Operation protective edge

On This Day: Fatah, Hamas factions form short-lived 'Palestinian Unity Government' to rule over PA

On June 2, 2014, Abbas forged a Hamas-Fatah unity government, sparking legal debates and political upheaval. The PA president dissolved the short-lived body in June 2015.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas chairs the first meeting of the Palestinian unity government, June 2, 2014.
IDF soldiers stand at the entrance of a tunnel that Hamas used to attack Israel, in Beit Hanun, December 17, 2023

'Like a subway': IDF reveals Rafah tunnels where Hadar Goldin's remains were held

Tzur Goldin speaks at an event to remember his twin brother, Hadar.

Hadar Goldin's brother warns West of hostage-taking threat: 'This is not only an Israeli story'

Security forces apprehend Marwan al-Hamas, November 20, 2025.

Detained Hamas terrorist knew where Hadar Goldin's remains held - IDF, Shin Bet


Training under fire: IDF drills battlefield evacuations

IDF medical officers drill evacuating injured troops from the battlefield to hospital

IDF medical officers take part on a drill

Five years later, the fight for Hadar Goldin's body lives on

Tel Aviv art exhibit opens with the late Hadar Goldin’s cartoons and sketches

Cartoons and sketches by Hadar Goldin at the “Smile with Hadar” exhibit

Leah Goldin: Tell me what the government is doing to bring our boys home

"They've been telling me what they won't do for five years, but they don't tell me what they are doing."

Leah Goldin, mother of missing soldier Hadar Goldin, at a Jerusalem press confrence July 5, 2018

Leah Goldin leaves Netanyahu meeting in tears

"Even after this meeting, it's not clear to us why Netanyahu doesn't make the return of the boys a condition in all the talks for rehabilitating and upgrading Gaza that are happening every day.”

Leah Goldin, the mother of slain IDF soldier Lt. Hadar Goldin

Security and Defense: Five years later, another Gaza war on the horizon

The last round of violence between Israel and Hamas saw five Israeli civilians and more than 20 Palestinians killed. And it wasn’t even war.

IDF soldiers take part in Operation Protective Edge.

Hamas struggles to hold on to power five years after Gaza war

Hamas leaders appear to be well aware that under the current circumstances it’s almost impossible to reach any deal with Abbas and Fatah.

A GIRL WALKS by the remains of a house in the northern Gaza Strip that was destroyed during Operation Protective Edge.

For two mothers, five years later the war is still not over

“The war is not over until the two boys are returned,” Leah told The Jerusalem Post. She has accepted the army’s assessment that her son died, but wants to see his body returned.

Lt. Hadar Goldin (left) and St.-Sgt. Oron Shaul were killed in action in the war against Hamas in 2014

Five years after Operation Protective Edge, deterrence has been lost

The situation on the southern front is anything but peaceful.

IDF troops face Palestinian protesters over the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip on March 30, a year after they began the ‘Great March of Return’ demonstrations

Israel marks 5 years since kidnapping, murder of three teens in West Bank

"For us this is a living heart, this is a continuation of the lives of the sons we can't hug anymore, but I can imagine them here in this place, full of life and action," said Iris Yifrach.

Ceremony marks 5 years since kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens at Oz veGaon Nature Reserve in Gush Etzion, July 2019

Ceremony remembers Goldin with song, study

The event came only one week before the country commemorates the kidnapping and subsequent murder of three Israeli teenagers on June 12, 2014.

IDF soldiers take part in Operation Protective Edge.