Latest Developments:  An Israeli strike has killed Taysir al-Jabari, the Gaza commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), which the U.S. Department of State designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) in 1997. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Jabari "was responsible for multiple terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians." PIJ had threatened to attack Israeli targets after the arrest earlier this week of senior PIJ figure Bassam al-Saadi. Israel’s internal security service, Shabak, said Saadi was the PIJ leader in the West Bank and was behind the "building of a significant military force." Shabak added that Saadi "was a significant factor in the radicalization of the organization’s operatives in the field."

PIJ Profile:  Founded in 1981, PIJ is the second-largest militant group in Gaza after Hamas. In the 1990s and again during the Second Intifada from 2000 to 2005, PIJ targeted Israeli civilians with suicide bombings, including the Netanya mall bombing in December 2005, which killed five Israelis and wounded fifty.

Dependent on Iran:  PIJ is the Palestinian militant group closest to Iran, on which it depends for financial and military support. Thanks to Iran, PIJ in Gaza has acquired military-grade weapons that range from small arms to man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS), rockets, anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), and explosive-laden unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). PIJ fighters have also trained inside Iran.

Remotely Led:  PIJ has a local leadership structure in Gaza, although its senior leaders reside in Syria, Lebanon, and other countries in the region. Unlike Hamas, PIJ does not compete in elections, employ civilian front organizations, or govern any part of Gaza. When weighing the risks of attacking Israel, it therefore has less need to consider the impact of a potential military response. Ziyad al-Nakhlaheh, Khaled al-Batsh, Hader Adnan, and Muhammed al-Hindi are among PIJ’s most visible leaders and spokesmen.

Independent from Hamas:  Despite PIJ's cooperation with Hamas, which also has close ties to Iran, PIJ has launched attacks on Israel at times when Hamas would have preferred not to escalate. These attacks seek to demonstrate that PIJ is the most militant organization in Gaza and can act independently.

History of Clashes with IDF:  In November 2019, an IDF strike killed Jabari’s predecessor, Bahaa Abu al-Atta, resulting in several days of clashes between PIJ and the IDF. In February 2020, the IDF conducted strikes against PIJ militant infrastructure in both the Gaza Strip and Syria. There has been a sharp increase in PIJ casualties over the last year and half, with numerous militants killed during engagements with Israeli personnel during counter-terrorism operations. Coupled with the establishment of PIJ fighting units, or "katibat," in several West Bank cities, the increase in violence suggests an organized PIJ effort to expand its military capabilities in the West Bank.

Expert Analysis from FDD’s Joe Truzman: "Israel likely felt an attack by Palestinian Islamic Jihad was imminent and reacted first. The history of conflict with the PIJ suggests a high likelihood of an armed response in the coming days by PIJ and the other militant groups that belong to Palestinian Joint Operations Room, including Hamas."

In southern Israel - which was targeted with hundreds of rockets by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) militants - people have left their air raid shelters to go to their offices, shopping centres and parks.

As the ceasefire brokered by Egypt appears to be sticking, Israelis and Palestinians give starkly different views on what just happened and why.

Israel says that it launched its military operation, codenamed Breaking Dawn, in response to a direct and immediate threat from PIJ militants...

Tensions had risen sharply since Israel's arrest of Bassem Saadi, said to be the top PIJ figure in the occupied West Bank, last week.

Israeli officials are giving few details, but say they had "precise, detailed intelligence" that the Iran-backed militant group - which has its stronghold in Gaza - was planning to attack military or civilian targets nearby with sniper or anti-tank fire.

Still, it was unusual for Israel to make a pre-emptive strike on the Palestinian territory.

But from an Israeli perspective, the risk paid off. This was one of its most successful rounds of fighting with militants there.

PIJ lost its two most senior commanders on the ground, Tayseer Jaabari and Khaled Mansour, as well as sites used to manufacture and store missiles, command headquarters and outposts. The IDF says it hit 170 PIJ targets.

A senior Israeli official assesses that it has dealt "a very serious blow" to PIJ and "taken them back decades".

Claims by the PIJ leader, Ziad Nakhalah, who is visiting Iran, that this was "a victory" are far less convincing.

Militants did muster a show of strength, firing some 1,100 rockets (according to Israeli figures) from their ample arsenal at Israel and setting off warning sirens in Tel Aviv and even Jerusalem.

But the Iron Dome defence system prevented them from any significant military achievements and helped stop any deaths of Israelis, although dozens suffered minor injuries.

Self-inflicted casualties?

A key point in the latest conflict is that Hamas, the more powerful Islamist militant group that governs Gaza, decided to stay out of the fray, just as it did in 2019 when Israeli fire focused on Islamic Jihad. This limited the escalation...

The peak of that was on Saturday night, when five people - including four children - were killed in the Jabalia refugees camp in northern Gaza.

Pictures of the bodies, shared widely on social media, inflamed Palestinian public opinion.

However, Israel said that it could prove - with video evidence - that the explosion was not caused by an Israeli air strike, but by a misfired Palestinian rocket.

Palestinian witnesses do report seeing faulty PIJ launches in this conflict.

The IDF spokesman has briefed journalists that one-fifth of the rockets PIJ fired ultimately landed and exploded inside the Gaza Strip...

Initial talks mediated by Egypt were for a pause in the fighting to bring in emergency fuel. However, they soon turned into negotiations for a full ceasefire.

With calm restored, the first lorries carrying diesel, aid and medicines have now rolled into Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing. The sole power station in the Strip is running again.

Israeli communities close to Gaza also live under constant fear...

"This time was very different - it was very planned, very limited goals, very short," said Brouria Carni Hadass from Kerem Shalom kibbutz, an Israeli town close to the border with Gaza. She said she was glad the fighting was over but added: "We'll probably go through it again and again."

How Israel’s counterinsurgency operation left Islamic Jihad battered and bloodied.

