Gaza

The IDF and Shin Bet said they killed the commander of Hamas’s Yibna Battalion in Rafah. According to the statement, Mohammed Fathi Abd al-Hai Abu Fakh'r had been working to rebuild the battalion, recruit operatives, and oversee weapons smuggling for years.

The IDF says it has completed sealing the tunnel in southern Rafah where Lt. Hadar Goldin הי"ד was held. The route, stretching more than 16 kilometers, also served as a major Hamas command center in the southern Gaza Strip.

The IDF and Shin Bet say they killed Zaher Braham Khalil Abu Salem, a terrorist from Islamic Jihad, in Gaza. According to Israel, he entered Israeli territory on October 7 and took part in abducting Israeli civilians. Palestinian reports also described an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah.

The IDF said that in strikes carried out last week, two terrorists from Hamas’s military wing were killed, including the head of a tunnel unit in the Khan Younis area and a Nukhba cell commander who took part in the massacre.

The IDF and Shin Bet said they killed Walid Haniyeh in Gaza, identifying him as a deputy commander in Hamas’s *Nukhba* force and the nephew of Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran. According to the IDF, Walid led a terrorist squad’s raid into اسرائیل on October 7, 2023.

Twenty years after Gilad Shalit was abducted, the IDF Archive at Israel’s Defense Ministry has released, for the first time, the official operations logs from the Southern Brigade command center. The documents capture, in real time, the confusion, assessments, and growing realization that an IDF soldier had been kidnapped into the Gaza Strip.

Raad Abu Alqiyan, a Defense Ministry contract worker and resident of Hura, was killed when a building collapsed in Jabalia during engineering operations in the Gaza Strip.

The IDF and the Shin Bet killed in Gaza Sabai Zaher Abd al-Hamid Abu Hasna, a *Nukhba* militant. The militant infiltrated Israeli territory during the October 7 massacre and took part in holding Israeli hostage Omer Shem Tov in Hamas captivity.

The Iranian delegation said it is not prepared to continue the talks in Switzerland, after U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview back home: "Iran must immediately stop its proxy in Lebanon from stirring up trouble. If they do not, we will hit Iran very hard."

President Donald Trump threatened Iran over reports it could close the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country will not stop enriching uranium. Trump responded: "He should keep his mouth shut." On Lebanon, Trump added: "Israel can’t move Hezbollah."

The IDF announced that it killed two operatives who were part of a financial network funneling money to Hamas in the Gaza Strip. According to the military, the two helped transfer more than half a billion shekels used to fund terror activity and pay salaries to operatives.

Human-rights organization says it is being targeted by Israel, while Israeli officials point to alleged links between founder Ramy Abdu and Hamas-affiliated networks

The IDF said it killed in the Gaza Strip Muawiya Suleiman Zakar Aidi, a platoon commander in Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Aidi entered Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023. Also killed was Muhammad Saeed Ahmad Nimrouti, a Hamas platoon commander, who held several Israeli hostages. Throughout the war, Nimrouti took part in holding many hostages in Hamas tunnel captivity. In another strike in central Gaza,

UNRWA says it has dismissed 70 employees in the Gaza Strip over their ties to Hamas. Monitoring group UN Watch welcomed the move, but argued that thousands of additional staffers identified with the organization are still employed by the agency.

Israel said Gaza aid crossings would reopen after Iranian missile fire, but foreign governments still accused Israel of restricting humanitarian work

Following the Iranian missile attack, Israel has decided to close all crossings into the Gaza Strip. COGAT says that despite the suspension of aid, food supplies in Gaza remain above the population’s nutritional needs.

In a joint operation by the Israeli Air Force and Navy, senior figures in Hamas’s general security apparatus were killed in northern Gaza, including the deputy head of the unit.

Ottawa says security checks remain mandatory, but advocates object to questions about Gaza universities under Hamas rule

A prosecutor’s declaration was filed in court in Be’er Sheva announcing plans to indict Hamas terrorist Ibrahim Hilo, who held the body of fallen soldier Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul, of blessed memory, in Gaza for nearly a decade.

Severely wounded inside Gaza, Ziv Shilon says one thought about his mother gave him the strength to survive.