Popular opposition in Yesha (Judea, Samaria, and Gaza) to Defense Ministry plans to uproot Jewish residential outposts in Judea and Samaria is growing, as news of these intentions spreads. Following the dismantling of two unmanned outposts in the Shomron last night – one near Elkanah, and the other one near Kedumim – the Defense Ministry […]

Two Israelis are in critical or serious condition after Arab terrorists shot them as they were driving southeast of Hevron late this morning near the hostile village of Yata. Two other passengers were hurt less seriously. Army forces entered Yata in search of the murderers. The drive-by attack occurred at the same Zif Junction at […]

Fourteen Arabs – all of whom except for one or two were armed terrorists – were killed over the night in an Israeli offensive in Gaza. The IDF raid followed yet another Arab rocket attack on a Gush Katif community last night; no one was hurt in that incident. Despite IDF explanations that the forces […]

DEBKAfile’s readers were not taken aback by the Israeli Shin Beit’s (Security Service) disclosure on September 23 that it had custody of a three-man Palestinian cell from Ramallah who trained in Iraq with Iraqi instructors in the execution of strikes against Israeli targets – in the company of al Qaeda terrorists. Their admissions – which […]

Two alert IDF soldiers prevented a mega-terrorist attack in the city of Afula early this morning. The soldiers pulled into a gas station close to 2 AM on their way southeastward to Beit She’an and noticed a suspicious bag near one of the pumps. Upon inspecting the bag and discovering a bomb-like device inside, they […]

NEW YORK- The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has expressed its strong disappointment at President Bush’s announcement that he will not implement the new U.S. law requiring specific steps towards recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capitol. The new Jerusalem amendment, which was part of the State Department authorization bill that President Bush signed into law on […]

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Cabinet convened this morning and decided to end the more obvious aspects of the IDF’s siege of Yasser Arafat’s Mukata compound in Ramallah. Tanks have already begun to be removed from the view of those in the Mukata’s remaining building, but troops will remain close by to arrest any […]

(IsraelNN.com) MDA emergency medical service officials reporting four persons were lightly wounded by gunfire in the Southern Hevron Hills area shooting attack, not three as believed earlier. A fifth victim, an infant girl, is reported in moderate-to-serious condition, en route to the Hadassah Hospital trauma center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem neighborhood.

Last night IDF troops, backed by tanks and helicopters, moved into three sections of PLO-controlled Gaza in a move aimed at weakening the terror infrastructure. PLO officials say that at least nine Arabs were killed, and twenty others wounded in exchanges with the troops. Among the dead were two senior Al-Aksa Brigade terrorists. During the […]

This morning British Prime Minister Tony Blair released a 55-page dossier revealing that Iraq has the ability–and is planning–to launch long-range missiles armed with chemical and biological warheads against its enemies. The report shows that included in his arsenal are 20 al-Hussein missiles with a range of 650 kilometers (about 400 miles). Such missiles would […]