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‘Show courage, Eisenkot’: Arab parties offer support but face silence
Israel's Arab parties, projected to win a combined 19 seats in the next Knesset, have offered to help replace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, even without joining a new coalition. But despite their potentially decisive role in breaking the political deadlock, opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot and key parties in his bloc have so far shown little willingness to embrace their support.
‘We'll send them home’: Joint List leader vows to help oust Netanyahu
Joint List chairman Prof. Yousef Jabareen said Wednesday that his party was prepared to use its growing political strength to help remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government from power, as preliminary election results pointed to significant gains for Israel's Arab parties and a political deadlock between the country's two main blocs. "The Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir government has made the lives of every Arab citizen miserable," Jabareen said in a statement to the media.
IDF launches operation to demolish terrorist memorials in West Bank
As Israelis headed to the polls on Tuesday, security forces launched an operation in the Nablus area. According to the IDF, troops working alongside the Border Police's West Bank units and the Shin Bet security agency are conducting counterterrorism operations as part of a broader campaign planned for the coming days.
IDF detains US congressional candidate Brad Lander in West Bank
Brad Lander, a Democratic congressional candidate and ally of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, was detained by Israeli authorities in the West Bank on Tuesday while accompanying Palestinian farmers harvesting olives, an Israeli human rights organization said.
From Syria's border to Gaza: The secret mission of fallen Druze IDF commander Ehsan Daxa
Two years after Col. Ehsan Daxa, commander of the IDF's 401st Armored Brigade, was killed in combat in the northern Gaza Strip, details are emerging of a military campaign he led along the Syrian border. Under the name "Date Harvest," Daxa oversaw a series of strikes aimed at pushing Syrian military infrastructure away from Israel's border at a time when many considered the sector relatively quiet.
Jewish rioters attack European diplomats in West Bank, Belgium demands EU sanctions
As the assault on Washington Post photographer Heidi Levine continues to draw widespread condemnation, Jewish extremists on Saturday attacked diplomats from France, Belgium and Poland who were visiting an olive harvest near the Palestinian village of Taybeh, considered the last entirely Christian village in the West Bank. Videos from the scene show a group of masked men approaching a vehicle carrying diplomats with clubs and stones and pursuing them on all-terrain vehicles.
‘They kept kicking me’: Washington Post photojournalist beaten in West Bank settler attack
American photojournalist Heidi Levine, who works for The Washington Post, was injured Friday in an attack by masked Israeli settlers on Palestinians harvesting olives in the West Bank, according to witnesses and Palestinian reports. The assault near the village of Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, was one of several violent incidents reported during the annual olive harvest, with Israeli authorities opening an investigation into the clashes.
IDF advances Yellow Line deeper into Gaza, Palestinian reports say
According to reports from Gaza, IDF forces operating in the Gaza Strip have pushed the Yellow Line forward by dozens of meters. Three years after the October 7 massacre, the IDF controls approximately 64% of the Gaza Strip, with two divisions deployed across a broad area and about 30 military outposts. Israeli defense officials say the military's defensive lines have been completely overhauled since the massacre and the failures that preceded it.
Foundation that hunts IDF soldiers files ICC complaint against Israeli doctors
The anti-Israel Hind Rajab Foundation has filed a complaint with the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the Israel Medical Association, doctors and senior officials in the Health and Defense ministries, alleging "involvement in the torture and abuse of Palestinian detainees at the Sde Teiman detention facility since October 7, 2023." The complaint alleges that medical personnel were required to treat detainees while they were handcuffed and blindfolded, and that...
Joint List offers to back any government that replaces Netanyahu, but warns: ‘No blank check’
Seventeen days before Israel's Knesset election, Joint List chairman Yousef Jabareen announced Saturday evening that the Arab-led alliance is prepared to provide a parliamentary "safety net" for any government that replaces Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while making clear that its support will be conditional on negotiations over the demands of Israel's Arab community.
Palestinian elections likely postponed to 2027 amid factional disputes
Palestinian parliamentary elections scheduled for Nov. 28 are expected to be postponed, amid difficulties holding the vote in the Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem and disagreements among Palestinian factions over how the elections should be conducted.