The three-day Gaza border clash between Israel and Islamic Jihad has come to an end with an Egyptian brokered ceasefire going into effect late Sunday evening. Objectively, Israel’s Breaking Dawn counterinsurgency operation was a resounding success, with Israel achieving all its objectives and Islamic Jihad being left battered and bloodied. The Palestinian Islamic Jihad is an Iranian proxy group with no political echelon. It is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States and most of the free world. Unlike Hamas, which is also an Iranian proxy and a terrorist organization, Islamic Jihad has no community roots and does not partake in any Palestinian political processes. The relationship between Hamas and Islamic Jihad is part symbiotic and part adversarial. Hamas refrained from firing rockets at Israel in this round and Israel reciprocated in kind. Islamic Jihad’s main military presence is in Gaza, but the group also maintains cells in Judea & Samaria (also referred to as the West Bank). Last week, Israel succeeded in nabbing Islamic Jihad’s West Bank chieftain, Bassem Saadi, and his deputy, Ashraf al-Jada, in a daring joint operation carried out by the Shin Bet, the Israel Defense Forces and the Border Police. Following their seizure, Israel obtained concrete evidence of a plan by Islamic Jihad’s Gaza branch to execute an anti-tank missile strike at Israeli civilian traffic along Gaza’s periphery. Israel responded by closing roads near Gaza, but such a state could not be maintained indefinitely as it would result in severe disruption to normal day-to-day living. That untenable situation left Israel with no option but to launch a preemptive strike to take out Islamic Jihad’s Gaza leadership. Acting on precise intelligence, Israel struck an apartment where Islamic Jihad’s head of northern operations, Tayseer al-Jabari, and his cohorts were congregating. Jabari and his commanders were instantly neutralized in that strike. Jabari was a ticking time bomb and immediate action was necessary to thwart a mega attack. Islamic Jihad responded with indiscriminate rocket fire at Israeli civilian targets. According to the IDF, during the three-day clash, Islamic Jihad fired approximately 1,100 rockets, 200 of which landed within Gaza. Of the remaining 990 rockets, 380 were intercepted by the Iron Dome reflecting a 95% success rate. The remainder landed either in the sea or other non-critical areas. Iron Dome’s radars and integrated computer systems are designed to calculate the rocket’s trajectory and determine if the rocket will land in critical areas. If the system calculates that it will land in an open space, there’s no launch. There has been some speculation that Israel may have also deployed its newest wonder weapon, Iron Beam, an anti-rocket laser system but this rumor has not been confirmed and the IDF is not commenting. In response to Islamic Jihad’s rocket bombardment, Israel hit back with devastating precision, targeting arms caches, attack tunnels, rocket launching sites, military outposts and senior Islamic Jihad commanders. In one such retaliatory strike, Israel killed Islamic Jihad’s top commander for southern Gaza, Khaled Mansour. With the deaths of Mansour, al-Jabari and their deputies, Israel decapitated Islamic Jihad’s leadership. Islamic Jihad admitted to the loss of 12 operatives, but the death toll may be higher given the propensity of these Palestinian terror groups to obfuscate their losses. The Palestinian health ministry, which is run by Hamas, claimed that a total of 35 Gazans were killed of whom 26 were civilians. But Israel was able to determine that 15 of those civilians were killed by misfired or errant Islamic Jihad rockets that fell short. Included in that figure were at least four children killed by an Islamic Jihad rocket that landed in the Jabalya refugee camp. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and their media supports, including the Qatari propaganda outlet al-Jazeera, tried to pin the blame for their deaths on Israel but Israel was able to get ahead of the story and presented irrefutable videographic evidence demonstrating that it was in fact, a terrorist rocket that caused the mayhem. Aside from minor injuries, there were no Israeli casualties attesting to the effectiveness of Israel’s defensive capabilities and its offensive operations. Property damage was also minimal. Egypt played a constructive role in brokering a ceasefire and the general Arab response, post-Abraham Accords, was muted, signaling a positive realignment of priorities and new political realities. There was a time when any Israeli action against terror groups would produce an instant robotic-like response from the Arab world, full of shrill and anti-Israel rhetoric, but no more. In sum, Israel accomplished all of its goals and more during Operation Breaking Dawn, while Islamic Jihad was left to lick its wounds.  

In the shadow of the tense security situation at the beginning of the week until the ceasefire agreement, the military court in Ofer extended the detention of Bassam al-Saadi by 6 more days - contrary to the jihad's demand...A-Sa'adi was arrested by Border Police and the IDF fighters following intelligence that came from the Israelis. Recently he acted to restore the Islamic Jihad activity and stood behind a significant military force building in Samaria in general and Jenin in particular.

A senior official in the terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip sent a threatening message to Israel, saying: "The arrest of Bassem al-Saadi is a crossing of a red line."

Targeting commanders

The commander it killed Friday, Taiseer al-Jabari, replaced Bahaa Abu el-Atta who was slain by Israel in a 2019 strike. His death had been the first high-profile assassination of an Islamic Jihad figure by Israel since the 2014 war in the Gaza Strip.

"EXPLAINER: What is driving the current Israel-Gaza violence." KCRA, Aug 6, 2022.

The decision on the targeted elimination of Baha' Abu al-Ata ("there was no choice"), and the precise hit ("excellent intelligence capability") - The steps that led to the escalation.

Abu al-Ata was in the IDF's crosshairs for a long time. The Northern Gaza Brigade, which was responsible for most of the recent attacks, including the bombardment of the Gaza Strip about two weeks ago, the shooting during Netanyahu's speech at the political event in Ashdod and the shooting on Memorial Day. The IDF announced this morning that in recent months they tried in every way to stop him from his hostile activities. "We tried in every possible way," they clarified. Abu al-Ata, for his part, made sure to use human shields, including children, in order to prevent his elimination. Last week, it was exceptionally approved to carry out the targeted elimination. With the exception of the assassination of a senior Hamas official in charge of finances, which was carried out last May, there have been no targeted assassinations in recent years. At the initiative of Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi and in full coordination with the General Security Service, the operation was approved in an orderly procedure in the cabinet about a week ago, after which the IDF waited for the appropriate opportunity, with the understanding that Abu Elata planned in the coming days to fire rockets into the surrounding area, launch drones and sniper fire. "The Chief of Staff pushed for the implementation of the operation because he felt there was no other choice," emphasized the IDF spokesman. He also added that: "We understand that Baa was an unbridled factor who acted most of the times on his own accord in a way that was contrary to regional interests."

