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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

In southern Lebanon, IDF’s 769th Brigade locates weapons cache in mosque, underground routes and trucks loaded with rocket launchers. The 769th Brigade, under the command of the 91st Division, continues its efforts to remove threats in southern Lebanon while maintaining the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon. During IDF operational activity in the Saluki area last week, 769th Brigade troops located several significant underground routes intended to be used by Hezbollah terrorist operatives. Combat engineering and Yahalom Unit soldiers investigated the routes before dismantling them. The troops also located a weapons cache inside a mosque, a vehicle loaded with weapons,…

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.”…