'Yasuf resident shot dead by settlers'
By Einav Halabi & Idan Bloemhof October 2, 2026 The Palestinian Health Ministry announced that "Mashour Yassin, a 51-year-old Palestinian from the village of Yasuf in Samaria, was killed after being shot by settlers." This follows clashes in the area between Palestinians and Jews, during which stones were thrown at a military force that arrived at the scene. Earlier, Magen David Adom reported that a boy around 14 years old was evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva in light condition.
Hamas boasts of 'glorious day' amid the ruins | Snapshot of the situation in Gaza
Three years after October 7, the Gaza Strip no longer looks as it did on the eve of Hamas’ invasion of southern Israel. From northern Gaza to Rafah, entire neighborhoods have been transformed and hundreds of thousands of structures have been damaged. Gaza in 2026 is fundamentally different from Gaza before the war. A United Nations analysis based on satellite imagery estimated that about 82% of buildings in the Strip were damaged — more than 200,000 structures.
October 7 in Sweida: when two wounds recognize each other
October 7 carries a heavy meaning in Israeli society. It is the day Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations attacked Israel, killing, abducting and sexually assaulting civilians, burning homes and communities, and turning entire towns in southern Israel into crime scenes. For Israelis, there is no need to explain what October 7 means. It is a date that has entered the national memory. But beyond Israel’s border, in Sweida on Jabal Bashan, the date will also be marked.
Jewish extermists torch Palestinian vehicles, threaten IDF West Bank commander in overnight attack
Extremist settlers torched Palestinian vehicles and sprayed threatening graffiti aimed at senior Israeli security officials overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, amid continued violence in the West Bank. In the Palestinian village of Deir Nidham, northwest of Ramallah, graffiti was found carrying a direct warning to IDF Central Command chief Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth. “Evacuations mean chaos. Avi Bluth, watch out,” the message read.
Hamas official says ‘Sinwar successor’ survived Israeli assassination attempt
Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad said overnight Sunday that Ali al-Amoudi, one of the terrorist group’s most senior remaining figures in the Gaza Strip and widely seen as a potential successor to Yahya Sinwar, survived an Israeli attempt to assassinate him over the weekend. “The reports reaching us confirm that Ali al-Amoudi survived the Israeli assassination attempt,” Hamad told Saudi broadcaster Al Arabiya.
Israel targets senior Hamas official seen as Yahya Sinwar’s successor in Gaza City strike
Arab media outlets reported Saturday morning that the IDF attempted to kill Ali al-Amoudi, considered one of Hamas’ most senior officials in the Gaza Strip and widely seen as the Gaza “successor” to Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the October 7 massacre who was killed during the war. Al-Amoudi does not formally hold the title of Hamas leader in Gaza but is running for the position in the group’s internal elections.
Arab party chief quits Knesset race after Supreme Court signals ban over alleged terror support
Balad chairman Sami Abu Shehadeh will not run in Israel’s upcoming election after his party decided Thursday night to withdraw his candidacy, following a Supreme Court hearing in which the court’s president told him that a majority of the nine-justice panel supported his disqualification. Abu Shehadeh, No. 3 on the Joint List slate, had appealed a Central Elections Committee decision seeking to bar him from running.
Over 100 Jewish rioters storm West Bank village, torch home of a Palestinian family trying to return
More than 100 Israeli rioters descended overnight on the Palestinian village of Jalud near Nablus as Israeli forces attempted to return a Palestinian family to the home it had left after months of repeated harassment, according to the IDF and police. Rioters blocked roads, set tires and Palestinian property on fire and threw stones at security forces, leaving three Border Police officers lightly injured.
Hamas northern Gaza commander killed in strike after surviving assassination attempt in May
Palestinian reports said Tuesday morning that Izz al-Din Bikh, the commander of Hamas’ northern Gaza brigade, was killed in an Israeli strike on an apartment in Gaza City. Bikh had survived an assassination attempt in May, when he was targeted alongside Imad Aslim, the deputy commander of Hamas’ Gaza City Brigade. Aslim was killed in that strike, while Bikh was not reported dead at the time.