At 4:00 the long-awaited opportunity arrived.

Abu al-Ata was in his home, unusually without a human shield except for his wife and the IDF jets set off. "The operation was very surgical," the IDF said after the incident. A precision missile hit the room where the senior jihadist was staying and caused it to collapse. "We didn't collapse the entire house, but the room he was in,"Silberman said of the surgical operation and revealed a touch of the IDF's operational technological capability. "We took advantage of an opportunity to hit him with minimal casualties," he said. Excellent of both bodies. Very close coordination with the Shin Bet and that's what led us to hit the specific room."

Gaza's agent of chaos. Israel Hayom, November 13, 2019.

- He was never arrested and surrounded himself with innocents to act as a human shield - Whenever Hamas sought calm, Abu al-Ata tried to create an escalation.

Bahaa Abu al-Ata has kept Israel's security elite very busy in the past year. The terrorist who emerged from the bottom, from the ranks of the Islamic Jihad, and rose to the military top of the organization, systematically challenged Israel and the appeasement against Hamas...

The military wing of the Islamic Jihad in Judea-Samaria announces a general recruitment for "harm to Israeli targets."

War crimes: Under a human shield, the Islamic Jihad launches rockets at Israel from within the city near residential apartments.

IDF strikes site for production of materials used in rockets, a weapons production site, a rocket launcher and a military post used.

On Aug 5, 2022, following IDF's elimination of arch-terror Jihadist al-Jabari, it was very important for PBS News hour to stress that his location was "in the OCCUPIED West Bank". The text read out by anchor, the word "occupied" was stressed with extra emphasis in her tone.. Even if one accepts the term "occupied":

Because annihilation-promoters jihadists could very much care about "freedom" for anyone or differentiate between Tel Aviv and Jenin?

Palestinian report: IDF forces launched an arrest operation against the leaders of the Islamic Jihad movement in the Jenin County.

Media outlets in Gaza realized that it's probably not a good idea to publish clips of rockets being launched from the heart of civilian areas... They began blurring out the lower part so as to hide the truth. You have both versions of the same clip. Share it with the world!

(Aug 6, 2022).

They did fire rockets at other targets, attached are pictures showing once again rockets being fired from civilian areas at civilian areas. In the #West_Bank, the operatives of PIJ military wing in #Jenin claim that they fired at #IDF targets at precisely 9:00...

(Aug 6, 2022).

The leader of the Islamic Jihad movement: "The battle is still "in its infancy", and we still have a lot to respond to the aggression [sic] -- it will take time and weeks -- it killed a precious senior."

According to unverified reports there are three people dead in the attack on the home of senior PIJ figure Ahmad al-Madlal.

(Aug 6, 2022).

This is the senior Islamic Jihad leader Abu Tarek al-Madlal who was killed in the last few minutes in IDF strikes in the Gaza Strip | Watch [1]

A military source affiliated with Hamas: Nour Zuidi, who was killed by the IDF strike in Beit Hanun, was a Hamas operative. A military source affiliated with Hamas: Nour Zuidi, who was killed by the IDF attack in Beit Hanun, was an operative of the Az Adin Al-Aksam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas.

Abu Ali Express in English, Aug 6, 2022.

In Gaza, there are reports of the evacuation of a 5-story residential building next to the Al-Amal Hotel in the western Gaza Strip - according to initial reports, the building was attacked by a UAV missile (apparently the Roof Knocking before the attack).

Hamal, Aug 6, 2022

IDF spokesman Brigadier General Ran Kochav, "In a joint operation by the IDF and the Shin Bet, another senior member of the PIJ, Khaled Mansour, Jabari's counterpart, the PIJ commander in the south, was apparently foiled. He was with his assistant in a hidden apartment in Rafah. This action was approved by the Minister of Defense. An accurate informant of the Shin Bet, Aman and the Southern Command. Execution of the Air Force under central control as part of Operation Dawn. He is the one who wanted to launch anti-tank attacks against Israel. He was previously involved in the anti-terrorist attack against the late Pinky Zoertz and the attack against the late Eliraz Peretz. His countermeasures were assumed and successful, his countermeasures together with the countermeasures of Taysir al-Jabari is a clear message to the PIJ leaders that there is no safe place. We will continue to pursue them. There was accurate intelligence here.

In a precise and joint action by the Shin Bet and the IDF, the terrorist Khaled Mansour was thwarted in Rafah. Mansour, one of the senior members of the PIJ organization, was responsible for many terrorist operations, including hundreds of launches into our country, and also commanded for many terrorist acts...

From the beginning of the 'Dawn' operation 21 People were injured across the country, including: 2 slightly injured from shrapnel, 13 slightly injured who were injured while running to the protected area and 6 who suffered an anxiety attack...

During the foiling of Khaled Mansour last night, children were identified in the area of ​​the attack and therefore the attack was postponed several times. Later, when the children were not present in the area, the attack was successfully carried out and the Palestinian official was foiled.

"I saw children; Cancel the attack" | Thus the IDF refrained from harming innocents in the bombing in Gaza, the successful elimination of the commander of the Southern Division of Jihad was postponed several times - since children in space - In the documentation published by the IDF Spokesperson, the operator was heard The Katalm reported that children turn on the attack area - and receives a not to shoot only after the children moved from the area - the attack was carried out.

The IDF Spokesperson (Sunday) is published in the organization's attack in which the South Islamic Division of the Islamic Gihad Mansur - where it seems to be delayed due to a desire to avoid injury to children who were in space. "I saw in the trees of children running around," he sounded in the voices.

The Air Force, which was operating in Gaza for the purpose of eliminating the senior jihadist, located several children near the building where Mansur was staying. "I saw them running and running through the trees, touching the house and coming back," the pilot said on the communication network. In response, we answered: "Cancel the event."

