Hamas
The terror group tries to walk back extreme anti-Semitic comments, insisting its conflict is with Israel and not “with Jews or their religion.”
Israeli soldiers are being encouraged to maintain vigilance on social networks following reports of Hamas operatives posing as soldiers in an attempt to obtain classified information.
Rocket sirens went off in Sufa and Nir Yitzhak, which are close to the Israeli border with Gaza.
Gazan terror organizations are looking into armed drones and sea-based commando cells, while concentrating fire at Israel’s Iron Dome defense system to overwhelm it.
During the exercise, Hamas fighters deployed along the borders, closed streets and shut down fishing off the coast.
Spotted as it crossed the northern Gaza border, it was downed by the Israeli military. The drone’s remains have been sent for investigation.
“We again see that Hamas is choosing to exploit the humanitarian permits given by Israel ... to advance its hostile activities in Israel and in Judea and Samaria,” said a senior Shin Bet official.
Suheib Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef and younger brother of “Green Prince” Mosab Yousef, flees the organization and gives a revealing interview to Israel TV.
The IDF declares a false alarm after early-morning sirens send Gaza-periphery residents running to bomb shelters. The alert was triggered by a missile fired out to sea from the Gaza Strip.
After suffering 100 fires in a single week due to a daily onslaught of arson devices, residents of the Gaza border region are considering taking their case to the United Nations.
Brush fires started; rioters set an IDF jeep on fire at the Gaza border; Gaza Health Ministry reports 19 wounded by IDF fire.
Politicians reacted with criticism and dismay in response to some 30 fires, including 17 substantial ones, ignited by devices flown from Gaza.
