NEW YORK -- IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz called the success of the Iron Dome system in intercepting incoming missiles from Gaza a “serious and historical military change.” Speaking Tuesday night in the Israeli city of Ashdod via satellite to the...
JERUSALEM—As southern Israel was barraged by rockets for a fourth straight day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was hitting back "strongly and decisively," and its Iron Dome anti-missile defense system was intercepting many of the rockets...
JERUSALEM -- Despite a cease-fire that has held for about a day, Israel's military struck two sites in Gaza. Israel's Air Force fired on what it called two "terrorist activity sites" in northern Gaza early Wednesday morning, some 24-hours after the...
JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reiterating his policy of responding to Gaza violence, said that Israel "will find" whoever breaks the calm. "Our message is clear: Quiet will bring quiet. Whoever violates it or even tries to violate it...
JERUSALEM -- At least seven rockets and mortar shells fired from Gaza exploded in Israel after reports of an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire. Egypt announced that a cease-fire between terrorist groups in Egypt and Israel came into effect at 1 a.m. Tuesday....
Egyptian officials told Reuters they had brokered a truce between Israel and Hamas to end four days of cross-border fire between Israel and the Gaza Strip. The Reuters report late Monday quoted unnamed Egyptian officials. Neither Hamas nor Israel would...
JERUSALEM—If Israel has its way, this is how future conflicts with Gaza-based terrorists will unfold: Israeli aircraft launch surgical strikes on rocket launchers; terrorist leaders are assassinated as necessary; Israeli civilians along the southern...
JERUSALEM -- At least two dozen rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel on the fourth day of attacks on Israel's southern border. Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted at least eight of the rockets fired at Beersheba and five fired...
JERUSALEM -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet that Israel is still on alert against an attack from Sinai despite killing the man responsible for the plan, which unleashed more than 130 rocket attacks from Gaza on southern Israel. The...
JERUSALEM -- More than 130 rockets have been fired at Israel from Gaza since an Israeli airstrike killed the leader of a Palestinian terrorist group. Four Israeli civilians have been injured in the attacks, one severely, according to the Israel Defense...
Palestinian rockets from Gaza wounded several Israelis, and an Israeli airstrike killed the leader of a Palestinian terrorist group. The Friday evening hostilities reportedly began with the firing of two mortar shells from Gaza into Israel. Shortly thereafter,...
JERUSALEM -- A Palestinian man confessed to running over and stabbing eight Israelis to death in Tel Aviv. Muhammad Zofan, 21, of Kalkilya, confessed Sunday in Tel Aviv District Court to the attack last Aug. 29 near the the Oman 17 nightclub. Zofan carjacked...
