel Air Force’s bombsights. Read more

IDF paves way for a ground offensive, but could Hamas escape with civilians?

As the Israel Defence Forces continue to wait for the security cabinet’s decision to move into Gaza to destroy the Hamas terrorist army, the Israeli military is likely gathering further intelligence on the enemy and preparing its ground forces for entry in increasingly better ways. Read more

Israel: ‘Yahya Sinwar, The Face of Evil, and his team are in our sights’

Hamas in Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar and his entire command team “are in our sights,” Israel Defence Forces international spokesperson Lt. Col. Richard Hecht told journalists on Saturday. Read more

Israel’s choices in Gaza all lead to destruction of Hamas regime

The mass-murder rampage conducted by Hamas death squads on southern communities in Gaza on Saturday has seen Israel unleash unprecedented air power against Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip, but it is clear that this is only a prelude to further Israeli action. Read more

Iran’s fingerprints behind Hamas’s murderous rampage, analysts say

Current and former Israeli defence officials suspect Iranian influence played an important role in Hamas’s decision to stage a series of mass murder and kidnap raids on the South on Saturday. Read more

In Judea and Samaria, the post-Abbas era has already begun

On Tuesday evening, Israeli security forces conducted a counter-terror raid in the Jenin refugee camp, the epicentre of terrorism in Judea and Samaria. Read more

Israel faces prolonged escalation in Judea and Samaria

Monday’s murderous terrorist attack on Route 60 in Hebron, in which an Israeli woman was shot dead and a man seriously injured, is just the latest indication of the sad fact that Israel is in the middle of a prolonged security escalation in Judea and Samaria—with no end in sight. Read more

Israel ‘one of the world’s top cyber powers’

Israel’s position as a cyber superpower places it in an exclusive club of world powers, despite having a population a little larger than New York City, according to former Israeli defence official Chuck Freilich. Read more

Potential Saudi normalisation raises questions about the Palestinian Authority

Progress towards a potential normalisation agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia is raising the question of how the Palestinian Authority would fit into such a significant regional maneuver. Read more

Israeli military waits to see if reservists refuse to report for duty

On the day after Israel’s coalition unilaterally passed into law the so-called “reasonability bill,” part of its controversial judicial reform plan, Israel Defense Forces senior command is now in uncharted territory. Read more

IDF seeks to shatter Jenin’s role as terror safe haven

The extensive Israel Defence Forces operation focused on Jenin is designed to reverse the trend in which this Palestinian city and parts of Samaria became a safe haven for, and hornet’s nest of, terrorism. Read more

The Egypt border attack: Key questions

There are several critical questions that the joint Israeli-Egyptian investigation into the deadly terrorist attack on the two countries’ shared border on Saturday must address. Read more

Her master’s voice

A dramatic police rescue operation reunited an abducted dog with its Israel Defence Forces combat veteran owner following a middle-of-the-night raid in the eastern Jerusalem area of Silwan. Read more

Israel sends search-and-rescue delegation to Turkey

The Israel Defence Forces dispatched a significant search-and-rescue group to earthquake-stricken southeastern Turkey on Monday. Read more

IDF will act ‘whenever we have precise intelligence on terrorists’

The Israel Defence Forces will act on all precise intelligence on terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria, commonly known as the West Bank, which threatens Israeli civilians or security personnel, a military official told JNS on Tuesday. Read more

IDF’s ‘Operation Breakwater’ curbing Palestinian terrorist activity in Judea and Samaria

Since being launched by the Israel Defence Forces in March this year, “Operation Breakwater,” aimed at stopping a wave of deadly Palestinian terror attacks against Israelis, has significantly dented the motivation and intent of terrorists in the West Bank to act. Read more

Gazan terror groups attempt to ‘hitch a ride’ on Beersheva terror attack

The deadly car-ramming and knife-stabbing spree carried out in Beersheva on Tuesday by Muhammad Abu Al-Kiyan, a 34-year-old Bedouin Israeli man and ISIS supporter, saw attempts by Gazan terror factions to “hitch a ride” on the violence and to further inflame the fans of terrorism. Read more

Beersheva terrorist appeared to have ‘acted in line with ISIS manuals’

Muhammad Abu Al-Kiyan, an Israeli man in his mid-30s from the Bedouin town of Houra who murdered four Israelis in a combined car-ramming and knife-stabbing attack in Beersheva on Tuesday, appeared to have acted in line with instructions found in ISIS attack manuals, a senior terrorism expert has told JNS. Read more

Israeli company turning smartphones into brain monitors

An Israeli company has turned standard smartphones into neurological monitoring machines backed by artificial intelligence and is about to expand significantly into the American market. Read more

Israel and region continue to feel reverberations of 9/11 two decades later

As the world marks 20 years since Al-Qaeda’s terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the unprecedented events and their aftereffects continue to reverberate throughout the region and beyond. Read more

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