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Tehran threatened a “new front” against the “Zionist entity.”
“We are fighting a terror group, not the Gazan population. We don’t want to harm civilians, but we cannot live with Hamas-ISIS rule near our border,” the IDF spokesman said.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi: “We will attack them; we will strike them and break up their system. The IDF under my command understands the gravity of the situation and the mission on our shoulders.”
A riot broke out in Samaria on Thursday after a funeral procession for four Hamas members attempted to pass through the Route 60 highway.
Brig. Gen. Patrick S. Ryder told JNS, “Secretary Austin was clear that we are going to support Israel and that he directed the deployment of these assets to the region in order to bolster our regional deterrence efforts.”
“We will attack them. We will dismantle them,” Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi said.
“Following up on the activation of alerts in the north of the country, these are false alarms,” the army said.
“Every person we put on a flight back to Israel is a great achievement,” Consul General of Israel in Dubai Liron Zaslansky said.
Their neighbors were not so lucky – five members of the family were kidnapped and taken back to Gaza.
The Assad regime’s air defenses “confronted” the alleged Israeli attack, local media said.
Asked how it feels to be a nonagenarian Israel Defense Forces reservist in action, Ezra Yakhin told JNS that “it is very important for us to fight for our country. I feel excellent.”
Throughout Jewish history, public fasts have responded to and beseeched God for mercy at times of great pain and uncertainty.