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☆ Israel Dominates Battlefield With Technological Advantage Over Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

NEGEV DESERT, Israel—In a cluster of single-story buildings the size of small classrooms, commanders from the Givati Brigade, the main Israeli infantry force in Gaza, watch a bank of screens showing the real-time location of all Israeli and Palestinian forces inside Gaza—information they use to move around troops and weapons and surveillance aircraft like pawns on a chessboard. This site, near the Gaza border, is a key node of a sprawling technological nerve center, receiving thousands of battlefield data points from drones, jet fighters, naval ships, tanks and soldiers, that has enabled the Israeli military to carry out a sweeping takeover of a swath of Hamas’s stronghold in Gaza City in less than three weeks with fewer than 50 troop deaths.

Persons: Israel — Organizations: Givati Brigade Locations: Israel, Gaza, Gaza City

☆ Israel Warns of Wider War as It Presses On in Gaza
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Omar Abdel-Baqui | Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The chance of a full-scale war breaking out between Israel and forces in Lebanon increased in recent days, Israeli officials said, even as fighting continued around the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital, crippling the facility where doctors said hundreds of civilians were sheltering and more patients were dying. On Sunday, at least 10 Israeli civilians and seven soldiers were wounded by a combination of mortar, rocket and antitank missiles fired on northern Israel from Lebanon, according to Israeli military and medical authorities. The assault was the most serious incident involving civilians along the Lebanon-Israel border since an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon on Nov. 5 killed a woman and three children.

Locations: Israel, Lebanon, Gaza

☆ Israeli Forces Reach Gate of Gaza’s Largest Hospital
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Dov Lieber | Chao Deng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israeli troops reached at least one of the gates of Gaza’s largest hospital where Israel says Hamas conceals a major center of operations, while medical staff reported deteriorating conditions inside because of a lack of supplies and electricity. The Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Israeli military vehicles were at the southeast gate of Al-Shifa Hospital, and an Israeli military spokesman confirmed that troops had reached one of the gates. Israel alleges that Hamas runs four underground complexes and a command-and-control center at the hospital, a claim Hamas denies.

Organizations: Health Ministry, Hamas, Shifa Locations: TEL AVIV, Gaza’s, Israel, Gaza, Al

☆ Israel, U.S. Warn of Wider War as Clashes Escalate
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-13 | by ( Omar Abdel-Baqui | Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel and the U.S. have warned about the prospects for a wider war in the Middle East, as Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Israeli military step up cross-border attacks against each other and other Iran-backed militias in Syria and Iraq strike American troops. The warnings came as Israeli forces continued their assault Monday on Gaza, where Palestinian doctors at besieged hospitals say they are watching patients die from a lack of supplies and electricity.

Organizations: U.S, Hezbollah Locations: Israel, Iran, Syria, Iraq, Gaza

Israeli troops and Hamas militants fought intense street battles Sunday around the Gaza Strip’s biggest hospital, leaving the medical facility with dwindling supplies for thousands sheltering there while a power outage led to the death of two newborns, according to doctors there. Doctors described an increasingly desperate situation at hospitals in northern Gaza, including the biggest one, Al-Shifa Hospital, where they said dozens of dead bodies have been left in the open and decomposing and nearly 40 prematurely born babies are without the incubators they need.

Organizations: Shifa Locations: Gaza

☆ Israel Races to Root Out Hamas as Calls for Gaza Cease-Fire Mount
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( David S. Cloud | Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In a little over a week, Israeli ground forces have fought their way into northern Gaza’s urban areas with a speed that has surprised even their own commanders. But the most complex stages of the war might still lie ahead. As they move closer to the center of Gaza City, Israeli troops are encountering dug-in Hamas fighters in larger numbers who attack and then pull back or disappear underground, slowing the Israeli advance, soldiers and current and former officials say.

