Browsing: War in Israel

The IDF renewed operations against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon over the weekend, after three Israeli soldiers were wounded in a drone attack late Friday night. On Saturday, the military announced that an IDF officer and two soldiers were seriously wounded in an explosive drone attack in southern Lebanon. In response, the Israeli army struck multiple Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon on Saturday, focusing on Hezbollah infrastructure in the Nabatieh and Ansar areas, following the injury of the three soldiers near Ali Taher Ridge and al-Nabatieh al-Fawqa. The IDF later claimed that Hezbollah commander Ali Samir al-Haj Hassan, a battalion commander…

IDF forces identified a training exercise held in the Gaza Strip earlier in the week by approximately 50 terrorists from Hamas’ elite Nukhba force, in which the terrorists practiced raiding and taking over a Jewish community, Yisrael Beytenu chairman MK Avigdor Liberman revealed on Wednesday, August 12. Israeli media reported on Tuesday night, August 11, that the IDF had identified unusual terrorist activity that raised concerns the operatives were preparing to cross the Yellow Line. The military raised its alert level and rushed forces to the fence in response. Liberman said that IDF commanders in the field requested permission to…

Israel is considering an unlikely candidate to provide a foreign force to supervise implementation of the agreement in Lebanon: Switzerland, sources familiar with the talks told i24NEWS on Saturday. On Thursday, the last round of negotiations between Israel and the Lebanese government in Rome was completed. After the talks, Israel said that there would be no expansion of the pilot zones before examining how the existing zones work. The Israeli side said at the end of the round of talks that several options were considered, and that a country that acts against Israel in the international courts in The Hague would not…

Exactly 44 years after I first climbed Beaufort during the First Lebanon War, I returned to the fortress, its imposing cliffs and the breathtaking view over the Litani, the Saluki and Nabatieh. This time, I walked across that combustible ground during a fragile ceasefire, alert to every sound. Beaufort is part of my biography. Sometimes it recedes into the background; sometimes it returns with a sharp reminder. During the First Lebanon War, I was called up for reserve duty as an officer in the Military Police investigations unit. In June 1982, after 60 days of service, I set out with…

Following yesterday’s comments from a US official about American pressure on Israel to moderate its response to Hezbollah violations — and Israel’s denial — an Israeli security source tells i24NEWS: “We have not yet completed our investigation into the incident, and therefore the full response has not yet been completed.” An Israeli source tells i24NEWS the negotiating team conveyed that the pilot zones will not be expanded before Israel assesses how the existing zones are functioning. That assessment is not yet ready to begin, the source says, because the parameters for implementation and success metrics were only agreed during the latest…

Israel informed the White House recently that it would be willing to negotiate an agreement halting the targeted killings of Palestinian terrorists in Gaza, but that any such deal would exclude those who took part in the October 7, 2023, attack, Channel 13 news reported on Monday. The report that Israel had insisted on continuing to target terrorists involved in the October 7 massacre came a day after The Times of Israel reported that the IDF had halted a special operation to hunt down and kill every person involved in the attack. Jerusalem allegedly conveyed its position to Washington against the backdrop…

Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif declared on Saturday, August 8, that “Israel is a threat to the entire Muslim world” and called for “a united military front” against it, just one day after Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey signed a joint defense agreement. “In the context of Israel, all Muslim countries must unite. I have no doubt about this,” Asif told an outlet in his country. Asif called Israel “a product of the Balfour Declaration, which was established in the 1940s as an illegitimate state,” and asserted that it could pose a direct threat to any country in the region.…

When a residential building takes a direct missile hit, the result is total chaos: shattered concrete, severe trauma and uncertainty over who may still be trapped inside. For analysts in the Home Front Command’s Information Collection and Analysis Branch, however, that chaos becomes a source of operational data. As Israel once again faces heightened tensions and prepares for the possibility of another campaign against Iran, attention is turning to the readiness of the civilian home front. Any renewed conflict is expected to test national resilience through heavy missile barrages, large-scale launches and advanced threats requiring an immediate technological and operational…

Gaza Board of Peace High Representative Nickolay Mladenov, together with the Board of Peace team, met on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his team. According to the Board of Peace, the meeting was part of the process of decommissioning weapons in Gaza and enabling the transition to civilian governance, and “creating a safer future in the region” for both Israelis and Palestinian Arabs in Gaza. The board noted that the meeting was constructive and detailed. Israel and the Board of Peace share a common understanding of the ultimate objectives. “The goal is clear and is not in…

A few years ago, Lee Ross was about to sit down with his family for a Shavuot holiday meal when an emergency call came in. Within moments, he was pulling on his protective gear, leaving the dinner table and heading for the door. His family knew the routine. When the radio crackled and Ross began getting dressed, they opened the front door and called the elevator so he would lose as little time as possible. “Sometimes it means leaving your family in the middle of a holiday meal,” Ross said. “It’s difficult for the family, of course, but it gets…