Defense and Security
“Israel longs for a day when the peoples of the Middle East, the children of Abraham, will live together in peace, cooperation and hope,” Herzog told Pope Leo.
In 2022, a daily average of 292 trucks entered the Gaza Strip, only 73 of them bearing food, with no evidence of famine, study finds.
Hamas controls who is recognized as a journalist in the Gaza Strip.
The Hamas proposal “has nothing new in it,” said the prime minister, who reiterated Israel’s five conditions for ending the conflict.
As some 76% of northerners return home, a new security reality is taking shape, defined by the IDF’s proactive “forward defense” doctrine.
“The Houthis are firing missiles at Israel again. A plague of darkness, a plague of the firstborn— we will complete all ten plagues,” said the Israeli defense minister.
In an unusually harsh rebuke following arson near his home, the Israeli premier complained that police were not enforcing the law.
One of the terrorists was identified as Abd al-Manaam Musa Suwaydan, a Hezbollah operative in Southern Lebanon’s Yatar Municipality.
Bart De Wever is widely thought to be opposed to the pro-Palestinian policy of his junior coalition partner.
The suspects were operated by Hamas’s offices in Turkey, according to the IDF and Shin Bet.
Such recognition “would reward Hamas for Oct. 7 and hinder efforts to bring all hostages home,” the U.S. State Department said.
Hamas is reportedly using “various measures” to limit movement, seeking to prevent noncombatants from leaving the city.
