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Five Israeli reserve soldiers were killed during fighting with Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon on Thursday night and 19 others were wounded, some of them seriously, the IDF said on Friday,
The slain IDF reservists were named as:
Maj. (res.) Dan Maori, 43, from Beit Yitzhak-Sha’ar Hefer.
Cpt. (res.) Alon Safrai, 28, from…
The Times said Khamenei instructed the military to prepare different plans to respond to an Israel strike on Iran. Four officials in the Islamic Republic told the paper that if an Israeli attack would cause substantial damage, Iran would respond but if the attack is limited to military installations and weapons stores, there may be no Iranian…
UNRWA on Thursday confirmed that one of its staffers was killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza a day earlier, after Israel named him as a Hamas Nukbha force commander.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Three people have been arrested in Sri Lanka amid terror threats against Israelis in the Arugam Bay area and other beaches in the island’s south and west, a government minister said Thursday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Lebanon state media reported 17 Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, with six buildings leveled and the vacated offices of a Hezbollah-linked broadcaster hit on Wednesday, after the Lebanese terror group fired rockets at central Israel as the country began marking the Simhat Torah holiday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and 27 other Republican senators introduced legislation on Tuesday that would cut off U.S. funding to the United Nations and its subsidiary agencies if they downgrade Israel’s status.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Iran’s upcoming budget plan reveals that more than half of the revenue from oil and gas exports will be allocated to the nation’s armed forces, according to a report by Iran International on Thursday.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
IDF sodiers have raided several underground bases belonging to Hezbollah’s special unit, the Radwan Forces, the military announced on Thursday.
Troops of the 646th Brigade conducted ” limited, localized, targeted ground raids” against several bases.
Read more: The Jerusalem Post
Israel has been forced to delay a potential retaliatory attack on Iran after details of the planning were leaked from the US, Britain’s The Times newspaper reported Thursday.
Read more: The Times of Israel
In the grieving Druze town of Daliyat al-Karmel on Mount Carmel southeast of Haifa, Sabura Abu Hamad closed her empty cafe early on Monday to attend the funeral of the highest-ranking Israeli casualty in the current war.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
An Israel Defense Forces officer was killed on Tuesday while battling Hezbollah terrorists in Southern Lebanon.
Maj. (res.) Aviram Hariv, 42, was the deputy commander of the 228th “Alon” Infantry Brigade’s 9308th Battalion, from Dolev in the Binyamin region.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Hezbollah terrorists launched rockets at the Tel Aviv metropolitan area on Wednesday morning for the second consecutive day, sending millions of Israelis to bomb shelters.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
The IDF on Tuesday announced that top Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Beirut earlier this month.
Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s executive council, was presumed to be the successor of Hassan Nasrallah following his assassination in late September.
Read more: The Times of Israel
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating the leak of classified intelligence related to Israel’s preparations to respond to Iran’s Oct. 1 ballistic missile attack, the bureau confirmed on Tuesday for the first time.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Israeli air defense systems early Wednesday morning intercepted three drones fired at the Jewish state “from the east,” a phrase the military uses to refer to Iraq.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
Overnight, the IDF says it struck a Hezbollah naval base in Beirut, among other targets.
According to the military, the base was used by Hezbollah to store fast boats, carry out tests, and train its naval forces.
Read more: The Times of Israel
Seven Arabs from Jerusalem were arrested by Israeli security forces on suspicion of plotting to murder scientists and officials on behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, local media reported on Tuesday morning.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
One of the late Hamas chief Hassan Nasrallah’s bunkers, built under Sahel General Hospital in the southern suburbs of Beirut, holds, according to estimates, at least half a billion dollars in US currency and gold, IDF Spokesperson Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said on Monday evening.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate
