Without fanfare, the Israel Defense Forces is transitioning from phase 2 in the war against Hamas--the high-intensity stage of surging ground forces throughout Gaza--to phase 3, involving far more targeted operations, with a focus on the south of the strip.
Since the start of the war in Gaza, more than 2,650 wanted terrorists have been arrested throughout Judea and Samaria and the Jordan and Valley areas, approximately 1,300 of whom are associated with the terrorist organisation Hamas.
Hamas "opted to invest precious resources in building terrorist infrastructure used to harm Israeli civilians and IDF forces, while cynically exploiting the civilian population in the Gaza Strip," the military statement said.
In the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis, an Israeli fighter jet struck a Hamas military compound and killed seven terrorists. One of the terrorists killed was a commander in Hamas's elite Nukhba force who took part in the massacre of Israelis in Gaza-area communities on October 7.
The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) said that two people in Gaza who were killed by its forces and alleged to be journalists were in fact senior-ranking terrorists from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad
The IDF (Israel Defence Forces) has confirmed that on Tuesday it eliminated in an air strike the commander of Hezbollah's southern Lebanon region air unit Ali Hossein Barji.
The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) attacked military infrastructure of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in the area of the village of Kila in southern Lebanon on Tuesday afternoon in an air strike.
Confirming the injury, Amedi's father assured the Walla news site that his son's life is not in immediate danger. The Fauda star was engaged in reserve duty with the Combat Engineering Corps when the incident occurred.
The Israel Police, Shin Bet (Israel's anti-terror General Security Service) and the IDF (Israel Defence Forces) issued a joint statement reporting that Monday evening the Israeli security forces killed three terrorists in an operation to arrest a wanted man in the village of Ikhtaba in Samar