Posts Tagged: Protective Edge
IDF Officer Led From The Front: ‘If Anyone Dies, It’ll Be Me, First’
An IDF infantry officer who fell in battle in Gaza on Friday, once said, "I always made sure I was first in to sweep structures...
IDF Soldier Adopts Mutt, Abandoned in Gaza Fighting
During a bout of fighting in Gaza last week, an IDF soldier adopted a starving, weak dog he found wandering among the rubble. St.-Sgt. Roee Cohen...
Israeli Gaza-Area Residents Dreading IDF Pullback; ‘Tunnel Threat Taking Fear to New Level’
"We have survived rocket attacks for 14 years, and, while disturbing and frightening, we have somehow adapted," a Kibbutz Alumim resident told The Algemeiner on...
Widow of Fallen Soldier Gives Birth: ‘It’s Sad That Danny Isn’t Here’
Joy was diluted with grief in Israel's Ethiopian immigrant community on Thursday. Baynesain (Danny) Kasahun, who was killed last week in a terror attack near Kibbutz...
IDF Marksman Comes Face to Face With Terrorists in Nighttime Gaza Clash (VIDEO)
In a brief, intense video clip released by the army Thursday, IDF troops engage Palestinian terrorists in an overnight building-to-building firefight. In the clip, a Givati...
Wounded Israeli Soldier, Israeli Pop Star in Live Hospital Ward Duet
An IDF soldier wounded in Israel's three-week-old Operation Protective Edge in Gaza joined one of the country's biggest pop stars in a live radio gig...
IDF Footage Shows Special Forces Storming Booby-Trapped House in Gaza” (VIDEO)
The Israeli Army on Wednesday released a video clip of a what they said was a "special forces" unit "storming a terrorist building in Shuja'iya,"...
Residents of Nahal Oz Respond to Video of Hamas Attack – ‘How Can Children Continue to Live Here?’ (VIDEO)
Kibbutz Nahal Oz irrigation specialist Danny Rahamim was supposed to have harvested his sunflower crop alongside Gaza, in another two weeks. But Wednesday morning, he watched the...
Poll: 78% of Israelis Oppose Ceasefire in War Against Hamas
On the 23rd day of the IDF's Operation Protective Edge in Gaza, while the government is seeking a viable cease-fire, the average Israeli is saying...
Israeli Mother to Fallen IDF Son: ‘You Were Taken Too Soon’
Close-knit residents of Safed, in Israel's Upper Galilee, packed into its small military cemetery on Tuesday, to lay to rest IDF St.-Sgt. Eliav Eliyahu Haim...
OPERATION ‘PROTECTIVE EDGE’ DAY 22: White House, Netanyahu Deny Report of Obama Demand for Unilateral Israeli Ceasefire (LIVE UPDATES)
Follow here for The Algemeiner's continued live updates on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. Our report on the launch of Israel's Operation Protective Edge can...
Mother of Fallen IDF Soldier Urges Netanyahu to ‘Destroy Terrorist Infrastructure’
In an emotional Facebook post addressed to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a mother whose son was killed in Gaza fighting, on Sunday implored...
IDF Special Forces Chief: Hamas Fighters Panic and Run (VIDEO)
Soldiers and officers in front-line Israeli army commando units fighting in Gaza are telling the press that, in face-to-face battle, Hamas militants usually break and...
OPERATION ‘PROTECTIVE EDGE’ DAY 18: Israel, Hamas Agree to 12-Hour Humanitarian Ceasefire (LIVE UPDATES)
Follow here for The Algemeiner's continued live updates on the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. Our report on the launch of Israel's Operation Protective Edge can...