Thus, for several times in the same window of time - the attack and killing of the commander of the southern division was canceled due to the presence of the children at the scene. "There are still children there in the garden in front of the house, you can still see the children from before," the pilot reported. Later, only when the IDF made sure that the children were not in the area - was the attack carried out successfully, and the senior Palestinian was eliminated.

Dozens of calls were made by Shin Bet coordinators to the residents of the Gaza Strip, in order to make sure that there are no non-involved people in the vicinity of terrorist targets that are being attacked - the target of the attack: an weaponry warehouse located in a house in the center of Gaza City.

Further evidence of Israel's tremendous effort not to harm those not involved during the operation in Gaza:

This is how a conversation of the Shin Bet coordinator with a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, yesterday, 8/6/22, is heard. The Shin Bet coordinator asks the citizen who is in the affected area to evacuate the area, in order not to harm those not involved.

The target of the attack was a military warehouse located in a house in the center of Gaza City.

This conversation is one of dozens of conversations carried out by Shin Bet coordinators to the residents of the Gaza Strip, in order to make sure that there are no innocents nearby terrorist targets of the Islamic Jihad that were attacked and are located in the heart of a civilian population.

i24 News – A coordinator from Israel’s security service Shin Bet spoke with a Palestinian resident of the Gaza Strip ahead of an Israeli strike on a Palestinian Islamic Jihad ammunition warehouse, according to a statement released on Sunday. During the conversation, the Shin Bet coordinator urged the Palestinian to make sure the area around the building was clear: “We don’t want anyone getting hurt.”

The coordinator first demanded the full attention of his interlocutor. “Listen please, please. You know how we act, and I don’t want anyone to get hurt. I see people going back to their homes. Is the building evacuated?” the Shin Bet official asked his interlocutor.

The resident answered that there was nobody at this precise moment, however, the coordinator reiterated his question. “Are you sure that the building is evacuated, have you seen it with your own eyes?” he asked.

“I see that there is no one in the street,” the man assured, while the coordinator still insisted by questioning him on “the houses behind the building, where there are shops. Is it empty?” “Everything is empty,” he assured, but “I saw four people leave a few minutes ago,” the coordinator indicated. “These are people we asked to come out because there are going to be shootings. They were scared and they left,” he explained. “So now all the houses around the building are empty?” the Israeli official asked again. “Correct,” the resident replied, while the Shin Bet coordinator explained to him what would happen “in four minutes. We are going to do a warning shot first, I don’t want anyone at the crossroads, ok?”

This is one of the dozens of conversations that Shin Bet coordinators have with residents of the Gaza Strip to ensure that no citizens are near the intended Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip.

On Sunday, the Israel Defense Forces continued its strikes as part of Operation Breaking Dawn launched on Friday.

"Are you sure the building is free? I saw 4 people leaving": The Shin Bet reveals a conversation between a coordinator in the organization and a Palestinian in Gaza before an attack.

The conversation between a coordinator in the organization and a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip was revealed to show that Israel avoids harming innocents during the attacks in the Gaza Strip - The Shin Bet states that this conversation is one of dozens that coordinators in the organization made to the residents of the Gaza Strip.

The Shin Bet today (Sunday) reveals a conversation that took place between a coordinator in the organization and a Palestinian in the Gaza Strip in order to show that Israel avoids harming innocent people.

In a conversation published by the General Security Service, the Shin Bet coordinator asks the citizen who is in the area of ​​the attack to evacuate the area. This is the area where there was an ammunition depot inside a house in the center of Gaza City.

The Shin Bet states that this call is one of dozens of calls made by Shin Bet coordinators to residents of the Gaza Strip.

"Upon receiving the order to fire towards an enemy position, we noticed a little girl in the observation deck. The tank commander went up to contact and reported it - we immediately ceased fire. The position was destroyed after a few minutes without harming those not involved.'

During the opening of Operation Dawn, during an attack by the 82nd Tank Battalion of the 7th Brigade, a girl was identified in the area of ​​the Islamic Jihad position that was to be attacked. Upon identifying her through the means of observation, the fighters stopped the attack until the moment the girl moved away from the position. After her departure, the position was attacked by armored fighters. [2]

Aug 12, 2022.

- WATCH: Israelis Halt Fire to Avoid Hitting Young Girl in Gaza, VIN, August 12, 2022.

This is the rocket of Islamic jihad that caused the death of the children in the Gaza Strip - View documentation.

Two incidents tonight - Southern Command investigation: A failed Palestinian launch killed Palestinian children - Targeted counterattack against the PIJ senior in Rafah, with the details Dr. Amir Bohbot | listen.

Reports: This is the failed launch that caused deaths in Jabaliya.

Contrary to the Palestinian publications regarding the killing of the children in Jabaliya, it appears that the IDF did not attack in Jabaliya and the deaths are the result of failed shooting by the Islamic Jihad... after an investigation it was reported that there had been no attack by the IDF in Jabaliya since 18:51 and the deaths there were the result of failed shooting by the Islamic Jihad organization.

Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s international spokesperson, Keren Hajioff, releases an English-language video statement stressing that an explosion that killed several Gazans tonight, including children, was caused by a rocket fired by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group that misfired and landed inside the Strip. "Tonight, Islamic Jihad terrorists fired a rocket towards Israel which fell short inside Gaza, hitting a Palestinian home in the Jabaliya neighborhood and tragically killing at least four children," she says. “There is video documenting the entire thing. There was no Israeli activity in the Gaza Strip, in that area or at that time.

"Islamic Jihad is killing Palestinian children in Gaza. One in four rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel – lands inside the Gaza Strip," Hajioff adds. "The world should be outraged at this terrorist group targeting innocent Israelis and killing innocent Gazans. Israel will continue to stand up to this vicious terrorist organization – which threatens Israelis and Palestinians alike."

IDF releases video showing Islamic Jihad rocket launch failing, rocket falling in Gaza.

