3rd Day (Update 7:18pm): Over 1000 Rockets Launched, Targeted Assassinations, Gaza Infrastructure Targeted
The conflict raged overnight Tuesday, with hundreds of rockets raining down on Tel-Aviv, and Israel escalating it’s response.
The conflict raged overnight Tuesday, with hundreds of rockets raining down on Tel-Aviv, and Israel escalating it’s response.
The gate to a local Shul in the Israeli city of Lod stands broken and open after violent Arab rioters broke in and lit the shul on fire. This scene has playing out across the city, and the Jewish residents are being evacuated.
A massive escalation in the conflict is underway as central Israel comes under rocket fire, with sirens blaring in Tel Aviv. The Israeli government has approved the mobilization of reservists as military hardware continues to buildup on the Gaza border.
Air raid sirens wailed in the City of Jarusalem for the first time since 2014 as Gaza military factions fire rockets at the city.
Authorities closed the Temple Mount to Jewish visitors early Monday morning, even before the violence began, noting the recent spate of attacks on Jews in and around the Old City of Jerusalem.
Sirens sounded in the Sderot area shortly after 6:20 a.m. Monday morning, after three rockets were fired from Gaza towards Israeli territory. The Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted one of the rockets.
Air raid sirens wailed in the Israeli city of Ashkelon Sunday evening after two rockets were fired from the Gaza strip.
The British government on Friday announced a list of countries to which citizens will be able to travel to without having to quarantine on their return, The Associated Press reports.
An attempted assault on soldiers was thwarted Friday morning, outside of the IDF’s Salem base in northern Samaria. Two of the three were shot and killed by the soldiers, while the third was critically injured.
Six fires were started in southern Israel Thursday by arson balloons launched from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip.
Following intensive intelligence and operational activities by the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), the IDF and the Israel Police, the terrorist who carried out the shooting attack at the Tapuah junction was arrested and detained.
19-year-old Yehuda Guetta, a student at the Itamar Yeshiva who was critically wounded in the shooting attack at the Tapuah junction earlier this week, succumbed to his wounds at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva on Wednesday evening.
A rare bronze oil lamp, shaped like a grotesque face that is cut in half, was recently discovered in excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority, in the City of David National Park.
The mandate given by President Reuven Rivlin to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to form a government following the elections to the 24th Knesset expired at midnight on Tuesday.
Israeli security forces have arrested several Palestinian Arabs suspected of aiding the terrorist responsible for Sunday’s drive-by shooting attack in Samaria, Palestinian Authority media outlets reported Tuesday morning.
A drive by shooting at the Kfar Tapuah junction has injured three, and sparked a manhunt by the IDF for those responsible.
A female Palestinian Arab terrorist on Sunday morning tried to carry out a stabbing attack at Gush Etzion Junction, according to initial reports from the scene.