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What else do you remember from that day? Where were you? What did you talk about? I was with them, I walked around with them – they were on a high. Ketziot is an open-air facility. That particular wing is surrounded by a wall and there's netting above it but you see the sky. The prisoners who had arrived there to be freed hadn't seen the sky for 20 years. In the prisons they had come from, they'd spend the entire day in their cells, maybe going out for an hour or two. Suddenly they see the horizon. They're happy....

Already about 30 years ago: this is how Sinwar planned the invasion and the massacre. The untold story of Sinwar: the competition - who kills more Jews. In the United States, they may try to pressure Hamas even more through Egypt and Qatar, and are debating whether to order the government in Doha to expel Hamas representatives from the country if they fail to convince the organization's senior officials in the Gaza Strip to release the abductees. This is what veteran commentator David Ignatius reported today (Thursday) in the "Washington Post". "This is the real devil, the new Nazi," Kobi...

Israel will not be sending a negotiating team to Cairo, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel Sunday, after receiving an unsatisfactory response from Hamas on the latest framework for a hostage deal hammered out in Paris last weekend. The Gaza-based terror organization refused to address Jerusalem’s demand to provide a list of living hostages and to lock down how many Palestinian prisoners Israel must release for every hostage freed, added the official. Hamas’s position was conveyed to Israel through Qatar. According to Channel 12, the war cabinet and the professional echelon all agreed that there was no point...

Hamas’ top official in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was seen on camera running through the terror group’s underground network accompanied by his wife, children and brother, the IDF says. The newly released video shows the family traveling through a tunnel beneath Khan Younis on Oct. 10, with Sinwar’s brother, Ibrahim, leading the way with a flashlight in hand. The brother could be seen looking back at the family as he continues to walk down the narrow tunnel, with Sinwar’s wife following after him along with a little girl and two young boys. Sinwar, the man believed to have been the mastermind...

A satirical sketch created by "Eretz Nehederet". "Eretz Nehederet" ("A Wonderful Country) is a satirical television show by the Israeli Broadcaster Keshet.

IDF troops have twice managed to reach tunnels in Gaza in recent days where they believe Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was hiding just before they arrived, Hebrew media outlets reported Tuesday. Citing unnamed sources, Channel 13 reported that the IDF has primarily focused its activities in and around the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis in order to achieve its goal of assassinating Sinwar. The intelligence information gathered by the IDF while moving in on the Hamas leader has indicated that he is on the move rather than remaining in any one place for an extended period. The report said...

The security establishment is bracing for imminent military achievements against Hamas, which are expected to weaken the grip of both Sinwar and Mohammed Deif on their ground forces. A senior security official, in a confidential briefing, shared insights on the escalated efforts to locate Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas. The official revealed, "There is a significant intelligence effort underway to track down Sinwar," emphasizing his misjudgment of the IDF's strength and his shock at recent military actions in Shifa. Security forces are now focusing on the southern Gaza Strip, with an expectation that operations in areas like Khan Yunis...

Israeli comedians have mocked the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) once again for its pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel bias in a sketch with a satirical interview of Gaza-based Hamas terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar. Last month, the comedy show, Eretz Nehederet (“wonderful land”) mocked the BBC for its sensational reporting of “fake news” about an alleged Israeli airstrike on a Palestinian hospital. An errant rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists had caused the blast. On Tuesday night, the comedians were back for more. The interview sees a BBC anchor describing the October 7 terror attack as an incident in which Hamas “peacefully invaded” Israel. Sinwar...

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar׳s exclusive interview on BBC Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar׳s exclusive interview on BBCIsrael’s longest-running political satire program, Eretz Nehederet, has tackled issues regarding the war with what the director calls an "old Jewish secret: laughing in the face of death." Israeli political satire show Eretz Nehederet, meaning "wonderful country," satirized the BBC and Western media coverage of Israel’s Operation Swords of Iron on Tuesday in a skit featuring a sympathetic mock “interview” with Yahya Sinwar – Hamas’s lead man in Gaza. The interview begins with the actress portraying the BBC anchor announcing an exclusive interview with Sinwar...

Noah Pollak @NoahPollak: More: Here is Hassan Eslaiah, an @AP and @CNN contributor, taking a selfie while being kissed by Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza and architect of the 10/7 slaughter. Quote Noah Pollak @NoahPollak: 22h 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Important expose by @honestreporting: Photographers working for AP, CNN, NYT, and Reuters were EMBEDDED with Hamas on 10/7 and accompanied the terrorist group into Israel. They knew the attack was coming, and participated in it.*

The 30th day of the war: at least one wounded by anti-tank fire on a vehicle near the Lebanese border Netanyahu: "Sinwar doesn't care about his people and is behaving like a little Hitler in a bunker" • The IDF spokesman revealed: Hamas launched rockets only 75 meters away from a hospital in Gaza • The IDF located dozens of guns, explosive drones and ammunition in the Gaza Strip • Iron Dome intercepted a Tab in the territory of Lebanon • Publication was allowed: the Nahal patrol fighter, Yonatan Maimon, was killed in battle in the northern Gaza Strip •...

