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The Israel Defense Forces Medical Corps’ “casualty evacuation times during the war are the fastest in the world,” a statement on Thursday said, “operating shoulder to shoulder with the combat forces, risking their lives in the process.” It takes, on average, one to four minutes for a senior medical practitioner to reach a wounded soldier on the battlefield. Some 300 blood transfusions were given in combat areas. In the Gaza Strip, it takes 51 minutes on average for a wounded soldier to arrive at the hospital by helicopter, from the moment he or she is injured. By ground evacuation, this…

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday there is “doubt” as to whether three Israeli hostages held in Gaza are still alive, after comments by his wife and by US President Donald Trump had called into question Israel’s official estimate that 24 living hostages remain in the Strip. “We know for certain that there are 21 [hostages] alive, about this there is no dispute,” Netanyahu said in a video message posted to his X account, but “there are another three who, unfortunately, there is doubt if they are alive.” “We are not giving up on any of them,” he added. Netanyahu’s…

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is approaching the end of the massive counterterror operation against several terror strongholds in Samaria it dubbed “Iron Wall.” According to the military, during the operation that is now in its fourth month, it eliminated over 100 terrorists, arrested over 300 terror suspects, and confiscated 450 various weapons. Additionally, hundreds of IEDs and pipe bombs were dismantled. “Iron Wall” is unique in its scope and ambition compared to previous IDF operations in Judea and Samaria (West Bank), and included 14 air strikes as well as the first use of tanks in the area in over 20 years. The operation…

A ballistic missile fired by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen impacted on the grounds of Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday morning, May 4, injuring six people, none of them seriously. The blast occurred in a grove of trees alongside an access road close to the airport’s main Terminal 3, several hundred yards from the airport control tower. Both the Israeli Air Force’s long-range Arrow air defense system and the US’s THAAD system failed to intercept the Houthi missile, defense sources said. The Israeli Air Force’s aerial defense array was investigating the failure. The attack marked the first time a Houthi…

The IDF carried out a strike in the Deir al-Balah area on Wednesday, eliminating terrorist Nasr Sobhi Ibrahim Jumaa, a commander in the Hamas terror organization’s rocket production headquarters. Jumaa was a senior terrorist in the unit and played an active role in the rocket manufacturing process. The IDF stressed that before the strike, steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians as much as possible, including the use of precise munitions, aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence. IDF troops, with the direction of the IDF and ISA intelligence, continue to operate against terrorist organizations throughout the Gaza Strip,…

The IDF announced on Thursday that it struck and eliminated a terrorist from Hezbollah’s ‘Radwan Force’ in the area of Meiss El Jabal in southern Lebanon. In addition, earlier in the day, the IDF struck and eliminated an additional Hezbollah terrorist in the area of Meiss El Jabal in southern Lebanon, who was operating in the border zone gathering intelligence for the terrorist organization. The two strikes were conducted by aircraft as part of the efforts to eliminate terror on the Israel-Lebanon border. Click to watch on israelnationalnews.com

At the annual Outstanding Soldiers Ceremony at the President’s Residence on Thursday, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir said that the IDF is preparing to deliver a “decisive blow” against Hamas and that the military will increase the pace and intensity of the operations in Gaza soon, if necessary. “The Hamas terrorists still hold fifty-nine of our brothers and sisters. But they, too, know their safety is not forever,” Zamir said. “Our sovereignty and independence were not given to us as a gift. They were bought with blood and struggle, and they require us to defend them at all costs.” The…

A massive wildfire broke out on Wednesday in Israel in the forests between Eshtaol and Latrun, west of Jerusalem, forcing evacuations and road closures as thousands gathered across the Jewish state for Memorial Day observances. Fanned by high temperatures, low humidity, and strong winds, the fire, believed to have been set intentionally, spread rapidly through multiple locations across Israel. “It’s a terror attack on Israel,” Eli Beer, president of the United Hatzalah emergency response organization, told The Media Line. He noted that fires were started in 20 separate locations. A security source also confirmed to The Media Line that a…

An Arab source told i24NEWS that Hamas has submitted to Egypt a proposal for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip “in which it would give up its heavy weapons” such as rockets. Inn addition, it would give up on “tunnel digging, training, recruitment, development of warfare means and the like.” Hamas would be willing to deposit its stockpile, which includes medium and long-range missiles, “under the supervision and control of Egypt,” said the source, based on senior sources in Hamas. “However, the organization refuses to deposit what it calls ‘personal weapons’ and ‘defensive weapons,’ including sniper weapons, explosives, and short-range rockets.” Hamas,…

Hamas told Arab mediators last week that it is willing to enter a long-term truce with Israel during which it would halt all military operations, including the development of weapons and the digging of tunnels, two officials familiar with the matter told Israeli media on Sunday, April 20. The truce would be part of a comprehensive deal that the terror group is seeking to end the Gaza war sparked by its October 7, 2023, onslaught, a senior Palestinian official and a diplomat from an Arab mediating country said. Hamas is also willing to cede governing control of Gaza to an…