Abdullah & Bibi keep moving on Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine

Jordan’s King Abdullah and Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu continue their march forward to implementing the Saudi-based Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine Solution (Saudi Solution). Read more

Palestinians fire rockets, Israel aircraft hit Gaza

Israeli aircraft have struck in Gaza in response to Palestinian rocket fire, days after the United States called for calm, but there was no immediate sign of a wider escalation in violence following days of tension. Read more

UNRWA denounces tunnel discovered under Gaza school

The UN agency responsible for supporting Palestinian refugees announced that it discovered a tunnel underneath one of its schools in Gaza. Read more

Israel grants another 1,500 work permits to Gazan Arabs

Israel has decided to expand the quota of workers coming to work in the country from the Gaza Strip by an additional 1,500. Read more

Gaza-area closures enter third day as Israel prepares for possible conflict

Roads around the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip remained closed on Thursday for the third straight day amid concerns of possible retaliation for the arrest in Jenin on Monday of a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) figure. Read more

Israel fortifying kindergartens in vicinity of Gaza Strip

The Ministry of Defence’s Engineering and Construction Division, in cooperation with IDF’s Home Front Command, has commenced work to fortify kindergartens in the Gaza Strip area against rocket and mortar attacks. Read more

Israel fires at Hamas target after attack

Israel has fired on a target in the Gaza Strip, in response to a rocket attack, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) says. Read more

Gaza terror organisations to respond to IDF’s operation in Jenin

The Al-Quds Al-Arabi newspaper reported Sunday that sources in the Gaza Strip say that Egypt and Qatar are acting as mediators and have stepped up efforts to obtain calm, especially in Judea and Samaria and Jerusalem, following the operation in Jenin in which three Islamic Jihad operatives were eliminated by Israeli Special Forces as they were on their way to carry out a terror attack. Read more

Mahmoud Abbas plays Benny Gantz for a fool

Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz must have known that hosting Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at his home in Rosh Ha’ayin would arouse the ire of the right. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have cloaked the outcome of his tête-à-tête last Tuesday night with the octogenarian honcho in Ramallah in typically euphemistic language. Read more

‘Important interest for Israel’: FM Lapid meets with Egypt’s president El-Sisi in Cairo

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi hosted Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Yair Lapid on Thursday at the Al-Ittihadiya Palace in Cairo for what was described by the Lapid’s office as “a long and warm meeting.” Read more

After more than three years of construction, Israel completes smart border barrier around Gaza Strip

Israel officially completed the construction of the “smart” barrier fence around the Gaza Strip, its defence line from attacks by terror groups above ground and terror tunnels running into the country below ground. Read more

Egypt’s proposal infuriates Hamas: economic rehabilitation in exchange for long term truce

A Palestinian source has told TPS that Egyptian intelligence had recently offered the Hamas leadership to open economic horizons for it in Egypt and pursue a very generous passage policy at the border crossings, in exchange for a long term ceasefire with Israel, but Hamas sees this as interfering in its internal affairs and as an Egyptian bargaining chip. Read more

‘A Ticket to Freedom’: Gaza’s rush for work permits in Israel

Hundreds of residents of the Gaza Strip lined up on Wednesday night near the Central District Chamber of Commerce building in the Gaza Strip to be the first in line to receive 2,500 permits for work and trade with Israel, after 4,500 lucky Gazans have already managed to obtain permits and left for Israel. Read more

At least four terrorists killed, four arrested in IDF multi-pronged operation

At least four Hamas terrorists were killed and another four were arrested Saturday night during the IDF’s multi-pronged counter-terrorism operation at several locations in Judea and Samara. Read more

Jenin terrorist leaders: these are the terrorists who escaped from Gilboa Prison

These are the terrorists who escaped from Gilboa Prison in the north of Israel on Monday night. Read more

Gazans riot, Bennett approves relief for Strip

Hamas-led riots continued on the Gaza Strip’s border with Israel on Tuesday night, as Naftali Bennett’s government approved more relief for the Strip. Read more

IDF Chief of Staff warns of another Gaza operation as border riots continue

IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi warned that the military is ready to strike again in the Gaza Strip, as the Hamas-led nighttime riots continued on the border with Israel. Read more

IDF launches retaliatory strike on Hamas targets in Gaza Strip after arson attacks, border riots

The Israel Defense Forces conducted airstrikes against Hamas targets early on Sunday in response to incendiary balloon attacks and violent riots along the Gaza fence. Read more

Bennett kowtows to Biden as he jettisons Trump

It has taken just two months for Israel’s Prime Minister – Naftali Bennett – to abandon implementing his 10 years old policy calling for Israel to unilaterally extend its sovereignty into 60% of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) – dubbed Area C under the Oslo Accords. Read more

After Hamas blocks UN from inspecting terror tunnel under Gaza school, Israeli envoy calls for freeze Gaza UNRWA funding

Israel’s Ambassador to the US and the United Nations Gilad Erdan sent a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations Antonio Guterres and to the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, UN Under-Secretary-General Philippe Lazzarini demanding action after UN officials were barred by Hamas from inspecting a UNRWA school in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza. Read more

Israel hits Hamas targets in Gaza in response to ongoing arson attacks

Israeli warplanes struck Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip early on Saturday morning in response to the launch of airborne incendiary devices into Israeli territory, the Israeli military reported. Read more

Analysis shows half of Gazans killed during Operation Guardian of the Walls were terrorists

An analysis of the names of Gazans killed during the IDF’s Operation Guardian of the Walls has found that about half of them were terrorist operatives, a new report by the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) shows. Read more

IDF warns Gaza parents against terror summer camps

Commander of the IDF’s Unit for the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) Major General Ghasan Alyan addressed the residents of the Gaza Strip and warned them against the “true face” of the camps run by the Hamas and Islamic terror groups. Read more

AP’s Gaza operations shared building with Hamas tech unit, Israeli envoy explains

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations and US Gilad Erdan visited the Associated Press (AP) headquarters in New York on Monday to explain to top executives that the Israeli Air Force (IAF) bombed the building housing their Gaza operation during Operation Guardian of the Walls last month because it was serving Hamas terrorists who were developing technology to jam the Iron Dome defence system. Read more

The growing cost of anti-Israel media bias

For one of The New York Times’ most devoted readers, the front-page spread published on May 28 essentially accusing Israel of murdering Palestinian children was the final straw. Read more

Blinken blunders and other balagan

For those uninitiated in the nuances of modern Israeli discourse, balagan loosely translated means chaos or fiasco. Read more

Qatar offers Hamas-ruled Gaza $500 million to rebuild

Qatar’s foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, announced on Wednesday that the Gulf state would give $500 million to help rebuild the Gaza Strip after an 11-day conflict with Israel. Read more

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Former Ambassador David Friedman: ‘Trump administration would have given Israel free reign to defend itself’

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was dispatched to Israel by U.S. President Joe Biden this week in the direct aftermath of an acute conflagration highlighted by 11 days of indiscriminate rocket attacks by Hamas on Israeli population centres and pinpoint Israeli airstrikes on Hamas installations in Gaza in retaliation. Read more

UNRWA Gaza director backtracks on interview about Israeli war actions

Gaza director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Matthias Schmale accused NGO UN Watch and the press on Wednesday of “blatantly manipulating” comments he made in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 two days earlier. Read more

10 takeaways from the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas

Over this past weekend, Arabs were shooting fireworks in the sky, supposedly in celebration of holding Israeli population centres hostage for 11 days with more than 4,000 rockets. Read more

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