IDF Claims Success in Disrupting Iran's Rocket Barrage
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The Israeli military issues an "urgent warning" to people in Tehran's District 3 that air strikes will hit "military infrastructure" in the area.
Overnight, fewer than ten ballistic missiles were launched from Iran toward Israel in three separate waves, striking shortly after midnight, again at 3:30 a.m., and a final barrage at 4:30 a.m. According to the IDF, the missiles targeted central and northern Israel, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or major damage.
The IDF on Monday published recordings from the operation that retrieved the bodies of hostages Yair Yaakov and Aviv Atzili both from Kibbutz Nir Oz, as operations continued across the Gaza Strip. There are still 53 hostages held by Hamas terrorists in the enclave.
Maj. Gen. Yadlin, who flew in the 1981 Osirak reactor strike, explains why Israel's current operation against Iran represents a complex, multi-week campaign.
Israel’s military headquarters were struck after Iran’s Islamic Republic unleashed a barrage of missiles on central Tel Aviv late Friday night, causing “significant damage” to the Jewish state’s equivalent of the Pentagon.
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Staff Sergeant Naveh Leshem, a soldier in the 12th Battalion, Golani Brigade, was killed in battle while fighting in the southern Gaza Strip, the IDF announced on Tuesday. Leshem was 20 years old from the West Bank settlement of Nokdim. The soldiers were evacuated to receive medical treatment in hospitals, and their families were notified.