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Close to one-third of the Palestinians who died in the latest outbreak of violence between Israel and Gaza militants may have been killed by errant rockets fired by the Palestinian side, according to an Israeli military assessment that appears consistent with independent reporting by The Associated Press. The Israeli military said 47 Palestinians were killed in the weekend of fighting — at least 14 of them by Islamic Jihad-fired rockets that fell short. No one in Gaza with direct knowledge of the explosions in question was willing to speak about them publicly. But live TV footage showed militant rockets falling short in densely packed residential neighborhoods. And AP visits to the sites of two explosions that killed a total of 12 people lent support to suspicions they were caused by rockets that went off course. Israel is claiming victory in the weekend clash, in part because it killed two senior Islamic Jihad commanders and because no Israelis were killed or seriously wounded. If it turns out that Islamic Jihad harmed some of those it claims to protect, it would make for an even more humiliating outcome for the militant group and its main sponsor, Iran...

Video footage of the aftermath circulated online, showing what appeared to be a rocket casing sticking out of the ground on a narrow, busy street. When the AP visited the site on Monday, the casing was gone and the hole had been filled in with dirt. Palestinians are usually keen to display evidence of Israeli airstrikes to international media.

A storm on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the Knesset plenum, Tibi compared Nazism to the violence of the youth of the hills... MK Shlomo Karhi was quick to respond: "Ahmad Tibi, a supporter of terrorism, uses his speech on International Holocaust Remembrance Day to make a horrific comparison between the situation of Palestinian rioters and that of Jews during the Holocaust. There are no more boundaries. There is no humanity."

The Druze policeman, who claims that Ahmad Tibi insulted and attacked him, testified today (Wednesday) in the Jerusalem District Court.

"You are a Druze collaborator. My shoe is cleaner than your community" - this is how the Druze policeman described the incident with Tibi near an Israeli checkpoint in the Ramallah area. According to the police officer, Ahmad Tibi was not in the vehicle that was stopped for inspection and he arrived at the scene only after he was called to the scene by his driver. The policeman stated in his testimony that after the first insults, Tibi attacked him with a punch and even said to him: "Come on, shoot me."

Continuing his testimony, the policeman said that senior officers arrived at the scene and instead of receiving a report from him, they rushed to Tibi, to hear his version.

MK Ahmed Tibi slammed Netanyahu that "you would never have told MK Tamno Shata when she complaints, to go back to Ethiopia" and caused an uproar. Tamno Shata to Tibi: "You are rude, the chief racist"...

The Arab MK ignited an uproar when he said "I will not remind Tamno-Shata where she came from" and provoked criticism from the MK: "You are a racist."...

"I am a proud Ethiopian," Tamno-Shata told Tibi. "The fact that you constantly talk about the Ethiopians, emphasizes what a racist you are. You should be ashamed of your words, you disgrace this house."

MK Solomon, also a member of the Ethiopian community, joined the criticism against Tibi: "We maintain style and will not stoop to your level. But the fact that you keep talking about Ethiopians, Russians and immigrants only emphasizes the racism over and over again. If we talk in your style, it won't end well."

Notice an interesting phenomena, all these Israeli Arab members of Knesset (who are equal citizens, legally entitled to be elected to Israel's parliament - unlike in Judenrein Palestine) are attacking Israeli society and its institutions... rather than looking closer to home for the answers.

No, it's not the vicious mass murder of Jews in malls, cafes and on buses by Arab terrorists... No, it's not the apartheid-style (or is that Nazi-style?) demand for a Judenrein Gaza, a Judenrein Palestine, even by so-called moderates like Mahmoud Abbas. No, it's not the consistent polls for the last five years showing 50-80% "Palestinian" support for suicide bombings, or the fact that Hamas garnered 58% of the vote in the recent elections in the Palestinian Authority. No, it's not the recent announcements by Hamas leaders of their intention to continue what they euphemistically call the "resistance", better called genocidal attacks against Jews in Israel.

No, It's not the public support Israeli Arabs, both leaders and led, both educated and not, have voiced for the Hamas victory in the PA. No, it's not the growing active participation of Israeli Arabs in terrorism against Israeli Jews. No, it's not their own admission of disloyalty toward the State of Israel. No, it's not their own call for apartheid-style segregation, and Arab supremacist rights in Israel itself. No, it's not any of the above reasons that many Jews have negative feelings toward Arabs in Israel.

No, it's all the Jews' fault, according to Tibi, Al-Sana, Barakeh and others. How intellectually "honest"; how utterly perfidious of them. It sounds to me like classic anti-Semitism, Jew-hatred and Judeopathy.

Can you believe Israel let these racists run in the recent elections?

Following the hunger strike of some of the Arab terrorists who are in the Israeli prison during the month of February 2013, Ahmad Tibi published a statement that was passed on to the Israeli media in this way, more or less: "If one prisoner dies, the whole area will burn." ... Ahmad Tibi, like the infamous Hanin Zoavi, probably suffers from political autism like the racist Arab leadership that leads the Arab countries in the entire region...

"Tibi's statements are tainted with racism and incitement." Beitar Yam responded to the words of MK Tibi in "Voters Sport": "provoking for his voters...

MK Regev: "Who expects the terrorist Arafat's advisor to tell the truth?"

Member of Knesset Miri Regev responded to Tibi's words: "Ahmed Tibi as usual continues to lie. The things said by him were aimed at infiltrators and not at the foreign workers and long live the small difference between infiltrators and migrant workers with a permit."

The MK added: "Who expects Tibi to be accurate and tell the truth? The advisor of the great terrorist Yasser Arafat. He continues with incitement and hatred towards the Jewish people. This is a Trojan horse in the Knesset. I will continue to work for the State of Israel to be a Jewish state, with united Jerusalem as its capital while giving full rights to the Arab minority that is loyal to the Jewish state."

Although almost 30 years have passed, the Hadassah hospital remembers well the incident involving MK Ahmed Tibi and the security guard who was attacked and injured in the head. In 2015, Tibi attacked two security guards - and even then no indictment was filed against him.

The terrorist Ahmed Tibi attacks policemen on the Temple Mount!

