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Israeli Navy carries out ‘extensive’ drills in preparation for potential war in north

The Israeli Navy’s fleet of missile boats carried out “extensive” exercises over the past week, the IDF said on Friday, as the military prepares for potential war in the north while Israel warns that its patience for a diplomatic solution is running out.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Israel’s Arrow intercepts apparent Houthi ballistic missile headed for Eilat

Israel’s long-range Arrow air defense system shot down a ballistic missile over the Red Sea early Thursday morning, apparently fired by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, the military said.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Netanyahu: ‘Hezbollah must understand—we will restore security’

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a message to Hezbollah on Thursday during a visit to troops stationed near the Lebanese border, telling the Iranian terrorist proxy that it “must understand—we will restore security.”

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Missiles set ship ablaze off Yemen as Houthis officially ban Israeli maritime traffic

A suspected missile attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels set a ship ablaze in the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, as the Iran-backed rebel group announced a formal ban on Israel-linked vessel traversing key shipping lanes off Yemen’s coast.

Read more: The Times for Israel

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Israeli killed, six wounded in terror shooting near Ma’ale Adumim

An Israeli man was killed and six others were wounded on Thursday morning in a terrorist shooting on the Route 1 highway near Ma’ale Adumim, 4.3 miles east of Jerusalem in Judea.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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US vetoes Security Council resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza war

The United States vetoed an Arab-backed UN resolution Tuesday demanding an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Israeli strikes kill two in Damascus apartment

Israeli Air Force strikes killed two people in the Kafar Sousah neighborhood of Damascus on Wednesday, according to Syrian state media.
The strikes reportedly hit an apartment in a residential building.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Troops kill 3 gunmen, detain 14 terror suspects in overnight Jenin raid – IDF

Three Palestinian gunmen were killed and 14 terror suspects were detained by Israeli troops during a counter-terrorism raid in the northern West Bank city of Jenin overnight, the Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday morning.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IDF soldier killed as heavy fighting flares up again in northern Gaza

The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday that one soldier was killed and two others were seriously wounded as heavy fighting flared again in northern Gaza, where the military had previously said it had largely completed its main operations to destroy Hamas forces.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Bibas family hopes new video of kidnapped mom and kids ‘shocks world’ into action

Relatives of the Bibas family held captive in Gaza said Tuesday they hoped newly published video of mom Shiri Bibas being hustled through Khan Younis by gunmen as she clutched her toddler and infant would help jar the world and Israel’s leaders into action, expressing outrage that they are still being held hostage.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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IDF to begin probe into response to Oct. 7 attack

The Israel Defense Forces in the coming days will start an internal investigation into the military’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas-led massacre and the period preceding the cross-border invasion.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israeli fighter jets strike Hezbollah targets in Lebanon

Israeli fighter jets struck several Hezbollah terrorist targets in Southern Lebanon on Tuesday morning.
Two launch posts were hit in the areas of Yaroun and Marwahin, where the previous day several Hezbollah terrorists were eliminated in an airstrike on “military” infrastructure, the IDF said.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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‘Their fate is sealed’: IDF demolishes tunnel spanning length of Gaza

The IDF’s 646th Reserve Brigade, during its operations over the past months, destroyed a “strategic” subterranean Hamas tunnel route that ran from northern to southern Gaza, the IDF stated on Tuesday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Russia’s worrisome invite to Hamas, PIJ and its implications

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said over the weekend that Russia had invited Palestinian factions to meet in Moscow, according to Al-Ain media in the UAE. Russia’s state news TASS said it could take place from February 29 to March 2. The invitation is the latest Russian move to try to increase its influence in the wake of...

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Judea and Samaria: 350% rise in terrorist attacks

Judea and Samaria saw a dramatic rise in terrorist attacks in 2023 compared to the previous year, with shootings reaching their highest level since the Second Intifada of 2000-05, Israel Defense Forces data shows.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF finds Iranian tech underneath UNRWA headquarters

Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip have found evidence connecting the regime in Tehran with both the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Kan reported on Monday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Israel expects up to 8 weeks of intense fighting in Gaza

Jerusalem expects intense fighting to continue in Gaza for another six to eight weeks, including in Rafah city, before scaling back the war effort, Reuters reported on Monday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Hamas rejects Israeli proposal to release 1,500 inmates for hostages

Hamas has rejected an Israeli offer to free all hostages taken into the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of 1,500 Palestinians from Israeli prisons, Saudi media outlet Al-Arabiya reported on Thursday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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Paratrooper killed in Gaza, as IDF arrests Oct. 7 terrorists in Khan Younis hospital

The Israel Defense Forces announced on Friday that Staff Sgt. Noam Haba, 20, of the Paratroopers Brigade’s 202nd Battalion, from Jerusalem, was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip, raising the IDF’s death toll since the beginning of the ground invasion of the Gaza Strip to 234.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Deputy Iran envoy’s strong statement hollow sans action, experts say

Abram Paley, deputy special envoy for Iran at the U.S. State Department, raised eyebrows when he posted on social media that the Islamic Republic “has brought only violence and corruption at home and abroad,” instead of “embracing peace and prosperity.”

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate