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Eric Holcomb meets Netanyahu, visits Iron Dome battery; says both parties stand against Hamas terrorism

Judah Ari Gross is The Times of Israels military correspondent. A soldier from the Israeli militarys Home Front Command walks outside a house in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon that had been struck by a Hamas rocket on May 20, 2021. (Edi Israel/FLASH90) The 11 days of fighting in Gaza that made up what the Israel Defense Forces calls Operation Guardian of the Walls constituted the first major conflict overseen by army chief Aviv Kohavi. The results were at best a mixed bag, despite claims...

Children return to studies after learning institutes were ordered shut amid rocket fire; Education Ministry advises time to address emotional issues; some students stay home in Lod

90 shares Israeli soldiers from Home Front Command visit families inside a bomb shelter in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, on May 18, 2021. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP) Residents of Israeli communities adjacent to the Gaza Strip were ordered by the military to remain in bomb shelters for some four hours on Thursday as terror groups in the coastal enclave continued to launch barrages of mortar shells and rockets at civilian areas. After an eight-hour lull overnight, rocket sirens began ri...

Several other rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system, while others landed in open areas. The Israel Fire and Rescue Services said firefighters were working to douse a number of blazes sparked by rocket fire. It said none of the fires endangered any nearby communities. Rockets are fired by Palestinian terrorists toward Israel, near Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, May 19, 2021. (Said Khatib/AFP) Rocket warning sirens were also heard in the city of Rehovot and the Shfel...

Photo Credit: Gili Yaari / Flash 90 Police and rescue personnel at the scene of a rocket hit in Ramat Gan fired from the Gaza Strip, leaving one Israeli dead on May 15, 2021. True to its word, the Hamas terrorist organization began launching a renewed attack on Tel Aviv and surrounds a few minutes after midnight, after a two-hour period of silence. The terror group had threatened earlier in the evening to put Tel Aviv under “curfew” at midnight. #IronDome in action in Ashdod a few ...

(LONDON and CAIRO) — Israeli air and ground troops have carried out strikes into the Gaza Strip, authorities said, as the latest round of fighting between Israel’s military and Hamas, the Palestinian militant group ruling the Gaza Strip, continued. Israel Defense Forces tanks and artillery operating at the border fired into Gaza, Lt. Col. Jonathan [...]

2 shares A siren is sounding in communities close to the border with the Gaza Strip after a drone penetrated Israeli airspace from the Hamas-ruled coastal enclave, the IDF’s Home Front Command says. The siren will sound every ten minutes until the threat is neutralized by the Israel Defense Forces. Earlier, the military said it had intercepted at least five explosive-laden drones launched by terror groups in Gaza since yesterday. Im proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tel...

4 shares The IDF Home Front Command extends its emergency restrictions for areas under threat of Gaza rockets until Saturday evening. The decision has been made following a situational assessment after the fighting has shown no sign of abating. The restrictions limit outdoor gatherings to 10 people and indoor gatherings to 100 people in areas of southern and central Israel targeted repeatedly over the coming days, including the Tel Aviv metropolitan area. They also forbid educational acti...