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| April 24, 2015
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Gaza Ruling Hamas Gov’t is Quick to Deny Responsibility for Rocket Attack on Israel

Israel TV10 Reports: Hamas official signals to Israel that it is not responsible for Thursday night rocket attack on southern Israel. – Israeli security officials not buying it.

By Elad Benari

 

Hamas has signaled to Israel that it is not responsible for Thursday evening’s rocket attack on southern Israel and that it is working to find and arrest the shooters, Channel 10 News reports.

A senior security official said, however, that Israel views Hamas as being responsible for the attack.

“We see Hamas as responsible, and expect it to enforce order in Gaza. Hamas is the ruling power in the region and is must maintain quiet; if not it will be held responsible. Continue Reading »

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| July 13, 2014
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Lebanon Fires Two Katyusha Rockets at Israel’s Western Galilee

Code Red rocket-warning sirens blare in the Western Galilee towns of Shlomi and Nahariya.

IDF returns fires at the rocket launch sites in Lebanon with artillery fire.

 

The IDF confirmed that two rockets were fired from Lebanon towards northern Israel and landed in open areas north of Nahariya on Saturday night. Rocket alert sirens sounded in the area of the attack in Nahariya and Shlomi.

IDF soldiers on patrol – Photo: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

There were no injuries or damage reported in the attack. In response, the IDF fired at the rocket launch zones in Lebanon with artillery fire. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2014
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Gaza Rocket Hits Home in Be’er Sheva, Elderly Woman Injured

Rocket fired from Gaza gets by Iron Dome to hit a home in Be’er Sheva, injuring a woman & causing extensive damage to the building.

By Elad Benari, Canada

 

A rocket fired from Gaza hit a home in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva on Friday evening.

A woman in her 80s suffered mild injuries and was taken to the Soroka Hospital for treatment. Extensive damage was caused to the building.

A salvo of rockets hit southern Israel earlier on Friday evening, with at least five rockets fired towards Ashdod.

Two rockets were intercepted by Iron Dome. Three other rockets exploded in open areas. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2014
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Lebanese Report: Man arrested in connection to earlier rocket fired at Israel

Lebanese media says military personal recovered additional rockets at launching site, prepared by unknown militant group, assumed to also be fired toward Israel.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

 

Lebanese authorities reportedly arrested one person on Friday in connection to the rocket attack from Lebanon into Israel earlier this morning.

Lebanese army personnel inspects the remains of a shell that was suspected of having been launched from Lebanon to Israel, near the village of El Mari in Southern Lebanon July 11, 2014. - Photo: Reuters/Karamallah Daher

Lebanese army personnel inspects the remains of a shell that was suspected of having been launched from Lebanon to Israel, near the village of El Mari in Southern Lebanon July 11, 2014 – Photo: Reuters/Karamallah Daher

The Beirut-based newspaper The Daily Star, cited security forces as saying the suspect’s car had blood stains that matched blood traces found at the scene where the rocket was launched. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2014
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Lebanese Group Fires Katyusha Rocket at Upper Galilee

IDF returns fire from area where small radical organization, not Hezbollah, fired single rocket from Lebanon, senior army source says.

 

 

One rocket was fired from Lebanon on Friday morning on a village in the Upper Galilee. There were no injuries in the attack.

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Retrieving remnants of an exploded Katyusha rocket in Upper Galilee Kibbutz (archives) – Photo: IsraelandStuff/PP

Artillery fire was directed at the area from which the rocket was fired, a senior army source said.

The rocket was not fired by Hezbollah but by a small radical organization in Lebanon, Maj.-Gen. Continue Reading »

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| June 30, 2014
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Netanyahu: Israel prepared to intensify operations in Gaza

 

PM’s comment follow barrage of 13 Gaza rockets over the weekend, resulting in a massive damage and fire in Sderot

• Lieberman recommends retaking the  Gaza Strip
• 2 Gaza terrorists assassinated in IAF pinpoint airstrike in response to escalating rocket fire

By Lilach Shoval, Daniel Siryoti, Reuters, The Associated Press & Israel Hayom Staff

 

“We are prepared to widen our operation in Gaza, should the need arise,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday following multiple rocket salvos from Gaza into Israel over the weekend.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday – Photo: Marc Israel Sellem

“The IDF bombed a large number of targets [in Gaza] over the weekend in response to rocket fire into Israel,” Netanyahu told the cabinet ministers at their weekly meeting.

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| June 14, 2014
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IAF retaliatory attack targets Gaza after terrorists’ rocket lands in Israel

After terrorists’ rocket landed in southern Israel early Saturday, IAF retaliates with 2 air strikes in southern Gaza.

Gaza rocket reportedly caused no damages or injuries.

By JPOST.COM STAFF

 

The Israeli Air Force attacked 2 targets in the Gaza strip Saturday after a rocket was launched into Israel earlier Saturday morning.
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The IAF attack targeted terrorists in the southern Gaza strip.
A rocket landed in Israel, apparently unrelated to the case of the 3 missing yeshiva students, around 5 a.m Saturday after a code red siren alerted in western Negev communities.

 

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Islamic Jihad underground rocket launcher Photo: screenshot

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| April 23, 2014
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Israel’s psychic spoon-bender to assist Israelis defy disasters

 

Spoon-bending Uri Geller will participate in a new Home Front Command commercial to educate the Israeli public on how to find shelter during a rocket attack.

By Reuters

 

Celebrity psychic Uri Geller is the beaming new face of Israeli disaster-readiness, starring in army-sponsored TV and Internet advertisements on how to take shelter from missile attacks or earthquakes.

