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IDF says it downed drone launched from Lebanon
The IDF says a drone launched from Lebanon was shot down by air defenses over the Galilee Panhandle a short while ago.
Sirens had sounded in Kiryat Shmona and surrounding towns amid the incident.
There are no reports of injuries.
IDF says it’s tracking drone from Lebanon, as sirens sound in north
The IDF says it is tracking a target that entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon, as drone siren warnings continue to sound near the northern border.
After earlier being activated in Kiryat Shmona and surrounding towns, sirens are now heard in nearby Kibbutz Neot Mordechai.
“The incident is still ongoing,” the IDF says.
Drone alert sounds in northern towns
Drone alert sirens are sounding in towns in the far eastern Galilee panhandle near the border with Lebanon, including the city of Kiryat Shmona.
Alarms are also activated in Ghajar, which straddles the Israeli-Lebanese border, as well as Hagoshrim, Maayan Baruch, Kfar Yuval, and other communities in the area.
Iraqi group takes responsibility for thwarted drone attacks
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an Iran-backed Shiite militia group, claims responsibility for launching drones at Israel, after the military said it downed two UAVs approaching “from the east.”
In a pair of statements, the group says it fired drones at unspecified “vital” targets in Israel’s north and south.
The attack triggered warnings near the Dead Sea region.
Fighter jets scrambled to counter the threat screamed over Jerusalem’s skies for several minutes earlier in the evening before the army announced the drones had been shot down outside of Israeli airspace.
Palestinian man reportedly killed in West Bank attack
Palestinian media reports say a West Bank man who was allegedly attacked by Israeli settlers while picking olives has died of his wounds.
The victim is identified as Ahmed Ghazal, from the northern West Bank village of Sebastia.
There is no confirmation from official Palestinian authorities.
استشهاد المواطن أحمد عبد الله غزال من بلدة سبسطية شمال غرب نابلس بعد أيام قليلة من اعتداء المستوطنين عليه ورشه بالغاز أثناء قطف الزيتون pic.twitter.com/5gcQ9687de
— وكالة سند للأنباء – Snd News Agency (@Snd_pal) November 10, 2024
The alleged attack was one of several reported in the West Bank today, during the seasonal olive harvest. The harvest often spikes tensions, as Israeli extremists clash with Palestinians attempting to work olive groves that may sit on land near settlements or illegal outposts.
The Israel Defense Forces says it used crowd dispersal methods to break up a brawl between Israelis and Palestinians near the West Bank community of Yasuf earlier Sunday.
According to the army, soldiers were dispatched after a report was received of dozens of masked Israelis entering the village.
At least one person was reportedly hospitalized after being hit by a stone thrown by an Israeli, according to Palestinian reports.
“The IDF condemns such incidents and will continue working with determination to halt any violence or property destruction,” it says.
Iran pushes to boot Israel out of UN after Syria strike
Iran’s foreign ministry is calling for an arms embargo on Israel and the country’s expulsion from the United Nations following a deadly strike in Syria.
Foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei says Tehran “strongly condemned the aggressive attack carried out today by the Zionist regime against a residential building” in the Damascus area.
The strike on an apartment belonging to Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah killed nine people, according to Syria’s state-affiliated Shams FM news outlet. The dead included a Hezbollah commander, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor says.
Rockets said to strike near Safed without warning
The Upper Galilee Regional Council says rockets struck open areas within its jurisdiction, though no sirens were activated.
The rockets hit near Ein Zeitim, just north of the city of Safed, the council says, without specifying a number.
No injuries or damage are reported. There is no comment from the military.
Report: Trump told Putin not to ramp up Ukraine offensive in call last week
US President-elect Donald Trump advised Russian President Vladimir Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine during a call between the two on Thursday, the Washington Post reports, citing people familiar with the matter.
Trump reminded the Russian leader of “Washington’s sizeable military presence in Europe,” the Post reports.
During the election campaign, Trump said he would find a solution to end the war “within a day,” but did not explain how he would do so.
On Friday, the Kremlin said Putin was ready to discuss Ukraine with Trump, but that did not mean that he was willing to alter Moscow’s demands.
On June 14, Putin set out his terms for an end to the war: Ukraine would have to drop its NATO ambitions and withdraw all of its troops from all of the territory of four regions claimed by Russia.
Attorney general to order Ben Gvir be fired unless he stops meddling in police – report
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir arrives at a court hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, September 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is set to tell Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he must fire National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for repeatedly violating the law while in office unless he changes his mode of conduct, Channel 13 reports.
Ben Gvir calls for Baharav-Miara’s firing in reaction to the report.
Baharav-Miara is formulating the state’s response to petitions to the High Court of Justice demanding that Ben Gvir be removed from office for repeatedly intervening in the functioning of the police in a manner in which the court has forbidden.
In March 2023, the High Court ordered Ben Gvir to halt operational orders to the police on managing anti-government protests, and issued an injunction against such orders in January 2024.
According to the Channel 13 report, the attorney general and the State Attorney’s Office believe that Ben Gvir has violated the law through his actions as the minister entrusted with responsibility for the police.
But Baharav-Miara is seeking to “exhaust” all avenues for addressing the problem before filing her response to the court, including what would appear to be a final warning to Netanyahu that Ben Gvir must change his behavior if he is to avoid a court ruling ordering the ultranationalist national security minister be fired, a move which could put Netanyahu’s ruling coalition in danger.
Ben Gvir says in response that the attorney general and Channel 13 news were “working together to topple right-wing rule,” and said he was again calling on Netanyahu “to fire the attorney general who is working against the government.”
The report comes as Channel 13 News is set to publish an investigative report detailing Ben Gvir’s alleged violations of the law in his activities as minister.
Israel shoots down two drones, apparently from Iraq
Two drones launched at Israel “from the east,” usually code for Iraq, were shot down by the Israeli Air Force a short while ago, the military says.
According to the IDF, the drones were intercepted before entering Israeli airspace.
Residents of the Jerusalem area reported hearing intense fighter jet activity around the time of the incident.
Warnings were activated in the Dead Sea region, the army says.
Israel says Islamic Jihad operations head killed in Gaza strike
An Israeli military handout issued on November 10, 2024, shows Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander Muhammad Abu Sakhil. (IDF)
A top Palestinian Islamic Jihad commander was killed in an airstrike in the Gaza Strip yesterday, the IDF and Shin Bet announce.
According to the military and Shin Bet, Muhammad Abu Sakhil, the Islamic Jihad operations chief, was killed in a strike carried out by fighter jets on a command room embedded within a former school in northern Gaza.
Abu Sakhil was a “central operative” in Islamic Jihad, and was involved in “compiling situation assessments and coordinating terrorist operations” with Hamas, the statement says.
Before the strike on the Fahd al-Sabah School, the IDF says it carried out “many steps” to mitigate civilian harm, including by using aerial surveillance and other intelligence.
Iran military chief talks ‘defense diplomacy’ with Saudi counterpart
Iranian Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri and his visiting Saudi counterpart Fayyad al-Ruwaili discussed “the development of defense diplomacy and the expansion of bilateral cooperation” during meetings today, Tehran says.
Al-Ruwaili headed a high-level Saudi military delegation in Tehran, according to Bagheri’s office.
Separately, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian spoke with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on the phone, Iran’s Arabic-language television network Al Alam says, without providing details.
