Israel Update 15.2.24
RESCUE OF TWO HOSTAGES In the early hours of Monday morning, Israeli security forces successfully rescued Fernando Simon Marman, 60, and Louis Har, 70, who were kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Yitzhak on Oct. 7, from the second floor of a building in Rafah, Gaza. Report here The family members of the […]
READ MOREISRAEL UPDATE 8.2.24
HOSTAGES An assessment conducted by Israeli intelligence officials has concluded that at least 30 of the remaining 136 hostages captured by Hamas on Oct. 7 have died and that at least 20 other hostages may have also been killed. Some were killed inside Israel on Oct. 7, and their bodies were taken […]
READ MOREIsrael Update 1.2.24
ISRAEL’S WAR AGAINST HAMAS The number of Israeli troops suffering severe injuries in Gaza is twice as high as in the nation’s last major conflict the 2006 Second Lebanon War. A quarter of the 2,784 soldiers wounded since Oct. 7 have been severely injured, “compared to 12%” in the 2006 war. In the […]
READ MOREIsrael Update 25.1.24
Tu B’Shvat greetings to my readers. ISRAEL’S WAR AGAINST HAMAS In the worst incident since the onset of the ground war, 21 IDF soldiers were killed in Gaza as they were preparing explosives to demolish two buildings on Monday. A terrorist firing a rocket-propelled grenade triggered the explosives, causing the buildings to […]
READ MOREIsrael Update 17.1.24
SUNDAY JANUARY 14th MARKED 100 DAYS SINCE OCT 7 100 days since the atrocities of Oct. 7, 132 Israeli hostages remained captives in Gaza.Ten are over the age of 75. One, Kfir Bibas, turns one this week and has spent a quarter of his life in captivity – if indeed the baby is […]
READ MOREIsrael Update 11.1.24
US SECRETARY OF STATE U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a press conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday: “We continue to stand with Israel in ensuring that October 7th can never happen again….We believe the submission [by South Africa] against Israel to the International Court of Justice distracts the world from all […]
READ MOREIsrael Update 3.1.24
Publication on Wednesday due to travel this week. ISRAEL’S WAR AGAINST HAMAS The IDF’s death toll in the ground operation is 175. War update here Hamas Political Bureau Deputy Chairman, Saleh Al-Arouri, was killed along with at least five other people in an alleged Israeli drone strike in Beirut. Arouri was one of the […]
READ MOREIsrael Update 28.12.23
The next Israel Update will hopefully be sometime in the first week of January. ISRAEL’S WAR AGAINST HAMAS As the IDF continued to battle the Hamas terror group in Gaza, the army on Thursday morning announced the deaths of three soldiers in fighting the previous day, bringing the death toll in the […]
READ MOREInterim Israel Update 25.12.23
ISRAEL’S WAR AGAINST HAMAS More IDF soldiers have fallen in battle over the weekend bringing the death toll of Israel’s ground offensive to 156. Report here The IDF recovered the remains of five hostages murdered by Hamas, three soldiers and two civilians.They were found in a Hamas tunnel network which has […]
READ MOREIsrael Update 21.12.23
US SECRETARY OF STATE BLINKEN During a Wednesday press briefing Secretary Blinken said: “And what is striking to me is that even as, again, we hear many countries urging the end to this conflict, which we would all like to see, I hear virtually no one saying – demanding of Hamas that it stop […]
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