Youmna El Sayed, Al Jazeera’s Gaza City correspondent, is live to give the latest updates on Hamas’ attack on Israel and the Jewish state’s response in the Strip. During his speech, a rocket hits the tower behind him: the noise is very loud and the journalist screams in fright. “Please protect yourself, Youmna; explain to […]
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The “catastrophic failure” of Israeli 007s
History is repeating itself and Israeli intelligence, considered among the best in the world, was once again caught off guard. Hamas’ offensive on Gaza took place exactly 50 years after the start of the Yom Kippur War; Egypt and Syria, at the head of the Arab coalition, launched an offensive that surprised Tel Aviv’s politicians […]
Israel, the party in the desert turns into carnage: rockets and gunfire into the crowd
Nothing was spared in the rocket attack launched by Hamas against Israel. One of the most viral videos is of the chaos that broke out during an all-night outdoor party near Kibbutz Reim, near the Gaza Strip. Eyewitnesses said the rockets were quickly followed by shots fired into the crowd as hundreds of revelers tried […]
Israel, revenge after Hamas rocket storm: 198 dead in Gaza
At least 40 people have died and 740 have been injured since the start of Hamas’ large-scale attack on Israel. And the Jewish State did not sit idly by after the rain of rockets fired from Gaza at dawn: the number of victims of the Israeli attacks carried out in the Gaza Strip in response […]
Israel, barrage of rockets launched from Gaza: sirens across the country
High tension between Gaza and Israel, after a surprise attack began in the Strip in the morning and armed militiamen entered Israeli territory. The head of Hamas’ military branch in Gaza, Mohammad Deif, announced the start of operation “Flood al-Aqsa”. “We warned the Zionist enemy several times, but we always received refusals,” he said. The […]
Rockets rain on Tel Aviv, bombs on Gaza, violence does not stop in the Middle East
The Israeli air force struck the Gaza Strip on its second day, killing a total of 20 Palestinians in the worst escalation of violence to hit the area in months. In response to this, Palestinian militants in the region started firing rockets and sirens along the border, and the inhabitants of the border areas decided […]
Islamic Jihad leader dies in rocket fire and hunger strike from Gaza
Armed Palestinian militant groups fired rockets from Gaza into southern Israel after an Islamic Jihad leader died in prison after an 87-day hunger strike; it was the first such death in over thirty years. Israel responded with a tank attack that opened fire on the Strip. Awaiting trial, Khader Adnan was found unconscious in his […]
Israel bombs Gaza in retaliation for rocket attacks
Israeli jets bombarded Gaza overnight in retaliation for two rockets fired by Palestinian militants, further escalating tensions after one of the worst days of violence in the occupied West Bank in years. The military announced it was targeting what it claims was an underground rocket manufacturing facility at the Maghazi refugee camp in the center […]
Gaza under attack. Islamic Jihad Strikes Back, But What About Hamas?
More than a year after the 11-day conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, Gaza is once again under Israeli fire, with at least 24 dead (including six children). This time, the target of the attacks is the most radical group of Islamic Jihad, which reacted by hundreds missiles that set off alarm […]