The terrorist actually goes up the mountain to protect the terrorists and beats the security forces.

Ahmed Tibi is a terrorist!

Itamar Ben Gvir responds to Ahmed Tibi's claims that he was attacked by a soldier in Hebron and pulls out of the archive an interesting verdict regarding the reliability of Tibi's testimony...

"Tibi's false claims remind me of the discussion that took place in a court hearing 20 years ago, when Tibi claimed that Noam Federman and Benzi Gupstein had beaten him and punched him. The case came to court and after the judges watched the cameras, the judge determined that Ahmed Tibi is a liar. Tibi is a blatant liar And his testimony cannot be trusted."

MK Tibi is recorded speaking to a group of demonstrators in Jerusalem and stirring up, agitating. The crowds respond with the chants "With spirit and blood we redeem El Aqsa", and with the anti-Semitic chant "Khaybar Khaybar Ya Yahud".

Reading "Khybar Khybar Ya Yehud, Jaish Muhammad Suf Yahud" (Khayber Khayber Ya Yehud, Jaish Muhammad will return), Meaning: Remember Khybar, Jews, Muhammad's army will return

The reading reminds the "Jew" of the Battle of Khaybar where Muhammad's army massacred the Jewish tribes in the Arabian Peninsula.

"Ahmad Tibi looked at Merav, a bereaved mother, and raised his hand in a triumphant gesture. What devilry. Gantz.., Yvette—wake up!"

Knesset member Tibi accused IDF soldiers of spitting at Palestinians in order to (sic. Tibi) infect (sic. Tibi) them with Corona.

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Ahmed Tibi "that everyone should return to his homeland" Yitzhak Pindros: "that's why we came back here!"

Ahmad Tibi: "Let everyone return to their homeland." Yitzhak Pindros: That's why we came back here! Orit Struck: So go back to where you came from!

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Moderator: "We will now move on to the speech of our people in occupied Palestine for the year '48, from the mouth of Dr. Ahmed Tibi, head of the Arab Movement for Change."

Tibi: "In the name of Allah, the Merciful and the compassionate, peace be upon you and the mercy of Allah and His blessings. Members of the families of the martyrs and the martyrs, my brothers in the Palestinian leadership, I have come to you from the other half of the apple [a nickname for the Israeli Arabs] to bow my head before the memory of the martyrs and before the families of the martyrs and bless you. In the history of the nations and their struggles The martyr is the pinnacle of glory. There is no higher value than the shahadah (death for the sake of Allah). The martyr is the one who breaks the way, and draws with his blood the path to freedom and liberation. The martyr is the symbol of the homeland. And our beloved Mahmoud Darvish said about him: 'By his virtue and by their virtue, you will be worthy of the homeland.' From the lifted up Galilee, from the proud Nazareth, from Haifa and Acre and Jaffa and Lod and Ramla, from Umm al-Fahm standing firm, from Wadi Ara, from your beloved Teiyyah, from the Negev standing firm - we have come to offer you a blessing and honor, the blessing of the martyr, the blessing of the glory - the blessing to you all. The blessing to the Lord of the Martyrs, Yasser Arafat. ...

Despite documentation of Islamic Jihad rocket landing in Gaza, MK Tibi attacks Israel for death of children in Jabalia.

Despite documentation of Islamic Jihad rocket landing in Gaza, MK Tibi attacks Israel for death of children in Jabalia.

Joint Arab List MK Ahmad Tibi has blamed Israel for the deaths of children in Gaza - despite footage showing otherwise...

Tibi shared pictures of children killed in Jabalia in Gaza, in an incident that Arab media reported as a result of an Israeli airstrike. Tibi also "tagged" the US President's official Twitter account as well as the account of the UK Government. Meanwhile, Israeli officials reported following an investigation that the Gazan children had died as a result of an Islamic Jihad rocket that fell short and landed in Gaza. The following video documented the incident:

Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel, co-chairman of the Zionist Spirit party, responded to Tibi writing, "Liar. We have in our possession videos that prove beyond a doubt that Israel Defense Forces did not strike in Jabalia in the past few hours - a failed rocket attack by Islamic Jihad is responsible for the killing of children in Jabalia."

A heavy barrage was sent to all parts of the country, for the first time alarms were activated in Be'er Sheva.

First threat from Hamas, Fawzi Barhoum, the spokesman for the terrorist organization of Hamas: "The resistance[sic] in all its arms and military factions is united in this battle and we will no longer allow the continuation of the situation as it is."

Jaffa: Arabs of Jaffa call Allah akbar during the alarms.

Rotter, Aug 7, 2022.

Arabs were recorded this evening (Sunday) in Jaffa celebrating the launch of rockets from Gaza towards Tel Aviv, shouting 'Allah and Akbar' during the alarm and clapping their hands.

The chairman of O. Y., MK Itamar Ben Gabir, commented on the documentation of the supporters of terrorism from Jaffa: "It's not in Gaza, it's here in the heart of Jaffa - supporters of terrorism are jubilant about firing rockets at the State of Israel. In a properly-run country they would be expelled from the country. Until we change the law, I demand that the Israel Police carry out widespread arrests tonight and file indictments for supporting and encouraging acts of terrorism."

Crowds cheer at a wedding in Umm al-Fahm: Gaza, you are (sic) heroes, keep attacking Israel.

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Meanwhile, they kill each other in the streets even in times of peace. lol.

During the attack on a naval ammunition warehouse in the house of a terrorist, it was identified a non-involved [person] in the attack range. Following the identification, the plane stopped.

The attack was carried out later when there was no threat of harm to civilians, which were in the area.

The IDF continues to inspect its targets as part of Operation "Dawn" - during the attack on a naval ammunition depot at the home of a PIJ operative - a person was identified who was within range of the attack, and the IDF ordered a "cease."

The third day of the "Dawn" operation: The IDF continues to realize its goals as part of the "Dawn" operation that began on Friday, and is currently in its third day. Today, during an attack on a warehouse of naval weapons at the home of a PIJ operative, a person not involved was identified in the range of the attack. Following the identification, the plane stopped the attack. The attack was carried out later when there was no threat of harm to civilians, who were in the area.

