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A platoon commander who participated in the October 7th Massacre and was in charge of holding several Israeli hostages, as well as a Hamas sniper array commander, were photographed surrendering to IDF soldiers in Rafah.

Troops located weapon stockpiles approximately 80 meters from a building that previously served as a school and approximately 100 meters from a building that previously served as a hospital in Rafah.

With the world shocked, enthusiastic or outraged at U.S. President Donald Trump’s idea to take over the Gaza Strip and relocate its population, it is worth recounting the recent history of the area and the previous attempts to solve the Gaza problem through resettlement — which brought mixed success. The problem began in 1948, during Israel’s War of Independence, a recent video by Kan News explained. When the newly created Israel Defense Forces (IDF) pushed the invading Egyptian army back south, a flood of some 200,000 refugees fled ahead of it. The IDF’s advance was halted at the northern end...

From our episode • The amazing story of IDF Captain and ... with Chaim Meisels. He is the great-grandson of the Satmar Rebbe, R’ Beirach Moshe. About eight years ago, Chaim chose to immigrate to Israel and enlist in the IDF. Chaim left everything behind, enlisted in the IDF combat unit, and was sworn in at the Kotel. Chaim served as a commanding officer in the Egoz program, a special forces unit and then was in Golani. Here he discusses the IDF's presence in Rafah and the hunt for Hamas leaders. Transcript linked below video.

An official close to the Prime Minister tells The Time of Israel that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was fired for professional reasons, and not because of coalition politics. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, says that Gallant “functioned as a rubber stamp for the IDF and did not challenge it even once.” The defense minister, claims the official, advocated a diplomatic solution in Lebanon six months ago that would not have diminished Hezbollah’s capabilities, and opposed the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah until the IDF backed the move. On Gaza, claims the official, Gallant resisted the IDF going...

Last March, when the IDF was preparing an offensive against Hamas in Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city, Joe Biden was alarmed. He publicly told Prime Minister Netanyahu not to do it, saying that such a move would cross a “red line.” He threatened to withhold military aid to Israel. Kamala Harris also said that having “studied the maps,” she knew that such an operation could only end in disaster because of the one million civilians living in Rafah; she said there would be “consequences” if the IDF went ahead. More on how the Bidenites tried to stop the IDF from entering...

Six Israeli hostages, who were murdered in a tunnel by Hamas terrorists in August, were likely used as human shields to protect the recently killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, according to a Channel 12 report on Sunday. The hostages, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Ori Danino, Eden Yerushalmi, Almog Sarusi, Alexander Lobanov and Carmel Gat reportedly lived on energy bars for months before eventually being executed by terrorists in Gaza. On Sept. 1, Israeli forces retrieved the bodies of the murdered hostages in a Rafah tunnel. Sinwar likely chose these six Israelis as human shields because they were considered particularly valuable assets. For...

So Yahya Sinwar has been killed. The leader of Hamas in Gaza is no more. The man widely believed to have been the architect of the pogrom of 7 October has been eliminated. The worst mass murderer of Jews since the Nazi era has been served the ultimate and most righteous punishment. The fascist is dead. This is a great day not only for Israel and the Jewish diaspora that has been smarting for more than a year from the horrors that Sinwar and his army of anti-Semites visited on southern Israel, but also for all of humanity. It was...

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari has revealed declassified footage of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and his family on the night of October 6, 2023, less than 24 hours before the Hamas massacre on Israel. In the footage, Sinwar and his family can be seen in a tunnel, stockpiling food, mattresses, and other necessities, seemingly preparing for a lengthy stay underground. "According to our intelligence, Sinwar hid mostly underground, in the area between Khan Yunis and Rafah," Hagari said. Hagari also noted that the IDF found tissues with Sinwar's DNA on them in Rafah, adding that Sinwar mostly remained underground. "He came...

When Israeli forces examined Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar's body after killing him in a surprise ground operation on Thursday, they discovered several curious items, including grenades, an assault rifle, nearly $11,000 in cash, and a passport belonging to an employee of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency.Those items, experts told the Washington Free Beacon, suggest Sinwar may have been attempting to flee the embattled Gaza Strip when Israeli forces stumbled upon him inside a house in the territory's Rafah neighborhood, Hamas's stronghold along the border with Egypt...The presence of an UNRWA passport in Sinwar's belongings is another blow to...

PM and his circle argue that the elimination of the Hamas leader, in the city world leaders said Israel must not invade, shows he knows what he’s doing despite opppsition criticismIn mid-March, US officials told the Politico news site that US President Joe Biden would consider limiting future military aid to Israel if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went ahead with an offensive against Hamas in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah. Days before, Biden said in an interview that such an IDF move into the city would be a “red line,” while adding that he was “never going to...

IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi tells commanders from the Golani Battalion that Israeli forces have killed some 1,500 Hezbollah operatives so far since Israel stepped up its assault on the Lebanese terror group."We are very determined to hit Hezbollah as hard as possible," Halevi says during a visit to troops in southern Lebanon in remarks released by the IDF today."We have taken out their entire command layer," he says referring to airstrikes that killed terror leader Hassan Nasrallah and other top leaders. "And you are taking out the local command structure."Halevi says the terror group "continues to shrink and...

As Hamas reels from the loss of its chief instigator Yahya Sinwar, the terrorist organization’s remaining leaders defiantly proclaim they will not release Israeli hostages. Meanwhile on the northern border, the IDF is reporting that Hezbollah fighters are beginning to surrender. Also, as Tehran’s ring of fire around the Jewish State crumbles, Israel vows that its much-anticipated retaliatory attack against the Iranian regime is still imminent. Watch now.

On Wednesday evening, a little over a year after he brought unspeakable suffering to thousands of Israelis, Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed in a chance encounter with IDF soldiers. While the IDF didn't officially confirm the details, a plethora of reports and eyewitness accounts in the Israeli media allow us to gain a comprehensive picture of the circumstances of the death of the world's most wanted terrorist. After the months that Israel's security forces were hunting Sinwar through the underground maze he had built himself in Gaza, he was found by chance, walking above ground in broad daylight in...

Give Yahya a hand. Please!Wow. Remind me never to start a war with Israel, huh? The bad guys got a jump on them a year ago, but ever since, the Jews have been kicking ass.I thought Operation Beep-Beep-Boom would be the highlight, but they saved the best for last. Witness the glorious farewell of October 7 mastermind Yahya Sinwar:Drone VideoIt’s good to see that before they put him out of his misery, he was literally disarmed.Sinwar has now ceased firing.“What has one thumb and just got pwned by the Jews? This guy!”

The U.S., Israel, and the world are “better” and “safer” without Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, according to Israeli Knesset Member Simcha Rothman who criticized the Biden-Harris administration for delaying Israel’s entry into Rafah, arguing that if the terror chief had been eliminated five months earlier the suffering in Gaza could have been reduced and hostages might already be home, as he urged for a greater respect toward Israel’s strategy. In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Thursday, Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee Chairman Simcha Rothman of Israel’s Religious Zionist party hailed the death of Yahya Sinwar, the October...

One of the two bodyguards found dead alongside Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Wednesday was an employee of the United Nations, according to a report Thursday. As Breitbart News reported, Sinwar’s death was confirmed Thursday after infantry and armored troops engaged three terrorists hiding in a building in southern Gaza, in Rafah, near the Philadelphi Corridor along the Egypt-Gaza border. He was found with two other terrorists. One of them was a senior commander of Hamas terrorists in the Khan Yunis area. The other, according to Israeli news website Ynet, was a teacher employed by the United Nations Relief and...

President Joe Biden privately referred to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a "son of a bitch," among other profane insults, over Israel's military actions against the terrorist group Hamas inside Gaza, according to a new Bob Woodward book. In addition, Biden called Netanyahu a "bad guy," according to CNN, citing an advance copy of Woodward's book titled "War" ahead of its Oct. 15 release. Woodward's book gives a behind-the-scenes account of Biden's thinking and reactions to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, his selection of Merrick Garland as attorney general, and his criticism of former President Barack Obama's handling of Russian...

President Biden was furious after the elimination of a Hezbollah leader who had a $5 million bounty on his head from the US for his role in killing hundreds of American servicemen. Conversations from the past year between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden were revealed today (Tuesday) in a new book by journalist Bob Woodward, 'War,' an advanced copy of which was obtained by CNN. According to Woodward, after the elimination of Hezbollah's second-highest ranking figure Fuad Shukr, Biden was furious with Netanyahu and told him: "Bibi, what the f-?" Biden added, “You know the...

Lest the world forget, a war is still raging in Gaza. Among the many obstacles to even a modest cease-fire, there is the Philadelphi corridor. Less than nine miles long and roughly as wide as a football field, it occupies a crucial border location — including the Rafah crossing — between Egypt and Gaza. Egypt patrolled its side of the border after the 1979 peace agreement, then the Palestinian Authority took over control when Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. But the PA was itself driven out by Hamas in 2007. Since then, the Rafah crossing has been a central...