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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 560

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Hezbollah weapons and other equipment seized by the IDF during its ground operation in south Lebanon, are displayed for the media at military base in northern Israel on December 24, 2024. (Emanuel Fabian/Times of Israel)
December 25, 2024, 10:20 pm
IDF displays thousands of Hezbollah weapons, shares details on pager operation
Israeli forces killed some 3,800 Hezbollah fighters plus some 44 amid ceasefire, army says, citing terror group’s violations; military to erect temporary posts in Syria buffer zone
By Emanuel Fabian
A video circulating on social media purports to show an Israeli airstrike in at the Mezzeh airbase near Damascus, Syria, December 8, 2024. (Screenshot via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 8, 2024, 11:19 pm
As Assad ousted, Israeli jets destroy his deadly arsenals before they fall to rebels
IAF strikes target missile depots, air defenses, chemical sites amid fears that advanced arms could fall into hands of hostile groups; IDF seizes buffer zone, in first since 1974
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken attends a Joint Ministerial Meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)-US Strategic Partnership discussing the humanitarian situation in Gaza, at the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Secretariat in Riyadh on April 29, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/AFP)
August 9, 2024, 11:34 pm
US expected to end three-year ban on weapons sales to Saudi Arabia
Embargo imposed following high civilian casualties in Saudi war against Houthi terror group, but rapid changes in region following Oct. 7 made Biden administration reconsider
By Humeyra Pamuk, Patricia Zengerle and Steve Holland
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al-Saud in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, March 20, 2024. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)
May 26, 2024, 5:11 pm
US set to lift ban on offensive weapons sales to Saudi Arabia – report
Move widely seen as part of a larger set of agreements on nuclear energy, security and defense cooperation, tied to long-sought Israel-Saudi normalization deal
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Weapons and Hamas flags captured in an Israeli boarding school, allegedly taken by a teacher who returned from reserve duty in Gaza, February 8, 2024. (Israel Police)
February 9, 2024, 6:31 pm
IDF reservist accused of stealing Hamas weapons, stashing them at school where he works
Police say weapons were functional and ready for use; suspect claims he took them from Gaza as souvenirs
By ToI Staff
Ancient slingstones used for warfare 7200 years ago in Israel. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
November 22, 2023, 2:10 pm
Archaeologists find earliest evidence of mass weapons production in Stone Age Israel
Huge caches of uniformly designed sling stones from 7,200 years ago indicate organized production of missiles, the earliest evidence of warfare in the Southern Levant
By Gavriel Fiske
Russian Security Council deputy chairman and head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev speaks during a meeting outside Moscow, Russia, October 3, 2022 (Ekaterina Shtukina, Sputnik Pool Photo via AP)
December 11, 2022, 1:05 pm
Russia ramping up production of ‘most powerful’ weapons, ex-president boasts
Dmitry Medvedev accuses Western allies of siding with ‘the Nazi,’ repeating falsehood about Ukraine; does not provide details on nature of new armaments in development
By AFP
Hezbollah supporters wave portraits of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and their group flags, during an election campaign, in the southern suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, May 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
May 14, 2022, 6:20 pm
Hezbollah’s weapons divide Lebanon as it holds parliamentary elections Sunday
Calls to dismantle terror group have dominated campaigns of rival factions ahead of vote, the first since economic collapse and deadly Beirut port blast
By Agencies
A young woman handles a weapon during a basic combat training for civilians, organized by the Special Forces Unit Azov, of Ukraine's National Guard, in Mariupol, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, on Sunday, February 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)
April 13, 2022, 1:40 pm
Russia yet to slow Western arms express into Ukraine
Armaments have helped the under-gunned Ukrainian military defy predictions it would be quickly overrun; the US alone has donated more than 50 million rounds of ammunition
By Robert Burns
Ukrainian servicemen study a Sweden shoulder-launched weapon system Carl Gustaf M4 during a training session on the Kharkiv outskirts, Ukraine, Thursday, April 7, 2022. (AP/Andrew Marienko)
April 8, 2022, 12:31 am
As evidence of atrocities mounts, NATO countries move to send more arms to Ukraine
Head of alliance doesn’t say what weapons being sent by whom; Blinken says new types of equipment transfers being examined in reaction to images out of Bucha and elsewhere
By LORNE COOK and Matthew Lee
Illustrative: Artillery reserve soldiers take part in a drill in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, on March 28, 2022. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
April 4, 2022, 11:33 am
Israel ranked world’s 10th-largest weapons exporter in past five years
Israeli exports accounted for 2.4% of global total, with India, Azerbaijan and Vietnam the leading recipients; arms shipments to Europe surged, and Russia’s stock dropped
By Luke Tress
Guns stolen from the Golani Museum in northern Israel are found by officers, February 19, 2022. (Israel Police)
February 19, 2022, 12:19 pm
Thieves break into military museum, steal decommissioned weapons; 6 arrested
Burglars trigger alarm at Golani Museum, alerting security company staff who access cameras remotely and spot gang stealing guns
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Supporters of Hezbollah carry an oxygen tank at the site of Beirut's southern suburb of Janah which Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was a weapons depot belonging to the movement on September 29, 2020. (Photo by ANWAR AMRO / AFP)
September 30, 2020, 2:09 am
Taking reporters to site, Hezbollah denies Netanyahu claim of Beirut arms stores
Nasrallah calls allegations at UN ‘incitement’; journalists escorted on visit to factory alleged by PM to hold missile depot, report no weapons seen
By Aaron Boxerman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands in front of an F-35 fighter jet at the Israeli Air Force's Nevatim base in southern Israel, undated (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
August 19, 2020, 1:40 pm
Reported deal to sell UAE F-35 jets edges in on US promise of Israeli dominance
Netanyahu denies he okayed the sale as part of normalization with Abu Dhabi, but it is the US which must decide if it undercuts the Israeli military edge it vowed to uphold
By Judah Ari Gross
52 F-35 jets line up for a launch exercise at Utah's Hill Air Force Base in show of force and combat readiness amid US-Iran tensions, January 6, 2020. (US Air Force/R. Nial Bradshaw/Twitter screen capture)
August 18, 2020, 12:11 pm
Netanyahu denies reports UAE deal includes okay for sale of advanced US jets
‘Utter fake news,’ says PM, after normalization pact said to include removal of Israeli veto on multi-billion F-35 deal with Abu Dhabi, without defense establishment being notified
By ToI Staff
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