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The IDF and Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet) announced Tuesday that they had eliminated a senior official in Hamas’s General Security Mechanism in an airstrike in Gaza City. The terrorist, identified as Akram Bassam Shaaban Yassin, was eliminated in an intelligence-guided operation carried out by the IDF and Shin Bet. According to the military, Yassin held a senior position in Hamas’s General Security Mechanism, a covert apparatus responsible for protecting the terrorist organization’s senior leadership. Continue reading this article on israelnationalnews.com

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have said they don’t want to see a renewal of the war against Iran – but they are issuing stark public warnings to Tehran that could bring the simmering conflict to a boil. Trump endorsed Netanyahu for Prime Minister on Sunday, explaining that his leadership was critical to any renewed Iran campaign. A third US aircraft carrier is expected to arrive in the Middle East soon, amid signs that Washington is preparing for a possible resumption of hostilities, even though Israel’s Oct. 27 election and the American midterms on Nov. 3 are looming. Continue reading…

Israeli forces eliminated a Hamas cell commander and two other Hamas operatives in a series of targeted strikes in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, October 17, 2026, the IDF announced on Monday, October 19, 2026. In the Tuffah area of northern Gaza, the IDF struck Mohammed Khamis Jaber, a member of Hamas’s military wing who “played a significant role in the functioning of Hamas’ production headquarters.” In further strikes in the same area that day, Israeli forces eliminated Majed Ahmed Mustafa Sabbagh, a cell commander in Hamas’s military wing. In Jabalya, the IDF eliminated Amer Bashir Mohammed Khourani, a member…

The IDF on Monday revealed what it said was an internal Hamas document outlining a plan to plant explosives near camps housing displaced Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with the aim of creating panic among civilians to help Hamas terrorists escape advancing Israeli forces. According to the military, the document, written in April 2024 by Hamas’ engineering department and disclosed for the first time, proposed placing explosive devices around displacement camps and detonating them as Israeli troops approached. The resulting chaos would serve as a distraction, allowing Hamas leaders and terrorists hiding nearby to flee. The proposal also called for…

Egyptian media channels widely aired threats against Israel, Tel Aviv, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week as they reacted angrily to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s warning Monday that Israel would destroy Sinai if Egypt attacked Israel, delivered during an interview with the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) news site Hashtiblach. “What will cause Egypt not to attack us? They know that if they attack, there will be no Sinai,” Smotrich told the channel. “It won’t happen again. There is no [Menachem] Begin.” Then-prime minister Menachem Begin made peace with Egypt by signing the historic Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty on March 26, 1979. Under the treaty, Israel…

The IDF struck in the Khan Younis area of the Gaza Strip on Sunday, October 4, eliminating Saqr Nabil Musa Qaisi, a Nukhba terrorist in Hamas who infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7 massacre. Alongside his activities within Hamas, Qaisi served as the director of the Turkish organization Deniz Feneri, which presents itself as a humanitarian aid group but in practice maintains ties with senior figures in the Hamas leadership and with elements within the Turkish leadership. As part of his role in the organization, the terrorist worked to regularly employ numerous terrorists and provide financial support to Hamas…

The IDF struck in the Gaza City area and eliminated Mahmoud Abd al-Fattah Awad, a commander in Hamas’s military wing, over the weekend preceding the military’s announcement of the strike on Thursday, September 24. The military identified him as a commander who helped hold seven Israelis captive in a Gaza tunnel, planned new attacks, and worked to rebuild Hamas’s capabilities. He was eliminated in an aerial strike in order to remove the threat he posed. “Throughout the war, the terrorist took part in holding the hostages Daniella Gilboa, Karina Ariev, Doron Steinbrecher, Naama Levy, Ziv Berman, Omri Miran, and Eitan…

The IDF and Shin Bet confirmed on Sunday, September 27, that Saher Nidal Latfi Saqr, the terrorist filmed riding the motorcycle that carried Noa Argamani into the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, was eliminated in an airstrike on the Nuseirat area of central Gaza on Saturday, September 26. The strike was carried out together with Gideonim Unit 33 of the police’s Lahav 433 division. Saqr was a terrorist operative affiliated with global jihadist organizations operating in the Gaza Strip, and he supplied weapons to Hamas during the war. “Saqr infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7th Massacre and drove…

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir has canceled a planned visit to the United States, scheduled for next month, due to the security situation in Israel, ynet has learned. The trip was to include meetings with the commander of U.S. Central Command and the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, with talks focused on military cooperation over Iran and other threats. Zamir told his hosts that with the IDF on heightened alert across all fronts, he did not believe it was right to leave Israel and oversee events from abroad. “You can’t put the military on…

With Israel’s sixth submarine now docked at Haifa Naval Base and formally joining Shayetet 7, the Israeli Navy’s submarine flotilla, ynet was given a rare look inside one of the military’s newest and most secretive weapons platforms: INS Drakon. Packed with pipes, intelligence screens, machinery, command systems and narrow passageways, the roughly 70-meter submarine is designed to operate for extended periods far from Israel while remaining almost entirely concealed. INS Drakon arrived in Israel last week after a 24-day voyage from Kiel, Germany. The Navy says the submarine brings with it some of the most advanced technology in its arsenal.…