Israel and the U.S. Fifth Fleet capped off their five-day ‘Intrinsic Defender’ drill with a hard-hitting display of joint naval strength, sharpening everything from mine-clearing to takeover ops to deepen their strategic grip on regional seas.
In Beit Hanoun, the IDF’s elite Yahalom engineering unit demolished a Hamas tunnel stretching roughly a kilometer, removing a significant piece of the terror group’s underground infrastructure.
Through Sari Dov’s ‘House of Heroes,’ wounded Israeli soldiers rebuild their bodies, confidence, and sense of mission as they transition from hospital beds back to fighters in spirit.
After months of intelligence work, the Shin Bet, IDF, and Israel Police uncovered a Tulkarm-based terrorist network stockpiling rockets and explosives for attacks on Israeli forces.
Israeli forces in southern Lebanon demolished an old Hezbollah attack shaft and a weapons depot, uncovering mortar rounds inside and eliminating any chance the terror group could use the sites in future attacks.
Over two weeks, Israeli forces carried out a counterterrorism sweep in northern Samaria, killing six terrorists, arresting dozens, and confiscating weapons and terror funds.
Israel hit several Hezbollah weapons depots hidden in civilian areas of southern Lebanon, exposing the group’s human-shield tactics as Israel carried out a precision, pre-warned strike to remove the threat.
Israeli forces eliminated the East Rafah Battalion commander, his deputy, and additional Hamas terrorists after they emerged from Rafah’s underground network—delivering a sharp blow to the group’s remaining command structure.
While securing the Yellow Line in northern Gaza under the ceasefire terms, Carmeli Brigade forces uncovered five rocket launchers primed to fire at Israel and are pressing on with efforts to neutralize nearby threats.
Adding another layer to Israel’s already formidable air-defense network, the IDF is preparing to deploy the Iron Beam — a laser-based system that delivers interceptions at a fraction of the cost of Iron Dome and other missile defenses.
IDF forces demolished the homes of two terrorists—Abed al-Karim Tsanobar, responsible for a failed February 2025 bus bombing and Ayman Ghanem, who carried out a deadly shooting at Mehola Junction.
An Israeli passerby alerted security forces to a suspicious individual, and when two soldiers began questioning him, he pulled out a knife and lightly wounded them.
Undercover Israeli special forces carried out a daring covert raid in the heart of Shechem, arresting a terrorist suspected of plotting IED attacks against Israeli soldiers.
Israeli forces eliminated Alaa al-Din Khudari, the Islamic Jihad Nukhba commander who took part in the Oct. 7 Nahal Oz massacre, where 15 civilians were murdered and several others were kidnapped.
Over the past 40 days, IDF forces have targeted East Rafah’s underground bunkers, eliminating over 40 Hamas terrorists and destroying dozens of terrorist bases and infrastructures.
During an operation in southern Syria, IDF forces arrested three Jama’a Islami suspects, were ambushed by terrorists, and managed to escape while eliminating several attackers.
The IDF carried out coordinated airstrikes in southern Lebanon, hitting Hezbollah launch sites, a weapons warehouse, and multiple terror infrastructures in response to ongoing violations along the border.
Since the November 2024 ceasefire, IDF forces have carried out roughly 1,200 targeted operations across Lebanon, eliminating more than 370 Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian terrorists.
Hamas has long relied on kidnapping and hostages as a weapon—using innocent lives as bargaining chips to stir violence, gain leverage, and extract Palestinian prisoner releases.
Over the past week, IDF forces in eastern Rafah struck hard—killing more than 20 terrorists, arresting eight others fleeing the tunnels, and wiping out a four-man cell hiding in a targeted structure after a pinpoint airstrike.
