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Ten IDF soldiers were moderately or lightly injured in a training accident at a military engineering school in Israel’s south on Wednesday evening. The explosion occurred at around 9:00 P.M. in a classroom at the Combat Engineering Corps training base (Baha’altz) in the Negev. The IDF released a statement about the injuries on Thursday morning. “Yesterday evening (Wednesday), three soldiers were moderately injured along with seven additional soldiers who were lightly injured as a result of an explosion of weapons in a military training base in southern Israel,” the statement from the IDF Spokesperson’s office said. “The soldiers were evacuated…

Israel Air Force jets struck and demolished multiple Hezbollah terror targets throughout Lebanon, the military confirmed in the early hours of Monday, January 13. The military noted it had struck a rocket launcher site, a military site, and routes on the Syrian-Lebanese border, which were utilized to transfer weapons to the Lebanese-based, Iranian-backed terror group. Before the attacks, “the threat posed by the targets to the Israeli home front and IDF troops was presented to the monitoring mechanism of the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the IDF statement read.  However, the military emphasized that “the threats were not addressed.”…

Merav Leshem Gonen, the mother of hostage Romi Gonen, discussed in an interview about the list of hostages published by Hamas and the possibility of a partial deal to recover the hostages. “I want to remind everyone that we are dealing with what Hamas has published, and they have an aim to incite, hurt, and cause pain, and we need to understand how much this impacts families,” she began. She added, “I believe the decision-makers are constantly working on a single deal. I have no doubt that the negotiation team and Prime Minister have a list of all one hundred…

Weakened by Israeli strikes and the loss of its regional allies, the Islamic Republic is trying to present the agreement as a Palestinian victory The Iranian regime named Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist organizations the victors of the war on Thursday, dubbing the ceasefire agreement a “defeat for Israel.” The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps declared in a statement that “the end of the war and the imposition of the ceasefire represent a clear and major victory for Palestine, and an even greater defeat for the monstrous Zionist regime.” “It will be written in books that there was a mob who…

Hours after Israel and Hamas agree on hostage release and ceasefire deal, to go into effect on Sunday, Netanyahu’s office says Hamas is trying to backtrack from the understandings: The Prime Minister instructed the negotiation team to reject outright Hamas’ last-minute attempts at extortion. Israeli officials said on Wednesday that there has been a breakthrough in the negotiations to reach a deal with the Hamas terror organization to return the Israeli hostages. “We’re working on tying up the last loose ends before a final agreement,” the officials stated, noting that the agreement will most probably be signed later in the…

Health Ministry sends guidelines to hospitals preparing to receive released hostages ahead of impending ceasefire deal with Hamas. The Health Ministry has published a protocol for the hospitals which are set to receive the hostages released in the impending ceasefire-prisoner swap deal. Dr. Hagar Mizrahi, head of the Health Ministry’s General Medicine Division, explained the stages of the protocol, which are different than for the hostages who were released in November 2023. “It may be that the hostages will suffer Refeeding Syndrome, in which, due to the lack of food in captivity, they try to make it up to themselves, especially…

The Hamas terror group released a propaganda video on Saturday, January 4, showing signs of life from 19-year-old hostage Liri Albag, the latest in a series of clips it has released of Israeli captives taken in the October 7, 2023, attack. The three-and-a-half-minute-long video was not dated, although Albag stated in it that she has been held for over 450 days, indicating that it was filmed recently. Albag, a surveillance soldier, was stationed at the Nahal Oz military base close to the Gaza border when thousands of Hamas-led terrorists poured into Israel from the Palestinian enclave. Fifteen surveillance soldiers were…

In an annual report published on Tuesday, December 31, summarizing its activities over the past year, the Shin Bet said it interrogated more than 650 suspects from the Gaza Strip, thwarted 1,040 major terror attacks in Judea and Samaria, and Jerusalem, busted 20 terror cells among Arab Israeli citizens and foiled a record 13 Iranian espionage plots. The internal security agency also said it assisted in several missions to rescue hostages from Gaza and unveiled audio from the rescue of Cpl. Ori Megidish last October. Additionally, the agency said it helped thwart hundreds of cyberattacks on Israel; secure hundreds of…

Israel has the wherewithal to reduce the ‘ideologically toxic’ jihadists just as it has done to Hamas, Hezbollah and other enemies that attacked it since Oct 7, official tells i24NEWS The Houthis are more technologically advanced than credited and must not be underestimated, an Israeli official told i24NEWS, adding that the jihadist movement operating out of Yemen was “ideologically toxic.” The Yemeni terrorists have displayed the relentless will to fight in campaigns against the Saudis and others, the official added. “The Houthis’ flag spells out their goals: destroy America, destroy the Jews, destroy Israel. They get most of their support from…

As Israeli forces conclude operations, Hamas terrorists have been seen fleeing en masse to the south in proportions not seen since the beginning of the conflict The IDF reported on Wednesday that groups of terrorist have been flowing south from the north of the Gaza Strip, after a day marked by three IDF losses. The Nahal brigade forces have intensified their operations in Beit Hanoun in recent days, according to information obtained on Wednesday by N12. The troops have eliminated dozens of terrorists and destroyed numerous weapons, including mortar launchers and various weapons. This area is currently where the most intense…