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The IDF’s 36th Division completed the dismantling of Hamas terror capabilities in the Shejaia neighborhood of Gaza City, the Israeli military said Thursday evening, hours after the 99th Division completed its operations in Gaza City’s southern area and has begun expanding its area of activity to the central Strip.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Since Oct. 7, the International Red Cross has been helping imprisoned Palestinian terrorists receive controversial stipends from the Palestinian Authority, according to Israeli NGO Palestinian Media Watch.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Two Israeli civilians were wounded Thursday in an anti-tank missile attack from Lebanon on the northern town of Dovev, which occurred at the same time as another missile appeared to hit cars in the nearby community of Avivim.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Hamas fired at least 30 rockets at Israel’s central region on Thursday afternoon, in the heaviest barrage in weeks.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hamas announced Wednesday morning that the leader of its political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, had arrived in Cairo to conduct talks with Egyptian officials on the latest developments in the war in Gaza and on “other files,” according to a statement released by the Palestinian terror group.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The “political” wing of the Hamas terrorist group is holding secret talks in Doha with its Fatah rivals about forming an alliance after the war in Gaza ends, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli ground, air and naval forces struck more than 300 targets in the Gaza Strip over the past day, causing heavy Hamas casualties and destroying terror infrastructure, the Israel Defense Forces reported on Wednesday morning.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Kamal Adwan Hospital director Ahmad Kahlot of Jabalya in northern Gaza has confessed to the Shin Bet that Hamas took over his hospital as a military operations center, it was revealed on Tuesday. Kahlot told his interrogators that he joined Hamas in 2010 at the equivalent rank of a brigadier general.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
The United States is launching a multinational force to counter the maritime threat posed by Iran-backed Houthi terrorists in Yemen.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The Western powers in the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran accused Tehran on Monday of developing and testing ballistic missiles, transferring hundreds of drones to Russia, and enriching uranium to an unprecedented 60 percent level for a country without a declared nuclear weapons program — all in violation of a UN resolution endorsing the deal.
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Israel Defense Forces artillery on Tuesday struck several terror sites in Lebanon after a rocket was launched towards the Jewish state.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Top Biden administration officials are actively weighing options to strike back at Houthis in Yemen after the Iran-backed group launched new attacks on naval and commercial ships in the Red Sea on Saturday, according to two U.S. officials.
Read more: Politico
A hacking group widely reported as being linked to Israel has taken responsibility for a cyberattack that’s knocked out the majority of gas stations across Iran, leading to long lines of cars and angry crowds.
Read more: CNBC
Four troops were killed in fighting in Gaza and another soldier died of his wounds, the army announced Monday, as Israel’s military extended its thrust into battle-hardened Hamas strongholds on opposite ends of the enclave, seizing weapons and suitcases stuffed with over $1 million in cash.
Read more: The Times of Israel
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin arrived in Israel on Monday, where he was expected to pressure Jerusalem to scale back the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
He met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Kirya military headquarters in Tel Aviv in the afternoon after an earlier meeting with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
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Hundreds of synagogues and Jewish institutions across the United States received bomb threats by email this weekend, in a substantial acceleration of a months-long spree of hoax threats.
The Secure Community Network, which coordinates security for Jewish institutions nationwide, said early Sunday that it had tracked 199 threats over the past 24…
Of the hundreds of rockets and missiles fired into Israel’s north by Iran’s Lebanese terror proxy, Hezbollah, one in five fell short and struck inside Lebanese territory, the IDF spokesperson’s unit said on Thursday.
According to the IDF, from one barrage of rockets fired by Hezbollah this week, eight rockets landed inside Lebanon.
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Representatives of families of Israelis held hostage in Gaza met with United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres overnight Thursday in New York, and accused the UN of not doing enough to help free their relatives.
Read more: The Times of Israel