Saturday, 27 January 2024 Gad Partok watched from his living room as TV news played videos of Hamas militants tearing through communities just a few miles from where he lives in the Israeli city of Ashkelon. He was shocked by the militants' brazen trail through the farming cooperatives and small towns of his adopted country. He wondered where Israel's defenses had gone. The feeling of abandonment brought back the disturbing memories of his youth.
One of eight Israeli units offering combat positions to women, the Bardelas Battalion has just spent two weeks in southern Gaza, the new centre of fighting in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. "To be one of the first women who gets inside (Gaza), it's a little weird" says Eliora, a soldier in the unit....
Israeli commandos, posing as Palestinians, neutralized three gunmen in a West Bank hospital. Israel accused one of planning an imminent attack. Hamas claimed one dead, Islamic Jihad the other two...
Israeli army chief Herzi Halevi says the likelihood of war breaking out on the country's northern border with Lebanon has become "much higher", and warns Iran-backed Hezbollah militants that Israel has..
Emergency services are on the scene in the aftermath of a deadly strike that Hamas and security officials in Lebanon say killed the Palestinian militant group's deputy leader Saleh al-Aruri, in the..