The IDF reported another launching of the Jihad at a house in Jabaliya - apparently there is a woman killed and wounded Palestinians. To date their 160 rockets fell in the Gaza Strip.

The jihadist terrorists again launched a failed rocket that hit their territory. Sources in Gaza reported dead and wounded.

Palestinian TV catches live the failed launch of an Islamic Jihad rocket that falls and hits a populated area in Gaza Authentic documentation of how they shoot and kill their own people. WATCH.

"Please, turn the camera away, turn the camera upwards," Mayadeen TV correspondent says after the rocket impacted in a Gaza neighborhood.

During a live broadcast on Aug. 7, Lebanon’s Mayadeen TV caught a Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket misfiring and coming down in a Gaza neighborhood. The correspondent can be heard telling the cameraman to avert the camera. The correspondent can be heard in the video, a translated version of which was posted by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) on Monday, stating that rockets are being launched toward the sea, “maybe towards the gas fields.”

One of the rockets can then be seen straying off course, veering away from the coastline and impacting in a populated area. A few moments later, a voice is heard instructing the cameraman, who followed the missile’s course, to “please, turn the camera away, turn the camera upwards.” The presenter then attempts to continue the broadcast, saying, "Yes, Ahmad, apparently rockets were launched towards the sea."

According to the Israeli military, during the three days of fighting between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists that began on August 5, the Gaza-based terror group launched some 1,100 rockets at Israel, 200 of which fell inside the Gaza Strip. Of the 990 that crossed into Israel, Israel’s Iron Dome air-defense system intercepted 380 that would have come down in populated areas; a success rate of 96%, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.

More Palestinian noncombatants were killed by misfired PIJ rockets than by Israeli strikes, according to the IDF. Thirty-five Palestinians, 11 of them non-combatants, were killed by Israeli airstrikes during “Operation Breaking Dawn,” while 15 Gaza civilians were killed by failed PIJ rockets, according to IDF figures.

The unsuccessful launch of unmanned aircraft from Gaza prompted Israel to increase defensive measures

Israel's military revealed on Tuesday that Gaza's Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) was involved in a failed attempt to launch a drone toward the Tamar gas rig during this past weekend's 'Operation "Breaking Dawn."' The terrorist group's unsuccessful launch of an unmanned aircraft from Gaza prompted Israel's army to step up its efforts to protect the platform located 14 miles off the coast of Ashkelon in southern Israel.

During the 11-day conflict with Hamas in May 2021, the terrorist rulers of the Gaza Strip fired dozens of rockets toward Tamar, missing the intended target, which is protected by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system and other defensive measures.

Fuel was removed from the rig and it was temporarily taken offline at the start of the fighting between Hamas and Israel. The move during last year's conflict with Hamas came at the order of then energy minister Yuval Steinitz’s office.

According to Israeli military estimates, the PIJ launched around 1,175 rockets from the Palestinian coastal enclave at Israel during the three days of conflict that ended late Sunday night with an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. 

About 200 failed launches landed in the Gaza Strip. Two of the failed launches resulted in the deaths of about 11 people, including seven children.

Mayor of Sderot Alon Davidi: "The leadership needs to understand that its job is to use the IDF, not civilians - not to cause closures and hardship for residents. I am satisfied with this sale. They told Jihad if you don't fold we will fold you - and they folded. I want every prime minister to act like this."

(Aug 7, 2022).

Summary of the "Dawn" operation: 97% success for the Iron Dome, 170 targets of the jihad were attacked, about 1000 launches towards Israel, of which about 100 fell in the territory of the Gaza Strip. According to the data in the hands of the IDF, which are not certain, 35 Palestinians were killed - of which 11 were not involved. Another 15 non-involved deaths resulted from failed shots by the Palestinians.

An ambulance of the Red Crescent arrived today at the Erez crossing and transported 4 Gazan children who were injured by PIJ rockets that landed in Gaza - to a hospital in Israel for medical treatment.

Operation "Breaking Dawn" - the days after: We announce that today (Tuesday) an ambulance of the Red Crescent arrived at the Erez crossing with 4 injured Arab children from the Gaza Strip.

The children were harmed by the failed launches of the Islamic Jihad towards Israel during the operation and now, after the ceasefire - with the help of the Gaza Coordination and Liaison Directorate, which is under the coordination of the government's operations in the territories - they will receive medical treatment here in Israel. 3 of them were hospitalized at al-Maqsad Hospital in Jerusalem, 1 was hospitalized in PA territory.

As recalled, during the operation we learned of at least two failed launches that resulted in the death of those not involved. In one of them, the PIJ even tried to blame Israel by claiming that the civilians died in an attack by our forces in Jabaliya, a claim that was quickly refuted by an IDF spokesman who published documents proving that the injuries occurred as a result of failed rocket launches.

According to IDF data, during the operation about 200 rockets launched from the Gaza Strip by the Jihad with the aim of hitting Israeli civilians landed in the Gaza Strip. This is more than 20% of the launches, the number of which was about 1100 during the days of fighting.

Hamas issued and then withdrew sweeping restrictions on foreign journalists working in the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of this week’s conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, according to the Associated Press. The restrictions included a ban on coverage about PIJ rockets falling short in Gaza and causing injuries and deaths, as well as a general rule requiring that Jerusalem be blamed for the latest escalation, according to the report.

The Foreign Press Association, which represents international media in Israel, announced that the regulations were scrapped following discussions with the terrorist group…

Sponsors would have also been required to inform Hamas of “any suspicious behavior or illogical questions” by foreign journalists, and to submit a full report of what journalists did in Gaza, in addition to links to all published works…

In one instance, a PIJ rocket misfired and caused an explosion in a residential area of Jabalya that killed numerous people, including four children. While Palestinian media initially reported that the deaths were caused by an Israeli airstrike, the IDF refuted the claim by releasing footage of the incident.