State media adds that Bagheri held a phone call with Saudi Arabia’s Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud last year to discuss regional developments and improve defense cooperation between the two countries.
Security cabinet meets amid hopes for progress on Lebanon ceasefire
The high-level security cabinet is holding its first meeting since the ousting of former defense minister Yoav Gallant, with reports indicating that ministers are discussion efforts to mediate a ceasefire in Israel’s campaign against Lebanese terror group Hezbollah.
Joining the meeting for the first time is Israel Katz, who was sworn in last week to replace Gallant as Israel’s top defense official.
According to the Ynet news site, the US recently exchanged ceasefire proposals with Israel and also with Lebanese political leaders. The site quotes sources involved in the talks as saying there is a “not bad” chance the sides can advance toward an agreement.
Report: Netanyahu working from protected room on basement floor of PMO, in light of security fears since drone attack
Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his office in Jerusalem on a phone call with UAE leader Mohammed Bin Zayed on August 13, 2020. (Kobi Gideon/PMO/File)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is conducting most of his working day from a reinforced room on the basement level of the Prime Minister’s Office, rather than his usual office on a higher floor, in accordance with instructions from security officials, Channel 12 news reports.
It says Netanyahu was told to use the better-protected basement level room, rather than his office inside the PMO’s glass-fronted “aquarium” area, and more widely to avoid being in known “permanent places,” since an explosive Hezbollah drone detonated at his home in Casearea on October 19, smashing, though not penetrating, a bedroom window and causing further minor damage. Netanyahu was not at home at the time.
The report says the new security protocol has been implemented because of concern over drones and other attacks, and that Netanyahu has made this clear to people who have met with him in the basement-level room.
Channel 12 says that the new security instructions also explain why cabinet meetings of late have been held in different places, and why the wedding of Netanyahu’s son Avner has been postponed to a later date, not in the near future.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023.(Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
The TV report also quotes unnamed legal and political sources who anticipate that, in the light of these security recommendations, Netanyahu’s lawyers will seek to postpone the scheduled start of his testimony next month at Jerusalem District Court in the three corruption cases for which he is on trial, so that he will not be in the same place several times a week.
It has been reported that the court does not have a safe room or a bomb shelter.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at the Jerusalem District Court to listen to video testimony from businessman Arnon Milchan in the prime minister’s corruption trial, June 27, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon / Flash90)
Yellow piano concerts held for hostages to mark 400 days of captivity
Simultaneous performances are being held in Israel and around the world to mark 400 days of Hamas captivity for hostage Alon Ohel and the other remaining captives in Gaza.
Musicians play on yellow pianos distributed to public spaces around the world throughout the year by Ohel’s family, raising awareness for their son, a talented pianist who was taken captive on October 7 from a field shelter near the Nova music rave.
Each piano bears a sign reading “You Are Not Alone,” symbolizing the struggle to bring the hostages home.
Ohel’s parents, family and friends are present on Sunday to hear musician and composer Shlomi Shaban perform in Tel Aviv’s Hostages Square,
Other concerts take place in New York, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, Miami, Sydney, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Eilat, Nof Hagalil, Rehovot, Ganei Tikva, Kfar Saba, Ramat HaSharon, Yehud, Ashdod, Beit Shemesh, Carmiel, and Ra’anana.
Musician and performer Moshe Levi performs Yehudit Ravitz’s poignant song, “Song Without a Name,” at the Rimon Music School.
Ohel is one of 97 people kidnapped on October 7, 2023, still held hostage, as well as four others who have been held in Gaza for around a decade.
Footage shows Palestinian being beaten during attack last week
Week-old footage aired by the Kan public broadcaster shows masked individuals beating a Palestinian during an attack on the northern West Bank village of Jaba.
The masked attackers, widely believed to be extremist settlers, also reportedly threw stones at homes and damaged property throughout the village, including five cars which they torched.
תיעוד | יהודים רעולי פנים תועדו בשבוע שעבר מכים באלות פלסטיני בבית בכפר ג'בע שבצפון השומרון. הם גם הציתו רכב פלסטיני, יידו אבנים לעבר בית וגרמו נזק לרכוש@carmeldangor pic.twitter.com/pby51uwLPB
— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) November 10, 2024
No arrests were made in the attack, according to Palestinian media reports. There is no comment from police.
Softened Shas bill expanding rabbinical budgets set for first Knesset vote
A Shas-backed bill aimed at granting Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli the power to allocate additional funds to local religious councils around the country is set to go to the Knesset plenum for its first reading on Monday, after being repeatedly blocked by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party.
According to Channel 13, Ben Gvir has backtracked on his objections to the bill, which he had blocked on three separate occasions, in an effort to force Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to add him to his now-defunct war cabinet. Ben Gvir has since been invited to limited ministerial security consultations with the prime minister.
The bill aims to amend the Religious Services Law, which regulates how much the government and municipalities contribute respectively to the budgets of the bodies providing communal religious services at the city and regional council levels.
The bill states that the religious services minister would be allowed, with the agreement of the finance minister, to pay for “salary expenses and positions beyond what is stated” in the law.
An initial version of the proposal would have created hundreds of publicly funded jobs for Orthodox rabbis, while giving the Chief Rabbinate considerable say in the appointment of all new municipal rabbis, reversing changes instituted in 2022 by the previous government.
Macron to attend France-Israel soccer match in show of solidarity, Paris says
The office of French President Emmanuel Macron says his decision to attend Thursday’s soccer match between France and Israel in Paris is meant as a show of support, following attacks on Israelis and Jews in Amsterdam after a game there last week.
Macron’s gesture is aimed at sending “a message of fraternity and solidarity after the intolerable acts of antisemitism that followed the match in Amsterdam,” his office says.
Israel has warned its citizens not to attend the game at the Stade de France later this week, citing threats from pro-Palestinian protesters and “terror supporters.”
Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez earlier told French news broadcaster BFM TV that French organizers have been in contact with Israeli authorities and security forces in order to prepare for the match.
Some 4,000 police are being deployed for the game, including 2,500 who will be deployed around the stadium. Others will police public transportation and other areas.
“There will be an anti-terrorist security perimeter around the stadium,” Nuñez said. Security checks will be “reinforced,” he added, including with systematic pat-downs and bag searches.
Supreme Court shoots down Ben Gvir bid to block TV exposé
The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir to block the broadcast of messages from a WhatsApp group he was a member of, in an investigative report to be aired later tonight.
Justice Ofer Grosskopf sides with the Jerusalem District Court’s rejection of a motion to have the broadcast of his WhatsApp messages blocked on invasion of privacy grounds.
The lower court, Grosskopf says, reviewed the entire transcript of the broadcast and found it to be “entirely related to the public activities of the minister,” and therefore had importance to the general public.
The justice says that in exceptional circumstances, when the privacy of a subject is harmed by a publication, a court might consider accepting a request to block it, but notes that Ben Gvir’s case “doesn’t come close” to this situation.
The report is set to be broadcast later tonight on Channel 13’s Hamakor investigative magazine.
Israel tells citizens to avoid Paris soccer match, other events in Europe
Israel is warning its citizens to stay away from a November 14 soccer match in Paris between its national team and France, as well as other events abroad, where Israelis might normally gather, in the wake of a rash of organized attacks on Maccabi Tel Aviv supporters, following a match in Amsterdam on Thursday night that officials have described as a “pogrom.”
