Kibbutz Nahal Oz

May 4, 2019, 2:36 pm

Despite rockets, arson balloons, Israeli communities on Gaza border keep growing

Alongside financial incentives, towns and villages said to offer community spirit sought by many young families. Population of battered Sderot set to almost double by 2050

By Sue Surkes

Amid black smoke from burning tires, Palestinian protesters run from teargas fired by Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, May 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

May 13, 2018, 10:46 pm

IDF gears up for mass Gaza riots, warns that Hamas plans to ‘massacre’ Israelis

Over 100,000 Palestinians expected to take part in ‘March of Return’ protests on Monday; IDF fears hundreds may try to breach border fence, attack nearby Israeli towns

By Judah Ari Gross

Palestinian protesters carry a wounded man during a clash with Israeli forces near the Israel-Gaza border east of the southern Gaza strip city of Khan Yunis on December 29, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / SAID KHATIB)

December 30, 2017, 9:08 am

Palestinian protester said to die of wounds from Gaza clashes with IDF

Thousands take part in violent clashes Friday along the Gaza Strip border and in the West Bank to protest Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem

By TOI staff and Agencies

A Palestinian protestor kicks a burning tire during clashes with Israeli security forces in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on December 29, 2017, following the weekly Muslim Friday prayers. (AFP / Musa al Shaer)

December 29, 2017, 4:35 pm

Thousands of Palestinians clash with Israeli forces in Gaza, West Bank

Rioters hurl rocks, burn tires as they confront IDF troops in fourth week of demonstrations against US Jerusalem declaration; dozens reported injured

By TOI staff

A young boy insults US President Donald Trump and threatens Israel during a Hamas rally in Gaza, December 2017. (Screen capture: MEMRI video)

December 29, 2017, 11:40 am

At Hamas rally, Gazan kid threatens ‘idiot Trump’ and ‘son of a Jew Netanyahu’

At demonstration against US president’s recognition of Jerusalem, masked child says ‘we will trample your soldiers underfoot’

By TOI staff

A picture taken on December 10, 2017 shows a tear gas canister falling amid Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli forces near the Israel-Gaza border east of the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis. (MAHMUD HAMS/AFP)

December 24, 2017, 1:03 pm

Gazan said to die of wounds weeks after clashing with IDF

Wafa news agency says Muhammad Sami al-Dahduh, 19, was shot in the neck during protests against Trump recognition of Jerusalem

By TOI staff

Israel's ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, left, with United Nation's Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, center, and IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, in a helicopter as they review the security situation along Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, August 30, 2017. (Israel UN/Shlomi Amsalem)

August 30, 2017, 12:08 pm

UN chief tours Gaza border to see rocket, tunnel threats

Antonio Guterres then enters the Hamas-run coastal enclave to visit a UN school and meet residents

By Stuart Winer

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley tours a Hamas-dug tunnel near Kibbutz Ein Hashlosha, June 8, 2017 with Israels envoy to the UN, Danny Danon, walking behind her. (IDF)

June 8, 2017, 5:55 pm

Haley tours Hamas-dug tunnel, towns in south, border area with Lebanon in north

Ambassador to UN speaks to residents on life under rocket threat, visits Kerem Shalom border crossing into Palestinian enclave, heads north to Kibbutz Misgav Am

By TOI staff

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks at the opening of the 35th session of the Human Rights Council, at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, June 6, 2017. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP)

June 6, 2017, 9:49 pm

US to quit UN Human Rights Council if it won’t reform, Haley indicates

Hours before heading to Jerusalem, UN envoy urges body to drop anti-Israel item from permanent agenda; blasts its ‘long line of shameful actions’

By Raphael Ahren

Illustrative: A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot to throw stones towards Israeli soldiers during clashes near the border fence between Israel and the central Gaza Strip on October 15, 2015 (Mohammed Abed/AFP)

August 26, 2016, 9:32 pm

Palestinian said wounded by IDF fire in Gaza riot

Incident on border near Kibbutz Nahal Oz comes hours after IDF troops shoot and kill a man who rushed their West Bank post

By TOI staff

IDF soldiers by the Gaza border, near Kibbutz Nir Am, in southern Israel, on January 13, 2016 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

May 5, 2016, 2:40 am

Hamas says Israeli troops operating in Gaza now pulling out

IDF will not comment on whether soldiers had been seeking tunnels inside Strip; air force strikes multiple Hamas targets

By Itamar Sharon

Israeli soldiers stand by an armored personnel carrier near the Israel Gaza border, Wednesday, May 4, 2016. (AP photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

May 4, 2016, 8:49 pm

IAF warplanes hit Hamas targets in Gaza following mortar fire at IDF troops

No reports of injuries after strikes near Rafah; army speculates shelling of its troops may be response to border operation to find, destroy terror tunnels

By Ilan Ben Zion

Israeli soldiers stand guard with their tank along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip near the southern Israeli kibbutz of Nahal Oz on May 4, 2016. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)

May 4, 2016, 7:52 pm

Israel jets said to strike Gaza, in response to Hamas mortar fire

Israel warns Strip’s terrorist rulers to stop shelling troops at border or face harsher response; flare-up may be response to IDF operation to seek and destroy terror tunnels

By Ilan Ben Zion

A tank is transported near Kibbutz Be'eri just outside the central Gaza Strip on April 13, 2016. (Corinna Kern/Flash90)

May 4, 2016, 6:09 pm

Hamas braces for retaliatory strikes, as IDF hits back at Gaza shelling

Army responds to repeated mortar fire from Strip, while Palestinian terror group evacuates schools, offices in Strip

By TOI staff

Moshe Dayan eulogizes Roi Rotberg, Kibbutz Nahal Oz, April 1956 (IDF archives)

April 28, 2016, 9:51 am

When Moshe Dayan delivered the defining speech of Zionism

60 years ago, as he eulogized a ‘thin blond lad’ named Roi Rotberg killed by Palestinian gunmen on the Gaza border, the IDF chief of staff wasn’t aiming to set out the Zionist ethos for generations. But that’s what he did

By Mitch Ginsburg