Defense and Security
The Palestinian terror group’s attack prompted retaliatory Israeli strikes.
IDF responds with airstrikes by fighter jets and artillery shelling
Terror must never be allowed to prevail, Roberta Metsola vows at memorial in Brussels.
“In my conversations with them, one request kept repeating, touching and heartfelt: that we maintain unity. That we not allow disputes to dismantle what held us together in the most difficult moments,” the president wrote.
“This is the war of our revival—a direct continuation of the War of Independence,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Friends, family and officials gathered near Ben-Gurion Airport to honor the agricultural student slain by Hamas in Gaza.
“It’s the right thing to do, it’s moral and it will prevent them from taking hostages,” said the leader of the right-wing Otzma Yehudit Party.
Jerusalem remains committed to returning all hostages, disarming Hamas and preventing the Strip from posing threat, says Israeli defense minister.
Now-slain Hamas terror leader Yahya Sinwar would have become “a modern-day Saladin,” he said.
The attack marked the third such incident in as many days.
The site in Southern Lebanon was previously struck during the IDF’s “Operation Northern Arrows” in September 2024.
The clans are “substantial, influential players that control hundreds if not thousands of enforcers.”
