Today, Hamas fired +200 rockets at Israel. All peaceful countries must unequivocally condemn Hamas' indiscriminate attack against our people.

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📌Hamas is again intentionally targeting Israeli civilians.

📌Over 300 rockets & mortar shells were fired from Gaza by Hamas since this afternoon.

📌Dozens were intercepted by the Irom Dome defense system.

📌Direct rocket hits caused injuries & damage in Israeli communities.

Today 71 years ago, resolution 181 also known as the Partition plan was formally accepted by the United Nations. The Jewish side accepted the UN plan for the establishment of two states - the Arab side rejected it. This monumental resolution later led to the establishment of the State of Israel, in May 1948.
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Israel, and Jews from all around the world are celeberating Hanukka, the Holiday of Lights. Wishing you all a bright week! https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1069256090246963200

This morning Israel started operation "Northern Shield”.

This is a defensive operation meant at destroying attack tunnels, crossing into Israeli territory, built by Hezbollah.

Hezbollah is a dangerous terror organization, at the service of the ayatollahs in Tehran.

Israel is committed to protect its citizens and its territory.

The Hezbollah activity is yet another blatant violation of UN resolution 1701.

⬆️MFA Spokesperson: Hezbollah's building of attack tunnels crossing from Lebanon into Israel is a blatant violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701, it is an act of aggression.

Israel will do its utmost in order to protect its citizens and its territory against such an aggression.

Following the exposure of a Hezbollah terror tunnel, crossing into Israel's sovereign borders, Israel set forth on operation "Northern Shield" with the objective of unveiling and destroying the serious threat these tunnels pose to Israeli civilians.
More details are included in the video below. https://twitter.com/IsraelMFA/status/1069969581425463298

Documents from western intelligence sources, exposed by the Welt Magazine, reveal that Iran expanded its missile testing this year, in clear violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, including the use of missiles that could reach the territory of the European Union. Read full report bellow 👇
https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article185208076/Nuclear-threat-Iran-significantly-expands-missile-testing.html?fbclid=IwAR38kgLmI2YjYWdB0y1A-R7fYaaX5sG1Sdi_nHk-OShw5QdNoi5C33FBB8A

Yesterday, a terrorist intentionally targeted civilians in a drive-by shooting, injuring 6, including a pregnant woman in her third trimester. Hamas spokesman responded to this attack, describing it as "heroic".

This terrorism and Hamas' outright support of it must be condemned by the international community. https://twitter.com/IsraelMFA/status/1072008246351814657

Exactly on this day, 40 years ago, Israel's then Prime Minister Menachem Begin was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for achieving the 🇮🇱🇪🇬peace treaty, which was officially signed a few months later with the President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat.
This historic peace agreement broke the cycle of war in the Middle East, proving that peace is possible.

Click the video to watch Begin's phenomenal speach 👇 https://www.facebook.com/111177802287614/posts/2351157418289630/

Prime Minister Netanyahu on yesterday's terror attack:

"We are all praying for the well being of the wounded from last night's terrorist attack in Ofra. We support the doctors who are fighting for the baby's life. Abhorrent terrorists tried to murder a mother and the baby in her womb."

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On this day, 101 years ago, Jerusalem was liberated from Ottoman rule, thus beginning the British Mandate.
Watch British General Edmund Allenby enter Jerusalem's Old City through the Jaffa Gate on foot in order to show respect for the holy City. https://twitter.com/MarkRegev/status/1072476618252345345

Operation Northern Shield Update: A 3rd Hezbollah terror tunnel was discovered today, crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory.

This newly discovered tunnel is to be demolished by the IDF, and is another severe, unacceptable violation of Israel's sovereignty.

https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1072480098702495745

The terror attack that occurred on Sunday ended in tragedy.

Despite restless efforts to save the 30 week-old fetus who was delivered in an emergency procedure after his mother was shot, his death was announced last night.
During his funeral, the baby was given his name- Amiad Israel, translated as 'My nation, Israel is eternal'.

The State of Israel mourns this loss, and prays for the full and speedy recovery of the wounded.

This terror must end.

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Another deadly attack by Palestinian terrorists today, in which 2 Israeli soldiers were murdered.

Our prayers to the wounded and the families of the victims.

This culture of murder is fed by constant incitement to hatred and by the financial support of terrorists and their families by the Palestinian Authority.

Brutal Palestinian terror continues to take the lives of innocent Israelis.

This week alone, 3 Israelis were murdered by Palestinian terrorists, who are incited and financially rewarded by the Palestinian Authority for murdering Israelis.