Gaza war

Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya's son killed in Gaza, terror group confirms

A senior military source told Maariv that Azzam al-Hayya’s "death is of no interest to us, and if he was harmed, it was because he was somewhere he should not have been."

 Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya seen with Gazan residents in the background (illustrative)
Palestinian members of al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement.

Hamas disarmament 'almost impossible to bridge' as gaps with BoP grow, source tells ‘Post’

CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Service) and Canadian flag are seen in this illustration taken May 6, 2025.

Canadian intelligence intervened in seven violent threats motivated by Gaza war in 2025

A Hamas fighter carries a rifle in the Gaza Strip, last year. Hamas is reportedly prepared to hand over not only weapons tied to internal security, but the broader machinery of governance to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, the writer says.

Hamas, Board of Peace clash over disarmament agreement, enter impasse in negotiations - report


'Grotesque distortion': Israel rebukes Norwegian Holocaust Center’s Nakba-Holocaust events

The embassy called for the planned events to be canceled immediately and asked the center to return to its core mission: safeguarding Holocaust remembrance and confronting antisemitism.

The Norwegian Holocaust Center

'Last Letters from Heroes of the October 7th War': Nobody taught them how to do this - review

The book is a portrait of those who looked directly at the possibility of dying and wrote about it, not necessarily a portrait of everyone who went in.

PALLBEARERS FROM the Israel Police prepare to carry Ran Gvili’s casket.

IDF soldier killed in southern Lebanon, HFC tightens security guidelines in northern Israel

US envoys' Pakistan visit canceled • Hezbollah violates ceasefire with Israel, launches projectiles at North • Netanyahu meets Christians serving in IDF

Israeli tanks on the Israeli side of the Israel-Lebanon border, April 24, 2026.

‘He was always smiling’: Sister of fallen soldier Shachar Fridman on Israel’s Remembrance Day

Fridman was a soldier in the 101st Battalion of the Paratroopers Brigade, who returned to service after the October 7 outbreak of war despite having already been released from the army.

Fallen Israeli soldier Staff-Sergeant Shachar Fridman.

'I feel like we failed' to bring Gaza hostages home, Rachel Goldberg-Polin tells CBS's 60 Minutes

"What we were fighting for did happen. We got all these people home, not the way we wanted. We wanted them home, alive, but they had come home," she told Anderson Cooper.

 RACHEL AND JON Goldberg-Polin attend the funeral of their son, Hersh, in Jerusalem.

'I feel invisible’: Families of slain hostages warn Knesset panel they lack gov't support

Family members of slain hostages share their emotional struggles, criticizing the government for a lack of support and calling for a state commission of inquiry into the October 7 failures.

Family members of slain hostages spoke of the lack of government support and emotional struggle at Knesset panel. April 19, 2026.

Israel’s symbolic strikes on bridges and high-rises show limits of military power - analysis

Israel's strikes on bridges and high-rises in Gaza and Lebanon are symbolic, revealing the limits of its military power as Hezbollah and Hamas maintain control in both regions.

People help a man on a motorcycle to cross a bridge linking southern Lebanon to the rest of the country, which was hit in an earlier Israeli strike, amid a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel, in Zrarieh, Lebanon, April 19, 2026.

IDF expects Hamas to enter disarmament process soon

The announcement was aspirational in that Hamas has not yet done so, and no one can really know whether the Gazan terror group will follow through.

 IDF soldiers seen operating in the northern Gaza Strip, April 13, 2025

Approximately 120 Holocaust survivors made aliyah during Gaza war, but numbers dropping

According to the Aliyah Ministry, the decrease in immigration of Holocaust survivors is due to the increasing difficulty in moving to the country at an advanced age.

People visit at the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem on April 12, 2026, ahead of Israeli Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Argentina’s Milei to light torch at Israel’s 78th Independence Day ceremony

Argentina President Javier Milei will light a torch at Israel’s 78th Independence Day ceremony, with Regev citing his strong support for Israel and fight against antisemitism.

A TORCH burns on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl.