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The Israel Defense Forces said it has also launched strikes against terror targets in Gaza.
Israelis across the political spectrum expressed their sorrow and condolences to the family of a Druze special-forces soldier killed in a firefight with Hamas operatives in Gaza on Sunday night, which broke out when intelligence forces were discovered and attacked.
“I bow my head in sadness at the loss of Lt. Col. M., a glorious fighter who fell during an IDF operation in the Gaza Strip,” Netanyahu wrote on Twitter. “The day will come when we can tell of all his valor. The citizens of Israel owe him an enormous debt.”
Previously, the Israel Defense Forces thought its own soldiers had caused the blaze after shooting a flare.
The case centers on possible conflicts of interests surrounding Israel’s decision to procure three submarines and other vessels from German conglomerate ThyssenKrupp.
A new report from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America’s Hybrid Warfare Task force, headed by several retired senior U.S. military officials, outlined this striking strategic threat to Israel, as well as the operational and legal challenges the country will most likely face in its next war with Hezbollah.
The remains of an Israeli Air Force pilot missing for 56 years were recovered in the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) northeast of Tiberias on Tuesday, recovered among the wreckage of the aircraft.
Soldiers who were at the site to protect approximately 1,000 Jews who had coordinated with the army to pray at the site during the nighttime were met with firebombs and even live fire by Arabs from the city.
Maj.-Gen. Aviv Kochavi, currently the Deputy IDF Chief of Staff, has a long and impressive military record, and holds several university degrees.
Members of police’s newest volunteer unit—graduates of the Shin Bet’s Personal Security Unit—specialize in anti-terrorism.
“The mission has become a hostile presence on the ground; it sees itself solely as a critic of the IDF, while blatantly ignoring Palestinian terrorist activity in the area,” says Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely.
There have been at least 18 dead and 35 injured, according to Jordan, which requested assistance from Israeli search-and-rescue teams.
