Southern Israel in a sentence

This, Israel says, is why it launched its invasion of southern Lebanon; that Hezbollah’s stockpiles of weapons and equipment along this border were planning for a cross-border attack similar to last year’s 7 October attacks by Hamas in southern Israel.

An Israeli aircraft attacks a Hamas observation post in southern Gaza in response to attacks earlier in the evening on southern Israel from the coastal enclave, the Israel Defense Forces says.

Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas, which governs Gaza, after its fighters crossed into southern Israel on October 7. Israel said 1,200 people were killed and some 240 captives taken in the terror attack.

Israel has targeted a number of prominent Hamas leaders since the Palestinian group attacked southern Israel last October, killing 1,130 people and taking 251 hostage, although Haniyeh would be the most senior yet if Israel’s involvement is confirmed.

IDF Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot, center, visits the Gaza Division with Col. Yaakov 'Yaki' Dolef and head of the Southern Command Maj. Gen. Eyal Zamir in southern Israel on August 30, 2016.

A flare falls over Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, as seen from southern Israel, December 24, 2023.

An Israeli soldier gestures while riding in a military vehicle, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, near the border with Gaza, in southern Israel, Dec 9, 2023.

He maintained that the current fragile security situation in Israel was majorly being felt in Southern Israel which is not within our pilgrimage circle.

Israel has vowed to dismantle Hamas and bring back more than 100 hostages still held by the militants after their October 7 attack on southern Israel.

Israel’s first order of business is to clear southern Israel of all terrorists.

Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system fires interceptors at rockets launched from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel on Thursday.

Nasrallah spoke in televised remarks on Friday, his first since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war sparked by the Palestinian militants’ deadly Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel.

Smoke rises over Gaza as seen from Southern Israel, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian group Hamas, November 10, 2023.

Some 240 people including men, women, and children were taken from southern Israel into Gaza when Hamas launched its attack on Israel in October and killed 1,200 people.

The escalation in Israel’s bombardments was evident in Sderot, a city in southern Israel less than two kilometres from the border with Gaza.

The Hamas movement and Israel reportedly reached an agreement to ease violence on the borders between the besieged Gaza Strip and southern Israel.

For Mr. Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving prime minister, the war in Gaza is not only a response to the abuse, abduction, and killing by Hamas of more than a thousand civilians across southern Israel on Oct. 7 last year.

Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel after the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel on 7 October, in a bid to support the Palestinian group.

Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel on Oct 8, the day after the militant Palestinian group Hamas attacked southern Israel, declaring a "support front" for Palestinians.

Iran-backed Hezbollah — Lebanon’s strongest armed force — has exchanged fire with Israel’s military almost daily since October 8th, the day after a deadly Hamas-led assault in southern Israel triggered the war in Gaza.