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Released by Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)'s official website Sepah News on February 17, 2026, showing a rocket being fired from a boat during a military exercise by members of the IRGC and navy in the Strait of Hormuz. (Sepah News/AFP)
April 12, 2026, 2:31 pm
Daily Briefing April 12 – As US de-mines Strait of Hormuz, traffic status still murky
Military correspondent Emanuel Fabian discusses US-Israel war with Iran by numbers, ongoing efforts to allow passage through key waterway, IDF in southern Lebanon, and Gaza strikes
By Jessica Steinberg and Emanuel Fabian
A combat engineer of the elite Yahalom unit inside a major Hamas tunnel in southern Gaza, where the IDF says the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin had been held by the terror group in recent years, November 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 27, 2025, 6:11 am
Israel reportedly offers trapped Hamas fighters in Rafah chance to surrender, relocate
Hamas calls for pressure to release the dozens of fighters, acknowledging them for first time; ‘It appears they have decided to become martyrs,’ Israeli official reportedly says
By Nava Freiberg, AFP and ToI Staff
This image released by the IDF on November 20, 2025, shows the inside a major Hamas tunnel in southern Gaza, where it says the body of Lt. Hadar Goldin had been held by the terror group in recent years. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 21, 2025, 9:55 am
IDF reveals major Hamas tunnel where it says Hadar Goldin’s remains were held for years
Army acknowledges detaining Hamas health official Marwan al-Hams, who was thought to know where Goldin was buried, as it tried ‘dozens of covert operations’ to find soldier killed in 2014
By Emanuel Fabian
Troops of the Golani Brigade operate in southern Gaza's Rafah, in a handout photo issued on May 10, 2025. (Israel Defense FOrces)
May 10, 2025, 7:18 pm
IDF says terrorists near defeat in Rafah, fighting now limited to one neighborhood
Military says some 60 terror targets across Gaza hit in past day; Hamas authorities report over 20 killed and dozens more wounded
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Israeli troops deploy at a position near the southern Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, on May 8, 2025 (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
May 9, 2025, 8:39 pm
IDF says it razed major tunnel in Rafah after Hamas operatives provided location
Army destroys infrastructure in Gaza after getting intel from men who surrendered
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Staff Sgt. Cpt. Noam Ravid (L) and Yaly Seror (R), who were killed in a tunnel blast in Rafah, Gaza on May 3, 2025 (IDF)
May 4, 2025, 9:12 am
Two IDF soldiers killed, two wounded in blast in booby-trapped Rafah tunnel
Slain Yahalom combat engineering troops named as Cpt. Noam Ravid, 23, from Sha’arei Tikva and Staff Sgt. Yaly Seror, 20, from Omer
By Emanuel Fabian and AP
Soldiers killed in the northern Gaza Strip on November 2, 2024: Staff Sgt. Itay Parizat (L) and Staff Sgt. Yair Hananya. (Courtesy)
November 2, 2024, 10:47 pm
Three soldiers killed in north Gaza; IDF says 900 terror operatives dead in Jabalia op
Military Police probing death of 3rd soldier; troops destroy Hamas underground weapons plant in Gaza City, as IDF denies claims by WHO, Hamas that it hit vaccination center
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Freed hostage Mia Schem, right, speaks at an event marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of Hamas's onslaught of October 7, 2023, as her mother Keren Schem stand by her side, at Israel's consulate in New York, October 28, 2024. (Screen capture: Ynet, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 30, 2024, 8:40 am
Freed hostage Mia Schem says she was kept in cage with 5 other women still in Gaza
Injured captive was marched 60 meters underground to 1.5 meter-tall cage, she tells audience at Israel’s consulate in New York
By ToI Staff
Two unnamed Hamas terrorists who are believed to have murdered six Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip are seen in a handout image released by the IDF on September 21, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
September 21, 2024, 10:42 pm
Army says it killed 2 Hamas terrorists who likely murdered 6 Israeli hostages in tunnel
Spokesman says findings from scene of hostages’ execution shows terrorists were there when they were killed
By Emanuel Fabian
Rescued hostage Farhan al-Qadi at Beersheba's Soroka Hospital, on August 27, 2024. (Yossi Ifergan/GPO)
August 28, 2024, 4:45 am
Former Rahat mayor says rescued hostage told him another captive died by his side
Info can’t be immediately verified; Ata Abu Madighem says Farhan al-Qadi ‘has many [terrible] memories’ and that his captors ‘treated him as an Israeli in every respect’
By ToI Staff
Maj. (res.) Yotam Itzhak Peled (right) and Sgt. Maj. (res.) Mordechai Yosef Ben Shoam, killed in the central Gaza Strip on August 17, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 17, 2024, 6:23 pm
2 IDF reservists killed by bomb during logistics supply mission in central Gaza
Military issues fresh evacuation orders in Maghazi, says dozens of gunmen killed across Strip; Gazan rescuers say 15 people from same family killed in Israeli strike
By Emanuel Fabian
Footage released on August 15, 2024 shows IDF forces razing tunnels found on the Gaza-Egypt border (Israel Defense Forces)
August 15, 2024, 5:45 pm
IDF: Dozens of tunnels razed on Gaza-Egypt border, 17,000 terror operatives killed in war
Hamas, repeating claim that guard killed hostage, says captor acted against its ‘ethics’; it publishes propaganda image of Ofir Tzarfati, a hostage whose body IDF recovered 8 months ago
By Emanuel Fabian
This image, from a video released by the IDF on April 6, 2024, shows a Hamas tunnel being demolished in the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 6, 2024, 10:01 pm
IDF says it blew up Hamas tunnel that stretched hundreds of meters into Israel
Underground route was discovered in 2019 but never disclosed to the public; military had repeatedly claimed no tunnels entered Israel since construction of underground barrier
By Emanuel Fabian
Screenshot showing medication packages from IDF video shot inside a tunnel beneath Khan Younis where 12 hostages were held. The video was released on February 7, 2024. (Courtesy of IDF)
February 8, 2024, 11:12 pm
Footage shows medication packages in Gaza tunnel where hostages were held
Boxes of drugs include anti-fungal vaginal tablets, insulin syringes and hypothyroidism treatment, as Israel awaits proof of delivery of medicine weeks after deal
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: A pipe pumping water into a Hamas tunnel is seen near Palestine Square in Gaza City’s Rimal neighborhood, December 19, 2023. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
January 30, 2024, 9:55 pm
IDF confirms flooding Hamas tunnels in Gaza with seawater
Measure utilized as army works to destroy massive tunnel network running 350-400 miles long as part of ground operation in Gaza Strip
By Emanuel Fabian
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