12:34 p.m
Sirens sound the alarm in the south and north of Israel
Alarm sirens are sounding both in the south of Israel (due to heavy Palestinian rocket fires from Gaza on the city of Ashkelon) and in the north because of new attacks from southern Lebanon. In particular, attacks were reported against the Israeli towns of Malkiya, Arab el-Aramshe and Adamit, all of which lie immediately south of the border with Lebanon. The media reports about it. The population was called upon to reach the emergency shelters.
12:20 p.m
US base in Syria is attacked by pro-Iranian militias
Pro-Iranian fighters in Syria previously announced that they had attacked the US military base at Tell Baydar in northeastern Syria. This is according to a statement published on the social accounts of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq. It is an acronym that summarizes a number of armed groups operating in Syria and Iraq and supported by Tehran.
11:54
Ahmed Bahar, former president of the Hamas parliament, was killed in Gaza
According to Palestinian reports – picked up by Haaretz – Ahmed Bahar, a prominent member of Hamas’ political wing, was killed by Israel in the fighting in Gaza. Bahar, it was recalled, was president of the Hamas parliament when the Islamic faction took control of the Gaza Strip in 2006.
11:26 a.m
Israel attacks Lebanon “after anti-tank fire.”
After launching an anti-tank missile from Lebanon, the Israeli army attacks Hezbollah targets across the border. The military spokesman stated that “terrorist infrastructure, weapons depots and various military facilities” had been hit. The area from which the anti-tank missile was fired was also hit.
10:08
Israeli bombings in southern Lebanon
This morning, repeated Israeli bombings were recorded in southern Lebanon near the front line between Hezbollah and Israel, from the Mediterranean coastal area to the border with Syria. According to Lebanese media, the affected areas are Naqura, Ramia, Beit Lif, Jebbin, Dhahira, Ayta Shaab, Yarin, Mays Jabal, Blida, Khiam, Burj Muluk, Kfar Shuba and Kfar Hammam.
09:05
Former Fatah member Khaled Abu Halal was killed in Gaza
According to reports from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army killed Khaled Abu Halal, a former senior member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah (Abu Mazen’s party) that had become a Hamas affiliate. Haaretz reported that Abu Halal was killed in an airstrike in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City.
08:49
Israel: Islamic Jihad stronghold captured in northern strip
Israeli soldiers continued their operation in the Gaza Strip overnight. The military spokesman said that Israeli aircraft had hit “numerous targets” in the Palestinian enclave. The soldiers – he continued – took control of a stronghold belonging to the Islamic Jihad commander in the north of the Gaza Strip. “The fortress housed the offices of the organization’s terrorist leaders and a weapons production facility.” In addition, the soldiers operated in a school where many weapons were hidden, “where Hamas terrorists were hiding,” and many were killed.
08:20
UN: No humanitarian operation at Rafah border crossing today
Today “there will be no cross-border relief operation at the Rafah border crossing” between the Gaza Strip and Egypt: the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced this yesterday evening. “The communication network in Gaza is interrupted because there is no fuel. This makes it impossible to manage or coordinate humanitarian aid convoys,” said the statement published on X.
07:24
The female soldier corps was located near Shifa Hospital
The body of soldier Noa Marciano, who was kidnapped by Hamas at the Nahal Oz base on October 7, was found in a building next to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. This was announced by the military spokesman. Last Monday, Hamas released a video of Marciano (19 years old), taken four days after her abduction, detailing who she was and whose daughter she was. At a certain point the video stopped and his body appeared. Yesterday, the body of another female hostage kidnapped by Hamas was recovered, also near Shifa Hospital.
07:07
Israel: Body of soldier kidnapped by Hamas recovered
The Israeli army announced this morning that it has recovered the body of Noa Marciano, the 19-year-old soldier taken hostage by Hamas.
07:00
West Bank raid, death toll rises to 3
According to Palestinian sources, the death toll in today’s Israeli military operation in Jenin in the West Bank has risen to three dead and seven injured. Two of the people killed were members of the local Jenin Bridges militia.
06:13
Israeli attack in the West Bank: at least two dead
According to Palestinian sources in the West Bank city of Jenin, two people were killed and seven injured in an Israeli military operation in the early hours of today. The local media reported about it. According to the report, some people were injured by an airstrike and others by gunfire. Two of the injured were in serious condition. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) also reportedly surrounded the city’s Ibn Sina Hospital.
01:14
Blinken to Israel: Urgent action against settler violence
US diplomat Antony Blinken called on Israel to take “urgent” action to end settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Blinken, who is in San Francisco for an Asia-Pacific summit, made the appeal in a phone call with Benny Gantz, an Israeli opposition leader who joined Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet
01:09
Gaza, air strike on Han Younis: ten dead
Ten people, including children, died in an airstrike by Israeli forces east of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip this evening. Al Jazeera reports, citing witnesses, Palestinian media reports and an Al Jazeera journalist, that the attack hit a single-family home in al-Qarara. A video seen by Al Jazeera shows some of the dead, including a young girl and a baby, at al-Nasr Children’s Hospital. The attack came a day after the Israeli army dropped leaflets in and around al-Qarara urging residents to evacuate to “known shelters.”