July 28, 2014
5:14 pm

Therm-App mobile thermal imaging device (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Night-vision system ready for Hamas tunnel terror

The terrorists’ underground burrowing project appears to heighten interest in the system, said Opgal’s CEO

By David Shamah

July 28, 2014
4:24 pm

Media representative broadcasting from Israel's border with Gaza, on the second day of Operation Protective Edge, July 9, 2014. (illustrative photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Hamas threatening journalists in Gaza who expose abuse of civilians

Reporters are bullied, have equipment confiscated, barred from sensitive sites… but they don’t report it. ‘They’re too scared,’ says Israeli official, lamenting capitulation to harassment

By Times of Israel staff

July 28, 2014
3:43 pm

President Barack Obama holds a bobblehead doll of himself in the Outer Oval Office, May 14, 2014. (photo credit: White House/ Pete Souza)

Rebuker in chief

Barack Obama’s late-night call for an immediate ceasefire has the Israeli press convinced that the US is once again messing up truce efforts

By Joshua Davidovich

July 28, 2014
3:11 pm

A Palestinian flashes the sign of victory holding a scarf reading 'Palestine' during a demonstration against Israel's military offensive on the Gaza Strip on July 28, 2014 at al-Aqsa mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem (photo credit: AFP/AHMAD GHARABLI)

45,000 rally for Gaza at Jerusalem Eid prayers

Crowd shows support for Hamas, calls for kidnapping of soldiers; demonstration passes peacefully

By AFP and Times of Israel staff

July 28, 2014
3:10 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry, third from left, stands with from left, Qatari Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini after their meeting regarding a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel in Gaza, Saturday, July 26, 2014, at the foreign ministry in Paris, France. (photo credit: AP/Charles Dharapak)

Kerry’s mistakes strengthen Hamas’s resolve

Has the US really forsaken Egypt and Israel to join forces with the Muslim Brotherhood, or is its top diplomat merely naive?

By Avi Issacharoff

July 28, 2014
7:24 am

Palestinians pass by destroyed houses after they salvage usable things in their belongings found at their destroyed houses during a 12-hour cease-fire in Gaza City's Shejaiya neighborhood, Saturday, July 26, 2014. (Photo credit: AP/Khalil Hamra)

When numbers in Gaza masquerade as fact

Many of the Palestinian death toll figures quoted by the UN and others ‘are not worth the paper they’re written on,’ researcher says

By Times of Israel staff

July 28, 2014
5:32 am

The UN Security Council, April 2014. (photo credit: AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Security Council agrees on demand for Gaza ceasefire

15-member body to convene at midnight in New York to adopt statement calling for ‘immediate, unconditional’ cessation of hostilities

By Edith M. Lederer

July 28, 2014
5:03 am

PFLP-GC chief Ahmed Jibril (right) pictured with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut in May 2002. Jibril's son, Jihad Jibril, was killed in a car bombing in Beirut that month. (photo credit: AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)

PFLP-GC chief says Syria, Iran, Hezbollah armed Hamas

Palestinian terror leader says Islamist group received weapons and training from Tehran, missiles smuggled through Sinai

By Times of Israel staff

July 28, 2014
12:38 am

Senior Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk (photo credit: AP Photo/Hatem Moussa)

Hamas official claims it rejected Egyptian deal to avoid recognizing Israel

Islamist group couldn’t accept Cairo proposal because it included acceptance of Israel, says Abu Marzouk, but official ceasefire text makes no such demand

By Elhanan Miller

July 28, 2014
12:06 am

The damage caused to a house after it was hit by a rocket in Nahal Oz, on the border with the Gaza Strip on July 27, 2014, (Photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90

4 soldiers killed in mortar attack, as PM says Gaza op goes on, vows to counter tunnels

Netanyahu rejects UN ceasefire call; terrorists tunnel into Israel in thwarted attack; rockets shot toward Haifa; Gazans say several dead in strike on hospital, park, but IDF denies responsibility

By Ilan Ben Zion, Lazar Berman and Marissa Newman

July 27, 2014
11:38 pm

Mosab Hassan Yousef during an interview with CNN, July 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/Yaron Haklai)

Hamas defector slams ‘death worship’

‘Green Prince’ Mosab Hassan Yousef says terror organization’s goal is an Islamic state built on the rubble of other civilizations