Locations: Gaza City

☆ Israel Plans Security Role in Gaza After War With Hamas
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Dov Lieber | David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Top Israeli officials said they intend to retain security control of Gaza for an indefinite period to prevent new militant groups forming once Israel finishes its war with Hamas, but said they have little interest in administering Gaza the way the U.S. sought to govern Iraq two decades ago. Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, in his first interview with a foreign media outlet since the start of the war on Oct. 7, said Israel has no desire to impose a civilian administration on Gaza. Once Hamas is toppled, Israel is looking at turning over responsibility for governing the territory to an international coalition, including the U.S., the European Union and Muslim majority countries, or to local political leaders in Gaza, he said.

Persons: Eli Cohen, Israel Organizations: European Union Locations: Gaza, Israel, Iraq, U.S

☆ U.S. Pushes Back on Israel’s Security Plan in Gaza After War
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-07 | by ( Dov Lieber | David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Israel said it intends to retain security control of Gaza for an indefinite period once its war with Hamas ends, prompting U.S. officials to stress their opposition to a reoccupation of the enclave. Senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , said Israel will likely keep military control of Gaza, and it has no intention of creating an interim government to run civilian life. The plan, which was suggested for the first time since the start of the Oct. 7 war, raised concerns from the Biden administration.

Persons: Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden Organizations: U.S, Senior Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ For Israelis Living at Gaza’s Edge, Fear Pervades Daily Life
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Dov Lieber | Photographs Tanya Habjouqa Noor Images For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Israeli Military Poised for Battle for Gaza City
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( David S. Cloud | Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israel began in earnest its dangerous push into Gaza City, piercing the densely populated urban Hamas stronghold with troops and armored vehicles after one of the most intense bombing campaigns of the monthlong war. A spokesman for the Israeli military said Monday that its units had effectively encircled Gaza City after reaching the enclave’s Mediterranean coast on Sunday. Israel’s military has previously said Gaza City, located in the enclave’s north, is where much of Hamas’s military defenses, its command bunkers and fighters are concentrated.

Persons: TEL AVIV — Israel Organizations: TEL AVIV — Locations: TEL AVIV, Gaza, Gaza City

☆ Israel Deepens Push Into Gaza City
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( David S. Cloud | Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israel pushed further into Gaza City, sending troops into an urban Hamas stronghold that is still packed with civilians after one of the most intense bombing barrages of the monthlong war. Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that Israeli forces “are continuing to deepen the pressure into the depths of Gaza City.” He didn’t say during a briefing Monday where Israeli soldiers are operating, and Israeli officials have been careful not to disclose the location of their ground forces in Gaza.

Persons: Israel, Daniel Hagari, “ Locations: TEL AVIV, Gaza City, Gaza

RAMALLAH, West Bank—Secretary of State Antony Blinken worked to assure Palestinian leaders that the U.S. is committed to helping Palestinian civilians and was met with a demand for an immediate cease-fire in Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip. Blinken’s unannounced Sunday visit to the West Bank, to meet Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas , came hours after an Israeli airstrike hit a refugee camp in Gaza, killing at least 38 people according to the Hamas-controlled health authority. Israeli officials didn’t immediately comment on the explosion at the Al Maghazi refugee camp.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Mahmoud Abbas, didn’t Organizations: West Bank —, West Bank, Palestinian, Al Locations: RAMALLAH, West, Gaza, Al Maghazi

Airstrikes on a densely populated neighborhood in Gaza this week show Israel is waging a broader and more ferocious war against Hamas, an approach that aims to destroy the Palestinian militant group but has sparked an international backlash. The repeated strikes on the Jabalia neighborhood—a refugee camp that has turned into a warren of permanent homes and apartment buildings—come amid a three-week-long air campaign by Israel that is the most intense in its history and rivals any aerial bombardment this century, military analysts say.

Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel

☆ Israeli Forces Move to Cut Gaza in Two, Isolating the North
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Dov Lieber | David S. Cloud | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israeli forces were pushing across Gaza and in from the Mediterranean coast early Thursday, cutting the enclave in two and isolating densely populated urban areas in the north where armored and infantry units were battling Hamas militants, the United Nations and former Israeli officers said. The fighting was especially intense in several neighborhoods in northern Gaza, where Israeli troops attacked early Thursday in Karama and Zeitoun, moving closer to the center of Gaza City, backed by airstrikes and in some cases by gunfire from warships offshore, according to Israeli military officials.

