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Israeli forces also found maps of Israeli communities that bordered the Palestinian enclave. The IDF destroyed three tunnel routes that, when combined, ran a length of 7.5 kilometers in the city of Beit Lahia in northern Gaza on Friday, the military announced. The tunnel routes were first identified by the IDF’s Kfir Brigade under the command of its 162nd Division, along with engineering troops and soldiers from the military’s Yahalom Unit. The tunnels also reached dozens of meters in depth, the IDF update noted, and soldiers found military equipment that was captured by Hamas terrorists on October 7 of last year. Forces also discovered…

The Hezbollah headquarters were destroyed along the underground route.  All the weapons inside were said to have been seized The IDF’s 188th Brigade destroyed an underground Hezbollah tunnel in southern Lebanon used by the terror organization to store weapons and conduct terror activities, the military said on Wednesday. The IDF explained that during an operation conducted by engineering forces, an underground route spanning dozens of meters was discovered, leading to one of the headquarters of the terror group. Hezbollah had reportedly used the site to coordinate numerous terror activities and rocket attacks targeting communities in the Galilee over the past…

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced on Sunday, December 15, that Israel will be shutting its embassy in Ireland, citing the “extreme anti-Israel policy of the Irish government.” “The antisemitic actions and rhetoric that Ireland is taking against Israel are based on delegitimization and demonization of the Jewish state and on double standards,” said Sa’ar in a statement. Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris called the decision “deeply regrettable.” “I utterly reject the assertion that Ireland is anti-Israel,” Harris wrote on X following Sa’ar’s announcement. “Ireland is pro-peace, pro-human rights and pro-international law.” Irish Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said the two countries…

Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon on Wednesday warned that the Iranian ayatollah regime threatens world peace with its acts of global terrorism and ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons. “The Islamic regime of Iran is a danger to the entire world. The recent report from the International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran’s nuclear progression, alongside the recent letter from the UK, France and Germany, highlighting Iran’s, and I quote, ‘significant non compliance,’ were cries for immediate action,” Danon argued. “This is not about a hypothetical future. The danger is already here, looming on the horizon,” he continued. Danon also urged the…

A multistory school building in Ramat Gan that collapsed when it was hit by the rocket warhead from a partially intercepted ballistic missile fired at Israel by Houthi rebels in Yemen will be torn down and rebuilt, the city’s mayor said Thursday as he visited the site and locals assessed the heavy damage. Ramat Gan Mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen estimated the damage at NIS 40 million ($11 million) and said the Ramat Ef’al elementary school would get a replacement building. The Israel Defense Forces initially said that overnight it intercepted a missile fired at central Israel by Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis. It said sections…

Prime minister says group is last Iranian proxy still standing; Katz warns rebels ‘the long arm of Israel will reach you’ Hours after the Israel Defense Forces carried out intense airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Israel’s operations are protecting not just itself from the Iran-backed rebel group but the entire world. “They are not only attacking us,” Netanyahu said in a video statement. “They are attacking the entire world. They are attacking international shipping and trade routes.” Dozens of planes struck Houthi targets along Yemen’s western coast and, for the first time,…

The IDF has imposed new restrictions on civilians in the regions near the Syrian border following the fall of the Assad regime. Druze students from Buq’ata, Ein Qiniyye, Mas’ade, and Majdal Shams in the northern Golan Heights will shift to online studies, while kindergartens operate as usual. Elsewhere in the Golan, school continues normally. The IDF decided to enforce a closed military zone in agricultural areas between Merom Golan-Ein Zivan and Buq’ata-Khirbat Ein Hura following a situational assessment. Farmer entry is limited to specific zones according to military needs, for several hours and in full coordination with the 474th Brigade.…

The Syrian government fell early Sunday, December 8, in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family, after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days. Syrian state television aired a video statement by a group of men saying that President Bashar al-Assad had been overthrown and all detainees in jails had been set free. The man who read the statement said the Operations Room to Conquer Damascus, an opposition group, called on all opposition fighters and citizens to preserve state institutions of “the free Syrian state.” Residents were seen…

IDF sources said that there is heavy ongoing planning work going on to be ready to strike the Islamic Republic again if that becomes necessary. The IDF on Thursday said that its past two attacks on Iran this year have greatly improved its likely success in the event any future attack on Iran is necessary.Further, IDF sources said that there is heavy ongoing planning work going on to be ready to strike the Islamic Republic again if that becomes necessary. On April 13-14 and again on October 1, Iran launched massive direct missiles and drone attacks on the Jewish state. Israel counterattacked…

WSJ says terror group has submitted list of hostages it will release, and Israel has agreed to gradual withdrawal from Philadelphi; Mossad chief meets Qatari PM in Doha After more than a year of objections, Hamas has given in to an Israeli demand that the IDF remain in Gaza temporarily under a potential ceasefire-hostage deal, The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing Arab mediators. Hamas had for long months insisted that it would not agree to a deal unless it included a permanent end to the war in Gaza and a full withdrawal of Israeli troops from the Strip. However, the…