By Stuart Winer

July 27, 2014
11:31 pm

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif gives a press statement after a round of nuclear talks between the European Union and Iran in Vienna, on July 18, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/STR)

Iranian FM steps up Gaza diplomacy, offers aid

Zarif says Iranian hospitals ready to receive wounded Palestinians; Iranian doctors, nurses will be sent to Gaza

By AFP

July 27, 2014
9:10 pm

Vic Alhadeff, chief executive of the New South Wales Jewish Board of Deputies and chair of the Community Relations Commission (screencapture: YouTube/desitvaustralia)

Sydney Jewish leader resigns government post over Gaza conflict

Vic Alhadeff steps down after email he sent accusing Hamas of war crimes triggers outrage among Arab, Muslim groups

By JTA

July 27, 2014
7:25 pm

A picture released by the IDF shows Hamas tunnels discovered by soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade in the Northern Gaza Strip on July 18, 2014 (photo credit: IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)

‘Hamas will resume tunneling as soon as we leave’

Intelligence is good ‘but we won’t find them all,’ warns ex-commander of elite unit that tackles the cross-border passageways

By Mitch Ginsburg

July 27, 2014
7:20 pm

IDF bombings in the Gaza Strip can be seen near the border in southern Israel on July 27, 2014. (photo credit: Hadas Parush/FLASH90)

Hamas violating its own truce, Netanyahu charges

In fresh US media blitz, prime minister notes that five Israeli ceasefire overtures have been rejected by Gaza

By Times of Israel staff, AFP and AP

Topic: Hamas

Night-vision system ready for Hamas tunnel terror

The terrorists’ underground burrowing project appears to heighten interest in the system, said Opgal’s CEO

Hamas threatening journalists in Gaza who expose abuse of civilians

Reporters are bullied, have equipment confiscated, barred from sensitive sites… but they don’t report it. ‘They’re too scared,’ says Israeli official, lamenting capitulation to harassment

Rebuker in chief

Barack Obama’s late-night call for an immediate ceasefire has the Israeli press convinced that the US is once again messing up truce efforts

45,000 rally for Gaza at Jerusalem Eid prayers

Crowd shows support for Hamas, calls for kidnapping of soldiers; demonstration passes peacefully

Kerry’s mistakes strengthen Hamas’s resolve

Has the US really forsaken Egypt and Israel to join forces with the Muslim Brotherhood, or is its top diplomat merely naive?

When numbers in Gaza masquerade as fact

Many of the Palestinian death toll figures quoted by the UN and others ‘are not worth the paper they’re written on,’ researcher says

Security Council agrees on demand for Gaza ceasefire

15-member body to convene at midnight in New York to adopt statement calling for ‘immediate, unconditional’ cessation of hostilities

PFLP-GC chief says Syria, Iran, Hezbollah armed Hamas

Palestinian terror leader says Islamist group received weapons and training from Tehran, missiles smuggled through Sinai

Hamas official claims it rejected Egyptian deal to avoid recognizing Israel

Islamist group couldn’t accept Cairo proposal because it included acceptance of Israel, says Abu Marzouk, but official ceasefire text makes no such demand

4 soldiers killed in mortar attack, as PM says Gaza op goes on, vows to counter tunnels

Netanyahu rejects UN ceasefire call; terrorists tunnel into Israel in thwarted attack; rockets shot toward Haifa; Gazans say several dead in strike on hospital, park, but IDF denies responsibility

Hamas defector slams ‘death worship’

‘Green Prince’ Mosab Hassan Yousef says terror organization’s goal is an Islamic state built on the rubble of other civilizations

Iranian FM steps up Gaza diplomacy, offers aid

Zarif says Iranian hospitals ready to receive wounded Palestinians; Iranian doctors, nurses will be sent to Gaza

Sydney Jewish leader resigns government post over Gaza conflict

Vic Alhadeff steps down after email he sent accusing Hamas of war crimes triggers outrage among Arab, Muslim groups

‘Hamas will resume tunneling as soon as we leave’

Intelligence is good ‘but we won’t find them all,’ warns ex-commander of elite unit that tackles the cross-border passageways

Hamas violating its own truce, Netanyahu charges

In fresh US media blitz, prime minister notes that five Israeli ceasefire overtures have been rejected by Gaza

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