Oct. 7 terrorist involved in Noa Argamani abduction killed in Gaza strike, reports say
Saher Sakr, who Palestinian media reports identified as one of the men involved in the abduction of former Israeli hostage Noa Argamani during the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack, was killed Saturday in an airstrike in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to Palestinian reports. Sakr was reported to have been riding the motorcycle on which Argamani was forcibly taken into Gaza after she was abducted from the Nova music festival near Kibbutz Re’im.
Sinwar’s note 22 days before Oct. 7 revealed: ‘Earthquake’ is coming, prepare to empty prisons
Sufian Abu Zaida, the Palestinian intermediary known by the pseudonym “Coal Eyes,” has revealed for the first time a handwritten note he says was dictated to him by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar 22 days before the Oct. 7 attack and then passed to Israel in both Arabic and Hebrew. According to Abu Zaida, the message was dictated during a meeting with Sinwar in Gaza on Sept. 14, 2023. The note dictated by Sinwar “Before the end of September, we will put the cards on the table.
Israel election 2026: where every party stands on the judicial overhaul and Supreme Court
The battle over the future of Israel’s judiciary, which fueled some of the country’s fiercest political divisions in recent years, is again emerging as a major issue in the 2026 election campaign. Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth asked the parties competing in the election to spell out what they would do about the judicial overhaul, the system for appointing judges and the limits of the Supreme Court’s power to review government decisions and legislation.
Terrorist visited Binyamin spring day before attack; IDF tracker shot him, saved victim’s son
The terrorist who murdered Netanel at the spring was shot and wounded by a tracker from the Binyamin Brigade, effectively saving Netanel’s 16-year-old son, who was beside him. Details of the attack at Ein Raya spring, also known as Banaba spring, show that the terrorist, 37-year-old Hamas operative Kadri Samara, had been in the area a day before carrying out the attack and exploited the fact that many people come to immerse in the spring on the eve of Yom Kippur.
Who is Sufian Abu Zaida, the ex-PA official who says he carried Sinwar’s pre-Oct. 7 warning to Israel?
Long before Sufian Abu Zaida identified himself as the Palestinian intermediary who says he carried Yahya Sinwar’s warning to Israel weeks before Oct. 7, he had built the kind of political résumé that made such a role possible. A former Palestinian Authority minister and senior Fatah figure who speaks fluent Hebrew, Abu Zaida spent about 12 years in Israeli prison before later working closely with Israeli officials.
Palestinian politician: I relayed Sinwar’s pre-Oct. 7 warning to Israel
Palestinian politician Sufian Abu Zaida, a senior figure in Fatah and the Palestine Liberation Organization and a former Palestinian Authority minister for prisoner affairs, said Thursday that he was the previously unidentified intermediary who relayed a warning in September 2023 that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was planning a major attack on Israel.
After Sweida massacre, Syria’s Druze deserve autonomy
Since July 2025, the Druze community in Sweida, southern Syria, has been living through an unbearable reality. But beyond the siege, the shortage of medicine, the disruption of basic infrastructure and the constant fear of further attacks, something much deeper has been broken: trust. For the Druze in Sweida, the question is no longer simply how to live within Syria, but how they can feel that they belong to a state that massacred them.
IDF eliminates Hamas Rafah Brigade commander in drone strike
Nael Abu Obeid replaced Mohammed Shabana after his death alongside Mohammed Sinwar; strike comes amid series of operations against senior Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists The IDF and Shin Bet killed Hamas’ Rafah Brigade commander Nayal Abu Obeid in a drone strike in southern Gaza on Tuesday evening, as Israel continued a series of targeted operations against senior terrorists in the Strip.
Palestinian-American Press TV reporter detained near Bethlehem on suspected espionage
Israeli troops detained Palestinian-American journalist Naqaa Hamed, a correspondent for Iran’s Press TV, at a checkpoint southeast of Bethlehem on Tuesday evening, with IDF sources saying she is suspected of cooperating with an enemy entity and may also be under suspicion of espionage. Hamed was stopped at a temporary checkpoint near Tekoa, southeast of Bethlehem.
