Gaza Strip
‘It is so difficult to comfort a mother’s tears,’ Francis tells the delegation at the Vatican.
During a rally in Gaza, the terror group displayed a rifle it claimed belonged to IDF Lt. Hadar Goldin, whose remains have been held in Gaza since 2014 • Jerusalem officials dismiss the event as psychological warfare designed to pressure the incoming government.
“Our silence is preparation and if we talk, it will be guns talking on our behalf,” said Yahya al-Sinwar, the group’s commander in Gaza.
Jana Zakarneh was standing next to an armed terrorist on a rooftop and was misidentified as a threat, according to the Israeli military’s initial findings.
Israeli jets likely have good defenses against such threats but they are not invulnerable.
Troops came under heavy fire during an arrest raid in the city, according to the Israeli military.
The suspect, who allegedly used an Israeli work permit to conduct reconnaissance in the Jewish state, yielded a wealth of information about Hamas’s terrorist activities, says the security agency.
The Israeli troops came under fire during a counter-terror operation in the city • Fifteen suspected Palestinian terrorists arrested across Judea and Samaria.
Using official Palestinian statistics, the CAMERA media watchdog proved to the Times that fishermen in the Hamas-ruled enclave have more than doubled their annual catch in the last 15 years.
The aircraft were conducting retaliatory strikes on Hamas targets in response to a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel.
Alert sirens were activated in the border kibbutzim of Kfar Aza and Nahal Oz, with residents having reported hearing an explosion.
The structure, which has since been sealed, constituted a “serious violation of the agency’s neutrality and a breach of international law” and exposed children to “significant security and safety risks,” the agency says.
