Gaza

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will block Gaza's reconstruction until Hamas is fully disarmed, reaffirming plans to maintain security zones inside the Strip and dismissing reports of disagreements with President Donald Trump over regional security operations

The IDF announced the elimination of a Hamas training commander involved in preparing Nukhba forces ahead of the October 7 massacre and directing combat in Gaza.

According to a report, UN Watch is urging the U.N. to remove the legal immunity of outgoing UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini over allegations of complicity in terrorism.

Hamas is expected to dissolve its governing committee in Gaza, paving the way for a technocratic administration, according to a new report.

According to a report, Jamal al-Sheikh, nephew of PA deputy Hussein al-Sheikh, was arrested in connection with an alleged Gaza smuggling operation.

The IDF announced that two Hamas terrorists involved in planning attacks against Israeli forces in Gaza were killed in separate precision strikes last week.

Marking 1,000 days since the war began, Defense Minister ישראל כ"ץ outlined Israel’s achievements across multiple fronts and said the IDF will remain in security zones while preparing for an independent strike on Iran if needed.

Hamas says it executed a Gaza resident accused of assisting the Shin Bet and the IDF. He was alleged to have helped in last month’s killing of Izz al-Din al-Haddad, head of Hamas’s military wing, and to have played a role in the killings of other Hamas operatives.

A Hamas platoon commander was killed in southern Gaza: according to the IDF and Shin Bet, Adel Jihad Mohammed Asfour was involved in advancing sniper attacks and planting explosive devices against IDF forces, and in recent days had been working to carry out immediate attacks and rebuild the terror organization’s operational capabilities.

A father and son from Gaza set out from Turkey in the middle of the night, swam about 8 kilometers in total darkness, and reached the Greek island of Kos exhausted but alive. After their family lost contact with them, relatives feared they had drowned. Hours later, it became clear they had survived the dangerous crossing.

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."