Senior Hamas commander reportedly killed in Gaza strike
A senior Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip was killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza, according to Palestinian reports Friday, in the latest strike targeting the terrorist group’s leadership despite an ongoing ceasefire. The commander of Hamas’ Khan Younis Brigade was killed in an airstrike Thursday night in al-Mawasi, a coastal area west of Khan Younis, the reports said. Palestinian reports identified the commander as Mohammad al-Yazouri, also known by the nom de guerre Abu al-Haytham.
UAE stops short of denying Netanyahu was warned before Oct. 7
Israel pressed the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday to issue an official denial of a report that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received an explicit warning about a major operation being planned by Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar shortly before the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, but Abu Dhabi declined to address the account directly. Instead, the UAE Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying it would not comment on media reports or speculation about private conversations.
‘Terrorism is terrorism’: Huckabee visits Palestinian village after mosque vandalized by settlers
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited the Palestinian town of Turmus Ayya near Ramallah on Saturday amid growing concern over violence by extremist Israeli settlers and after threatening messages were directed at him in graffiti sprayed during the vandalism of a mosque. According to the town’s mayor, about 80% of Turmus Ayya’s roughly 3,000 residents are U.S. citizens.
Hamas claims months of deception preceded capture of its Gaza intelligence chief
Hamas is trying to reconstruct how Israeli forces managed to capture one of its most senior internal security officials in the heart of Gaza, with sources in the terrorist organization claiming the operation involved months of preparation, undercover activity, local informants and even ammunition containing a sedative.
Why Israel is suddenly talking about Palestinian forces ‘turning their guns’ on Israelis
The phrase “turning their guns” has become increasingly common in Israel over the past week, describing a nightmare scenario in which weapons held legally by Palestinian Authority security forces in the West Bank are turned against Israeli communities or IDF troops. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raised the possibility during a recent discussion at the IDF Central Command, unexpectedly questioning Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir about what would happen in such a scenario.
Disguised vegetable truck, point-blank fire: how Israel captured Hamas' internal security chief
Israel’s dramatic operation to capture Muin al-Arabid, described by Israeli officials as Hamas’ internal security chief in the Gaza Strip, involved days of preparations, disguised vehicles, a raid on a Gaza City villa, a close-range firefight and heavy Israeli air cover during the withdrawal, according to new details published Wednesday by Saudi newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat.
Palestinians report Israeli special forces in Gaza City amid intense strikes and clashes
Palestinians reported unusual Israeli military activity in Gaza City on Monday morning, including the deployment of special forces, heavy exchanges of fire and more than 18 airstrikes. According to Palestinian reports, four people were killed and several others wounded. Palestinians claimed that Israeli special forces entered an area of villas in western Gaza City, where “intense explosions are being heard nonstop” near the American Hospital.
Ra’am makes history with first Jewish candidate as Segalovich joins Mansour Abbas
Ra’am announced Monday evening that former Deputy Public Security Minister Yoav Segalovich is joining the party, in a joint statement with party chairman Mansour Abbas. Segalovich is expected to be placed second on Ra’am’s Knesset slate, making him the party’s first Jewish candidate. Abbas presented the move as a deliberate attempt to build a broader model of Jewish-Arab political partnership. “To create change, you need a civic partnership. To create change, you need to see the other,” he said.
IDF drone strike kills 3 terrorists in Jenin, including Hamas terrorist who planned attacks
The IDF eliminated three terrorists in an airstrike near Jenin on Friday, including a Hamas terrorist accused of planning attacks and helping rebuild the group’s local network, Israeli security agencies said. The main target was Qais Bitawi, whom the IDF, Shin Bet and Israel Police’s elite Yamam counterterrorism unit described as a senior terrorist in the Jenin network. Two accomplices were killed alongside him.
Down to the wire: Knesset election slates take shape as deadline nears
Less than two weeks before the deadline for parties to submit their candidate slates for the Knesset election, the political map is beginning to take shape, though several major parties are still scrambling to fill seats, negotiate alliances and decide which candidates have a realistic chance of entering parliament. The Likud primary is over, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still has reserved slots he can use to add candidates.
