Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s military has prepared for a sustained rocket campaign from the Gaza Strip. The military has instituted regulations that virtually end public life in much of the Jewish state. The regulations by the military’s Homefront Command ban gatherings routine for concerts, school assemblies and prayer. “Gatherings of more than […]
By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com Conflict between Israel and the Hamas bears some startling resemblances to that between North and South Korea. Think about it: Israel and North Korea are both essentially client states. Israel couldn’t fight anyone, could not exist surrounded by Arab enemies, without all the arms the U.S. has been pouring into the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israelis, despite assurances by the government, fear returning to their homes in communities along the Gaza Strip. Up to 20,000 Israelis have been forced out of their homes during the Hamas war. The Israelis have dismissed goverment assurances that their communities were safe from Palestinian rocket and tunnel attacks. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s military is said to lack the technology to locate and destroy Palestinian attack tunnels in the Gaza Strip. A leading Israeli think tank said the military has long known of the construction of attack tunnels by Hamas and its Palestinian militia allies in the Gaza Strip. But the […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Mohammed Deif has returned as Hamas’ military chief amid the war with Israel. Israel’s intelligence community has determined that Deif ended nearly a decade in the underground to resume his role as Hamas’ military chief. Officials said the community assessed that Deif returned to leadership months after the Israeli […]
Special to WorldTribune.com JERUSALEM — The Hamas war has highlighted the steady decline in relations between Israel and the United States. Officials and analysts agreed that the U.S.-led mediation to end the Gaza war damaged relations with both Israel as well as longtime Arab allies. They said President Barack Obama sided with Hamas’ main supporters, […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel has killed Hamas’ chief weapons developer. Military sources said Ismail Akluk was killed in an Israel Air Force strike on July 25 in the Gaza Strip. The sources said Akluk, 25, was an Iranian-trained operative responsible for much of Hamas’ development of long-range rockets and unmanned aerial vehicles. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel, faced with withdrawal or conquest, has lost control over the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip, a report said. The Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Affairs has asserted that Israel lost the initiative in its conflict with Hamas. A former leading adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Hamas was demonstrating unprecedented […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Israel’s military has formed a list of banned targets of Hamas and its Palestinian militia allies in the Gaza Strip. Military sources said the Israel Air Force and Army drafted a joint list of sites that contain rockets and enemy forces immune from attack. They said the sites were […]
Special to WorldTribune.com TEL AVIV — Hamas has been firing rockets toward Israel’s leading airport, sparking widespread cancellations by foreign airlines. Officials said Hamas was firing rockets within two kilometers of Ben-Gurion International Airport. Several rockets landed near the airport on July 22 and two people were injured. One of the rockets also damaged a […]