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IDF troops operate in southern Lebanon. November 9, 2024.

IDF raids Hezbollah site responsible for deaths of 12 Druze children

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

DRUZE RESIDENTS light candles in memory of the 12 children killed in a Hezbollah missile attack in the Golan Heights, on July 28.

Hezbollah rocket fire increasingly targets Arab and Druze communities

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Mourners bury the body of Al-Mayadeen TV's cameraman Ghassan Najjar, who was killed the previous day by Israeli bombardment, at a Hezbollah cemetery in Beirut's southern suburbs on October 26, 2024.

Hezbollah beginning to crack: Wave of desertions threatens terror group

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

UNIFIL PEACEKEEPERS look out at the Lebanese-Israeli border, from the roof of a watchtower ‏in the town of Marwahin, in southern Lebanon, on Saturday. Never was an organization less interim than UNIFIL, the writer quips.

‘Hezbollah’s best friend’: WSJ editorial slams UNIFIL for focusing energy on Israel, not terrorism

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

ROZETTE AFTEKER, 80, welcomes a JDC worker.

Facing north: Rebuilding lives and hope in northern Israel

By PENINA HOROWITZ

IDF soldiers conduct training exercises near the northern border and at command headquarters, September 30, 2024.

‘Do what’s necessary’: International officials react to Israel’s limited ground operation in Lebanon

By DANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD

SEVERAL PARENTS of the 12 Druze children killed in Majdal Shams by a Hezbollah rocket pose with ADL officials. From the right are the writer Marina Rosenberg, Alma’s mother Naila Fakhr al-Din, and ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt.

What Israel's bereaved parents want for the future

By MARINA ROSENBERG

Israeli security forces at the scene where a missile fired from Lebanon hit an open area near the northern Israeli city of Kiryat Shmona, September 4, 2024

Hezbollah creating 'new norm' in Israel's North with escalating rocket barrages

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN

Druze have been serving in the IDF since the state was born.

How has Israel's Druze community been faring after the Majdal Shams attack?

Sagi Balasha, Ogen CEO

Ogen's new initiative provides lifeline to war-affected israelis

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The Fitch Ratings building is seen in New York

Fitch downgrades Israel's credit rating to A amid geopolitical tensions and ongoing conflict

IDF strikes Hezbollah terrorist structure August 6, 2024

Israel Air Force strikes Hezbollah military structure in Lebanon

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

MK Benny Gantz attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 26, 2024.

Gantz urges targeting Lebanon's infrastructure, increasing military pressure

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Majdal Shams village.

After the disaster: The state plans a more optimistic future for Majdal Shams

By Ofer Petersburg

Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets launched from Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel, August 4, 2024

Hezbollah launches rocket barrage at northern Israel's Upper Galilee

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

DRUZE RESIDENTS light candles in memory of the 12 children killed in a Hezbollah missile attack in the Golan Heights, on July 28.

How the world media distorted the Majdal Shams soccer field slaughter of kids

Druze people from Israel, the Golan Heights and Syria use speakers and microphones to communicate across the Syrian-Golan Heights border, after children and teens were killed at a soccer pitch by a rocket Israel says was fired from Lebanon, near Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Golan Heights

Jews worldwide should stand by the Druze community in Israel - opinion

By Lt. Col. (res.) Avital Leibovich

ISRAEL HAS the world’s third-largest Druze population, after Syria and Lebanon. Here, Druze gather to contact their relatives on the Syrian side of the border from the Israeli Golan Heights.

‘The Druze are going nowhere, regardless of cost,’ IDF colonels tell The Media Line

By Giorgia Valente/The Media Line