Hamas is winning the fight in Gaza, the organization’s leader in the war-torn Strip told its senior officials in Qatar early this month, according to a Thursday report. In early February, Hamas’s exile leadership convened in Doha, worried that the IDF was getting the better of the terror group as Israeli troops and airstrikes killed fighters and took more ground, said The Wall Street Journal, citing “people informed about the meeting.” A message from Hamas’s Gaza leader Yahya Sinwar arrived, arguing that despite the tactical losses, Hamas had the upper hand. International pressure would force Israel to end the war,...

After the disclosure of the documentation, in Israel it is estimated: Sinwar is still out of touch. Anger in Gaza after the publication of Yahya Sinwar's documentation from the tunnel: "We are thrown into the garbage and they live in good conditions underground" • Israel has newer documents, which may be published later • According to what is known, Sinwar did not contact the mediators • American officials: "There is no breakthrough In the talks in Cairo, the release of the freedmen is the main problem" • In Israel they estimate: the threat of the invasion of Rafah brings the...

During a tour he conducted at one of the bases of the Intelligence Division in the center of the country, the Minister of Defense presented an envelope containing $20,000 in cash: "Sinwar takes care of himself first of all, he became a fugitive terrorist"... Nir Dvori | N12| Published 16:58 08.02.24. "Out of millions of dollars - one million goes to Sinwar, out of tens of millions he pockets what he needs. Take for example this envelope that is specially intended for him and his family - cash, twenty thousand dollars," the defense minister revealed. Gallant also emphasized during his...

An analysis of the Israel-Hamas war by international strategic advisor Ayelet Frish IDF operation updates: Israeli Defense Forces continue to intensify the operation in Gaza this week from the ground, the air and the sea, taking hold of strategic Hamas outposts in the northern and southern regions of the Gaza Strip. Since the onset of the operation, the IDF has taken hold of Hamas’ parliament, its command-and-control centers and weapons facilities- most of which are embedded in civil infrastructure such as schools, mosques and residential buildings. In the Gaza City neighborhood of Shejaiya, IDF troops directed targeted airstrikes on Hamas...

Israeli forces are closing in on the location of Hamas leader, Yahya Sinwar, Israel's military has suggested, as it moves into the "third phase" of ground operations in the devastated Gaza Strip. The Chief of the Israel Defense Forces' General Staff, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, was quoted by The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday as saying that the IDF has encircled southern Gaza and Khan Younis, where multiple top officials have said Sinwar is hiding, though the outlet said there was no precise timeline for capturing or killing him. "[Yahya] Sinwar is the address," Halevi said. Israeli forces moving through the...

WQCS-FM, an NPR affiliate, reported, “Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and a coalition of attorneys general have issued issued a warning to media companies with possible ties to foreign terrorist organizations.“Attorney General Moody and the coalition sent a letter reminding the publisher of the New York Times, the CEO of the Associated Press, the CEO and editor-in-chief of CNN and the president of Reuters that providing material support to terrorists and terror organizations is a crime. This follows reports that individuals hired by these outlets have troubling ties to Hamas.”Attorneys general in 14 states put the press on notice: Quit...

WARNING: This story contains graphic details Decades before Yahya Sinwar became the political leader of Hamas in Gaza, Israeli journalist and author Ehud Yaari sat down with him over hummus in an Israeli prison in the Negev desert. He describes Sinwar, who conversed in fluent Hebrew, as a curious but cunning Islamist, bent upon the destruction of the state of Israel. "He is not somebody who's thinking about negotiations, a two-state solution — that's not Sinwar," said Yaari, who interviewed Sinwar in prison four times between 1993 and 2001. "He was very clear that the state of Israel should be...

One of the most accurate aspects about Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza is the use of the word Nazi to describe the terrorist enemy. No other label or historical parallel could capture the chilling ferocious madness – but not scope – of Palestinian butchery of Israelis. The Nazi vilification epithet has now become conventional Israeli discourse in public and media circles with the vivid revelation – in words and photos – of Palestinian savagery and barbarism by Hamas on October 7. Hamas terrorists, without an ounce of inhibition or remorse, shot youth in cold blood at the music festival...

A skit by Israeli satirical television show Eretz Nehederet, described by many as the "Israeli Saturday Night Live," has gone viral for a third week in a row. In the skit, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar gives an exclusive interview on BBC. He talks about the ceasefire that Hamas is trying to reach because “all civilians are running out of town, and Hamas is left without protection.” Hamas is tired, they need a break, “especially as a hostage baby is keeping them awake at night.”