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Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire report is false, Netanyahu’s office says

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office dismissed reports that it had accepted the call for a 21-day ceasefire issued overnight by the United States and France.

Read more: Jerusalem Post

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Argentina’s Milei scorches UN for anti-Israel bias

Argentine President Javier Milei criticized the United Nations for what he said was its anti-Israeli bias during a fiery address at the General Debate of the General Assembly’s 79th session in New York on Tuesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hezbollah uses flexible command and tunnels to sustain operations

Hezbollah's flexible chain of command, together with its extensive tunnel network and a vast arsenal of missiles and weapons it has bolstered over the past year, is helping it weather unprecedented Israeli strikes, three sources familiar with the Lebanese militant group's operations said.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Trump campaign says former president briefed on ‘real, specific’ Iranian threats to kill him

U.S. intelligence officials briefed former President Donald Trump on Tuesday about “real and specific threats from Iran to assassinate him in an effort to destabilize and sow chaos in the United States,” the Republican nominee’s campaign stated on Tuesday evening.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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1,500 fighters out of action due to injuries from communication device blasts

An unnamed Hezbollah official tells Reuters that the recent attack on the terror group’s communication devices — widely blamed on Israel — put 1,500 fighters out of commission because of their injuries, with many having been blinded or had their hands blown off.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Iran brokering talks to send advanced Russian missiles to Yemen’s Houthis, sources say

Iran has brokered ongoing secret talks between Russia and Yemen's Houthi rebels to transfer anti-ship missiles to the militant group, three Western and regional sources said, a development that highlights Tehran's deepening ties to Moscow.

Read more: Reuters

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IDF thwarts Hezbollah strike on Mossad HQ in central Israel

The Israel Defense Forces early on Wednesday intercepted a surface-to-surface ballistic missile fired by Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon at central Israel. The Iranian proxy claimed that the target of the attack was the headquarters of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hamas armed wing says field commander killed in Israeli strike on Lebanon on Monday

Hamas' armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, said that its field commander in southern Lebanon, Mahmoud al Nader, was killed in an Israeli strike on Lebanon on Monday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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US deploying ‘small number’ of new troops to Middle East, as Israel-Lebanon conflict heats up

The United States is deploying additional troops to the Middle East amid heightened tensions in the region, the Pentagon announced on Monday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Missile in the attic: IDF releases photos of Hezbollah munitions in Lebanese homes

Israel on Monday published what it said was evidence of Hezbollah munitions being placed in homes, as it sought to pre-empt criticism of wide-ranging strikes that targeted residences across Lebanon and left hundreds in the country dead and over 1,200 injured.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Antisemitic hate crimes in US surged to all-time high last year: FBI

Anti-Jewish hate crimes in the United States soared 63% in 2023, the highest on record, according to data released Monday by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israeli fighter jets hit 1,600 Hezbollah terror targets in Lebanon in 24 hours

The Israeli Air Force struck over 1,600 Hezbollah targets in Southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley over the past 24 hours as part of “Operation Northern Arrows,” according to the Israeli military.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF strike in Beirut kills Hezbollah missile chief, as rockets pummel Israel

Intense cross-border fighting between Israel and Hezbollah continued on Tuesday, including an Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, as the terror group fired more than 100 rockets at northern Israel, setting off sirens in cities including Haifa, Safed, Nazareth, and Yokne’am as well as across the Galilee.

Read more: The Times of...

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Iran’s Guards ban communications devices after strike on Hezbollah, security officials say

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has ordered all members to stop using any type of communication devices after thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies used by its Hezbollah allies in Lebanon blew up in deadly attacks last week, two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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IDF downs drone fired from Iraq at Golan via Syria

Israeli fighter jets early on Monday intercepted a drone over the southern Golan Heights that had crossed the border from the east, in the fifth such incident since Sunday morning.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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PM says weighing plan for siege on Hamas in north Gaza; believes half of hostages alive

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told lawmakers on Monday that he is weighing the so-called generals’ plan to lay siege to northern Gaza, promoted by a group of senior IDF reservists.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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‘Damage in northern Israel amounts to 1 billion shekels,’ tax official says

Israeli property tax compensation fund director Amir Dahan spent Sunday morning in the northern region, visiting sites that sustained damage from rocket fire in areas far from the border with Lebanon, where, in many cases, damage was inflicted for the first time since the war began on October 7.

Read more: Y Net News

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Defense minister tells Israelis to prepare for intense days, ‘keep calm’

A day after Hezbollah launched its heaviest barrage on the Lower Galillee and Haifa region since the start of the war, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant held a home front readiness assessment meeting on Monday morning.

Read more: Israel Hayom

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Israel expands strikes on Hezbollah as panicked Lebanese flee; at least 180 killed

Widespread Israeli airstrikes targeting Hezbollah in southern Lebanon killed nearly 200 people Monday, the health ministry in Beirut said, as Israel cautioned that strikes against the group would expand and Lebanese civilians were warned to flee areas the Iran-backed terror group may be hiding weapons.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Focused and determined: The female snipers deterring threats to IDF forces in Gaza

Suddenly, Staff Sgt. (res.) S. spotted a woman in a long dress advancing toward the building from afar. S. reported to her commanders and waited for instructions. According to the messages IDF had relayed to Gaza civilians, anyone insisting on approaching the area would be suspected of attempting to harm ground forces and would be risking their...