“In the last few days, various calls have been identified among pro-Palestinians/ supporters of terror group to harm Israelis and Jews, under the cover of protests and demonstrations, and while taking advantage of mass attendance (of sports and cultural events) to maximize harm and media exposure,” a statement from the National Security Council says.
The council, which regularly issues travel warnings, says Israelis should “completely avoid games/cultural events that have Israeli participation for the next week.”
The statement specifically mentions the UEFA Nations League match in Paris on Thursday, and says there are also threats to Jews and Israelis in Brussels, Amsterdam, and in unnamed “central British cities.”
It also says Israelis traveling abroad should avoid identifying as such, and cautions travelers to study up on risks within their destinations, including whether “there is a large migrant population from countries opposed to Israel.”
Paris officials have vowed to step up security for the match on Thursday, which is set to be attended by French President Emmanuel Macron.
“There’s a context, tensions that make that match a high-risk event for us,” Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez says 2,500 police officers will be deployed around the Stade de France stadium, north of the French capital, in addition to 1,500 others in Paris and on public transportation.
AP contributed to this report.
Saudi Hezbollah fighter reportedly killed in Lebanon
A Saudi national fighting for Hezbollah was killed in Lebanon yesterday, according to the Lebanese paper, L’Orient Le Jour, seemingly marking the first such case of a citizen of the kingdom being killed in Israel’s war against the Iran-backed terror group.
The man, named as Omran Karim, hailed from the Shiite-majority city of Qatif on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia. He worked as a dentist in Beirut’s southern Dahiyeh suburb, a Hezbollah stronghold, according to the paper.
The first Saudi martyred in southern Lebanon..
The martyred resistance dentist "Omran Karim" from the city of Qatif, ascends as a martyr while confronting the occupation pic.twitter.com/tAC0c5S7an— Gaza War BD (@GazaWar_BD) November 9, 2024
Karim was reportedly the son of Ahmad Ibrahim al-Moughassil, aka Abu Omran, head of Hezbollah’s branch in Saudi Arabia and the mastermind of a 1996 terror attack that killed 19 US soldiers in the kingdom.
Al-Moughassil was arrested in Beirut by the Saudi intelligence service in 2015 and extradited to Saudi Arabia.
Two officers injured in Gaza, IDF says
Two IDF officers were seriously wounded during separate incidents of fighting in the northern Gaza Strip today, the military says.
The officers served with the 401st Armored Brigade’s 52nd and 9th battalions.
Both were wounded by anti-tank fire, according to initial IDF probes of the incidents.
The two were initially reported injured in southern Gaza.
Netanyahu claims scandals plaguing PMO manufactured to harm leadership, war effort
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a video address on November 10, 2024. (Screenshot: GPO, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accuses the Israel media of opening a “front” against him alongside Hamas, Hezbollah, and other Iran-backed groups, alleging that those coming after him during a series of scandals rocking his office are trying to weaken the nation during war.
“Even as I manage the war and battle international attacks from various directions, now we are dealing even more so with another front, the media’s fake news,” he says in a pre-recorded message, his second in hours.
In recent weeks, Netanyahu’s aides have faced accusations ranging from mishandling and leaking classified documents to the press to editing meeting transcripts to blackmailing a senior military officer. He says the allegations add up to “a wild and unrestrained attack.”
Netanyahu says that since the beginning of the war, there has been “a flood of leaks from the national security cabinet, from the war cabinet at the time, and a continuous tsunami of leaks from the negotiating team. These leaks provide vital information to Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, information that endangers the country, endangers our fighters, and endangers the recovery of our hostages.”
The prime minister laments that no investigations have been initiated into those leaks, despite his requests.
“Why? Because the goal is not to protect the security of the state,” he alleges. “The goal is to promote an agenda of weakness and concessions, during the war.”
He says that the string of scandals in recent weeks are “an organized hunting expedition designed to harm the country’s leadership and weaken us in the midst of a war,” he claims.
“It will not deter me,” Netanyahu promises, adding that he is “more determined than ever to make the right decisions for the benefit of Israel’s security, and I am more determined than ever to lead us to absolute victory.”
Trump Jr. says war hawks won’t be welcome in administration
Tiffany Trump, Eric Trump, Lara Trump and Donald Trump Jr., react as they watch the roll call of US states during the Republican National Convention, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/ Julia Nikhinson)
Donald Trump Jr. declares that he is working on ensuring that neoconservatives and war hawks are not included in his father’s next administration.
After American comedian Dave Smith tweeted, “We need maximum pressure to keep all neocons and war hawks out of the Trump administration,” Trump Jr. responds, “Agreed!!! 100% 100% 100% I’m on it.”
The comment is the latest to reflect the apparent ascendancy of anti-war isolationists in Trump’s nascent second administration, amid fears that Israel could come under heavy pressure to end its wars against the Hamas and Hezbollah terror groups and lose support for action it may take against Iran.
Agreed💯💯💯!!! I’m on it. https://t.co/wJga8VyIG2
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) November 10, 2024
Trump announced late Saturday that he would not appoint his former UN ambassador Nikki Haley and his former secretary of state Mike Pompeo to roles in his next administration. According to Politico, the announcement came 30 minutes after the news site requested comment on a story about Pompeo’s bid to be defense chief being blocked by Trump Jr. and far-right commentator Tucker Carlson.
The pair are seen as leading the isolationists who appear to be fighting for influence against more hawkish conservatives. Vice President-elect JD Vance has apparently cast himself as part of the isolationist wing, albeit one willing to make an exception when it comes to supporting Israel. But even he stressed last month that US and Israeli interests won’t always align and that the US doesn’t support a war with Iran, insinuating that Jerusalem does.
Anti-Israel protesters bused out of central Amsterdam after defying ban, police say
Dozens of demonstrators who took part in an illicit anti-Israel rally in Amsterdam were put on buses and dropped off on the outskirts of the city, police spokesperson Ramona van den Ochtend says.
She does not specify how many were detained at the Dam Square rally, which was banned by authorities following attacks on Israeli soccer fans late last week.
However, a Reuters journalist at the scene puts the number at over 100. One protester was also taken to an ambulance bleeding.
A local court upheld the ban earlier in the day and extended it by four days, meaning it will only expire after Thursday. The prohibition was initially put in place for three days starting Friday.
IDF says Hezbollah tunnel found under south Lebanon cemetery
Concrete is pumped into a Hezbollah tunnel in southern Lebanon, in a handout photo issued by the IDF on November 10, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
Israeli troops operating in southern Lebanon this week located and sealed a large Hezbollah tunnel hidden under a cemetery, the military says.
The Israeli Air Force’s elite Shaldag unit and ground forces of the 36th Division raided the underground site this week following intelligence on its location. The IDF says that one of the entrances to the tunnel was hidden in a graveyard.
Inside the kilometer-long (0.6 mile-) tunnel, located about 1.5 kilometers (approximately one mile) from the border, the military says the troops found command and control rooms, sleeping quarters and weapon caches. A video released by the IDF shows dozens of weapons and other military equipment being stored in the tunnel.
According to the IDF, the tunnel was to be used by Hezbollah as a staging ground for a planned invasion of Israel.
After the tunnel was mapped out, it was sealed by pumping 4,500 cubic meters of concrete into it, the military says. Hundreds of trucks and cement mixers were involved in the operation.
This video released by the IDF on November 10, 2024, shows a Hezbollah tunnel system in southern Lebanon, and it being sealed with concrete. (Israel Defense Forces)
Trump in-law Boulos setting up contacts with PA’s Abbas, official confirms
Donald Trump, right, signs autographs as Massad Boulos watches during a visit to Dearborn, Michigan on, Friday, November 1, 2024. (AP/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
Tiffany Trump’s father-in-law Massad Boulos, a key Arab surrogate for the US president-elect, met Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in September, a senior Palestinian official tells The Times of Israel.
The meeting between Abbas and Boulos, a Lebanese-American businessman, was cordial, the Palestinian official says, confirming reporting in The New York Times. Abbas emphasized his willingness to work with Trump in order to reach a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
Boulos and Bishara Bahbah, who heads Arab Americans for Trump, helped orchestrate a letter Abbas sent to Trump wishing him well after a July assassination attempt.
Trump expressed his gratitude to Abbas by sending the letter back to him with his signature and a brief message.
Palestinian woman said hospitalized as rock-wielding settlers raid village
Dozens of settlers have raided the Palestinian village of Yasuf in the northern West Bank, hurling stones at residents and property, footage from the scene shows.
A woman was struck by a rock, requiring hospitalization, Palestinian media reports.
مسTوطنون يرشقون منازل الفلسطينيين بالحجارة خلال مداهمتهم قرية ياسوف شرق سلفيت. pic.twitter.com/43HqC1UIm0
— فلسطين بوست (@PalpostN) November 10, 2024
The IDF arrived at the scene shortly after the attack began but did not arrest the perpetrators, instead firing teargas at young Palestinian residents who left their homes to try and confront the settlers, Palestinian media reports.
The IDF does not immediately respond to a request for comment.
While settler violence has become a regular occurrence in the West Bank, arrests are extremely rare, leading several Western countries to begin sanctioning Israeli extremists in the West Bank earlier this year.
Israeli strike reported to kill top Hezbollah assassin Ayyash, wanted by US, UN
Salim Jamil Ayyash, who was sentenced for his role in a 2005 suicide bombing in Beirut that killed former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. (US Rewards for Justice)
The Saudi Al-Arabiya outlet reports that Hezbollah commander Salim Jamil Ayyash was killed in a recent Israeli airstrike.
Unconfirmed reports on social media claim that Ayyash was killed in a strike near the Syrian city of al-Qusayr.
Ayyash, who had a $10 million reward from Washington on his head, was a senior member of Hezbollah’s Unit 151 assassination squad, according to the US State Department.
In 2020, Ayyash was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment by a UN-backed tribunal over the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri in a suicide bombing in Beirut in 2005.
Haifa drone no longer a threat, IDF says
After drone infiltration sirens sounded in the northern coastal city of Haifa, the IDF says the incident is over.
According to the military, a suspected drone entered Israeli airspace from Lebanon, and there were several attempts to shoot it down.
There are no reports of injuries.
“The event is over,” the IDF says.
It is unclear if the drone was downed by Israeli fire or if it crashed somewhere.
Syrian outlet raises death toll in Damascus strike to 9
The death toll in the alleged Israeli airstrike near Damascus has risen to 9, according to the pro-government Sham FM radio.
Another 20 people are wounded, the outlet says.
Negev minor arrested last month for plotting attacks with Hamas, police say
Police say they have arrested an Israeli teen on suspicion of carrying of planning attacks for the Hamas terror group.
The 17-year-old, who is unnamed in line with privacy rules for minors, was arrested on October 15, authorities say.
“During questioning, it arose that the minor identifies and supports Hamas, and for a time was employed in planning various terror [activities],” police say in a statement. “He even planned to carry out an attack and took steps to prepare it.”
He is described by police as a resident of Israel’s Negev desert whose father is of “West Bank Palestinian extraction.”
Drone sirens sound in Haifa
Drone infiltration sirens are sounding in the western part of Haifa, the IDF’s Homefront command says.
There are no immediate details on the suspected attack.
Three reported injured in Metula missile attack
Three people have been reported wounded in an apparent anti-tank missile attack in the northern border town of Metula.
First responders say that one person is moderately hurt and two others are in good condition.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF.
Court extends detention of key suspect in PM’s office leak scandal
Eli Feldstein, a spokesman with the Prime Minister's Office named as a suspect in an investigation of an alleged leak of sensitive information. (Social media / used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
The Rishon Lezion Magistrate’s Court extends the detention by four days of Eli Feldstein, a key suspect in a scandal surrounding suspicions that classified documents were mishandled by the Prime Minister’s Office, Channel 12 reports.
Feldstein was arrested on October 27. His extended detention will mean he will have been kept in custody for 18 days by the time his current period of detention expires. The police and Shin Bet may request a further extension of his custody on Wednesday.
The court also extends the detention by four days of an IDF officer suspected of involvement in the scandal, the channel reports.
Feldstein and four other suspects were arrested on suspicion of being involved in either the unlawful removal of sensitive information from an Israel Defense Forces database or of having leaked such documents to foreign media outlets as part of an alleged plot to torpedo hostage talks.
None hurt as 10 rockets fired at northern Golan
A barrage of 10 rockets was fired from Lebanon at the northern Golan Heights a short while ago, the army says.
The IDF says that some of the rockets were intercepted and the rest hit open areas.
There are no reports of injuries.
Sirens had been triggered in a number of towns, including a small community named in honor of US President-elect Donald Trump, marking the fourth time Ramat Trump has been targeted since Trump was elected last week.
Six reported killed in alleged Israeli strike near Damascus
Six people were killed and 15 others were wounded in the alleged Israeli airstrike on the Sayyidah Zaynab suburb of Damascus, medical officials at a local hospital tell the Syrian Sham FM radio.
The strike targeted a residential building, according to Sham FM. The official SANA news agency, which initially reported that there had been Israeli strikes, now says only that explosions near Damascus are being investigated.
🇸🇾 **#BREAKING**: An #Israeli attack on an apartment in the Sayda Zeinab area, south of #Damascus, has reportedly killed 3 people, according to sources in #Syria.pic.twitter.com/RQRf2jkUTl
— NwsData (@NwsData) November 10, 2024
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights claims the attack targeted two locations “where Hezbollah members live” near the Sayyidah Zeinab municipality. The opposition group, often accused on inflating Syrian losses, puts the death toll at three.
There is no comment from Israel.
Hezbollah defeated, new defense minister says as rockets bombard north
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, right, and Defense Minister Israel Katz, at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on November 10, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Israel has defeated Hezbollah on the battlefield, says incoming Defense Minister Israel Katz at a ceremony for new Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar, who has taken Katz’s place.
“The blows we inflicted defeated Hezbollah and the elimination of [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah is the crowning jewel,” he says.
Shortly before the ceremony, Hezbollah launched a barrage of 15 rockets into the Western Galilee. More rocket attacks on Metula and other areas of the north follow, without any immediate reports of injuries or damage.
Israel’s task now is to “change the security reality in the north,” says Katz.
As defense minister, Katz says, his number one task will be to prevent Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon. He also says that he will ensure that Hamas has no future role in Gaza in any arrangement to end the war.
