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Hamas officially confirmed Thursday that its military commander, Mohammed Deif, was killed during the war, nearly six months after the IDF announced his elimination. Hamas spokesperson Abu Ubaida also confirmed the deaths of Deif’s deputy, Khan Younis Brigade commander Rafa Salama, as well as senior operatives Marwan Issa, Ghazi Abu Tama’a, Raad Thabet, Ahmed Ghandour and Ayman Nofal. Deif, the architect of Hamas’ military capabilities and mastermind behind the October 7 attacks, was killed in an airstrike in Khan Younis on July 13, according to an earlier IDF statement. For weeks after the strike, Israeli intelligence gathered evidence to confirm…

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The IDF said another Hamas terrorist who participated in the killing and abduction of female surveillance soldiers at the Nahal Oz post on October 7 was killed in a separate strike a month ago, shortly before the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip took effect. Abu Aseed, a member of Hamas’s Shati Battalion, was involved in the attack on the Nahal Oz post and was seen abducting Levy who was released last week. The IDF said he was killed in a September strike. Video footage of the abduction showed Aseed dragging a bound and bleeding Levy by her hair from the…

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Hamas terrorists on Thursday, January 23, reportedly executed several individuals accused of being “collaborators” with Israel in the Gaza Strip, as shown in a video on a Telegram account. According to a report in Israeli media, the video, posted to Gaza Now’s Telegram account, depicts more than a dozen armed Hamas terrorists, many wearing uniforms, firing on three men who are lying on the ground. The accompanying caption reads: “The moment of punishing the agents of the Zionist occupation who caused the killing of thousands of our Palestinian people in Gaza.” The authenticity of the video has not yet been…

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The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday said it shot down a surveillance drone launched by the Hezbollah terror group toward Israel. No sirens sounded amid the incident, the military noted in its statement, adding: “The IDF will not allow terror activities by the Hezbollah terror organization in Lebanon, and will act to remove any threat to Israel or its citizens.” It was the first such incident since a ceasefire deal went into effect in late November, after more than a year of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group, and a violation by Hezbollah of the agreement, which forbids the…

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Eight hostages abducted during the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel were released by Palestinian terror groups on Thursday under an ongoing ceasefire deal with Hamas, returning to Israel after 482 days in captivity in Gaza. Seven of them were freed in a long, chaotic process in southern Gaza’s Khan Younis that prompted fury in Israel. The three Israelis are IDF surveillance soldier Agam Berger, 20, and civilians Arbel Yehoud, 29, and Gadi Mozes, 80. The Thai nationals are Thenna Pongsak, Sathian Suwannakham, Sriaoun Watchara, Seathao Bannawat, and Rumnao Surasak. Yehoud, Mozes and the five Thais were released in an…

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a statement to the media after the release of the three Israeli hostages from Hamas captivity today. “Agam, Arbel, Gadi – welcome home! The entire State of Israel embraces you, as do my wife Sara and I,” Netanyahu said. “This release was achieved, first of all, thanks to our heroic soldiers, and it was also achieved thanks to the steadfast and determined stand that we took during the negotiations,” he said. He stated, “We will not accept violations of the agreement. During the release of our hostages today, we all saw shocking scenes. We made…

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Engineering troops examined the subterranean infrastructure before demolishing it. IDF troops of the 769th Brigade uncovered underground tunnels belonging to the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group Hezbollah while operating in the Saluki area of southern Lebanon, the military said on Friday. Engineering troops examined the subterranean infrastructure before demolishing it. Inside a mosque, troops found a weapons storage facility, along with weapons loaded onto a vehicle and hundreds of mortar shells, rockets, and military equipment belonging to the terror group. Separately, troops of the Golani Brigade found trucks containing rocket launchers. Confiscating weapons Furthermore, soldiers found weapons caches containing numerous rockets, mortar shells, explosives, and…

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Gazan residents denounced the theft and resale of humanitarian aid by the terrorist organization Hamas, while prices remain high More than 2,400 humanitarian aid trucks have entered the Gaza Strip since the ceasefire began on Sunday, according to the UN on Wednesday. However, Gazans accuse Hamas of diverting this aid. “We see no aid or goods at reasonable prices,” one resident told Israel’s N12 news. “Hamas steals the aid and resells it to merchants, who set the prices they want at the expense of the entire population,” another resident charged. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced…

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Elon Musk ‘repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to defend itself against genocidal terrorists and regimes who seek to annihilate the one and only Jewish state’ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended Elon Musk on Thursday after the billionaire was accused of making a Nazi salute during the inauguration of US President Donald Trump earlier this week. “Elon is a great friend of Israel,” Netanyahu said on X. “He visited Israel after the October 7 massacre in which Hamas terrorists committed the worst atrocity against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. He has since repeatedly and forcefully supported Israel’s right to…

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Former US president Joe Biden removed the Houthis from the list in 2021, fearing that this designation would hinder humanitarian aid in Yemen US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will redesignate the Houthis in Yemen as a foreign terrorist organization, reversing former president Joe Biden’s decision to remove them from the list in 2021. The Houthis have launched more than a hundred attacks against commercial and military ships in the Red Sea since October 7, 2023. The decree also condemned Iran’s support for the Yemeni rebels. “it is now the policy of the United States to cooperate with…

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