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During the IDF, ISA, and Israel Border Police counterterrorism operation in the northern Samaria area, the forces identified a terrorist cell led by Wassem Hazem, the head of the Hamas terrorist organization in Jenin, in a vehicle in the area. Following the identification, Israel Border Police forces, following precise ISA intelligence, encountered and eliminated Hazem. Hazem was involved in carrying out and directing shooting and bombing attacks, and continuously advanced terrorist activities in the Judea and Samaria area. Shortly afterward, an IDF aircraft eliminated two additional terrorists while they attempted to flee from the vehicle that they were inside with…

Opinion: Those who have painted the prime minister as the murderer of the six hostages have been deluding themselves believing that a genuine deal was on the table; It’s hard to blame them – irresponsible voices in the media and government gave them the impression that it was possible, and that Netanyahu was the only obstacle standing in the way of an agreement Even before the official announcement identifying the bodies of the returned hostages, the inflammatory rhetoric had already begun. Wild accusations started circulating, blaming Benjamin Netanyahu for nothing less than the direct murder of the six hostages. In response…

According to a report in Israeli media, the military probe after hostates were found dead in Gaza suggested that Hamas lookouts were watching Israeli soldiers in real time. According to a preliminary investigation conducted by the IDF into the murder of six hostages in a tunnel in Rafah, it appears that the lookouts stationed outside the tunnel identified the incoming Israeli soldiers. The approach likely led, by the Israeli public channel Kan 11, to the execution of six hostages and the escape of the terrorists. The IDF found indications on the ground after the discovery of the bodies of the…

Sabine Taasa, whose husband and son were murdered in Hamas onslaught, describes horrors of massacre to children’s rights panel, urges it to focus on Israeli youth, not just Gazan GENEVA, Switzerland — October 7 survivor Sabine Taasa, who lost her husband and 17-year-old son during the Hamas massacre, urged UN experts to stop blaming Israel for the war and focus on the trauma inflicted on Israeli children. “I need you to stop blaming us,” said Taasa, 48, whose son’s murder was filmed by his killers. Before Hamas terrorists burst into Taasa’s home in the village of Netiv Ha’asara in southern Israel,…

Kiryat Shmona mayor laments destruction of city, says terrorists must be made afraid to fire at Israel; four drones fired, barrage of five rockets launched at north More rockets were fired at Israel from Lebanon in August than in any previous month since war broke out almost a year ago, according to data published by the Shin Bet security agency Thursday. The report said that 1,307 rockets were fired at Israel in August from the northern front, meaning Lebanon and Syria, amounting to just over 40 a day on average, with the vast majority coming from Lebanon. July saw 1,091…

IDF confirms rare airstrike on Syria-Lebanon border, killing 3 PIJ terrorists Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the northern border. His office announced this visit several hours after he had left the area, which has been subjected to constant Hezbollah fire since last October. After a situation assessment with Northern Command OC Maj.-Gen. Uri Gordin regarding the aftermath of Sunday’s Israeli strikes that prevented a large-scale attack by Hezbollah, Netanyahu visited a kibbutz in Upper Galilee. There he met with soldiers and commanders of Golani Brigade’s 13th Battalion, who he praised for their “great work.” Calling the strikes against Hezbollah “a great…

IDF soldier lightly wounded by drone, Israel allegedly strikes deep within Lebanon Following the pre-emptive strikes on some 270 Hezbollah targets carried out by Israel Defense Forces, the terror group is still assessing the damage, IDF Colonel Anan Abbas told the Maariv newspaper. While the terror group resumed its daily attacks on Israel, since then, the number of attacks has been significantly lower than in the weeks leading up to escalation. Abbas, the Head of Control at the IDF’s Northern Command central operations room, stated: “They’re trying to comprehend the extent of the damage inflicted on them, and they’ll fully understand it…

Environment ministry says 145,000 tons of dry vegetation went up in flames between October 7 and July 30, much of it caused by rocket fire from Lebanon and Gaza Around 146 square kilometers (56 square miles) of vegetation in northern Israel and eight square kilometers (three square miles) along the Gaza border have been incinerated during the war that broke out following the Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7, with most of the blazes sparked by terror groups’ rocket fire, the Environmental Protection Ministry said Thursday. The former represents a fivefold increase in the average surface area that has…

The IDF and ISA completed a counterterrorism operation in the area of Far’a in the Jordan Valley with the objective of foiling terror, exposing terrorist infrastructure and eliminating armed terrorists in the area. The IDF and ISA completed a counterterrorism operation in the area of Far’a in the Jordan Valley with the objective of foiling terror, exposing terrorist infrastructure and eliminating armed terrorists in the area. At the beginning of the operation, the soldiers arrived in an IAF helicopter and operated to encircle the area. During the counterterrorism operation, an IAF aircraft struck and eliminated an armed terrorist cell inside…

The Cairo trip comes amid debate about Netanyahu’s firm stance that the IDF must maintain a presence in the Philadelphi Corridor. An Israeli team is in Cairo for negotiations on the hostage deal, while the security cabinet met in Tel Aviv and Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Al Thani is expected to head to Iran. Cairo talks come amid a stiff debate about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s firm stance that the IDF must maintain a presence in the Philadelphi Corridor. He has stressed that he will not accept any hostage deal that calls for Israel to withdraw from that corridor. Hamas in turn has…