This is a developing story.
(JTA) — As dawn broke in Israel Sunday, the contours of the previous 24 hours of violence following a broad attack by Hamas were still coming into devastating focus.
A notice from the Israeli embassy in Washington,...
On Saturday morning, Oct. 7, 2023, the Hamas terrorist organization launched a massive assault on Israel from the Gaza Strip, infiltrating several Israeli communities, killing at least 600 people, wounding over 2,000 and taking hostages back into Gaza.
An...
The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday hit targets in southern Lebanon with artillery, after Hezbollah terrorists there fired mortars at the Jewish state.
The military confirmed that there were no casualties in the Hezbollah attack.
The shells landed in...
(JTA) — Saturday was a day of bloodshed unprecedented in Israel’s history.
Beginning in the morning of a Jewish holiday, hundreds of militants broke through the barrier between Israel and Gaza and spread into more than 20 locations, killing 300...
Hamas killed more than 250 Israelis on Saturday as it launched a massive offensive from the Gaza Strip, including firing more than 3,000 rockets and sending dozens of Palestinian terrorists to infiltrate the Jewish state.
Around 5:30 p.m., 11 hours into...
(JNS) At least 12 Israelis sustained injuries of varying degrees on Saturday night as Hamas unleased several barrages of rockets on Israel's central region, with direct hits reported in Tel Aviv, Bat Yam and Givatayim.
At around 8 p.m., Hamas claimed...
(JNS) -- Hamas terrorists were still holding hostages in Kibbutz Be'eri and Ofakim, some 12 miles from the Gaza border, on Saturday night.
"Many houses have been taken over, there are hostages, there are dead and wounded," Israel's Kan News public...
Andrew Silow-Carroll, JTA
• Published October 7, 2023
(JTA) — Hours after Saturday’s deadly surprise attack on Israel by Hamas, the Israeli protest group Achim le’Neshek (Brothers and Sisters in Arms) was helping arrange transportation for army reservists being called to the front.
“Brothers...
(JTA) — Yoni Asher’s voice was steady but his urgency was unmistakable.
“I ask anyone coming to Efrat Katz’s home to tell me they are there, I have not heard from them for four hours,” he said on Israel’s government-run Kan radio.
“Them”...
U.S. President Joe Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, emphasizing that Washington stands alongside Jerusalem and fully supports the Jewish state's right to self defense in the wake of the deadly Hamas attack from Gaza.
Netanyahu...
(JNS) -- Hamas claimed on Saturday to be holding more than 35 Israelis hostage in the Gaza Strip after dispatching dozens of terrorists into the Jewish state as part of a major attack.
There were also unconfirmed reports that more than a dozen Nepalese...
(JNS) -- Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas chaired an “emergency” leadership meeting in Ramallah on Saturday, after the Hamas terrorist group launched a major attack from the Gaza Strip that killed at least 40 Israelis.
Abbas “gave instructions...
