Browsing: Middle East

Dozens of casualties have been sustained from a drone strike in the Binyamin area of northern Israel; it is the highest number of casualties in a single event since the October 7 massacre. Magen David Adom Director General Eli Bin said that at least 67 people were injured Sunday evening, October 13, from a drone strike launched by Hezbollah that exploded near Binyamina in northern Israel. Four of the injured are defined as critical, five others were seriously injured and many others are in moderate condition. MDA teams evacuated 39 casualties and the military and other ambulances evacuated another 25. Emek…

Fears of a wider Middle East conflict have grown as Israel plans its response to the Oct. 1 missile attack carried out by Iran after Israeli airstrikes on Iranian-allied terrorists. The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned Israel on Thursday against attacking the Islamic Republic in retaliation for a missile barrage, as the Israeli military stepped up its offensive in Lebanon against Tehran-backed Hezbollah. Fears of a wider Middle East conflict have grown as Israel plans its response to the Oct. 1 missile attack carried out by Iran after Israeli airstrikes on Iranian-allied terrorists. “We tell you (Israel) that if you commit any aggression against…

In video footage of the interrogation released by the IDF, the captured terrorist, Waddah Kamel Younis, told IDF’s Unit 504 investigators he was captured in an underground compound, after his comrades, including field commanders, fled during the preceding days, leaving him alone in the tunnel. “Tell me about the Radwan Force—why did they flee?” one interrogator asked Younis. “In Hezbollah’s language? Lack of faith,” Younis explained. “It’s a person who comes to receive money and that’s it.” During the fighting in southern Lebanon, Israeli forces have so far captured 10 Hezbollah fighters, including 3 belonging to Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force,…

Military reports 3 terrorists killed in clash with Israeli forces in Gaza building; authorities investigating whether elusive arch-terrorist among dead; officials note no indications of hostages on site Israeli forces killed three terrorists in a face-to-face clash in a building in Gaza on Thursday, and military officials said they are investigating whether one of the dead was elusive Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. While there is no definitive identification yet, officials describe the chances as “very high.” “During an operation in Gaza, three militants were killed. The military and the Shin Bet are investigating the possibility that one of them is…

Hezbollah has dug hundreds of tunnels and caches, where we have just found a quantity of state-of-the-art Russian weapons Israeli forces had found “state-of-the-art” Russian weapons in searches of Hezbollah bases in south Lebanon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday. Netanyahu spoke to Le Figaro newspaper, highlighting that under a 2006 UN Security Council resolution only the Lebanese army was allowed to have weapons south of the country’s key Litani River. “However, in this area, Hezbollah has dug hundreds of tunnels and caches, where we have just found a quantity of state-of-the-art Russian weapons,” the French article quoted Netanyahu as…

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN responds to accusations that Israel is not allowing enough aid to enter the Gaza Strip: The amount of aid is not the issue, but rather the fact that Hamas steals aid which is destined for Gazans. Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, spoke to the media on Wednesday, before a session of the UN Security Council session, where he reiterated that the amount of humanitarian aid entering Gaza is not the issue, but rather the fact that Hamas steals aid which is destined for Gazans. “We’re hearing a lot of accusations about humanitarian efforts in Gaza,…

An Israeli security source confirmed to Saudi media that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s successor, Hashem Safieddine, was eliminated in a Friday night strike. According to another Saudi news outlet, commanders from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard were eliminated together with Safieddine. On Friday, Israel estimated that Safieddine was injured in the strike since those who were with him in the underground area that was struck could not have escaped the site alive. In addition, it is estimated that alongside Safieddine, senior Hezbollah intelligence officials were also present at the site and were also injured. Safieddine, 60, is a cousin of Nasrallah…

An interesting headline appeared on Thursday, October 10, at Iran’s state media IRNA. “Israel’s UN envoy sets condition for Lebanon ceasefire.” This is a much more moderate and normal headline than one might expect in Iran’s state media, compared to the usual bragging about Iran’s successes in the war against the “Zionists.”The article itself does refer to the “Zionist regime’s representative to the United Nations,” but it also notes that Israel has laid out “that a ceasefire is possible with Lebanon if the Hezbollah resistance movement stops firing missiles and its movements north of the Litani River.” This appears to hint at the…

Iran has perpetuated narratives of success for Hezbollah, claiming that the terror group is better equipped in attacking the Jewish state than the current reality suggests. Iran and the proxy terrorist groups it backs in Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, Gaza, and other places continued their multi-front war on Israel this week, just as Israel increased its operations in Lebanon. The IDF has also carried out many airstrikes targeting Hezbollah command and control centers, as Hezbollah continued firing hundreds of rockets a day at Israel. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian continued, meanwhile, to slam Israel in statements, one bashing the US and Europe for supporting Israel’s…

Former CIA director and retired general David H. Petraeus stressed that without Israel’s continued presence, any efforts at rebuilding Gaza could be undermined by terrorists. Former CIA director and retired general David H. Petraeus has emphasized that Israel should maintain control of the Philadelphi Corridor, the critical border area between Gaza and Egypt, until a reliable security force is established to prevent the resurgence of Hamas and other extremist groups.Speaking on the Jewish People’s Podcast by the Jewish People Policy Institute (JPPI), Petraeus stressed that without Israel’s continued presence, any efforts at rebuilding Gaza could be undermined by terrorists. “Rafah crossing between…