Israel Under Attack

Friday May 13

12:00 pm 

- 3 missiles fired from Syria 2 landed in Israeli territory no injuries

-Rockets shot at Ashkelon and southern cities Israeli warplanes strike more targets in gaza

- Jordanian protesters trying to reach King Hussain Bridge which leads to the border with Israel at the westbank. Jordanian police  fired tear gas to halt the 500 demonstrators

- Israeli forces arrest Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib, deputy head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, at his home in Kafr Kanna in Galilee.

- Biden’s envoy arrives in Tel Aviv, Israel.

-Riots in the west bank 6 Palestinians killed

-Turkey considers sending troops to East Jerusalem as part of a "peacekeeping mission".

-A group of protesters break through the border fence from Lebanon infiltrate israeli territory and light a fire. IDF Troops shot at them 1 killed.

 - The Military Commander of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command Khaled Jibril: "We are in historical moments ... Now is the time to remove weapons from the warehouses, in the West Bank and the occupied interior..

- Netanyahu: "Hamas pays and will pay a heavy price, as it is not over yet, and they will not escape our strikes."

7:00 am

- 43 people were arrested in Lod on Friday morning, after Thursday’s 120 arrests across the country during Jewish and Arab riots in mixed communities.

- IDF deception leads to massive aerial assault on Hamas’s ‘Metro’. The ground invasion was meant to fool hamas to enter the tunnels and exposed the hamas fighters to israeli forces jpost

-Arabs riot in the French Hill neighborhood of Yerushalayim injuring Jews. Rav Asher Weiss paskens  they can carry a cellphone on Shabbos due to the dangerous situation.

-IDF targets The Hamas ‘Metro’ tunnel system in Gaza. The operation: 160 aircraft, tanks, artillery and infantry units along the border. Striking 150 targets and damaged many kilometers of the Hamas ‘Metro’ network. Hundreds of hamas operatives killed

Thursday May 13

10;00 pm

- 4 am local time barrage of missiles shot at southern Israeli cities

60 year old man in Ashkelon injured in rocket attack on his home

7:00 pm

Heaviest shelling in Gaza since begining of operation.  Barrage of missiles fired at Ashkelon with 2 direct hits b"h no injuries

5:00 pm

- IDF says “air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip.” not a ground invasion yet just firing heavy artillery from tanks at the border.

3:00 pm

 IDF: A short while ago, three rockets were fired from Lebanon into the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of northern Israel.

1:30 pm

-Bennet says the coalition talks with the change bloc is off the table. He is now in talks with Likud

12:00 pm

-Part of rocket falls in Bnei Brak, miraculously no damage or injuries

-Pentagon withdraws 120 US military and civilians from Israel.

-Al-Qassam claims they have started to use Sejjil rockets in the latest attack on Beer Sheva, Israel. Direct hit reported.

- Hamas attempts to use explosive suicide drones to attack israelis 

- Arabs shooting live ammunition at Jewish residents in Lod

7:00 am

+Rockets fired toward central Israel

-Israel has deployed combat troops along the Gaza border. Plans for a possible ground invasion will be presented to the IDF General Staff for approval later today.

-A Jewish man was attacked by Arab rioters near Shaar Shechem (Damascus Gate) in the Old City of Yerushalayim he was taken for medical attention. Police arrested five suspects in the act.

- Thursday morning, the IDF struck at least three terrorist cells that were preparing to launch anti-tank guided missiles towards Israel.

Wednesday

8:00 pm

-Updated:  A Jewish man in Aco is alive after suffering severe head trauma from a lynching he was operated on and is in stable condition.

Missile fell in Petach Tikva no injuries

6:00 pm

-For the first time Rockets launched from Gaza towards the Jezreel valley and sirens go off in Nazareth 

-Egypt attempts to broker a ceasefire but Israel refuses

 -Another barrage of rockets fired toward central Israel

- Israel in chaos: Police arrest hundreds in Jewish-Arab violence across country

-Riots spread across several cities throughout Israel with mixed Arab and Jewish populations.

5:00 pm

 - Biden: "Israel has a right to defend itself when you have thousands of rockets flying into your territory." Biden says he has spoken with Israeli PM Netanyahu, and expects the situation to end sooner than later.

4:00 pm 

-Islamic National Bank in Gaza  got destroyed by Israeli warplanes.

- Support for Israel rallies planned coast to coast. 5:30 pm in NYC at Times Square

3:00 pm

 -Riots in the streets with arabs lynching an israeli citizen in Acco and retaliatory lynching in Bat yam by Israelis. # Israelis transported in serious condition after they were pelted with stones

-A 6-year-old boy is in critical condition after a direct rocket hit on a house in Sderot on Wednesday evening in the latest barrage from Gaza. His mother was wounded and taken to hospital

12:30 pm

- Secretary of State Blinken: Israel needs to do everything it can to avoid hitting civilian while it is defending itself

- Biden sending an envoy, State Dept.'s Hady Amr, to seek de-escalation in Israel and Gaza.

-Sirens sounding in central Israel as hamas sends over 130 rockets in the latest round.  a Direct hit in sderot with 1 injury of a 6 year old boy in critical condition, IDF destroys a third high-rise building in gaza.

10:00 am -21 year old IDF soldier killed in anti tank missile attack 

- Delta and American airlines cancel flights today from the US to Israel 

-Netanyahu “A short while ago we assassinated senior commanders in the Hamas General Staff, including the Gaza Brigadier General and other senior terrorists. This is just the beginning.”

8:00 am- Israel vows more attacks to bring "total, long-term quiet" before any truce. A security cabinet meeting will be held at 5pm on the expansion of operations 

- Barrage of rockets launched at Ashkelon Ashdod and surrounding areas

-IDF struck a building with senior Hamas military commanders killing some of them in a focus to eliminate the military command.

6:00 am One Israeli has died from his wounds and 2 injured sustained in an anti-tank missile attack on a jeep Wednesday morning, north of the Gaza Strip, the IDF confirmed.

Over 850 rockets crossed into Israeli territory after being launched from Gaza, and another 200 fell inside Gaza.

-Police arrested 270  overnight across the country. 5 Israelis were killed so far by missles.

 9:30 pm: Sky over Tel Aviv filled with rockets and Iron Dome interceptions. IDF destroys buildings in Gaza

-8:00 pm Hamas says over 200 rockets fired at Israel in retaliation for Gaza strikes. Its 3 am and a barrage of rockets are falling in Ber Sheva and Tel Aviv region. Shrapnel has landed at a construction site in Bnei Brak.

 -Abu Hamza the spokesperson for Palestinian Islamic Jihad calling on Palestinians to begin stabbing, and shooting operations in Jerusalem and the West Bank against soldiers and Israelis.

-Gaza rocket strikes home of Arab family in Lod, 2 killed, rescue teams on scene

- UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss the escalation of tensions between Israelis and Palestinians