Looking back at his 11 months as foreign minister, Katz says that “we managed to maintain legitimacy and prevent decisions by international bodies and countries that asked us to stop the war unconditionally.”
Amsterdam cops break up anti-Israel rally after court upholds ban
Riot police in Amsterdam are breaking up a pro-Palestinian protest after a court upheld a ban on demonstrations following an outbreak of antisemitic attacks on Israeli soccer fans last week.
Hundreds of demonstrators defied the prohibition to gather in the Dutch capital’s Dam square, chanting demands for an end to violence in Gaza and “Free Palestine.”
Amsterdam op dit moment. Trek die lat omhoog https://t.co/Or2EzWEZxT pic.twitter.com/efsCZzVJhS
— Frans (@FransMaassen9) November 10, 2024
But after a local court ratified the city authorities’ ban, police have moved in, instructing protesters to leave and threatening arrest. Several people are dragged away by police, a Reuters journalist says.
Achter de politiebussen die toegang tot de Dam bieden, is een menigte te horen die liederen zingt en leuzen scandeert. Er wordt dus wel gedemonstreerd vandaag, alleen niet op de Dam. pic.twitter.com/8PAVp4raxH
— Cas van Berkel (@casvanberkel) November 10, 2024
Local police chief Olivier Dutilh told the court on Sunday that the ban was still needed as antisemitic incidents were also reported on Saturday night, local TV station AT5 reports.
Dutilh told the court that people had been pushed out of taxis and intimidated by others who asked to see their passports on the streets.
Israel carried out pager attacks on Hezbollah, Netanyahu said to acknowledge for first time
A photo taken on September 18, 2024, in Beirut's southern suburbs shows the remains of exploded pagers on display at an undisclosed location. The pagers were used by Hezbollah and the attack has been blamed on Israel. (AFP)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged in today’s cabinet meeting that Israel was behind the pager and walkie-talkie attacks on Hezbollah in September, according to Hebrew media reports.
“The pager operation and the elimination of [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah were carried out despite the opposition of senior officials in the defense establishment and those responsible for them in the political echelon,” Netanyahu reportedly said, in a not-very-oblique dig at IDF and intelligence chiefs and his recently fired defense minister Yoav Gallant.
Israel has not publicly taken responsibility for the attack, in which thousands of pagers detonated on their Hezbollah owners across Lebanon and parts of Syria on September 16.
Alleged Israeli strikes reported near Damascus
Syrian media outlets report explosions heard in the capital Damascus amid an alleged Israeli airstrike.
According to the pro-government Sham FM radio, the strikes targeted the Sayyidah Zaynab suburb of Damascus, a Shiite stronghold.
إنفجارات قوية في محيط منطقة #السيدة_زينب بدمشق pic.twitter.com/GGNK6yVWPK
— هنا لبنان (@thisislebnews) November 10, 2024
State-run SANA also reports strikes near the capital.
There is no immediate information on casualties or damage.
Gantz rejects pressure for Lebanon ceasefire, urges IDF to hit Hezbollah harder
Israel should ignore international pressure for a ceasefire in Lebanon, National Unity party head Benny Gantz declares in a pre-recorded message, calling for the military to increase pressure on Hezbollah.
“The main goal in the north is to return the [displaced] residents safely. It should have happened by September first [the first day of school], which is long past,” says Gantz, a former army chief who was part of the war cabinet for several months.
In order to ensure the swift return of the displaced residents, “we must not agree to a unilateral ceasefire,” he says. “Just the opposite. Even if the international pressure is increasing, the intensity of the attacks should be increased.”
He calls for an agreement “that will neutralize Hezbollah, and guarantee us freedom of action in the face of any violation” before Israel agrees to halt its military offensive.
According to Army Radio, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer reportedly visited Russia last week in what appeared to be part of Israel’s efforts to reach a ceasefire in Lebanon.
Dermer then flew to Washington on Saturday night for talks with US officials, the Ynet outlet reported.
The Biden administration has been making a final push for a ceasefire in recent days and incoming US president Donald Trump has informed the White House that he expects to see progress in the efforts to reach a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, according to Ynet.
Trump proxies have repeatedly warned that the Republican wants Israel’s wars wrapped up by the time he takes office on January 20.
Netanyahu says he spoke with Trump three times since election, they see ‘eye-to-eye on the Iranian threat’
Then-US president Donald Trump (right) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Trump's departure to Rome at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, on May 23, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO via Flash90)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has spoken with US President-elect Donald Trump three times since the US election less than a week ago, and that they see “eye-to-eye” on the Iranian threat.
In a video statement, Netanyahu says the talks “were designed to further tighten the strong alliance between Israel and the US. We see eye-to-eye on the Iranian threat in all its components, and the danger posed by it. We also see the great opportunities before Israel, in the expansion of peace, and in other realms.”
He describes the conversations as “good and very important.”
Addressing the attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam, Netanyahu says that “a clear line connects two antisemitic attacks against Israel that we have recently seen on Dutch soil: the criminal legal attack against Israel at the international court in The Hague, and the criminal violent attack against Israeli citizens on the streets of Amsterdam.”
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar made almost identical remarks earlier today connecting the violence in Amsterdam and the investigations into Israel and its leaders at the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.
“In both cases, it is a dangerous antisemitism whose aim is to make the Jews and their country helpless,” he says, “to deny our country the right to self-defense, to deny our citizens the right to life itself.”
“We have learned something from history: the unbridled attacks that begin against the Jews never end with the Jews,” says Netanyahu, adding that he expects every government to act decisively against antisemitism.
“In any case, we will do what needs to be done to protect ourselves and our citizens,” Netanyahu says. “We will never allow the horrors of history to repeat themselves. We will never surrender — neither to antisemitism nor to terrorism.”
Herzog to meet Biden in Washington Tuesday
President Isaac Herzog is set to meet US President Joe Biden on Tuesday, Herzog’s office says.
Herzog is in the United States for the Jewish Federations of North America’s annual General Assembly. The confab kicks off tonight with a mass rally at the Nationals Park baseball stadium in Washington.
There is currently no meeting with US President-elect Donald Trump or any other elected officials on Israeli president’s schedule, though quiet meetings may take place.
There is no comment from the White House.
Report claims Washington holding up shipment of armored bulldozers to Israel
An Israeli military bulldozer drives down a road during a raid in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarm on August 28, 2024.(Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
The US is holding up a shipment of armored bulldozers purchased by Israel for its military, the Ynet news site reports.
According to the report, Israel paid for the 134 Caterpillar D9 bulldozers months ago but is still awaiting an export permit from the US State Department.
Ynet attributes the delay to protests in the US over the use of such bulldozers to destroy homes in the Gaza Strip, which the IDF says are used by Hamas.
There is no immediate comment from US officials on the report.
New top diplomat Sa’ar calls for boosting Kurdish ties, admits failures in Amsterdam response
Gideon Sa'ar speaks at the Foreign Ministry on November 10, 2024. (Haim Zach/GPO)
Incoming Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar presents a vision of alliances with Kurdish and Druze communities in the Middle East, saying minorities in the region will need to stick together, at a ceremony marking the handover from outgoing minister Israel Katz.
“The Kurdish people are a great nation, one of the great nations without political independence,” says Sa’ar. “They are our natural ally.”
