Most of Operation Summer Camps is taking place in areas where the IDF abandoned in 2005 and were taken over by the Palestinian Authority.
The IDF said it took several months of effort to locate the soldier's body.
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Hundreds of launch sites from the attack early Sunday were positioned near mosques, schools, gas stations and U.N. structures.
Operation Summer Camps will fight Iran's encroaching tentacles in Judea and Samaria.
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Petty Officer David Moshe Ben Shitrit was hit by shrapnel when an Iron Dome interceptor missile exploded above his patrol boat.
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A total of 337 Israeli troops have been killed in action since the start of the Gaza ground incursion on Oct. 27.
Hezbollah was aiming for Glilot area.
Hezbollah was about to launch a massive attack which Israel preempted.
Special restrictions are in place from Tel Aviv northward.
During searches in the area of the Gazan school compound, troops found guns, explosives, vests and Hamas intelligence documents.
Both Israel and Hezbollah learned much about tunnel fighting from the IDF's war in Gaza.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced in May that the IDF had eliminated some 14,000 Hamas terrorists.
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The American-born infantryman spent more than 200 days fighting in the Gaza Strip during the current war against Hamas.
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“We deal with both removing threats and preparing all the possibilities to be able to attack wherever we decide,” Israel's defense minister said.
A second Hamas rocket landed in the sea near Gaza.
“Most of the headquarters of Hamas that we found were in schools, UNRWA clinics, or mosques,” said a reservist named N.
In central Gaza, Israeli forces struck Hamas rocket launching sites, sniper posts, military structures, and observation posts.
By Joshua Marks
The Hamas terrorist, released as part of November's hostage deal, was shot dead by security forces.
Belmont Medical Technologies founder Regina Herzlinger donated 50 rapid blood infuser devices to Israeli hospitals and trauma centers.
"Fasting during operational activity is prohibited; it is a life-threatening matter," says the Israeli Military Rabbinate.
By David Isaac
Iran and its Hezbollah proxy have vowed to avenge both the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr.
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“There is security, military and intelligence coordination between Jordan and Israel regarding the expected Iranian response."
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IDF troops launched a manhunt for the terrorists.
The U.S. vice president added that the Jewish state has the right to go after terrorists but “an important responsibility to avoid civilian casualties.”
The IDF released an infographic identifying the each of the 19 killed and their affiliations.
Hamas terrorists were operating inside the command centers in the “Abdel Fattah Hamoud” and “Al-Zahra” school compounds in Gaza City’s Daraj and Tuffah neighborhoods.
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Israel's Security Cabinet is set to meet at military headquarters in Tel Aviv.
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The three men, reportedly from Jabalia, north of Gaza City, were arrested near Ofra, 55 miles northeast of the Strip.
To mitigate the risk of harming civilians, the Air Force used precise munitions, while surveillance monitored the area during Tuesday’s strike.
Bypassing standard procedures and helping reservists out of their own pocket, two Israelis created and are giving away adaptors that enable professional scopes to be mounted on first-generation Negev machine guns, enhancing their accuracy.
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Amina Alhasoni, 7, suffered a severe head wound on April 13.
On Thursday, Israel announced that soldiers recovered the bodies of five hostages from Khan Yunis.
The IDF also used an aircraft to eliminate the armed terrorists.
Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah threatened to “launch missiles at settlements that were not previously targeted,” during a speech on Wednesday.
Hamas has been attacking from withing the humanitarian zone.
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The ballistic missile was downed outside of Israeli airspace, according to the IDF.
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Two Israeli soldiers were killed protecting US soldiers from Hamas last month.
Bibi spoke, but the real message was his actual presence at the Rafiach crossing...
Hamas used the Abu Oraiban School as a hideout and as a point to direct and launch attacks on Israeli soldiers.
Arbel was speaking one day after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told lawmakers he would begin drafting yeshiva students next month.
Soldiers also eliminated dozens of other terrorists and destroyed combat compounds and booby-trapped buildings.
The fallen soldier was identified as Sgt. First Class (res.) Valeri Chefonov.
Israeli aircraft struck several terrorists operating a command center in a United Nations Relief and Works Agency School in the Nuseirat refugee camp.
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"There are still gaps between the sides," the Prime Minister's Office said.
The honor was delivered to IDF Staff Sgt. Itay Glisko's parents at the family home in northern Israel.
Israel Air Force Strikes Hezbollah Targets in Lebanon.
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Nine soldiers from the same Hesder yeshiva were wounded in the incident.
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Lucien and Marlene Elmkayes have chosen to live in Jerusalem “to ensure that the light of our son’s life will continue to shine despite his death.”