Mansour Abbas says Israel’s Jewish identity was ‘imposed on us,’ accepted to run in elections
Ra’am chairman Mansour Abbas said Wednesday that Israel’s Jewish identity was “a fact imposed on us” and that Arab parties had effectively been forced to accept it in order to participate in elections.
Hamas survived Israel’s military assault and is now fighting for a political comeback
Nearly three years after the war began, after much of Hamas’ senior leadership was killed, its military wing was severely weakened and large parts of its infrastructure were destroyed, the reality in the Gaza Strip underscores the gap between military achievement and political defeat. The IDF has inflicted unprecedented damage on Hamas, but without an Israeli government plan for the “day after,” Israel has not succeeded in replacing it.
Israel strikes Gaza as kite threat returns to southern border
The IDF carried out strikes in the Shati refugee camp deep inside the Gaza Strip on Monday, targeting Hamas infrastructure and weapons-storage facilities, amid growing Israeli concern over the reappearance of kites launched from Gaza toward communities near the border. The targets were located beyond the “yellow line,” which marks the boundary of the area where Israeli forces are currently deployed inside Gaza.
Over 20 Marvel stars back campaign to free senior terrorist Marwan Barghouti
More than 20 actors who have appeared in Marvel Studios films and television series have joined an international campaign calling on Israel to release senior terrorist Marwan Barghouti, one of the most prominent Palestinian prisoners held in Israel. Among the best-known names backing the “Freedom for Marwan” campaign are Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Doctor Strange in the Marvel Cinematic Universe; Mark Ruffalo, who portrays the Hulk; and Don Cheadle, who plays War Machine.
Wife of Palestinian terrorist convicted in Israeli minister’s assassination gives birth to twins
Sanabel al-Ra’i, the wife of Palestinian prisoner Basel al-Asmar, who is serving a lengthy prison sentence for his role in the assassination of former tourism minister Rehavam Ze’evi, gave birth to twins Saturday in Qalqilya in the West Bank. According to the family, al-Ra’i became pregnant through fertility treatment using sperm from her imprisoned husband that had been smuggled out of prison and frozen.
From terror groups to political players? Hamas eyes election alliance
Nearly 20 years after the last Palestinian legislative elections, Hamas is holding talks with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Fatah reformist faction associated with Mohammed Dahlan and several other groups over the creation of a broad “national alliance” ahead of elections scheduled for November 28. The talks, which follow weeks of meetings among Palestinian factions in Cairo, could produce one of the most unusual political coalitions in recent Palestinian history.
Ohio man arrived at his home in West Bank village of Qusra and raised an American flag
Louai Abu Ridi, a Palestinian American living in Ohio, returned this week to his West Bank home in the Ras al-Ain area of the village of Qusra, south of Nablus, which had been under siege by Jewish extremists for days. Upon arriving home, Abu Ridi raised the U.S. flag over the building, a move that drew widespread reaction on social media.
Dahlan emerges as Hamas bridge to Trump administration, rattling Palestinian Authority
Mohammed Dahlan, the exiled former Fatah security chief and longtime rival of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has emerged in recent weeks as an increasingly important intermediary between Hamas, Egypt, Gulf states and the Trump administration — fueling concern in Ramallah that he could help Hamas reinvent itself as a legitimate political force and challenge the existing Palestinian leadership.
IDF deploys in Qusra as settlers return to evacuated outpost and tensions persist
After hours of tension in the Palestinian village of Qusra, IDF forces deployed in the area Thursday to protect residents and maintain security, while Jewish rioters returned to the site of an illegal outpost after structures there had been dismantled.
Israeli forces arrive in Qusra in the dead of night to evacuate Jewish extremists
Security forces arrived overnight between Wednesday and Thursday to evacuate the outpost established near Palestinian homes in the West Bank village of Qusra, which has left several Palestinian families trapped for four days.
Settlers block roads as Israeli forces move to evacuate illegal outpost besieging Palestinian homes
Israeli security forces arrived Wednesday morning at an illegal settler encampment near the West Bank village of Qusra, where Palestinians say nearby homes have effectively been placed under siege for three days. The forces intend to evacuate the site, but settlers who arrived in the area began blocking access roads with large boulders in an effort to prevent security forces from reaching it. Central Command chief Maj. Gen.
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