Calling the Kurds victims of Iranian and Turkish oppression, Sa’ar says Israel “must reach out and strengthen our ties with them.”
“This has both political and security aspects,” says Sa’ar.
The autonomous Kurdistan Region in Iraq is strategically situated along Iran’s and Turkey’s borders, which makes it a strategically potent potential ally for Israel. In the 1960s and 70s, the IDF and Mossad supported Kurdish rebels against the Iraqi government, in cooperation with Iran.
Sa’ar also points out the Druze minorities in Syria and Lebanon as possible partners.
“Understand that in a region where we will always be a minority – natural alliances will be with other minorities,” he says.
These alliances, he says, should take form alongside agreements with Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries, which will be easier to accomplish after the wars on Hamas and Hezbollah.
“Israel’s firm stance over the past year and its achievements in the war against the Iranian axis make it an even more important regional and international player than it was,” argues Sa’ar.
Sa’ar says the Foreign Ministry failed Israelis in Amsterdam on Thursday night, as the volume of calls overwhelmed the ministry situation room: “I ordered a comprehensive investigation to draw lessons so that this does not happen again. When there are faults – you don’t need to cover them. They need to be solved.”
He says that a “straight line” runs between the attacks on Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam and investigations into Israel in the international courts in The Hague. Both cities are in the Netherlands.
“The purpose of the various proceedings at the ICJ and the ICC is to deny Israel the right of self-defense,” says Sa’ar. “Who are they asking to deny this right that exists for every country? From the most attacked country in the world.”
He argues that the “translation of the delegitimization of Israel is dehumanization and delegitimization for every Israeli and every Jew. We all saw this in the most shocking way imaginable.”
Defending his demand for NIS 545 million for new public diplomacy efforts in the ministry, Sa’ar says the war for international legitimacy is just as important as the fight on the battlefield.
IDF: Commander of Hezbollah artillery forces in Blida, south Lebanon, killed in strike
The commander of Hezbollah’s artillery forces in southern Lebanon’s Blida was killed in a recent airstrike, the IDF says.
The Hezbollah operative had been spotted by troops of the 869th Combat Intelligence Collection Unit while launching an anti-tank missile at Israel.
The IDF says that a short while later, an airstrike was carried out against one of Hezbollah’s main command centers in Blida, killing the commander.
The 869th has directed numerous strikes on Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure during operations in southern Lebanon with the 91st Division in recent weeks.
This video released by the IDF on November 10, 2024, shows an airstrike on a Hezbollah commander in southern Lebanon’s Blida. (Israel Defense Forces)
Lapid demands Knesset speaker condemn harassment of Yesh Atid MK by right-wing activists
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid demands that Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana condemn harassment of his party’s lawmakers after a group of young men “cursed, threatened and blocked the path” of Yesh Atid MK Matti Sarfatti Harcavi in Tel Aviv following a demonstration on Saturday evening.
Writing to Ohana, Lapid decries “cases of violence and pursuit of Knesset members” and calls on the Likud legislator to “strongly condemn” such incidents.
Accusing the police of ignoring Harcavi’s request for intervention, Lapid notes that law enforcement took quick action in September when a woman allegedly threw sand at National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and demands that Ohana “direct the police to ensure the safety of Knesset members in the public sphere.”
A video of the incident posted online appeared to show a group of young men following Harcavi. They cursed the lawmaker, calling her a “whore” while singing a pro-Netanyahu song.
Speaking with Hebrew media after the incident, Harcavi said she had felt “abandoned” by the police.
She identified the leader of the group as right-wing activist Mordechai David, who was previously filmed following and yelling at fellow Yesh Atid MK Yorai Lahav-Hertzano and has been accused of harassing several others.
David was invited to the Knesset in September as a guest of Ben Gvir, who praised him for his activism, according to the Ynet news site.
שימו לב כיצד חבורת נערים מתעללת בחברת הכנסת מטי צרפתי הרכבי מיש עתיד
גידופים, קללות, חסימת נתיב הליכה וכו השוטרים לא עשו כלום למרות שאמרה להם שהיא ח״כית pic.twitter.com/SuO1qStrWi— לירי בורק שביט (@lirishavit) November 9, 2024
IDF says drone launched ‘from the east’ was shot down over the Golan Heights
A drone launched at Israel “from the east,” code for Iraq, was shot down by the Israeli Air Force this morning, the IDF says.
According to the military, parts of the drone landed in an open area in the Golan Heights after being intercepted.
15 rockets launched from Lebanon at Western Galilee
A barrage of 15 rockets was launched from Lebanon at the Western Galilee a short while ago.
The IDF says most of the rockets struck open areas, but there were also impacts inside towns.
There are no immediate reports of injuries.
DDoS cyberattack temporarily blocks Israeli credit card payments
An Israeli clearing company was targeted in a cyberattack earlier today, leaving people unable to use their credit cards.
The DDoS attack targeted payment solution company HYP, which Channel 12 reports is used by companies across Israel including the Maccabi health fund and public transportation payment systems Rav Kav Online and Hop-On.
Hyp’s Credit Guard confirms that it was the target of a cyberattack but says that it how now blocked the attack and is operating as normal.
Saudi military chief to visit Tehran for talks on defense cooperation, Iranian media reports
The general chief of staff of Saudi Arabia’s armed forces, Fayyad al-Ruwaili, will visit Tehran later today to meet with his Iranian counterpart and discuss defense ties, state media reports the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff as saying.
The visit follows the election of Donald Trump, who will take office for a second term as US president in January and who has promised to bring peace to the Middle East.
During his first term, Trump initiated the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and several Arab states including the United Arab Emirates and Morocco.
Saudi Arabia has not established ties with Israel despite the efforts of President Joe Biden’s administration over the last four years. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has also discussed the possibility with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman multiple times over the last years, a source familiar with the discussions tells Reuters on condition of anonymity.
Iran’s state media says al-Ruwaili will head a high-level Saudi military delegation in Tehran, meet Armed Forces Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, and discuss bilateral and defense ties.
State media added that Bagheri held a phone call with Saudi Arabia’s Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud last year to discuss regional developments and improve defense cooperation between the two countries.
Tehran and Riyadh agreed in March 2023, via Chinese intermediation, to re-establish relations after seven years of hostility.
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
Lebanese health ministry says 20 killed in Israeli strike on village north of Beirut
Lebanon’s health ministry says at least 20 people, including three children, were killed and six others were injured in an Israeli strike on Alamat, north of the capital Beirut.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF.
Netanyahu’s chief of staff threatens legal action against news outlet alleging he blackmailed IDF officer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman (R) during a weekly cabinet meeting in the Prime Miinister's Office in Jerusalem on May 7, 2023. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool/AFP)
Tzachi Braverman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff, threatens legal action if the Kan public broadcaster doesn’t remove a report from earlier today alleging that Braverman blackmailed an IDF officer to alter minutes from wartime meetings by threatening him with a sensitive video recording.
The Prime Minister’s Office releases a letter to Kan political reporter Michael Shemesh and Kan director general Golan Yochpaz from Braverman’s lawyer Oriel Nizri demanding an immediate apology and the retraction of the article, alongside damages of NIS 100,000 ($26,670).
