The final day of talks between Israel and Lebanon opened under the shadow of an American report claiming the IDF had partially withdrawn from southern Lebanon. Officials in both Jerusalem and Beirut rejected the claim, even as Washington urged the Lebanese army to move into the area.
According to the IDF, Abu Hadaid served as a commander in Palestinian Islamic Jihad’s production unit, which was responsible for manufacturing and supplying weapons to the organization. The military said he was involved in advancing the group’s production capabilities and led infrastructure focused on developing weapons intended to target IDF troops and Israeli civilians.
An IDF soldier was rescued overnight from the Palestinian town of Tarqumiyah near Hebron after Palestinian security forces reported that a man in IDF uniform had been found in the middle of the town. Following the report, officers from the Hebron police station responded, located the soldier, and transferred him safely to security forces.
The airline announced a temporary suspension of its flights on the busy Tel Aviv-Moscow route בעקבות the latest security developments and Ukraine’s broad attack on Moscow. El Al said clearly: "A new situation assessment will be carried out next week."
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.
Master Sgt. (res.) Basel Sweid, 32, of Peki'in, was killed yesterday in an operational accident in southern Lebanon after a military fuel truck overturned. Another IDF soldier was moderately wounded in the incident.
Yahya Hosseini Pangchehi, commander of the Iranian hacker group "Handala," was killed in a targeted strike during the war in Iran. For the first time, a channel linked to Revolutionary Guards intelligence confirmed that Pangchehi led the group.
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.
Adm. Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, is expected in Israel tomorrow for security talks focused on Iran and Lebanon. At the same time, Washington is advancing a framework under which the Lebanese army would be required to prove control over areas cleared of Hezbollah.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar and Colombia’s president-elect, Abelardo de la Espriella, spoke after de la Espriella’s election victory and agreed to strengthen the strategic alliance between the two countries.
The government in Copenhagen is preparing a legal review to examine a nationwide ban on the Muslim call to prayer. The move, pushed by Immigration Minister Morten Bødskov, aligns with the tough immigration line Denmark’s government has pursued in recent years.
The Trump administration is expected to approve the sale of dozens of American-made engines for Turkey’s KAAN fighter jet, while Washington also continues reviewing whether to bring Ankara back into the F-35 program.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined Israel’s wartime gains and plans to rebuild the north. At the same time, concern is growing in Jerusalem over the possibility of Syrian forces entering Lebanon following recent remarks by President Donald Trump.
A nationwide vehicle protest by the Haredi community got underway in coordination with police. About 7,000 vehicles set out from 19 locations around the country. Unusual traffic backups were reported, including a temporary halt on Highway 1.
The IDF said that in a strike on southern Gaza on Sunday, it killed Akram Muhammad Mahmoud Abu Madi, an operative in Hamas’s military wing who entered Israeli territory during the October 7 terror attack.
President Donald Trump said there is no urgent need to reach Iran’s nuclear materials because they are buried deep underground. At the same time, he warned that negotiations would stop if it turns out Tehran is collecting payments from ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
During a special operation in the village of Yamun, terror operative Muhammad Zaid was killed during an attempted arrest. According to Israeli security officials, he was involved in weapons trafficking and supplied a gun to the attacker who seriously wounded two IDF soldiers.
A tunnel dug from the West Bank toward Israel was uncovered near the a-Zaim crossing. A police investigation that included collecting forensic evidence led to the arrest of two suspects.
Two of the three Israelis killed in a small plane crash in the United States were brought to Israel overnight. After the required procedures with U.S. authorities were completed, they are scheduled to be laid to rest today in separate funeral services in northern Israel.
The United States says it has successfully completed the first milestone test of the "Golden Dome for America" system. The Pentagon says the system detected and destroyed multiple threats autonomously. Russia and China are alarmed, warning that it "could undermine global strategic stability."
