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Israel began work yesterday on a 215-mile wall along the border with the West Bank which it hopes will keep out the suicide bombers. Bulldozers began work on a 70-mile section from the northern ...

Israel is already plotting out how that would happen. Israel has drafted plans for a series of escalatory steps to gradually ratchet up pressure on Hamas now that talks to extend a seven-week ...

Hamas delivered its first response to three days of Israeli assaults on the Gaza Strip, but it has yet to hit back ...

Israel’s Foreign Ministry is set to fly a stone from the Western Wall to the upcoming 2025 World Expo to be held in Osaka, Ynet reported earlier this week. Representatives of the Israel ...

Israel has been carrying out “Operation Iron Wall” – a military campaign focused on the northern West Bank which launched last month, just two days after the Gaza ceasefire began.

Israel is considering an extension of the 42-day truce in Gaza as it seeks to bring home the remaining 63 hostages, while putting off agreement on the future of the enclave for now, Israeli ...

But Israel’s «Iron Wall» operation, which began in Jenin on Jan. 21, 2025, is different. In many ways, «Iron Wall» seems to be a continuation of «Iron Swords» – the name given to Israel ...