The letter calls the Kan report “lies, ‘fake news,’ and severe slander, alongside wild incitement in a time of war.” It denies entirely that Braverman has any sensitive recording or that he tried to blackmail any officer.
Nizri claims that Kan did not ask for a response from Braverman before publicizing the report.
The letter points to the 1965 law on slander, which states: “The publication of slander in the media, criminal and civil responsibility will be borne by the individual who brought the slander to the media outlet and thus caused its publication, the editor of the outlet, and the individual who decided in practice to publish it, and civil responsibility will also be borne by the outlet.”
If Kan does not comply, Nizri threatens “a series of legal actions” against the outlet and Shemesh.
“No more warning letters will be sent,” the letter ends.
The Kan report stated that the video in question had been obtained from security cameras in the Prime Minister’s Office and that other PMO employees had been allowed to watch the recording.
In an earlier statement, Braverman denied any such activity, calling the report “false” and “defamatory,” and claiming he had neither obtained any such video nor attempted to use it for blackmail purposes: “This is a lie from start to finish, whose aim is to harm me and the Prime Minister’s Office in the middle of a war.”
According to reports, a complaint was filed several months ago with IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi claiming that the PMO was holding, and making inappropriate use of, sensitive footage of an IDF officer.
Poll finds Israeli public opinion on war against Hezbollah deeply divided
Israeli public opinion appears to be deeply divided when it comes to the ongoing fighting against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, the Israel Democracy Institute’s October 2024 Israeli Voice Index finds.
According to the poll, 46.5 percent of Israelis believe that Israel should pursue a diplomatic agreement with Hezbollah, compared to 46% of people who believe that Israel should continue fighting the terror group in order to put an end to the daily rocket fire at northern Israel that has driven some 60,000 people from their homes.
Another 7.5% of people said they don’t know what the correct approach is.
The poll finds that among Jewish Israelis, 54% support continued fighting in the north, while 38% favor a diplomatic agreement. Among Arab Israelis, just 6.5% of respondents support continued fighting, in comparison to 88% who would prefer to reach a ceasefire through diplomacy.
With regard to Gaza, IDI finds that 62.5% of Jewish Israelis and 21% of Arab Israelis believe that the assassination of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar brings Israel closer to its stated goal of toppling Hamas.
The poll also finds that 43.5% of Israelis believe that the targeted strikes carried out by Israel on Iranian military targets was too weak of a response to the massive ballistic missile attack launched by Tehran on October 1. Another 41% of people believe that the response was appropriately strong, while just 3.5% of respondents believe that it was too strong.
Three wounded by rocket impact in Western Galilee
Three people were wounded in a rocket impact in the Western Galilee in the latest barrage from Lebanon, hospital officials say.
Galilee Medical Centre in Nahariya says that the three men arrived independently to the hospital. The three, residents of Sheikh Danun, were wounded by the blast of a rocket impact in the Kibbutz Kabri area as they were working in a field.
Two of them, aged 37 and 20, are in moderate condition, while the third, aged 47, is lightly wounded, the hospital says.
IDF publishes footage of Hamas torturing Palestinian detainees in Gaza
A still image taken from CCTV footage and released by the IDF on November 10, 2024 shows a Palestinian detainee being chained to the ceiling by a Hamas operative in the Gaza Strip. The footage is said by the IDF to document the widespread use of torture by Hamas against its opponents.
The Israel Defense Forces says that troops operating in the Gaza Strip have uncovered extensive CCTV footage of Hamas operatives torturing Palestinian civilians.
It says that the footage, which comes from a two-year period in 2018-2020, exposes “Hamas’s brutal methods for interrogating civilians, violating human rights and systematically oppressing residents suspected of opposing the organization’s rule.”
“The videos, which were in the possession of Hamas’s security apparatus, document Hamas activities at Outpost 17 in the Gaza Strip, where brutal interrogations of civilians suspected of opposing Hamas are conducted,” the military says.
Outpost 17 is a former Hamas base in Jabalia, northern Gaza.
In one clip, male detainees are seen chained to the ceiling by their feet with sacks over their heads as a Hamas operative beats the soles of their feet with a stick.
In other snippets of footage, the Hamas operatives charged with torturing the detainees talk among themselves and do paperwork while a detainee stands balancing in front of them, a sack covering his face and both hands and one leg chained to the ceiling.
The material was given by the IDF to the UK’s Daily Mail before the IDF published it.
Hamza Howidy, who was arrested and tortured by Hamas before later fleeing Gaza, told the Mail that the terror operatives “would torture you until you broke and say whatever it is they wanted.”
The Hamas terror group has long been accused of detaining and torturing civilians in the Gaza Strip, often accusing them of collaborating with Israel.
In 2022, the UN Watch Lobby found that human rights activists, women, LGBTQ people and political opponents were regularly subjected to brutal punishment.
10 rockets fired from Lebanon at the Galilee in latest barrage
A barrage of 10 rockets was fired from Lebanon at the Galilee a short while ago.
According to the IDF, some of the rockets were intercepted while the rest hit open areas.
There are no immediate reports of injuries.
UN nuclear watchdog chief to visit Iran next Wednesday
UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi will head to Iran next Wednesday and start consultations with Iranian officials the following day, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reports.
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer visited Russia last week amid Lebanon ceasefire efforts — report
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer walks into the Executive Office Building next to the White House in Washington, DC on December 26, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer secretly visited Russia last week, Army Radio reports.
The visit appears to be part of Israel’s efforts to reach a ceasefire in Lebanon. Russia is a major player in Syria, and its cooperation in a diplomatic arrangement to end fighting between Israel and Hezbollah could be an important piece of a deal that keeps the Iran-backed group from rearming.
Dermer’s office tells The Times of Israel that it has no comment on the report.
A Russian delegation visited Israel on October 24. A source in Netanyahu’s office told The Times of Israel that the Russian delegation’s visit was not connected to hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
Gaza medics report dozens killed in strikes on Jabalia, Gaza City
Medics in the northern Gaza Strip say dozens of people were killed and others wounded in an Israeli strike on a house in Jabalia in the early hours of the morning.
There is no immediate breakdown on the number of people killed.
Elsewhere in Gaza, the Hamas-run civil defense agency says five people were killed in a strike on the Sabra neighborhood of Gaza City, with others still missing in the aftermath.
The terror group does not differentiate between civilians and fighters.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF, which has said it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities.
Woman found dead with severe injuries in southern Israel’s Tel Sheva
A 31-year-old woman was found dead following a violent incident in southern Israel’s Tel Sheva this morning, the Magen David Adom ambulance service says.
MDA received a call shortly after 8:30 a.m. about a woman who had been injured. Upon arrival, medics found the woman unresponsive and with extensive bruising on her body. They declared her death at the scene of the incident.
The Israel Police says it has opened an investigation into the cause of the woman’s death.
IDF removes ban on soldiers traveling to the Netherlands following Amsterdam violence
Following a fresh assessment, the IDF says it is allowing soldiers to travel to the Netherlands again.
After Thursday night’s incidents in Amsterdam, the IDF had barred soldiers from traveling to the country.
PM’s chief of staff Tzachi Braverman alleged to be in possession of sensitive videos of IDF officer
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) speaks with then-Cabinet Secretary Tzachi Braverman during the weekly government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on June 17, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)
The Kan public broadcaster alleges that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s chief of staff Tzachi Braverman is behind a blackmail threat against an IDF officer in the prime minister’s office.