Organizations: Hamas, United Nations Locations: TEL AVIV, Gaza, Karama, Gaza City

Organizations: Hamas Locations: Gaza, Israel

Israel said Tuesday it hit a Hamas command and tunnel network in northern Gaza, causing widespread damage in a crowded Palestinian refugee camp. Israel said it killed dozens of militants, including a commander who it said led the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel. Hamas said hundreds were dead or wounded but didn’t say how many were militants, while hospital officials in Gaza reported receiving scores of bodies.

Persons: Israel Locations: Gaza, Israel

Group members said Russian occupiers are snuffing out religious and other freedoms in areas of Ukraine under Russian control. “We are eyewitnesses of Russian atrocities going on in our country,” said Metropolitan Yevstratiy Zoria, a representative of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Orthodox Church has declared its independence from Moscow and proclaimed its loyalty to Ukraine, but a government study commission contended that the UOC remains a structural unit of the Russian Orthodox Church. The other separate, but similarly-named church, Orthodox Church of Ukraine, was officially recognized as independent by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in 2019, but the Russian church has disputed the legitimacy of that recognition. Zoria decried statements by Moscow Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, who has strongly supported the war as part of a metaphysical battle against Western liberalism and has said the Russian war dead have their sins forgiven.

Persons: Ivan Rusyn, ”, Freedom, “, Bartholomew of Constantinople, you’re, Zoria, Kirill, ” Zoria, Yaakov Dov Bleich, ” Bleich, Vladimir Putin, Ukraine Akhmed Tamim Organizations: WASHINGTON, Ukrainian Evangelical Church, Ukrainian, of, U.S . Institute of Peace, Orthodox, of Ukraine, The U.S . Commission, ” UNESCO, U.S . State Department, Church, Orthodox Church of, Ecumenical, Metropolitan Zoria, Russian Orthodox Church, Administration, Lilly Endowment Inc, AP Locations: Ukrainian, United States, Ukraine, Russian, Rusyn, Christianity, The, ”, Houston, Moscow, Orthodox Church, Orthodox Church of Ukraine, of Ukraine, “, Kyiv, America, Yugoslavia

☆ Israeli Forces Make Major Advance Toward Gaza City
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Margherita Stancati | Dov Lieber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—Israeli tanks and infantry pushed into the outskirts of Gaza City on Monday and blocked one of the main roads connecting the northern part of the Gaza Strip to the south, witnesses said, in a major advance that appeared aimed at encircling the enclave’s biggest population center. The push came three days after Israeli ground troops moved into Gaza, marking an escalation of its efforts to eliminate Hamas militants who on Oct. 7 killed some 1,400 people and kidnapped more than 220 in a series of attacks inside Israel.

Locations: TEL AVIV, Gaza City, Gaza, Israel

The Israeli army said Friday night that it was expanding its ground operations in the Gaza Strip amid intensifying airstrikes in its most significant maneuver yet ahead of an invasion intended to end 16 years of Hamas rule, while the strip came under a nearly complete communications blackout. Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, the chief Israel Defense Forces spokesman, again urged Palestinians to leave the northern Gaza Strip, including Gaza City, to head south, amid growing signs that the military was poised to launch an expansive ground operation.

Persons: Daniel Hagari Organizations: Israel Defense Forces Locations: Gaza

☆ Israeli Tanks Carry Out Biggest Raid Inside Gaza Since Oct. 7 Attacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Dov Lieber | Saeed Shah | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TEL AVIV—The Israeli military on Thursday carried out its biggest raid into the Gaza Strip since Hamas militants’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel, in what it said was an effort to prepare the ground for an eventual invasion of the enclave. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is under growing domestic pressure to launch a large-scale ground assault against Hamas in Gaza. On Wednesday, U.S. officials and people familiar with the Israeli planning said Israel had agreed, for now, to a request from the U.S. to delay its ground invasion of Gaza so the Pentagon can place air defenses in the region to protect American troops.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel Locations: TEL AVIV, Gaza, Israel, U.S

