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The prime minister defended his decision to freeze fighting to free captives.
The IDF announced the killing of Wissam Farhat, commander of Hamas’s Shejaiya battalion, who helped direct the Oct. 7 massacre.
The man told police “he was upset about the situation in Gaza,” the BBC reported.
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant confirms the military is operating in new areas in the Gaza Strip.
An “extensive” wave of airstrikes targeted Hamas infrastructure in the Khan Yunis area in southern Gaza.
One story claimed Israel treated all Palestinians as terrorists. “Baffling,” a CAMERA senior analyst wrote.
The U.S. secretary of state addressed reporters at Al-Maktoum Airport Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
“We’re talking about light. We’re talking about good,” Russell Robinson, the Jewish National Fund-USA’s CEO, told JNS. “There’s no pro-anything out there in the street.”
Several airstrikes targeted southern Gaza, to where the military is expected to expand its ground operation.
The NATAL-Israel Trauma and Resiliency Center, which typically fields 24,000 annual calls, has received about 15,000 in the first month after Oct. 7.
The main focus of the leaked, unverified conversation was Israel’s war plans for the southern Gaza Strip.
Rimon Buchstab was returned to Israel on Tuesday. Before she was let go, she tried to fight for her spouse.