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.
In the ‘Magen Oz’ exercise, IDF forces across all branches test their readiness for a range of intense scenarios, sharpening command response, defense and attack coordination, and rapid reaction to emerging threats.
IDF forces are sweeping through Rafah, rooting out Hamas terrorists hiding in tunnels, eliminating some, capturing others, and securing the last underground positions.
After an 18-month manhunt, IDF soldiers killed the terrorist behind the 2024 Nablus car-ramming attack that took the lives of Sgt. Elia Hillel and Sgt. Diego Gabriel.
Israeli forces closed in on Rafah’s remaining tunnel hubs, destroyed major terror infrastructure, struck over 60 targets, seized Hamas weapons, and eliminated or captured terrorists.
The IDF announced it had eliminated Haytham Ali Tabatabai, Hezbollah’s chief of staff, in an airstrike near Beirut, who oversaw its operations in Syria, directed its war against Israel, and led efforts to rebuild and rearm the terror organization.
After surviving 417 days following the heroic rescue attempt that cost him his life, Yona Brief’s bravery and spirit forged an unbreakable bond between two families and left a lasting legacy of love, resilience, and sacrifice.
IDF commandos undergo intense, lessons-from-war training that drops them into chaotic, October-7–style battles where they must think fast, operate deep behind enemy lines, and adapt under pressure to reclaim control with minimal support.
Hamas converted entire neighborhoods into massive terror bases with dozens of interconnected tunnel entrances and shafts that conceal terrorists, weapons, and command centers used to fight the IDF.
