Gov't seeks to cancel order preventing it from firing Shin Bet head • IDF tells reserve doctors to remove signatures from petition to end Gaza war • Katz details Israel's Gaza aid policy
Israelis demonstrate in Tel Aviv in support of a hostage deal, April 16, 2025.(photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI)
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar to participate in call with Netanyahu over hostage deal negotiations
Gov't seeks to cancel interim order preventing it from firing Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar
The order was issued a week ago following the end of the hearing on the petitions in the High Court, which prohibited firing Bar.
ByBINI ASHKENAZI, JERUSALEM POST STAFF ILLUSTRATION: Benjamin Netanyahu and Ronen Bar(photo credit: CHAIM GOLDBEG/FLASH90, Gil Cohen-Magen/Reuters, MATTY STERN/US EMBASSY JERUSALEM)Go to the full article > >
IDF destroys home of terrorist who killed Capt. Alon Sacgiu and injured 16 soldiers
Three Israeli civilians cross into Gaza Strip, returned to Israeli territory by IDF
IDF soldiers who operated in the area were dispatched to the scene and returned the civilians to Israeli territory.
ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF View of cars destroyed by Hamas terrorists during the October 7 massacre and the Erez border crossing at the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, January 4, 2024.(photo credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)Go to the full article > >
IDF, Shin Bet kill third terrorist behind January's al-Funduq terror attack
In a joint operation in the northern West Bank, security forces located Zakharana, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad member from Kabatiya.
ByJERUSALEM POST STAFFA weapon belonging to a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist responsible for January's al-Funduq terror attack after he was killed by Israeli security forces, April 16, 2025.(photo credit: ISRAEL POLICE SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)Go to the full article > >
Palestinian stone-throwing terrorists wound two US citizens
Hamas launched a massive attack on October 7, with thousands of terrorists infiltrating from the Gaza border and taking some 240 hostages into Gaza.
Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 at the Supernova music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across Gaza border communities.
59 hostages remain in Gaza.
49 hostages in total have been killed in captivity, IDF says.
The IDF launched a ground invasion of Lebanon on September 30.
The Israel-Lebanon ceasefire came into effect on November 27 at 4 a.m.
Netanyahu confirmed the first phase of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire on January 17, 2025.