Beneath Gaza, a labyrinth of tunnels used by Hamas will complicate any potential Israeli ground offensive in the Palestinian enclave. WSJ’s Rory Jones—who visited the tunnels in 2014—explains the unique challenge they pose for Israel. Photo: Yousef Mohammed/Zuma PressTEL AVIV—In the weeks leading up to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, hundreds of the Palestinian Islamist militant group’s fighters received specialized combat training in Iran, according to people familiar with intelligence related to the assault. Roughly 500 militants from Hamas and an allied group, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, participated in the exercises in September, which were led by officers of the Quds Force, the foreign-operations arm of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the people said.

Persons: Rory Jones —, —, Yousef Mohammed Organizations: Zuma Press TEL, Quds Force, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Locations: Gaza, Israel, Zuma Press TEL AVIV, Iran, Jihad

TZE’ELIM, Israel—In the sun-torched plains of southern Israel, thousands of soldiers wait for the go-ahead from politicians and commanders to do what the Israeli military has trained for years to do: fight in the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military has built a replica of a generic Palestinian village nicknamed “Little Gaza” at a base in the Negev Desert, where soldiers train for combat against armed terrorists in narrow streets and a labyrinth of tunnels.

Persons: Israel — Organizations: Gaza Locations: TZE’ELIM, Israel, Gaza

☆ Dov Charney is fighting over his Silver Lake mansion in bankruptcy court. Only problem: The court can't get rid of squatters like Milo Yiannopoulos and Ye's hanger-ons.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Dov Charney is trying to prevent his Silver Lake mansion from being sold in bankruptcy proceedings. A sprawling, 20-room estate, the Garbutt House is located in the gated Hathaway Hills Estates community in a residential neighborhood of Los Angeles. The structure was built with its original owner's deathly fear of fire in mind, the Times reported. He declined to respond to the Times reporter's questions about the Garbutt House, calling the requests "audacious and impertinent." It remains unclear whether he lives or has lived at the Garbutt House.

Persons: Dov Charney, Milo Yiannopoulos, —, Dov Charney slogs, Ian Connor, Milo Yiannopoulos —, Frank A, Charney, Connor, Brad Krasnoff, Krasnoff, Yiannopoulos, Eric Israel, Ye — Yiannopoulous, Bruce Marks Organizations: American Apparel, Service, Kanye West, Charney's, Los Angeles Times, Estates, Times, Los Angeles Apparel, Apex Locations: California, Hathaway, Los Angeles

Israel ramped up its bombing of targets on three fronts, including a rare airstrike in the West Bank, as humanitarian aid trickled into the Gaza Strip in an international effort to ease the hardship the conflict has wrought on the two million civilians trapped there. An Israeli soldier died during an operation in Gaza, and the Israeli military struck a mosque compound in the West Bank’s city of Jenin that it said was being used by militants to plan attacks. It also struck a target in southern Lebanon, where it said militants were attempting to launch antitank missiles at the Israeli side of the border.

Persons: Israel ramped Organizations: West Bank Locations: Gaza, Israeli, West Bank’s, Jenin, Lebanon

The tiny Mediterranean country is home to Hezbollah, a Shiite Muslim political party with an armed wing of the same name. Hezbollah has reported the deaths of 24 of its militants since Hamas' bloody Oct. 7 rampage in southern Israel. Hezbollah has vowed to escalate if Israel begins a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, which is likely, and Israel said it would aggressively retaliate. “If Hezbollah decides to enter the war, it will miss the Second Lebanon War. Israel sees Iran-backed Hezbollah as its most serious threat, estimating it has some 150,000 rockets and missiles aimed at Israel.

Persons: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Jonathan Conricus, ”, Conricus, Hassan Nasrallah, Hassan Fadlallah, Fadlallah Organizations: —, Palestinian, Hamas, National News Agency, Sunday Locations: BEIRUT, Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Lebanese, Aitaroun, Avivim, Blida, Iran, Dov, Syria

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