<p>In a joint operation, the IDF and Shin Bet in Gaza eliminated several Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders and militants who commanded terrorist operations in the Beit Hanoun area and took part in the October 7 massacre.</p><p>During the operation, Murad Nasser Mousa Abu Jarad, deputy commander of the Beit Hanoun battalion of Islamic Jihad, who also served as the battalion commander for most of 2024, was killed, as well as Mahmoud Shukri Tayem Dardasawi, deputy head of the anti-tank unit in the Gaza City brigade of the organization. In addition, other militants involved in rocket fire, mortar attacks, and sniping were eliminated.</p><p>The strikes were carried out based on intelligence from Southern Command and Shin Bet, in coordination with the 990 Fire Brigade, intelligence collection units, and the Air Force, as part of the effort to sever the command chain of the terrorist organizations.</p>

US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, attacks the Prime Minister of the UK on Twitter, 'So is Israel expected to surrender to Hamas and feed them despite the hostages being starved?'

<p>The IDF attacked and eliminated Mohammad Hamza Shhadi earlier today, who was responsible for intelligence in the 'Radwan Force' of the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the Adlun area of southern Lebanon.</p><p>It was reported that during the war, he was involved in building the force and the operational readiness of the 'Radwan Force', and his actions constituted a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.</p>

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<p>The government is expected to approve on Sunday the extension of reserve recruitment according to 'Tzav 8' (emergency call-up orders) of the Reserve Service Law, as has been done every few months since October 2023.</p><p>The order allows authorized IDF officials to summon reserve soldiers for service for a defined period, in accordance with the maximum quota set.</p><p>The Ministry of Defense emphasizes that there is nothing new in the extension that will be brought on Sunday, except that the maximum number of recruits will be reduced: from 450,000 as set in the last order, to 430,000 in the new order that can be called up.</p>

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<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz this evening and expressed his disappointment with Merz's decision to embargo arms to Israel. </p><p>"Instead of supporting Israel's just war against Hamas, which carried out the most horrific attack against the Jewish people since the Holocaust, Germany is rewarding Hamas terrorism by embargoing arms to Israel", the Prime Ministers office wrote in the official statement.</p><p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said to the German Chancellor that Israel's goal is not to take over Gaza, but to free Gaza from Hamas and enable a peaceful government to be established there.</p>