IDF
Seven members of Al-Jama’a al-Islamiya were killed before they were able to carry out an attack in the Mount Dov area.
The moves come despite intensifying international opposition to a ground operation in the last Hamas stronghold, which Jerusalem says is necessary to defeat the terrorist organization.
In a rare audio clip of the Hamas military commander reportedly recorded the day of the terror group’s invasion of Israel, Mohammed Deif calls for a global Muslim uprising to “liberate” Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The terrorist group will not release any more hostages until Israel accepts all its demands, Khaled Mashaal vowed.
Ten suspects were arrested in raids across Judea and Samaria.
Yaakov Lubinewski “made it clear to us that there is something to live for,” said former Israeli minister Izhar Shay, whose son Yaron was killed in combat during Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel.
The national security minister told The New York Times that the US president is “enormously mistaken” to pressure Israel over its military campaign against Hamas.
Marwan Issa, the deputy head of Hamas’s military wing, was killed in an airstrike along with Hamas brigade commander Ghazi Abu Tama’a, according to the IDF.
“Shifa, or schools and places like that, are our shelters,” a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist tells Israeli interrogators.
A winery was set on fire and heavily damaged by a direct hit, though no injuries were reported.
Washington received written assurances from Jerusalem that the army is acting in compliance with a Feb. 8 presidential memo.
The Netanyahu government decided to hold off on bringing its IDF enlistment bill to the Cabinet for approval.
