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Military spokesman Daniel Hagari says Hamas positioned rocket launchers in ‘Philadelphi Route’ hoping to dissuade Israel from striking close to the Egyptian border. The Israeli military announced on Wednesday that it had established “operational control” over the entire so-called Philadelphi Route along the Gaza-Egypt border, discovering dozens of rocket launchers and at least 20 cross-border smuggling tunnels there so far. At a press conference Wednesday evening, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said that the now-captured strip of land, which runs for a total of 14 kilometers (8.7 miles) all along the Gaza-Egypt border, served as “Hamas’s oxygen pipeline” for…

An IDF force entered a UNRWA complex which consists of a school, a mosque, and a medical clinic in response to terrorist antitank fire. While searching the clinic, an explosive device planted by the terrorists detonated killing three soldiers. In response to antitank fire from a UNRWA school at Israeli forces in Rafah, the 12th Brigade entered the compound, which also houses a mosque and a medical clinic. While searching the area, an explosive device in a booby-trapped shaft which was in a civilian infirmary detonated next to the forces. As a result of the explosion, three soldiers from the 50th…

IDF and Israel Security Agency (ISA) special forces successfully eliminated Hussein Fiad, the Commander of Hamas’ Beit Hanoun Battalion, in an underground area in Jabaliya. Fiad was a high-ranking terrorist responsible for launching numerous anti-tank missiles and mortar attacks on Israeli territory and communities near the northern Gaza Strip.

The Head of the National Security Council, Tzachi Hanegbi, and the Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oren Marmorstein, on Friday released a statement responding to the ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordering Israel to halt its operation in the Gazan city of Rafah. “The charges of genocide brought by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice in the Hague are false, outrageous and morally repugnant,” they said. “Following the horrific attack against the citizens of Israel on October 7th, 2023, Israel embarked upon a defensive and just war to eliminate Hamas and to secure…

In the wake of the recent release of a video showing the abduction of female soldiers from the Nahal Oz base, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to release a modified version of the 43-minute video documenting the brutal events of the Hamas massacre on Oct. 7. This video, which includes graphic content such as murders and severe visual assaults, is intended to be shortened and slightly censored for global distribution. Following the directive from the premier, the IDF is now working to “prepare” the video by seeking consent from the families of those killed…

Avivit and Orit Yablonka, sisters of Israeli hostage Hanan Yablonka, described how they felt on Friday morning when the IDF informed them that they had retrieved their brother’s body from Gaza. “We woke up to a black morning, we are crushed and broken, don’t know how to cope, couldn’t have imagined this,” the sisters said. Hanan’s father Reuven describes receiving the sad news, “At seven in the morning, friends called me and asked if it was true, I had no idea what they wanted from me.”

The bodies of three more hostages: Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum, and Orion Hernandez Radoux, were rescued during a joint IDF and Shin Bet operation. Based on verified intelligence obtained by the IDF, the hostages were murdered already during the October 7th attack and were abducted from the Mefalsim Intersection to Gaza by Hamas terrorists. The bodies of the hostages were rescued during a joint IDF and Shin Bet operation in Jabaliya, based on precise intelligence obtained and analyzed by the IDF Intelligence Directorate’s Headquarters for the Hostages and Missing Persons. At the beginning of the operation, intense combat was carried…

Soldiers operating in Zeitoun found food forcibly taken by Hamas from humanitarian aid distributors. The terror organization first distributed the aid to its operatives and then to the civilians in the area. IDF soldiers from the Nahal Brigade who raided the Zeitoun neighborhood in Gaza this week were surprised to find large quantities of food that came via humanitarian aid trucks in Hamas hideouts. Yoav Zitun reported on Ynet that alongside the weapons caches, Hamas hid in their stronghold that they reestablished in Zeitoun tons of packaged food, which came in humanitarian aid shipments from the southern Gaza Strip and…

The Sky Dew system detects and gives warning of aerial threats emanating from over the northern border. The IDF confirmed Hezbollah’s claim to have damaged a sensitive military site in the north and is currently assessing the harm done. Two explosive UAVs penetrated Israeli airspace Wednesday, heading for an air defense facility near the Golani Junction in the Lower Galilee. One was shot down, the IDF said, while the other hit the location of the army’s new Sky Dew system, which operates a radar-filled reconnaissance blimp. It was the first time the Iranian proxy managed to hit anything of consequence…

For nearly a month, two Australian firefighter experts have dedicated their time volunteering to train diverse civil security units near the Gaza and Lebanon borders.