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Did Israeli intelligence fail to spot an obvious mobile phone signal about the October 7 invasion?

Just before October 7, thousands of Israeli sim cards activated in Gaza

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February 27, 2024 18:12

Horrifying: CCTV footage appears to show Hamas fighters preparing to behead Israelis

Tunnel walls close in for Hamas as the psychological war intensifies

First sighting of Sinwar in the depths of Gaza as evidence continues to mount up

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February 15, 2024 13:01

Yahya al-Sinwar (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

The pressure for hostage deal as high as the landing strip is narrow

The negotiators who are shuttling draft proposals have set achieving an agreement by Ramadan as their goal

4 min read

February 7, 2024 14:53

Protesters hold placards with the picture of 26-year-old Gali and Ziv Berman (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)

Israel’s divided war cabinet still has no strategy for running Gaza after the war

Israeli politicians can’t agree on what to do after the fighting is over. Nor can the people

5 min read

January 31, 2024 17:24

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) poses for a picture with Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant ahead of their meeting in Jerusalem, on January 31, 2023. (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / POOL / AFP) (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

After a disastrous tragedy, soldiers fear a Gaza sellout

The IDF’s buffer zone plan leads to 21 men dying in one explosion

6 min read

January 25, 2024 24:00

After a disastrous tragedy, soldiers fear a Gaza sellout

Egypt and US put squeeze on Bibi

As talks to free the Israeli hostages proceed in Cairo, the Israeli leader is resisting calls for a ceasefire

4 min read

January 18, 2024 11:13

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on as the US Secretary of State gives statements to the media inside The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Defence Ministry, after their meeting in Tel Aviv on October 12, 2023. Blinken arrived in a show of solidarity after Hamas's surprise weekend onslaught in Israel, an AFP correspondent travelling with him reported. He is expected to visit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Washington closes ranks with its ally that has launched a withering air campaign against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Jacquelyn Martin / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JACQUELYN MARTIN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

The Gaza war goes deep underground

The IDF are now battling Hamas in hand-to-hand combat in tunnels deep below the surface

4 min read

January 11, 2024 14:18

In this picture taken during a media tour organised by the Israeli military on December 15, 2023, soldiers stand at the entrance of a tunnel that Hamas reportedly used to attack Israel through the Erez border crossing on October 7. (Photo by JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

The Hamas boss who wanted a third intifada died a failure

Saleh al-Arouri killed by a drone strike in Beirut failed to persuade Hezbollah to join the war

4 min read

January 4, 2024 13:05

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, right, meets Hamas deputy chief, Saleh al-Arouri

This was the year the Netanyahu Strategy died

Polls show a majority want the PM out the moment the war is over

5 min read

December 25, 2023 15:07

Netanyahu attends the funeral of Gal Meir Eisenkot (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)

Bibi and the generals ponder scaling back on Gaza operation

International and domestic pressure is building to bring an end to the conflict

4 min read

December 21, 2023 13:27

Netanyahu on a tour of Kfar Aza (Photo: Getty)

The quiet soldier calling the shots in Gaza whose family has made the supreme sacrifice

War cabinet member Gadi Eisenkot directs strategy but has lost a son and a nephew in the fighting

4 min read

December 13, 2023 15:35

War cabinet minister Minister Gadi Eisenkot, Family and friends attend the funeral of Master Sgt. (res.) Gal Meir Eisenkot in Herzliya on December 8, 2023. He was killed during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** גדי אייזנקוט לוויה חרבות ברזל מלחמה גל אייזנקוט הלוויה הרצליה

The gutsy hostage grandmas who embody the kibbutz spirit

Some of the elderly among those being released even argued with their Hamas captors

4 min read

November 30, 2023 12:51

Israeli Hostage amas and handed over to Red Cross

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Did Israeli intelligence fail to spot an obvious mobile phone signal about the October 7 invasion?

Tunnel walls close in for Hamas as the psychological war intensifies

The pressure for hostage deal as high as the landing strip is narrow

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Egypt and US put squeeze on Bibi

The Gaza war goes deep underground

The Hamas boss who wanted a third intifada died a failure

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The quiet soldier calling the shots in Gaza whose family has made the supreme sacrifice

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