Meanwhile, during a live broadcast on Aug. 7, Lebanon’s Mayadeen TV caught a PIJ rocket malfunctioning and coming down in a Gaza neighborhood. A few moments later, a voice is heard instructing the cameraman, who followed the missile’s course, to "please, turn the camera away, turn the camera upwards."…

UPDATE: CAMERA prompts correction of an AP Week in Pictures feature which misidentified outgoing Islamic Jihad rockets launched from Gaza towards Israel as "Israeli airstrikes."

Washington Post's coverage of Operation Breaking Dawn and finds a curious pattern of one-sided omissions and misrepresentations.

ABC correspondents Ines de la Cuetara and Reena Roy falsely charge that Israeli airstrikes were responsible for all of the Gaza casualties earlier this month, ignoring that errant Islamic Jihad rockets were the culprit in a significant number of cases.

Despite long record of Pallywood and exaggerated numbers over the years, the PBS states in its title a 'Palestinian' source's statement "as a matter of fact." ___

[ Israel strikes on Gaza kill 7 people and wound 40 more | PBS NewsHour

Aug 5, 2022 — GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli airstrikes on Gaza have killed...].

Where Palestinian claims are taken as fact, even when they come from terrorist organizations, Israeli claims – with evidence – are taken with skepticism... Al Jazeera blamed Israel for the death of children in Jabaliya, without mentioning that it was the result of an errant Islamic Jihad rocket...

while both CNN and BBC mentioned the Jabaliya attack within larger articles about the entire operation, both of them reported it as a claim of Israel that's disputed. The BBC article stated that Israel accused PIJ militants of accidentally causing at least some of those deaths, adding that the BBC has not been able to independently verify this claim.

Interestingly, no such disclaimer is mentioned when it comes to the death toll statistics provided by Gaza terrorist groups. Why is that Palestinian claims are taken as fact while Israeli claims that are put forth with transparency and even with evidence are cast in a negative, skeptical light?

The New York Times has cut ties with a fixer in the Gaza Strip after his Facebook posts calling Jews "the children of [sic] dogs[sic]" and expressing support for the late Nazi tyrant Adolf Hitler resurfaced.

Fady Hanona has worked with multiple major news outlets to aid their reporting on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Hanona was listed as a contributor in six of the NYT’s eight stories written on the latest conflagration between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror group in the Gaza Strip.

Fady Hanona was credited in NY Times' recent reporting on the Israel-Gaza conflict...

According to screenshots preserved by Honest Reporting editor Akiva Van Koningsveld, Hanona repeatedly espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric. expressed hostility towards Israel and spoke favorably about Adolf Hitler. 

"I don’t accept a Jew, Israeli or Zionist, or anyone else who speaks Hebrew. I’m with killing them wherever they are children, elderly people, and soldiers," Hanona wrote in Arabic on a Facebook post, adding: "In the end, the Jews are sons of the dogs and I am in favor of killing them and burning them like Hitler did to them. I would be extremely happy," including two smiling emojis.  

In another Facebook post from August 2014, Hanona attributed a quote to the Nazi leader, writing "As Hitler said, give me a Palestinian soldier and a German weapon, and I will make Europe crawl on its fingertips." 

Hanona opposed a cease-fire that was struck at the time between Israel and Hamas, urging "resistance" and further attacks upon Tel Aviv.

Jerusalem-based Sarah Muscroft to be assigned new role, spokesman says, after her statement panning rockets that 'provoke Israeli retaliation' met strong backlash from Palestinians...

Muscroft, who headed the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said: "Relieved to see a ceasefire agreed ending hostilities impacting both Palestinians and Israeli civilians. Such indiscriminate rocket fire of Islamic Jihad provoking Israeli retaliation is condemned. The safety of all civilians is paramount — the ceasefire must be upheld." Muscroft, who had been based in East Jerusalem, came under massive criticism from pro-Palestinian activists who said she was blaming Palestinians for the latest round of violence and was failing to hold Israel responsible.

The latest Gaza conflict began with several Israeli airstrikes against Islamic Jihad targets in response to what the army said was a concrete terror threat from a PIJ cell to fire anti-tank missiles across the border at Israeli troops or civilians. The strikes were followed by the firing of nearly 1000 rockets by PIJ as well as roughly 170 Israeli counterstrikes.

The true face of the UN has been exposed again and there is no limit to hypocrisy.

The UN envoy, Sara Muscroft, only tweeted praising the ceasefire and condemning the rocket fire by the Islamic Jihad terrorists. It was probably too much for her bosses at the UN and she was removed from her post. Every time I think the UN and its people have hit rock bottom, they prove that you can go lower. Shocking! This time it is a complete surrender to the threats of the Palestinians and we will fight against it.

So this morning I contacted the UN Secretary General and made it clear that we will not accept such a double standard. Just two weeks ago, one of the "judges" in the commission of inquiry against Israel on behalf of the Human Rights Council, remained in his position even after expressing himself in a biased and even anti-Semitic manner. This is a disgrace and I will work so that the UN and the Secretary General understand the meaning of this despicable step.

Turkey was aware that a team of Iranian agents had entered the country in June to assassinate Israelis, before they were arrested...

A Venezuelan cargo plane bought from Iran is the latest piece in the IRGC's smuggling enterprise. The recent detainment of a Venezuelan cargo plane in Argentina could be linked to attempts by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to attack Israelis abroad...

Earlier today (Tuesday) it was reported in Gaza about an explosion for unknown reasons inside a house. According to the reports, the explosion resulted in deaths, including a child, and many injuries on the spot. The Arabs tried to hide the cause of the explosion and some even claimed that it was an assassination attributed to Israel, but the IDF spokesman for foreign media revealed in a tweet on Twitter that it was weapons that were stored insecurely in a terrorist's house, exploded and resulted in the death of a child and other casualties.

The IDF spokesman for foreign media said: "Another tragedy in the Gaza Strip today. Weapons stored unsafely in the house of a member of a Palestinian terrorist group exploded and killed a young child in the vicinity.

These are the sad consequences of militarizing civilian areas for terrorist activity."