Reservists will be rewarding its reservists and promoting growth in the Negev and Galilee.
Weapons and tunnel shafts have been found in numerous UNRWA facilities.
Hamas is deeply embedded in the Gazan "civilian" population.
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On Thursday, two IDF soldiers were killed in the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza by a Hamas mortar.
By David Isaac
Court hearings are putting pressure on the army to let more supplies into Gaza, observers say.
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"For me, the feeling is as if questions were copied from the Office of the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague," said one Israeli applicant.
Fadel Ibrahim was working to improve the capabilities of Hezbollah’s ground forces.
The former Hamas sniper also participated in the October 7 attacks.
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The last time a terrorist UAV successfully infiltrated Israeli airspace from the Strip was on Nov. 11.
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The plans were "authorized and validated" by Northern Command head Maj. Gen. Uri Gordin and IDF Operations Directorate head Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk.
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The intelligence memo detailing the terror group's plans was internally circulated on Sept. 19, less than three weeks before the massacre.
You do not fight a war to free hostages. You fight a war to destroy the enemy.
The IDF added that fighter jets struck other Hezbollah targets in the southern Lebanese area of Meiss El Jabal.
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The military expects full operational control of the southernmost Gaza city in two weeks.
The decision comes after discussions with the UN and international organizations.
Video footage from the operation to free the hostages.
The tunnel, which was 30 meters underground, contained several operational spaces and blast doors and reached within one kilometer of the Israel-Gaza border.
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The soldiers were killed when a blast brought down the building they were searching in Rafah. Six additional troops were wounded, five seriously.
A Hamas terrorist popped out of his hole with an RPG looking to kill IDF soldiers.
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The U.S. vice president was briefly heckled during her remarks on Saturday at a Michigan fundraiser.
The terrorists were trying to cross over from the Rafah area.
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Sgt. (res.) Refael Kauders, 39, was killed and nine other soldiers wounded in the attack, one seriously.
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Multiple senior Hamas terrorists eliminated in recent days, IDF says • Remains of seven hostages recovered from Jabalia, over 6 miles of a tunnel destroyed • IDF establishes new maternity complex in Deir al-Balah.
The UNRWA is under fire amid revelations that its staffers participated in Hamas’s October 7 attacks.
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The projectile was "coming from the east," according to the IDF, with earlier reports indicating it originated in Iraq.
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IDF inspectors posing as thieves succeeded in infiltrating a sensitive Air Force site and simulating the theft of ammunition and weapons.
A munitions warehouse and military buildings were hit.
Hamas is trying to regroup in Jabalya.
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Jerusalem is determined to restore security on the northern border and create the conditions that will allow displaced citizens to return.
The missiles and launchers found in Jabalya were destroyed.
Hamas has seized an estimated 60% of the aid entering Gaza.
IDF soldiers found weapons inside a UN Relief and Works Agency facility in Jabalya. No surprise there.
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Approximately 300,000 to 400,000 Gazans remain in Rafah.
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"What Israel has done is take the effort to minimize civilian casualties as no other army has done," said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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It is believed there are numerous smuggling tunnels between Egypt and Gaza under Rafah, and Egypt profited from the smuggling of goods and weapons to the Hamas enclave.
Hamas is trying to regroup in the Zeitoun area
Sirens wailed in the Upper Galilee.
The Hamas war room was embedded in a UN Relief and Works Agency school in the central Gaza area of Nuseirat.
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Israel called on the United Nations to investigate.
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Hezbollah has carried out near-daily attacks on northern Israel since Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre.
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They were transported to Ziv Medical Center in Safed.
Israel seized control of the Gazan side of the Rafah border crossing with Egypt after launching an overnight ground operation in parts of the southern Gaza city.
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Egypt is not allowing aid to enter Gaza through the Rafah crossing.
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According to reports, Israel is considering a gradual transfer of control to local bodies believed not to be hostile to the Jewish state.
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In another incident, an “unidentified aerial object” from the Gaza Strip crossed into Israeli airspace.
File this under: Ripley's Believe It or Not.
The president’s decision drew criticism from the American Jewish Committee and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
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“I believe that Israel and America have an ironclad relationship, and I have faith in what the Biden administration is doing,” the Senate majority leader said.
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The Biden administration opposes an IDF incursion into Rafah which would finish off Hamas.
Three IDF soldiers were killed in a Hamas attack that preceded the Israeli retaliation.
Rafah, on Gaza’s border with Egypt, is the last stronghold of Hamas.
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The Lebanese projectiles struck across the largely evacuated city, with hits on residential buildings and parked vehicles.