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The strike on the Islamic State terrorists comes amid a large-scale drill being held by the IDF’s Northern Commander to test its military preparedness.
Video surveillance operators are part of the wider IDF Border Defense Array, which was established a year ago, swallowing up the older Combat Intelligence Collection Corps and adding several other units to it, such as mixed-gender border-defense battalions and Bedouin scouting units.
Ahed Tamimi, who gained infamy in Israel and acclaim inside the Palestinian Authority after a video of her provoking, attacking and berating Israeli police officers went viral, was released on Sunday.
Flammable “terror balloons” sparked at least 10 fires along the Gaza border over the weekend.
David’s Sling is designed to shoot down an array of threats: heavy rockets, cruise missiles, drones, short-range ballistic missiles and evasive airborne threats that maneuver as they fly.
The jet had infiltrated about one mile into Israeli airspace; it fell in Syria.
Givati Brigade Staff Sgt. Aviv Levi, 21, from Petach Tikvah, was shot by a Hamas sniper on Friday, becoming the first IDF fatality since “Operation Protective Edge” • A sniper’s round had penetrated Levi’s bulletproof vest, inflicting a critical chest wound.
A joint team of Israeli government ministers, security experts and decision-makers will formulate a NIS 5 billion to upgrade the country’s security emergency and earthquake preparedness, according to a cabinet decision on Monday.
Israeli security forces arrested 19 terror suspects and rock-throwers in raids across Judea and Samaria overnight on Sunday, confiscating multiple illegal guns in Hebron and confiscating thousands of shekels marked to fund terror acts.
According to the IDF, it struck more than 40 terror targets in the Gaza Strip, including two terror tunnels, two large logistic centers and a Hamas Battalion HQ in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza.
Both sides have stopped short of going to war. Hamas is sticking to short-range fire, and Israel’s airstrikes have destroyed tunnels, command posts and other military targets, but did not target senior Hamas members.
According to the IDF, the drone had crossed into the demilitarized buffer zone established by a 1974 cease-fire agreement following the previous year’s Yom Kippur War.
