Land Forces
Southern Lebanon: more than 340 Hezbollah weapons and a shaft inside a house – Zamir’s warning to Northern Command
The IDF says its 188th Brigade found more than 340 Hezbollah weapons and a seven-metre shaft hidden in a house…
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Middle East & North Africa
Israel: both Arab parties recommend Eisenkot for prime minister – how many seats he now has against Netanyahu
The Joint List joined Ra’am in recommending Gadi Eisenkot to President Herzog, taking his backing to 67 of the 120…
Cyprus
Greece, Cyprus, Israel: defence ministries meet in Athens, with a defence-industry working group on the table and pointed words for Ankara and Tripoli
The defence ministries of Greece, Cyprus and Israel stressed the importance of a trilateral defence-industry working group and reaffirmed that…
Middle East & North Africa
Israeli drone kills a man in south Lebanon in a rare targeted strike, as the UN warns of a “security vacuum” after UNIFIL
An Israeli Hermes 450 drone struck a motorcycle in Kabrikha in south Lebanon, killing one man, in a relatively rare…
Middle East & North Africa
Gaza: the Israeli army says it killed a senior Hamas figure who held hostage Omer Shem Tov, with six more dead in Khan Younis
The IDF and Shin Bet say they killed seven Palestinian fighters in strikes in Gaza earlier this week, among them…
Middle East & North Africa
UNIFIL timeline: from 1978 to the end of the mandate in 2026
The key dates of the UN mission in south Lebanon, from the 1978 Israeli invasion and resolutions 425 and 426…
Middle East & North Africa
Gaza: gunfire damages tents at a Rafah displacement site and forces an aid group out, OCHA says
OCHA says gunfire hit tents at a displacement site in northern Rafah on 3 November, injuring people, while small arms…
Middle East & North Africa
CENTCOM has a plan ready to strike Iran: three aircraft carriers and moonless nights, US officials say
The New York Times reports that US Central Command has a strike plan on Iran ready, tied to three carriers…
Land Forces
Lebanon: IDF 7th Brigade says it killed about 400 Hezbollah fighters and destroyed 3,500 sites; an underground complex nearly two kilometres long
After eight months of operations in southern Lebanon the IDF’s 7th Brigade completed its mission, the Israeli army said on…
Middle East & North Africa
Israel: Eisenkot’s bloc meets for the first time; what it wants to control before the mandate is handed out
Israel’s opposition leaders met in Herzliya for the first joint session of the “change” bloc after the election, which gave…
Middle East & North Africa
Israel asks Beirut to keep Hezbollah out of any new war with Iran; Netanyahu presses Trump while Trump says there is “no rush”
Israel has asked Lebanon, via US mediators, to stop Hezbollah opening a new front if war with Iran resumes. Reports…
Middle East & North Africa
Trump: the US will stop its $4 billion a year in aid to Israel at the end of 2026, under a deal with Netanyahu
Speaking to Fox News on US midterm election day, Donald Trump said Washington will end its $4 billion annual funding…