Hamas and Hezbollah

My Word: The painful probe into October 7 - opinion

After the October 7 massacre, Israel demands answers. But who should investigate the failures, and can any commission restore trust and prevent the next attack?

 Homes are destroyed, following the deadly October 7 attack by Hamas terrorists from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, southern Israel November 2, 2023
Terror finance patterns

Following the money: How AI can expose hidden Hezbollah, Hamas networks - analysis

 Demonstrates protest against the detention of Israeli reserve soldiers suspected of assaulting a Hamas terrorist, at the Sde Teiman military base near Beersheba, July 29, 2024.

Sde Teiman leak: Does Israel's government fear the extreme Right more than ICC's legal fallout?

Protesters, mainly Houthi supporters, mark the annual al-Quds Day on the last Friday of Ramadan, in Sana'a, Yemen, March 28, 2025

Anti-reason in Israel’s defense policy: Addressing the Jihadist threat - opinion


Israeli soldiers 'will soon see Gaza from the inside,' Gallant says

"We are alert," said Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, "and if Hezbollah wants to start a war, it should first look at the photographs of Gaza City."

Defense Minister Yoav Gallant speaks with Israeli soldiers at a staging area not far from the Israeli-Gaza border, October 19, 2023.

Israel’s regional strategy amid Hamas war

Israel’s challenge today goes far beyond defeating Hamas, with the IDF also needing to keep it from expanding to the North and the West Bank, and keeping Iran from exploiting it.

 IDF sniper at the Gaza border.

Nasrallah meets Hamas, PIJ to unite terror front against Israel

The reports from Lebanon said that the meeting included discussions of "political developments especially in Palestine."

 Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters through a screen during a rally marking al-Quds Day, (Jerusalem Day) in Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon April 14, 2023

Israel's enemies see opportunity in its crisis

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a speech on Monday, said Israel was on a "path of collapse and fragmentation."

 Supporters of Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, carry flags as they ride in a convoy, marking the commemoration of Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000, in Houla village, near the border with Israel, southern Lebanon, May 25, 2023

Make no mistake – Israel no longer decides when wars are fought - analysis

Hamas learned in a more systematic way, with Iran and Hezbollah assisting, how to instigate its own ring of fire around Jerusalem.

 Palestinian Hamas militants take part in a rally during the 35th anniversary of Hamas founding, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, December 14, 2022.

Israel assassinated Islamic Jihad member in Syria, PIJ claims

The alleged assassination comes just a day after the secretary-general of the Islamic Jihad movement met with Hassan Nasrallah.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants attend a military parade in Gaza October 19, 2016.

PA doubles down on decision to end security coordination

The Palestinian Authority's decision to end security coordination with Israel came as a response to the killing of nine Palestinians during an Israeli military raid in Jenin Refugee Camp.

 Arab Israelis protest in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp, in Umm al-Fahm, January 27, 2023.

Lebanon gas deal is suitcases of cash to Hamas all over again - comment

Lapid's government is going to pay Hezbollah to be quiet even after taking pride in stopping Netanyahu from allowing Qatar to send cash to Hamas.

 View of the Israeli Leviathan gas field gas processing rig near the Israeli city of Caesarea, on January 31, 2019.

US District Court in DC awards judgment to families of terrorism victims

The plaintiffs include the family of the late Taylor Force, a Hamas terror victim. The awards were for $171,403,803 in compensatory damages.

Taylor Force, 29, was killed by a Palestinian terrorist who went on a stabbing rampage in Jaffa on March 8, 2016

It's not only the weather that's hot, tempers are flaring along Israel's borders - analysis

For a third day, Israeli residents in the southern region bordering Gaza are being threatened by a terror group to retaliate for the arrest of one of their operatives in the West Bank.

 Palestinian Hamas terrorists attend an anti-Israel rally in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip May 27, 2021