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Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, center, chants slogans with protesters during his visit to the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
November 21, 2018, 12:09 pm
Ministers say Israel close to retaking Gaza, Hamas leaders’ days are numbered
Security cabinet members Gilad Erdan, Yoav Gallant, and Israel Katz call for targeted killings of terrorist group’s leaders
By Raphael Ahren
Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset, April 22, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 19, 2018, 5:09 pm
Deriding Bennett, Netanyahu says IDF soldiers ‘are not afraid of anyone’
PM hits back at Jewish Home head’s claim that army’s Military Advocate General prevents soldiers from carrying out their fighting duties
By Raoul Wootliff
IDF Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot at the Glilot military base near Tel Aviv, March 28, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 19, 2018, 2:16 pm
In rare critique, army chief blasts Bennett for disparaging IDF lawyers
Military Advocate General Corps is ‘part of the IDF’s strength,’ says Eisenkot; AG, himself a former head of MAG, says Jewish Home leader’s claim ‘untrue’
By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, June 13, 2016. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)
November 18, 2018, 11:20 am
Netanyahu throws up a Hail Moshe: 8 things to know for November 18
The prime minister’s hopes of avoiding his government’s collapse are pinned on a meeting with Kulanu chief Kahlon, with few giving it much chance of succeeding
By Joshua Davidovich
Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, center, chants slogans with protesters during his visit to the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
November 17, 2018, 12:35 pm
We should all hope the victories of Gaza’s Yahya Sinwar haven’t gone to his head
Hamas leader in the Strip won a ceasefire on his terms, and may well have brought about the end of Netanyahu’s government. But his ‘achievements’ have changed little on the ground
By Avi Issacharoff
In this November 16, 2018 image, Hamas's Gaza chief Yahya Sinwar holds up a handgun with a silencer he says was captured from Israeli special forces during a firefight in the Gaza Strip on November 11 (YouTube screenshot)
November 16, 2018, 11:27 pm
Hamas Gaza chief to Israel: Don’t test us again, next barrage will hit Tel Aviv
Yahya Sinwa brandishes handgun with silencer he says was taken from Israeli special forces; warns next time IDF troops enter Strip, they’ll return only for ‘thousands of prisoners’
By TOI staff
A Palestinian woman counts her money after receiving her salary in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, November 9, 2018. (Said Khatib/AFP)
November 11, 2018, 1:58 pm
Israel and Hamas cheer Qatar’s Gaza cash infusion, but Abbas could spoil party
While Gazans ascribe influx of money to weekly protests, and Israel buys some time, the PA could yet cut its own funding for the coastal enclave, plunging it into war
By Avi Issacharoff
Israeli army jeeps patrol on the border with the Gaza Strip on October 17, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 19, 2018, 8:57 am
Keep it calm and get ready to rumble: 7 things to know for October 19
Friday is seen as a massive test of whether Israel and Hamas can keep a lid on tensions and keep talking; if they don’t, Israel seems ready for war
By Joshua Davidovich
In this photo from May 1, 2017, Yehiyeh Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, attends a news conference in Gaza City. (AP Photo/Adel Hana, File)
October 5, 2018, 8:50 pm
In interview with Israeli paper, Hamas chief defends group’s terror tactics
‘If tomorrow I organize an attack, I’ll be in the main headlines of all the newspapers,’ Yahya Sinwar says, claiming it’s the only way to send messages to Israel
By TOI staff
Fighters from the Hamas terror group at a funeral in Gaza City on September 25, 2018, for a Palestinian who died the day before in clashes with Israeli troops along the border. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
October 5, 2018, 5:28 pm
Hamas dismisses Liberman’s threats of war as ’empty words’
Gaza terror group vows clashes with Israeli troops along the border will ‘intensify’ ahead of another Friday of violence
By TOI staff and Judah Ari Gross
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, center, IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot and senior IDF officers visit an exercise simulating war with the Lebanon-based Hezbollah terrorist group on September 4, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
October 5, 2018, 10:34 am
‘The holidays are over,’ Liberman warns Hamas heads
In a tweet, defense minister hints to leaders of Gaza terror group that Israel is ready to go to war over border violence
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Masked Palestinians calling themselves the "night confusion units" hold incendiary devices attached to balloons to be flown toward Israel, near the border with Israel east of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on September 26, 2018. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)
October 5, 2018, 9:40 am
Messaging before war: 8 things to know for October 5
The IDF’s decision to bolster troops on the border is seen as a signal to Hamas, while the terror group’s leader in Gaza says arson balloons are also a message conveyance system
By Joshua Davidovich
Israeli soldiers boarding armored vehicles on their way to patrol along the Israeli-Gazan border on July 21, 2018. (Gili Yaari/FLASH90)
October 4, 2018, 6:39 pm
Defense minister orders IDF on high alert at Gaza border
Liberman says troops ready to confront ‘any scenario’ after army bolsters forces around security fence
By Judah Ari Gross and TOI staff
Trucks carrying fuel for the Gaza Strip enter Rafah through the Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and the southern Gaza Strip on March 16, 2014. (AFP Photo/Said Khatib)
October 4, 2018, 3:34 pm
PA prevents Gaza from receiving Qatari fuel aid, increasing danger of violence
Palestinian sources say Ramallah warned it would boycott Israeli fuel, told fuel workers in Strip not to show up to work, as Abbas tightens stranglehold on the enclave
By Avi Issacharoff
A Palestinian woman holds a flag as protesters demonstrate at the Erez border crossing with Israel in the northern Gaza Strip on October 3, 2018. (AFP/ Said KHATIB)
October 4, 2018, 1:09 pm
Gaza Strip tease: 10 things to know for October 4
Gaza’s leader says he doesn’t want war, but few believe him and with the IDF fetching more troops, the Strip seems headed that way even after Qatar agrees to throw fuel at the fire
By Joshua Davidovich
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