JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two rockets were fired at southern Israel from the Sinai Peninsula. The Code Red alert siren sounded in Israeli communities on the border with Gaza on Sunday night. The Israel Defense Forces confirmed that two rockets were launched from Sinai. It is not known if the rockets fell in Israeli territory. The…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A rocket fired from Gaza struck southern Israel. No injuries were reported in the Sunday evening attack, the Israel Defense Forces spokesman said. The Code Red warning siren sounded in southern Israeli cities and towns near the border with Gaza at about 9 p.m. prior to the rocket landing in an open…
(JTA) — An affiliate of the Islamic State claimed responsibility for a rocket attack on the southern Israeli resort city of Eilat. The Sinai Province group, which pledged its allegiance to ISIS in 2014, said Thursday it was responsible for the firing of four rockets from the Egyptian-controlled Sinai peninsula into Israel. Three of the rockets…
Think of the Rockettes, and you think of New York: Radio City Music Hall, lit up in the wintertime, glittering decadence tucked away inside. But the Rockettes, currently making headlines over their union’s unforgiving response to a dancer’s concerns about performing at President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, wasn’t always Big Apple-based. They made a home in…
The Rockettes will perform at Donald Trump’s inauguration, though not without some performers being very unhappy about it. Time has reported that one expressed concern about being “involved in a dangerous political climate.” Another dancer, Phoebe Pearl, expressed her distress on Instagram: “I usually don’t use social media to make a political stand, but I…
JERUSALEM — The Islamic State claimed responsibility for firing two missiles from the Sinai Peninsula at an Israeli border crossing, and that the Israeli military retaliated with airstrikes. The long-range Grad rockets fired Monday were aimed at a crossing on the Israel-Egypt border, but landed in Egypt. The Islamic State has claimed in the past…
JERUSALEM — A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip struck Israel for the second day in a row. The rocket fired on Thursday afternoon triggered the Code Red rocket warning system in communities near the border with Gaza, sending residents scurrying for bomb shelters. The rocket landed in an open area in a southern Israeli…
Israeli aircraft attacked Palestinian militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, wounding at least one person, witnesses said, after a rocket fired from the enclave hit an Israeli border town. Israeli police said there were no casualties in the rocket strike on Sderot, but Israel has a declared policy of responding militarily to any…
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