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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 625

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IDF Humvees enter the Gaza Strip near Kerem Shalom, July 15, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
September 13, 2024, 10:26 am
Two Israeli civilians detained by IDF while trying to cross into Gaza
Military says pair stopped in buffer zone before they can enter Gaza territory, motive for attempt to enter war-torn Strip unclear
By Emanuel Fabian
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks out over the Jordan Valley on September 11, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
September 11, 2024, 8:51 pm
Visiting Jordan Valley, Netanyahu vows to work with Amman to boost border fence
Days after deadly shooting at Allenby border crossing, PM says ‘stronger barrier’ needed along boundary with Jordan, a project repeatedly promised and scrapped over the years
By Lazar Berman and ToI Staff
Hamas terrorists shoot at the Israeli town of Bat Hefer from the Tulkarem area in the West Bank. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 29, 2024, 4:44 pm
Hamas terrorists shoot at Israeli town from West Bank, spurring demand for crackdown
Terror group posts video on social media showing three men firing at Israeli town of Bat Hefer from the West Bank; Smotrich says Israel must fight ‘like in Gaza’
By ToI Staff
Palestinian terrorists take control of an Israeli tank after crossing the border fence with Israel from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. (Said Khatib / AFP)
October 10, 2023, 10:41 am
Why did Israel think a border fence would protect it from an army of terrorists?
Once an offensive-minded force, the IDF thought it could hunker down behind walls and the Iron Dome, while the threat grew on the other side
By Lazar Berman
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers guard near the security fence between Israel and Jordan in the Arava Valley in southern Israel, February 9, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)
September 3, 2023, 11:58 pm
Netanyahu again vows to build long-touted fence along border with Jordan
PM has promised such a security barrier repeatedly over the past decade, an effort expected to cost billions
By ToI Staff
In this September 6, 2020 photo, Palestinian laborers cross illegally into Israel from the West Bank through an opening in a fence, south of the West Bank town of Hebron. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
April 7, 2022, 6:24 am
Terror attack bared West Bank barrier’s gaps, but some say holes help keep the peace
Experts say despite tough talk from army, unspoken policy of allowing Palestinian laborers to enter Israel illegally for work will remain as a vital pressure release valve
By Emanuel Fabian
The border fence between Israel and Egypt, January 02, 2012. (Moshe Milner/GPO/FLASH90)
February 13, 2021, 1:11 pm
IDF soldier lightly hurt by stray fire in exchange between Egypt army, smugglers
Soldier is taken to hospital for medical treatment after incident between Egyptian troops and drug traffickers
By ToI Staff
An Israeli military bulldozer enters the Gaza buffer zone to retrieve the body of a suspected terrorist on February 23, 2020. (Screen capture/Shehab news)
February 23, 2020, 2:30 pm
Terror groups slam Israel after IDF bulldozer collects body from Gaza border
Bennett backs IDF, calls left-wing critics ‘bleeding hearts,’ after Hamas accuses Israel of ‘heinous crime’; army accuses Islamic Jihad of placing bomb next to border fence
By Adam Rasgon
Abu Hamza, spokesman of the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad terror group, addresses Palestinians and threatens Israel in a video message broadcast on March 29, 2019. (Screenshot: Al-Quds Brigades)
March 30, 2019, 4:07 am
Islamic Jihad warns Israel of war if civilians killed during protests
Iranian-backed terror group calls for Gazans to join mass demonstrations scheduled for Saturday, issues threat to IDF forces on border
By ToI Staff
A Gazan attempts to damage a border fence in footage released by the IDF from May 14, 2018 violence at the border. (IDF)
March 27, 2019, 9:11 pm
Israel says over 2,000 violent incidents originated in Gaza in past year
Statistical review finds Palestinians launched 1,233 rockets from the Strip, hurled 94 explosive devices and 600 Molotov cocktails across the border fence
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A picture taken on on October 27, 2018, shows smoke rising following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
October 29, 2018, 12:25 am
Palestinians say three killed in IDF Gaza strike were boys aged 13-14
Army says it attacked a squad of Palestinians who were apparently trying to place explosive device near border fence in southern part of coastal enclave
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative. An explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, on October 27, 2018. (Mahmud Hams/AFP)
October 28, 2018, 9:13 pm
3 Gazans said killed in IDF strike while attempting to plant explosives
Squad of Palestinians were sabotaging border fence in southern part of coastal enclave, army says
By Jacob Magid
Larry Luxner
July 13, 2018, 2:24 pm
Larry Luxner
You CAN be in more than one place at a time
‘Stand under that tree, and put yer left foot in Arkansas, yer right foot in Louisiana, and piss all over Texas!’
Illustrative: Iraqi army reinforcements drive down a road, linking Hawija to Kirkuk, near the village of Khabbaz on October 7, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / Marwan IBRAHIM)
July 1, 2018, 6:45 pm
Iraq begins building border fence with Syria to block jihadists
First 20 kilometers of 600-km border reinforced with barbed wire, surveillance towers, trench, thermal cameras and drones
By AFP
US Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen in Jerusalem, June 11, 2018 (Courtesy Public Security Ministry)
June 13, 2018, 2:53 am
DHS secretary tours Israel-Egypt border for Mexico wall inspiration — report
Kirstjen Nielsen tells Jerusalem security conference ‘Islamist militants are preeminent terror threat to our lives’
By ToI Staff and JTA
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