Tag: Israel

The Israel Defense Forces announced Saturday that three of it's soldiers were shot and killed near the border with Egypt. The story as it is currently understood is that an Egyptian police officer crossed the border into Israel, apparently chasing drug smugglers, where somehow a confrontation with an IDF frontier...

By 1500 EST on 31 May 23, the commander of the Israeli Air Force, Major General Tomer Bar, announced that their entire fleet of U.S.-made Apache attack helicopters would be grounded due to an abnormal finding during routine maintenance. https://twitter.com/iafsite/status/1663991932572389379?s=46&t=fwloThPnqgTH71QlDeR_hA Israel did not disclose what the issue was nor did they...

The Israeli Defense Forces have announced that Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket force commander Ali Ghali was killed on Wednesday during a strike in Khan Yunis, Gaza. https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1656458878601535489?s=20 The PIJ's Al-Quds Brigades confirmed his death, releasing a statement that read "We mourn the martyr, the Mujahid Commander/ Ali Hassan Ghali, "Abu Muhammad,"...

Jordanian lawmaker Imad Adwan has been released by Israeli authorities and handed back over to Jordan after he was arrested last month on suspicion of smuggling weapons into the West Bank. Adwan is a member of the Palestine Committee and has been a vocal advocate for Palestinian resistance to...

Iran is home to an estimated 12-20 million ethnic Azeri's, more than in Azerbaijan itself. Northwestern Iran is where many of these Azeri's reside, and it has been the site of political violence and insurrection a number of times. Lately, it has been one of the hot points of...

Clashes broke out between Palestinian gunmen and the Israeli Defense Forces in northern West Bank during an IDF raid at the Jenin Refugee Camp. While the Israeli military did not release many details, videos from the ground show Israeli special forces move in with military tractors and bulldozers before local...