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Yaakov Lappin

Yaakov Lappin

Yaakov Lappin is an Israel-based military affairs correspondent and analyst. He is the in-house analyst at the Miryam Institute; a research associate at the Alma Research and Education Center; and a research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University. He is a frequent guest commentator on international television news networks, including Sky News and i24 News. Lappin is the author of Virtual Caliphate: Exposing the Islamist State on the Internet. Follow him at: www.patreon.com/yaakovlappin.

IDF spokesperson: Israeli military breaks through defense lines; terrorists surface from tunnels; Hamas senior leader Yahya Sinwar remains underground.
While the military is pounding Hamas, it has come with a cost; its spokesperson says the fallen are “heroes of Israel that enable us to fulfill the goals of the war and secure Israel for years into the future.”
Israeli operations in the strip are guided by a smart map updated in real time via a range of data sources, from cell phones to aid groups.
“The IDF began to work in the south of the Strip,” said Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. “The fate of the terrorists in the Hamas battalions there will be the same and more severe than those in the north.”
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant confirms the military is operating in new areas in the Gaza Strip.
The situation on the Lebanese border resembles a ticking time bomb, though for now, the Israeli military has restrained its responses and exacted a price from the terror group.
Air power, tank and artillery shells, D9s and infantry fire are all part of the resumption of war.
“Israeli leaders see actions of this kind as their personal obligation to the victims,” says professor Boaz Ganor.
Military spokesman: “It’s business as usual. Until the order to hold our fire arrives, our ops continue.”
The ceasefire is an opportunity to train and learn lessons from the war, Prof. Col. (res.) Gabi Siboni tells JNS.
The hijacking was likely an Iranian attempt to hold ransom international shipping and the energy market in order to pressure Israel.
IDF official: The terrorists’ field command level sustaining massive damage; terror army struggling to implement commands from Sinwar.