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2014 Gaza War
Israel SitRep: July 15, 2024
Today’s Issue: | IDF Confirms the Death of October 7 ‘Mastermind’ Rafa’a Salameh in Targeted Killing | Chief of Staff: IDF Will Continue to Pursue Hamas Officials Who Planned October 7 Massacre...
Israel at War Situation Report
Triple Murder Organizer Nabbed in Gaza Hospital
Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital captured a Hamas terrorist who helped plan a triple murder that sparked the 2014 war, the Shin Bet said on March 20....
Flash Briefs
The Hamas numbers game: Recruiting new terrorists
As of January 9, Hamas had lost two brigade commanders and 19 of its battalion commanders.
Op-eds
Israel’s modern warfare: How IDF tech closes the loop on terrorists
Modern warfare provides commanders with more access to technology, enabling strike cells to coordinate fire against terror targets.
Op-eds
10 Things to Know About Hamas Tunnels
The terrorist organization Hamas operates an extensive and sophisticated tunnel system to transport weapons, store supplies, and train operatives. The network zigzags for hundreds of miles under the Gaza...
Insights
‘I took my gun and drove toward Gaza’: One soldier remembers Oct 7
Givati company commander recalls how he was staying in northern Israel when he heard about the attack and drove south.
Op-eds
Israel Declares Global War on Hamas
Israel said on October 25 that its war against Hamas would not be limited to Gaza and would entail the destruction of the Palestinian terrorist group worldwide. In a televised...
Flash Briefs
Israel’s Outside-the-Box Options
A war in Gaza right now is a war on Hamas’s timeline and initiative. Israel should consider seizing the initiative by making unpredictable moves elsewhere first.
Op-eds
Report from the Gaza Front: A New Playbook
I spent the first days of the war on the Gaza border, mostly near Kibbutz Zikim. On the fifth day, October 11, I went to the Gaza border city of Sderot and spent time in the community, speaking with locals...
Op-eds
Why Did Hamas Go All-In?
The terror organization must have anticipated the reaction but still decided to start a war that might risk its very existence. Iran might have realized that if it did not ignite a war, it would pay dearly in the form of Israel’s normalization with Saudi Arabia.
Op-eds
Amid Escalation in Gaza, Tunisian Soldier Murders Local Jews
A Tunisian national guardsman murdered two Jewish cousins and three Tunisian officers last Tuesday, turning a festive occasion into a tragedy. Aviel and Benjamin Haddad were among thousands of...
Op-eds
Pentagon Transfers Some Israel-based Artillery Shells to Support Ukraine
The Pentagon is reportedly using part of a military stockpile it has maintained in Israel for decades to send hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to help the Ukrainian military defeat the Russian invasion. According to the New York Times, the United States has transferred approximately half of an expected total of 300,000 rounds of 155mm howitzer shells to Ukraine. The move represents a notable use of the Israel-based stockpile to aid a partner outside the region and compensate for insufficient domestic munitions production capacity in the United States.
Flash Briefs
Hamas Releases Video of Israeli Hostage Held Since 2014
Latest Developments Hamas released an undated Hebrew-language video on Monday purporting to show Avera Mengistu, one of two Israeli civilians the Palestinian terrorist group is holding in the Gaza Strip....
Flash Briefs
Book Review: The Never Ending War
One ideological goal that has animated foreign policy decision-making over the past three U.S. administrations has been a desire to retreat from “forever wars.” For Israel, such a fantasy-driven ambition...
Op-eds
Who Started the Gaza War?
America did
Op-eds
A Closer Look at Israel’s New High-Tech Barrier
Israel reported significant progress last month on an underground fence around the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Officials say Israel is close to completing the underground component and can see the finish...
Op-eds
As Antisemitism Rises, Germany Labels Hezbollah Right-Wing Extremist Group
The German government reported to Green Party deputy Volker Beck on Friday an increase in the number of criminal antisemitic acts in the country. This includes Israel-related antisemitism, and th...
Op-eds
Berlin Mayor Rebuked Over Imam’s Call to Kill Jews and Stone Women
A Danish imam convicted for inciting hate after he preached for the extermination of Jews during Israel’s Operation Protective Edge in 2014 appeared on Friday in Berlin at a radical mosque,...
Op-eds
Germany MPS Investigate Pro-Hezbollah Academic Finkelstein
In a dramatic widening of an academic antisemitism scandal at the Max Planck Institute for the promotion of lectures delivered by a pro-Hezbollah instructor, German Green Party lawmakers began a...