Uri Geller - Photo: UriGeller.com

Uri Geller – Photo: UriGeller.com

Launched on Wednesday, the campaign marks Geller’s return to his native country from Britain and aims to keep Israelis vigilant, though public fears of any imminent war with Iran, Syria or Lebanese and Palestinian guerrillas have receded. Continue Reading »

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| March 14, 2014
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Despite ‘ceasefire’ sporadic Gaza rocket fire continues to hit Southern Israel

 

3 rockets land in Sha’ar Hanegev, 1 in Sderot & 1 in Ashkelon Coast area despite Islamic Jihad’s claims that Egypt brokered a ceasefire.

IDF’s Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepts rocket headed for Netivot.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN, JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

Sporadic rocket fire from the Gaza Strip fell in southern Israel on Thursday evening hours after the Islamic Jihad claimed that Egypt had brokered a ceasefire to end two days of hostilities that has seen nearly 70 rockets fall in the South.

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Islamic Jihad underground rocket launcher – Photo: screenshot

A rocket fell in the Ashkelon Coast Council area around 5 p.m. Continue Reading »

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| March 12, 2014
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BREAKING NEWS: IDF Strikes Back after barrage of Gaza rockets fired at Israel

Israel responds to volley of rockets fired by at communities in the South.

Islamic Jihad reports firing 90 rockets.

Israeli air strike follows IDF shelling of 2 terror infrastructure targets in Strip. No casualties reported on Israeli side.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

The Israel Air Force has begun bombing targets in Gaza on Wednesday in response to a large-scale Islamic Jihad rocket attack on southern communities earlier in the evening.

IDF Strikes back – Photo:REUTERS/Darren Whiteside

The IDF said at least 30 rockets had been fired toward Israeli communities near the borders with southern and northern Gaza in the largest attack since 2012’s Operation Pillar of Defense. Continue Reading »

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| March 3, 2014
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Lebanese Military Officials: Hezbollah Probably Behind Mt. Hermon Rocket Attack

Multiple military sources, told The Daily Star that the rocket attack on Mt. Hermon was most likely staged by Hezbollah in retaliation for last week’s airstrikes.

By Elad Benari

 

Hezbollah was likely behind a rocket attack near an IDF post in Mount Hermon early Saturday morning, security and military sources told Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star on Sunday night.

Hezbollah members rally in Beirut in Nazi salute - Photo: Reuters

Hezbollah members rally in Beirut in Nazi salute – Photo: Reuters

The officials said that the attack was Hezbollah’s retaliation for alleged Israeli airstrikes on Hezbollah targets near the Lebanese-Syrian border.

Two rockets were fired at Israel in the attack, and no injuries or damages were reported. Continue Reading »

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| January 21, 2014
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Sinai Salafists Responsible for Yesterday’s Rocket Attack on Eilat

The Sinai-based jihadi group, Ansar Bayt al-Makdis, declares that ‘the Jews will only see injury from us.’

By Tova Dvorin

 

 

The Long War Journal reports Tuesday that a Sinai-based Salafist group has claimed responsibility for Monday’s rocket fire on Eilat.

The jihadist group, named Ansar Jerusalem or Ansar Bayt al Makdis, posted on Gaza based social media a statement boasting the attack.

“Our war with the enemy in Egypt has not dissuaded us from the war against the first enemy of our nation,” the statement claims. “With Allah’s help, the Jews will only see injury from us.”

The organization is believed to be the most prominent group operating against the Egyptian army in recent months. Continue Reading »

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| January 16, 2014
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WATCH: IDF releases video of morning retaliatory IAF airstrike on Gaza terror targets

Watch Israel Air Force’s reaction after Iron Dome intercepted 5 rockets fired from Gaza at Ashkelon.

There were no reports of injury or property damage with the 6th rocket landing in an open, uninhabited area.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

The Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted five rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza at Ashkelon early Thursday morning. An additional rocket may have landed in an open, uninhabited area.
There were no injuries in the Palestinian attack.

Israel Air Force - Phot courtesy: IDF Spokesperson's Unit

Israel Air Force – Photo courtesy: IDF Spokesperson’s Unit

The IAF responded to the rocket fire on Thursday by attacking four targets in the northern Gaza Strip: a terror site, an underground rocket launcher, a weapons storage facility and a weapons manufacturing site, the IDF Spokesperson said. Continue Reading »

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| September 1, 2013
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1st Time Ever: 2 Arrested in Lebanon for rocket attacks on Israel

Both arrested Lebanese men confessed to supplying 4 rockets used in August 22 attacks on Israel’s Galilee.

Lebanese Army expects further arrests.

By JPOST.COM STAFF
 

 

Lebanese authorities arrested two suspects for involvement in rocket attacks from the country’s territory into northern Israel earlier this month, The Daily Star reported on Saturday.

Katyusha Rocket shot at Galilee (archive) – IsraelandStuff/PP

According to the report, the Lebanese Armed Forces stated that the suspects, Youssef Muhammad Fliti and Omar Abdel-Mawla al-Atrash, confessed to supplying the four rockets used in the attacks.

The suspects said that they transferred the rockets to a man in the southern Lebanese city of Tyre.

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| August 13, 2013
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Rocket fired by Sinai terrorists at Eilat intercepted by Iron Dome

 

Siren activated then blasts heard around the southern city.

Rocket attack comes just days after alleged Israeli drone successfully killed Al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists in the Sinai.

By YAAKOV LAPPIN

 

 

 

Terrorists fired a rocket at Eilat shortly before 1 a.m. on Tuesday morning, triggering an air raid siren and activating the Iron Dome anti-rocket battery, which is stationed at the Red Sea city.

Iron Dome battery deployed in North

Iron Dome battery deployed in North – Photo: Ben Hartman

The Iron Dome system intercepted at least one rocket, according to initial IDF assessments.

It is unknown at this stage whether additional rockets fell in open areas outside of the city.

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