Beersheva

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IDF to call up reserve troops as war with Gaza looms
13.11.2018
As Hamas continued to lob rockets on Israeli population centers in southern Israel on Tuesday morning, IDF spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis said the IDF will begin a call-up of reserve soldiers.
Israeli soldiers stand inside a street-level bomb shelter as a siren warns of incoming rockets fired from Gaza into Israel on Nov. 12, 2018. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
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Garrett Davis24.10.2018
Gaza rocket hit close to home, too close
I am “my brother’s giver.” I don’t mind being tied to his memory forever; in fact, it’s an honor. His death was a tragic ending. But it can also be a beginning, if I make it so.
Garrett Davis
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Is Iran trying to drag Israel into a war in Gaza?
Assaf GolanIsrael Hayom18.10.2018
Hamas and Islamic Jihad have denied any involvement in the Grad rocket launch on Israel, leading security experts to argue that Iran is behind the attack.
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli security forces near the Gaza-Israel border on Sept. 28, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
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Security restrictions removed on Gaza-border residents following Beersheva attack
18.10.2018
The Home Front Command lifted security restrictions on Gaza-border communities on Thursday after a night without rocket fire from Gaza. The decision was made by the IDF and Israel’s Security Cabinet.
Israeli security forces at the scene where a building was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva on Oct. 17, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
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AFP correction: Gaza rocket destroys Beersheva home, not just caused ‘damage to garden’
Tamar SternthalCAMERA18.10.2018
AFP’s own photos demonstrate that the home was destroyed, and the accompanying caption makes clear that a house “was hit.”
Maj.-Gen. Herzi Halevy (center), the chief of the Israeli Southern Command, visits the scene where a building was hit by a rocket fired by Hamas in Gaza in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva on Oct. 17, 2018. Photo by Flash90.
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Hamas chief alive and well, and not hiding following Beersheva rocket attack
18.10.2018
Despite launching a powerful rocket deep inside Israel on Wednesday, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was sighted walking through the streets of Gaza in broad daylight on Thursday.
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh flashes the victory gesture upon his arrival at the Rafah border crossing from Egypt after reconciliation talks with the Fatah movement mediated by Egyptian intelligence in southern Gaza, Sept. 19, 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
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Israel Hayom
Yoav Limor18.10.2018
Rocket fire in Beersheva is a game-changer
If Israel decides to launch an attack, it could sputter, be protracted, drag on into the winter, and, of course, result in considerable casualties on the front lines and on the home front, and draw criticism due to the public’s natural tendency to lose patience.
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Report: Egypt able to broker Israel-Hamas truce in Gaza
Daniel Siryoti and Israel Hayom Staff17.10.2018
Egyptian intelligence officials hold urgent meetings with heads of Gaza’s terrorist groups after Israeli Air Force pounds enclave in response to rocket fire that hit Beersheva home.
Hamas rocket-launchers in the Gaza Strip. Credit: IDF.
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IDF battles Gaza rioters at border security fence after Beersheva rocket attack
17.10.2018
Clashes between the Israel Defense Forces and Gaza rioters continued, with Gazans attacking and damaging the border fence with explosives.
Palestinian demonstrators burn tires as part of a violent demonstration on the Gaza-Israel border that turned deadly on Oct. 12, 2018, when a Gaza exploded a bomb and infiltrated the security fence in the attempt to attack Israeli soldiers. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
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Netanyahu responds to Beersheva attack: ‘Israel will take very strong action’
17.10.2018
“Israel views with utmost gravity the attacks against it on the fence, on the area adjacent to the Gaza Strip, on Beersheva—everywhere. I said, at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting, that if these attacks do not stop—we will stop them,” said the Israeli prime minister.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the IDF Gaza Division on Oct. 17, 2018. Credit: Amos Ben-Gershom.
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Beersheva home destroyed by powerful Gaza rocket, family miraculously saved
17.10.2018
The mother woke her children and evacuated them to the home’s bomb shelter just seconds before the medium-range grad rocket smashed the house deep inside Israeli territory.
Israeli security forces at the scene where a building was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva on Oct. 17, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
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Barrage of Gaza rockets continue, with Beersheva hit for first time since 2014
09.08.2018
Mayor Ruvik Danilovich said that Israel must act more forcefully against these rocket attacks after his city of more than 205,000 people was targeted.
An Israeli police officer examines where a mortar shell from Gaza hit a construction site in the southern Israeli city of Sderot, near the border with Gaza on Aug. 9, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
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IDF prepares for its new high-tech home in southern Israel’s ‘Silicon Wadi’
Yaakov Lappin19.01.2018
The IDF is gearing up for a major relocation to southern Israel, where it plans to create new environs replete with academia and high-tech firms, and to give a significant boost to the Be’er Sheva area.
Israeli Air Force soldiers who completed the IAF’s flight course are pictured during a graduation ceremony held at the Hatzerim Air Base in the Negev Desert on June 25, 2015. Credit: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit/Flash90.
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