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I finished reading the Torah in a bomb shelter, while my kids huddled in their safe room

Who could know that we would spend the rest of the day listening to the thundering of rockets in the air, and the buzz of military helicopters circling overhead?

 A man wearing a Jewish prayer shawl looks out of the damaged entranceway to a building, as rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel October 7, 2023.
 The scene where a rocket fired from Gaza into Southern Israel, hit and caused damaged in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. October 7, 2023.

Opposition leaders share message of solidarity as terror escalates

A Palestinian man sells perfume in packages shaped like homemade rocket models at his store in Gaza City, on October 2, 202 October 2, 2023

Palestinians in Gaza launch rocket-themed perfume

 A ball of fire and smoke rises during Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, early on on January 27, 2023

IDF targets Hamas sites in Gaza in response to rocket fire


Israel pledges to respond forcibly to Gaza

Netanyahu to hold security cabinet meeting Sunday

A ball of fire is seen during Israeli air strikes in Gaza May 4, 2019

Ex-IDF intel. chief: Hamas has found weak point in deterrence

"Army must surprise Hamas with painful counter-strike."

Amos Yadlin

What is going on with Hamas in Gaza? – analysis

The attack comes as tensions run high with the Gaza Strip ahead of Land Day and the one year anniversary marking the beginning of the Great Return March border riots.

Palestinian Hamas militants take part in a rally marking the 31st anniversary of Hamas' founding, in Gaza City December 16, 2018.

IDF sends brigades, calls up reservists to Gaza border following rocket

According to IDF Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis, the rocket was fired from Hamas operatives from a Hamas military post in Rafiah in the southern part of the Strip and had a range of 120 kilometers.

Israeli soldiers speak next to tanks as military armoured vehicles gather in an open area near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip October 18, 2018.

7 injured in rocket fire, Netanyahu says 'will respond with force'

A rocket hit a private home in Moshav Mishmeret in the Kfar Saba region early Monday morning, injuring seven people, all of whom were evacuated to Meir Hospital.

Rocket fire near Kfar Saba

LIVE: More than 460 rockets fired at Israel from Gaza in escalation of violence

After Sunday's firefight in Gaza, escalation between the IDF and Gaza appears inevitable.

An explosion is seen during an Israeli air strike on Hamas's television station, in Gaza City November 12, 2018

IDF soldier in critical condition after rocket strikes bus

More than 80 rockets have been fired from Gaza into Israel.

Israeli security forces and firefighters gather near a bus set ablaze after it was hit by a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave, at the Israel-Gaza border near the kibbutz of Kfar Aza, on November 12, 2018. Israel's military said it was carrying out air strikes "throughout the Gaza Strip" on M

IDF strikes terror cell in Gaza trying to place IED on border fence

The weekend saw a violent flareup in Gaza and the surrounding border communities, as 37 rockets were fired at Israel, which responded by hitting more than 80 Hamas terror targets.

An explosion is seen during Israeli air strikes in Gaza October 27, 2018.

'Quiet for quiet'

Many Israelis may hope for Gazans to protest on the street due to their poor economic situation – as we’ve seen done recently by disgruntled Iranians. But Gaza has been in dire straits for longer.

A security inspector checks materials at Kerem Shalom Crossing

Calm, but still no Gaza ceasefire

Avi Dichter, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee and former head of Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), warned that only Israel will dictate military options.

A member of Hamas' military police walks through rubble at a site that was hit by Israeli air strikes in Gaza City on August 9, 2018