Tuesday, 27 August 2024 | The latest round of hostage negotiations ended without results as the Israeli delegation led by Mossad [Israeli intelligence agency] chief David Barnea returned home from Cairo on Sunday. Off-and-on negotiations have continued for months with the United States, Egypt and Qatar acting as mediators. Ground down militarily in 10 months
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 27 August 2024 | The Palestinians report that at least five people were killed in an IDF [Israel Defense Forces] drone strike in the Nur al-Shams camp near the West Bank [Judea and Samaria] city of Tulkarm, which the IDF said in a statement on Monday night, was aimed at an “operations room in
Continue Reading »Tuesday, 27 August 2024 | Israel on Monday received its 500th aerial shipment of weapons and military supplies from the United States as part of a large-scale logistical effort that began with the outbreak of the war following Hamas’s October 7 massacre. The operation is a collaboration between the Israeli Defense Ministry’s Directorate of Production
Continue Reading »Monday, 26 August 2024 | The Israeli Air Force’s [IAF] major preemptive strike on Sunday, launched a little before 5:00 a.m. against Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, was a stinging surprise to the Iranian-backed terror army. However, despite this important achievement and the welcome activation of preemptive steps, it is important to remember that the
Continue Reading »Monday, 26 August 2024 | In a twist reminiscent of a spy novel, Mossad’s [Israeli intelligence agency] secretive headquarters and a top-tier intelligence-gathering unit, coupled with a base allegedly masterminding GPS disruptions across the Middle Eastern skies, were thrust into the limelight by none other than Hezbollah’s Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah. He claimed these were the
Continue Reading »Monday, 26 August 2024 | Ever since Israel assassinated Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran (according to foreign reports) and Fu’ad Shukr in Beirut, it seems the world has been anxiously awaiting Iran’s response. But regardless of what may finally happen on the battlefield, we Israelis should long ago have learned a certain lesson that our enemies
Continue Reading »Monday, 26 August 2024 | Hezbollah on Sunday morning claimed its missile attack against Israel had been “carried out with the highest precision and success,” and that it had “successfully implemented the retaliatory operation it had planned,” according to its media mouthpiece Al-Mayadeen. “Israel’s claim of preemptive action thwarting Hezbollah is a military lie, a
Continue Reading »Friday, 23 August 2024 | The Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, who has eluded Israeli crosshairs since October 7, is making it a precondition to a ceasefire and hostage release deal that Israel spare his life, according to reporting in Asharq al-Awsat, an Arabic publication in London. Israel media reported—citing Egyptian officials who spoke anonymously with
Continue Reading »Friday, 23 August 2024 | The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] said on Thursday that the six hostages whose bodies were extracted from Gaza earlier this week had gunshot wounds. They were found in a tunnel near the bodies of Hamas captors who were not shot and appeared to have died from suffocation when fire broke
Continue Reading »Friday, 23 August 2024 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally denied reports twice in a span of two days this week that Israel is prepared to relinquish control of the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, also known as the Philadelphi Corridor. One report, from the Qatari Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper, claimed that as
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