Hours before Secretary of Defense Robert Gates landed in China, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) staged a test flight of its new stealth fighter, possibly termed the J-20. In some quarters, it is being argued that this flight was deliberately scheduled to upstage the American visit. In the mystery that is Chinese […]
IDF soldiers have thwarted several attempts by terrorists to infiltrate southern Israel in recent weeks. Terrorists have tried to move from Gaza to Sinai to Israel via a desert passage known as “route H.” The head of the IDF tracking unit in the south, Colonel Yossi Hadad, spoke to the IDF website about the attempted […]
Israel Air Force aircraft attacked a terror activity location in northern Gaza overnight (between Thursday and Friday) and bombed a terror tunnel coming out of southern Gaza. The tunnel was meant for inserting terrorists into Israel for murdering and abducting civilians and soldiers. It would have connected Gaza and Israel, and is not to be […]
Education in a Khan Yunis high school in Gaza: At a recent assembly marking the 2nd anniversary of Israels Operation Cast Lead against Hamas rockets and missiles, a Hamas member of the PA parliament visited and emphasized his organizations commitment to liberate all of Palestine. The speaker, Yihye Mussa, said, [Israel’s] war against Gaza was […]
Terrorists from the Hamas-controlled Gaza region struck the western Negev with another mortar attack Wednesday morning. Two shells exploded in an open area of the Eshkol Regional Council district. No damage was reported, and no one was injured. The attack came hours after IAF warplanes bombed a Hamas training base in Gaza as a continuation of […]
Documents revealed by Wikileaks show that Egypt continues to see Israel as its primary military threat despite a decades-old peace treaty. Egypt and Israel fought against each other in four wars before signing the treaty in 1979. United States diplomats have been frustrated as Egyptian leaders focus on being prepared for war with Israel while […]
Iran now is at least three years away from being able to produce a nuclear bomb because of technical problems and sanctions, Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon told Voice of Israel government radio Wednesday. Yaalon, a former IDF Chief of Staff and considered a leading “hawk” on Iran, said that “we are talking in terms of […]
The Navy is monitoring movements of activists on a Syrian ship scheduled to carry activists and aid to Gaza via an overland route from an Egyptian port, the Irish Times reported Wednesday. The IDF has not commented, but previous reports on the land-sea caravan indicated that Israel has been behind technical problems on the “Asia […]
Thousands shouted “death to Israel” and greeted the Mavi Marmara flotilla ship Sunday as it docked in Istanbul, a day after Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu told journalists that although Turkey would like to restore its formerly friendly ties with Israel, the Jewish State must first apologize for the deaths of nine terror activists who […]
There has been an increase in terrorism in the Jordan River Valley over the past six months, according to senior IDF officers who spoke to the military magazine B’Machaneh. Most of the new terror incidents appear to be relatively uncoordinated, they said. Many of the new attacks involved placing large stones along Highway 90. The […]
