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Israel draws up over-plan for control of the Gaza Strip

The IDF’s Shejaiya operation in the Gaza Strip continues apace, carried forward by five task forces now heading for the center of Gaza City amid casualties on both sides. Sunday, July 20, Israel’s crack Golani Brigades lost 18 fighters, without … Continue reading

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IDF ground forces attack Gaza amid air, sea and artillery pounding.

Israel air, sea and artillery pounded the Gaza Strip Thursday night, July 17, as IDF ground forces embarked on a ground attack, just announced by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. DEBKAfile reports a softening-up operation to prepare for the entry of armored and … Continue reading

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Israel Launches Ground Invasion Of Gaza

While the mainstream media busily speculates on just which Russians (because they are sure it’s not the Ukrainians) shot the jet out of the sky, Al Jazeera, via Bloomberg, reports that things are escalating once again in Israel: ISRAEL GROUND INVASION OF … Continue reading

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Gaza Invasion Is Likely, Israeli Official Says

A senior Israeli military official said Wednesday the likelihood of a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip was “very high,” and that “if you want to efficiently fight terrorism you must be present, boots on the ground.” The official, who … Continue reading

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Israel Launches Ground Operation In Gaza

After conducting countless sorties and bombing raids aimed at Hamas operatives in Gaza during the fifth day of Operation Protective Edge, but resulting in well over a hundred innocent civilian deaths in the past week, Israel, realizing it is not … Continue reading

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IDF tells 100,000 Gaza civilians to move back from Israeli border – sign of impending ground incursion

Thursday afternoon, July 10, the IDF advised 100,000 Palestinian civilians to leave their homes in the northern Gaza villages of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, Greater Ibsen and Smaller Ibsen and head west to the coast or south to remove themselves … Continue reading

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Egypt set for Fattah 2 offensive on Sinai Islamist terror. Gaza sealed. US and Israeli forces on alert

The Egyptian army has set Friday, July 19, as D-Day for launching a major offensive, dubbed Fattah 2 (Conquest 2), against a coalition of aggressive Salafists, Muslim Brotherhood operatives, Hamas and Jihad Islami groups terrorizing Sinai. The commanders of Egypt’s … Continue reading

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Israel’s Air Force hits Gaza terror sites after rocket attack

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Air Force bombed a terror training base in Gaza hours after a rocket from Gaza struck near a civilian community in southern Israel. The Israel Air Force targeted the training site and what it identified as a weapons … Continue reading

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Israel launches airstrikes on Gaza; first since truce

The IAF launched airstrikes on the Palestinian Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first such attack since a truce ended an eight-day cross-border war in November. “Occupation planes bombarded an open area in northern Gaza, there were no wounded,” a statement … Continue reading

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US warships turn around toward Israel for possible evacuation of Americans

The US has ordered three amphibious warships with 2,500 Marines aboard back to the eastern Mediterranean to remain on standby off Israel’s shore in case they are needed to evacuate American citizens. The USS Iwo Jima, the USS New York and the USS Gunston … Continue reading

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Rockets from Gaza hit Beersheba, Ashkelon, Ashdod

Palestinians in Gaza fire over 30 rockets into Israel since morning, injuring 4; Iron Dome intercepts 17 rockets, including 2 over TA; fragments from intercepted rocket near TA destroy car. Palestinians in the Gaza Strip fired over 30 rockets towards … Continue reading

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IDF digs in for long haul after sustained rocket fire kills three Israelis

As the rockets kept coming through Wednesday night – and the first three fatalities Thursday morning, Nov. 15 – the cautious lift in Israeli spirits generated by the death of Ahmed Jabari, who fashioned Hamas into a paramilitary machine of terror, … Continue reading

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Palestinian missiles again rain down on Israel after injuring 4 Israeli soldiers

Violence spewed out of the Gaza Strip again Saturday night, Nov. 10, with a rocket attack on an IDF Givaty Brigade jeep on a routine task some distance from the border, injuring four Israeli soldiers – one critically, two in … Continue reading

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IDF on guard for Iranian-Hizballah drones from Palestinian Gaza

The Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s threat Thursday night of more UAV’s over Israel aroused concern in the Israeli high command that Iranian drones had been smuggled into the hands of the Palestinian Hamas extremists ruling the Gaza Strip. He implied … Continue reading

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How Would You Like to Live Like This?

Rockets heard at the 2:00 mark IDF strikes Gaza terror targets following rocket barrage The IAF struck three targets in Gaza overnight Friday in response to a number of rocket attacks from the Strip earlier in the day that left at least … Continue reading

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