Reports on Thursday night claimed that a member of Netanyahu’s staff — purportedly Braverman — had separately collected sensitive security camera videos of both recently fired defense minister Yoav Gallant and an IDF officer who worked at the Prime Minister’s Office, for unclear purposes.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi was informed that the PMO was in possession of the footage several months ago and that it had been used in a questionable manner.
Braverman denies the accuracy of the Kan report, calling it “defamatory.”
“This is a lie from start to finish, the goal of which is to harm me and the PMO in the midst of a war,” he says.
Ukraine launches more than 20 drones at Moscow, forcing closure of two airports
Ukraine launched at least 22 drones targeting Moscow early on Sunday, forcing the temporary closure of two of the capital’s airports, Russian officials say.
Mayor Sergei Sobyanin says 12 drones were destroyed in the Ramenskoye and Kolomensky districts of the Moscow region, as well as in Domodedovo city, southwest of Moscow.
“According to preliminary information, there is no damage or casualties at the site of the fall of the debris,” Sobyanin says on the Telegram messaging app. “Emergency services are on the sites.”
The Ramenskoye district, some 45 km (30 miles) southeast of the Kremlin, was last targeted in September in Ukraine’s biggest attack on the Russian capital. Russian air defense units destroyed 20 drones.
Rosaviatsia, Russia’s federal air transport agency, says on Telegram that “to ensure the safety of civil aircraft flights, temporary restrictions have been introduced on the operation of the Domodedovo and Zhukovo airports,” starting at 5:30 a.m. GMT.
It does not say how long the restrictions would be in force.
Report: Trump pushing Biden administration to obtain Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal
US president-elect Donald Trump has informed the Biden administration that he expects to see progress in the efforts to obtain a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, Hebrew media outlet Ynet reports.
Citing anonymous US officials, the report adds that US special envoy Amos Hochstein is confident that the two sides will be able to reach an agreement and bring an end to more than a year of cross-border fighting and Israel’s ground operation in southern Lebanon.
In October, ahead of the November 5 presidential elections, Trump pledged to end the “suffering and destruction in Lebanon.”
“I want to see the Middle East return to real peace, a lasting peace, and we will get it done properly so it doesn’t repeat itself every 5 or 10 years,” he added at the time.
US officials have said they will make a final push to reach deals on the conflicts, although it is unclear how much leverage they have over Israel and other actors in the region now focused on the incoming Trump administration.
Pentagon: US warplanes attacked Iran-backed Houthi targets in Yemen
US warplanes staged multiple strikes Saturday night against Iran-backed Houthi advanced weapons storage facilities in Yemen, the Pentagon confirms.
The weapons were being used to attack military and civilian vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, a US defense official tells AFP.
DC kosher restaurant has windows smashed on eve of Kristallnacht anniversary
The kosher restaurant Char Bar in Washington, DC, had its windows smashed overnight Friday-Saturday.
The incident took place on the eve of the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the “Night of Broken Glass” — in which the Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria in 1938.
Char Bar, the only kosher restaurant in D.C., was vandalized last night pic.twitter.com/DwUYK6F5xC
— Arno Rosenfeld (@ArnoRosenfeld) November 9, 2024
US, Britain launch raids on Houthi targets throughout Yemen
The United States and Britain have launched raids on Iran-backed Houthi targets in the Yemeni capital of Sana’a, the Amran governorate and other areas, Al Masirah TV, the main television news outlet run by the Houthi movement, and residents say.
Masked assailant filmed grabbing Hasidic child walking with father in Brooklyn
A masked suspect grabs a hasidic boy in Brooklyn who was walking with his father on November 9, 2024. (Screen capture/X)
A masked assailant is filmed grabbing a Hasidic child in Brooklyn who was walking with his father on Saturday afternoon.
The child’s father holds onto the boy’s hand, as he is flung into the air by the suspect, who then releases him. The father then separates his children from the suspect before they appear to go in separate directions.
The video is posted by a spokesperson for Chabad, who writes, “Something is clearly going on in Crown Heights—there have been incident after incident over the past two weeks.
This video is shocking. A perpetrator grabbed a Chasidic child who was walking with his father today at approximately 3:30pm on Kingston near Lefferts Ave.
Something is clearly going on in Crown Heights—there have been incident after incident over the past two weeks.… pic.twitter.com/7nIkZWhssk
— Yaacov Behrman (@ChabadLubavitch) November 10, 2024
‘The abandonment continues’: Noa Argamani pans gov’t inaction to release hostages
Rescued hostage Noa Argamani, center, who was abducted with hundreds of others from the Supernova music festival during Hamas's October 7 terror onslaught, attends a meeting with G7 embassy representatives during a visit to Tokyo, Japan on August 21, 2024. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP)
Former hostage Noa Argami appears to blast the government’s inaction in bringing about the release of the remaining 101 hostages in Gaza.
“I don’t even know how to describe to you the feeling of frustration I experienced while I was still in Hamas captivity. Day after day would pass, and I’d remain in a state of complete uncertainty wrapped in despair,” she writes in an Instagram post.
“‘When will it be my turn to return home?’ ‘Have they forgotten me? Left me behind?'” she recalls having wondered until she was freed in an IDF rescue operation in June.
“You can’t ignore the fact that for 400 days, there have been 101 abductees just waiting for someone to come rescue them, and the abandonment continues, for 400 days too long,” she adds.
Austin said to warn Katz Israel must show it has improved aid supply to Gazans
People load their carts with sacks of flour at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) aid distribution center in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on November 3, 2024. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP)
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin conveyed a “sharp” message to his new Israeli counterpart Israel Katz during their first phone conversation on Friday, to the effect that Israel risks jeopardizing the ongoing provision of US weaponry for the Gaza war if it does not credibly show that it has improved the supply and distribution of aid to Gazan noncombatants, Channel 12 reports.
The report notes that, in mid-October, Austin and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Israel in a letter that it had 30 days to implement significant improvements to the humanitarian situation in Gaza or jeopardize the continued supply of US weapons.
The fall in aid supplies, they warned at the time, called into question Israel’s commitment to not restrict the entry of aid into Gaza and that it is using US weapons in line with international law. That written commitment was provided last March in order to ensure Israel’s compliance with a National Security Memorandum (NSM) issued by Biden in February. The memo applies to all recipients of US security assistance.
With the 30-day period expiring this coming week, Austin, according to tonight’s report, urged Katz on Friday to raise the issue before the Israeli cabinet, said Israel needed to maintain what Katz told him was a recent increase in aid, and stressed the need to ensure there is no harm to noncombatants in Gaza war.
Katz reportedly responded that Israel is trying to cooperate on the aid issue, but Hamas keeps stealing aid and selling it for high prices, while Israel wants to be sure it reaches the populace, and that Israel is working with Arab states to help ensure this.
The TV report says Israel believes the US intends to go “all the way” in pressing Israel on this issue, rather than letting it slide because it will be out of office in two months. In practice, the report says, this means that if the US administration is not convinced there has been a dramatic change for the better as regards aid delivery and distribution, there could be a “direct collision” on the issue of arms supplies.
In its broadly warm readout of the Austin-Katz call, the US Defense Department noted that the secretary emphasized “the need to improve the dire humanitarian conditions in Gaza.”
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