According to Lebanese media, Hezbollah fighters set up a tent in a disputed area along the country’s tense southern border hours after an Israeli drone destroyed another one in the same place. Lebanon claims the Golan Heights in Syria that is occupied by Israel.
Although two opposition leaders have expressed their willingness to join the government, Lapid reportedly demanded the removal of two far-right leaders. This step was also undertaken ahead of the Six-Day War in 1967.
1. After the Hamas attack, sirens were heard in dozens of cities including the Israeli city of Tel... The Israeli government asked the citizens of the country to go to shelters.
“This was always the nightmare. We told ourselves that one day, the terrorists will come inside here,” said Jehan Berman, a 42-year-old in the small community of Avshalom near Gaza. It took eight hours, he said, for the Israeli military to arrive and start fending off the Hamas fighters.
“I say to the residents of Gaza: get out of there now, because we will act everywhere and with all the strength. At this hour, the IDF is clearing the terrorists out of the last communities. They are going community by community, house by house, and are restoring our control,” Netanyahu said.
Israel-Hamas war LIVE: Several Israeli forces and civilians were held hostage by Hamas militants as gunfire intensified after Netanyahu called for war. As of now, over 1,200 people have been killed on both sides and thousands wounded, making it the deadliest attack in Israel in decades.
Dozens of Hamas fighters infiltrated the heavily fortified border with Israel as part of 'Operation Al-Aqsa Storm'. The rocket attacks and the infiltration mark the deadliest attack by Hamas on Israel in years.
Several Israeli military personnel have been deployed to the area surrounding Gaza to fight against Hamas members. The IDF has launched operation ‘Iron Swords’ in response to Hamas’s surprise attack.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the nation is "at war" after Hamas launched a rocket attack and infiltrated the country in a surprising show of strength. Around 16 casualties have been confirmed in Israel so far.
Hamas targeted Israel with around 5,000 rocket strikes on Saturday as part of its 'Operation Al-Aqsa Storm'. At least five people, including the head of the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council, have been killed in Israel so far.
The leader of Hamas' military wing Mohammed Deif said that the group has launched a new military offensive called 'Operation Al-Aqsa Storm' against Israel. One person has been killed in the rocket attacks in southern and central Israel.
The attack comes on the heels of a major Israeli military operation at the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, in which 12 Palestinians were killed.
The West Bank operation in the Jenin refugee camp was one of the most intense military offensives by Israeli forces in the last two decades. At least 12 Palestinians were killed and several more were injured, as per the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said Israeli forces “deliberately” shot at Ghunaim with the intention to kill him.
The violence along the Gaza front, fueled by the unrest between Israeli police and Palestinians in Jerusalem, appears to be the heaviest cross-border fighting since last year’s 11-day war.
Israeli authorities say they are committed to maintaining the status quo, but in recent years large groups of nationalist and religious Jews have regularly visited the site with police escorts.
Over the weekend, Israel caught four of the six Palestinian inmates, who tunneled out of a maximum security prison on Sept. 6.
Late on Saturday, the four re-captured prisoners appeared separately in court where prosecutors are pushing terrorist attack charges against them following their escape.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett called it a “grave incident” that required maximum effort by Israel’s various security branches.
Israeli fighter jets carried out airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in response to incendiary balloons launched at southern Israel, according to security sources.
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