The Latest Breaking News from IDF

Potentially hundreds of Israeli soldiers and civilians have been taken hostage by Hamas

‘They don’t care about anything - they come to kill, they want to kill. I saw smiles on the faces of terrorists when they killed people’

Gaza faces ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ as Israeli government blocks access to ‘water and fuel’

An invasion of Gaza would be ‘very much at the extreme end’ of plans shaped for years by Israeli military, experts tell The Independent

There are currently 173,000 active soldiers in the Israeli army, including 8,000 commanders, and another 300,000 reservists have been called to fight Hamas

Hamas attack ‘deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust’, says Biden; Gaza’s only power station runs out of fuel

Rabbi Pizam’s story of survival is one of many. On Shmini Atzeret, the Jewish people were saved from a massacre, but the war was far from over. On Shmini Atzeret, Rabbi Pizam was saved from a massacre in Sderot, a town near Gaza. Over 1,000 militants breached the hi-tech fence…

Hundreds of thousands of troops mass on border as near-constant airstrikes pound besieged Strip

US reassures support, domestic emergency gov't forming, Hezbollah threats, and global economic concerns arise.

Aryeh Ziering, 27, was killed in the attack against Israel over the weekend

Brazil president calls for humanitarian aid to protect Israeli and Palestinian citizens, while Latin Americans also taken hostage