ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS)
Who’s crazy?
Amit Segal
September 19, 2025

… Now, Hamas operatives are streaming into Gaza City for what they perceive as the ultimate battle. Hamas’ view is that Israel has gone mad, that Netanyahu has gone mad. Where are the Jews who used to surrender when hostages were on the other side? Where are the Jews who avoided operating in an urban zone with hundreds of thousands of civilians? Amongst Hamas’ external leadership, spirits are high after the failed assassination attempt in Doha. But in Hamas ranks inside Gaza, there’s silence in order to preserve operational security, alongside widespread hysteria ahead of the IDF’s conquest of Gaza City. And afterwards? Netanyahu believes the fall of the strip’s capital would be like the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in 70 CE. Masada and a few other outposts would remain, but the war would be decided. READ MORE

JPOST ‘Another painful heartbreak that grips an entire nation’: Officials mourn four slain IDF soldiers Israel mourned the loss of four “heroic fighters” who died in combat in Rafah on Thursday.  The soldiers were named as Major Omri Chai Ben Moshe, 26, from Tzafriya; Lieutenant Ron Arieli, 20, from Hadera; Lieutenant Eitan Avner Ben Itzhak, 22, from Har Brakha; and Lieutenant Eran Shelem, 23, from Ramat Yohanan. They were killed in Rafah when their Hummer transport vehicle ran over an improvised explosive on Thursday morning. Three other soldiers were injured. 

TIMES OF ISRAEL Two soldiers killed by knifeman driving Gaza-bound aid truck at West Bank-Jordan crossing Two Israeli soldiers were killed in a shooting and stabbing attack near Allenby Crossing between the West Bank and Jordan on Thursday. The assailant was a Jordanian who had been driving a humanitarian aid truck headed for the Gaza Strip. The perpetrator arrived at Allenby Crossing from the Jordanian side at around 3 p.m., driving a truck transporting humanitarian aid intended for the Gaza Strip. Upon his arrival, he opened fire at soldiers at the crossing with a handgun, before the truck could be inspected, a preliminary military investigation found.