Chief Staff LTG Herzi Halevi visited the Binyamin region of Judea and Samaria and evaluated the forces' preparedness for Ramadan.

Footage from the incident shows the terrorist, Sheikh Mahmoud Nofel, holding a Kalashnikov rifle and while hiding behind a gravestone, firing at the Jewish settlement, while being shot and wounded.

Undercover forces arrested a wanted suspect at a falafel stand in the Dheisheh 'refugee camp' south of Bethlehem. The suspect was taken for questioning by the Shin Bet.

<p>International Court of Justice will hold hearings on April 8 and 9 in Nicaragua's case against Germany for giving military aid to Israel and defunding UNRWA.</p><p><i><span>(Israel National News' North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Israel National News articles, however, is Israeli time.)</span></i></p>

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The terror organization is demanding that in the first stage, Israel would retreat from al-Rashid and Salah al-Din streets to allow the displaced Gazans to return to the northern Gaza Strip.

If the government remains politically stable, if the military continues its brilliant fight in Gaza and if U.S. opinion remains supportive, Jerusalem can flip Hamas’s machinations on its head. Op-ed.

The newly appointed Palestinian Prime Minister has written to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to formally accept the responsibility for forming a new government.