Originally Posted By nraheston:
The IDF says it struck several more Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon, including military compounds and a rocket launcher.



The Israeli Air Force attacked Hezbollah with incendiary shells in southern Lebanon:



The IDF has been carrying out a counter-terrorism operation in the Nur Shams refugee camp, in the area of Judea and Samaria, for more than 40 hours now:



The IDF carried out an airstrike on Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon's Mansouri and Aitaroun:



Last night, the IDF struck sites in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun following rocket fire from the area at the southern city of Sderot.

Originally Posted By Ascendent:
Does Israel not have tactical nukes?  They are being attacked by numerous forces...Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.  I would think tactical nukes are justified at this point.

Originally Posted By Ascendent:
Does Israel not have tactical nukes?  They are being attacked by numerous forces...Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.  I would think tactical nukes are justified at this point.

Originally Posted By Caddys83:
This keeps up we will be funding Isreal too

Originally Posted By Ascendent:
Does Israel not have tactical nukes?  They are being attacked by numerous forces...Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.  I would think tactical nukes are justified at this point.

Originally Posted By Ascendent:

Ah, you don't believe in ending wars, just dragging them out needlessly.  
Use your biggest club to protect your people.  Warn once, nuke twice. Shit stops.

Originally Posted By Ascendent:Ah, you don't believe in ending wars, just dragging them out needlessly.  
Use your biggest club to protect your people.  Warn once, nuke twice. Shit stops.

Originally Posted By Ascendent:
Does Israel not have tactical nukes?  They are being attacked by numerous forces...Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.  I would think tactical nukes are justified at this point.

Originally Posted By Ascendent:

Ah, you don't believe in ending wars, just dragging them out needlessly.  
Use your biggest club to protect your people.  Warn once, nuke twice. Shit stops.

The Israeli Army said that security forces killed ten Palestinian militants in the area of the Nur Shams refugee camp near the West Bank city of Tul Karm. Furthermore, the army said that eight Palestinians were arrested as part of the operation and weapons including rifles and pistols were confiscated. Eight soldiers and one Border Police officer were wounded in the operation, which began on Thursday.

The condition of the seven-year-old girl seriously wounded in the Iranian missile attack has improved, Soroka Hospital in southern Israel announced.

The Bedouin girl had been wounded in her head by shrapnel that hit her home.

Soroka Hospital said that she is breathing on her own, but her condition is still serious.

In response to the meeting between Turkish president Erdogan and Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh, Israel's foreign minister Israel Katz wrote on X: "The Muslim Brotherhood: rape, murder, desecration of corpses and burning babies. Erdogan, shame on you!"

The tweet was also posted on his account in Turkish.

The Saudi Al-Arabiya TV network reported that three Hezbollah operatives were killed in an Israeli strike in Jebbayn, southern Lebanon.

The Palestinian Authority is reconsidering its bilateral relations with the U.S. after it vetoed a security council vote on a Palestinian bid for full UN membership, according to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

War Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz joins a growing chorus of criticism by Israeli politicians over the Biden administration’s reported decision to sanction the IDF’s Netzah Yehuda battalion for alleged rights abuses.

Gantz calls the infantry unit “an inseparable part of the Israel Defense Forces,” adding that it’s “subject to military law and is responsible for operating in full compliance with international law.”

“The State of Israel has a strong, independent judicial system that evaluates meticulously any claim of a violation or deviation from IDF orders and code of conduct, and will continue to do so,” the former IDF chief of staff writes in an English post on X.

Gantz adds: “I have a great appreciation for our American friends, but the decision to impose sanctions on an IDF unit and its soldiers sets a dangerous precedent and conveys the wrong message to our shared enemies during war time.”

“I intend on acting to have this decision changed.”

The ‘Netzah Yehuda’ battalion is an inseparable part of the Israel Defense Forces. It is subject to military law and is responsible for operating in full compliance with International law.

The State of Israel has a strong, independent judicial system that evaluates meticulously…

Iran’s Khamenei tells troops to ‘learn enemy’s tactics’ after tit-for-tat attacks

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei told the country’s armed forces to “learn the enemy’s tactics” while praising them for launching hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel, almost all of which failed to reach their targets.

“How many missiles were launched and how many of them hit their target is not the primary question, what really matters is that Iran demonstrated its will-power during that operation,” Khamenei said on Sunday during a meeting with brass from Iran’s various armed forces, according to state media.

Tehran openly targeted Israel for the first time on April 13 with more than 300 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and armed drones in what it said was retaliation for Israel’s suspected deadly bombing of its embassy compound in Damascus on April 1.

The Israel Defense Forces said 99 percent of the incoming munitions were intercepted by air defense systems that operated in cooperation with the US, British, French and Jordanian forces across the region. A handful of missiles that made it through the defensive shield caused only minor damage on an airbase. A young girl from Israel’s Bedouin community was seriously injured by shrapnel from one intercepted missile.

Khamenei thanked the officers for carrying out the attack, saying they had raised Iran’s profile in the international community.

He also urged them to “ceaselessly pursue military innovation and learn the enemy’s tactics.”

Israel’s retaliatory strike early Friday reportedly destroyed a Russian-made S-300 air defense radar system meant to protect the covert Natanz nuclear site in central Iran.

Tehran has played down the incident, describing it as a failed assault using three “toy” quadcopters. It has said it had no plans for retaliation, a response that appeared gauged towards averting region-wide war.

An image aired by an Iranian opposition news outlet Sunday appeared to show significant damage to the radar system outside Isfahan.

According to a report in The New York Times, the strike used a high-tech munition able to elude Iran’s air defenses, and had been used to send Tehran a message showing Israel’s capabilities.

Israel has not officially commented on the strike, in line with its strategy of ambiguity regarding actions abroad, meant to give those it attacks maneuverability to avoid pressure to retaliate.

The clash between Israel and Iran came against the background of the ongoing war against the Palestinian terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip that began with its October 7 cross-border attack on Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.

The next day, Iran-backed Hezbollah began attacking along Israel’s northern border in what has become near-daily rocket attacks on towns and communities in the area.

Israel has responded with strikes on Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon, and allegedly, related targets in Syria, which is also an ally of Iran and Hezbollah and hosts their forces on its territory.

■ The IDF reported that two Palestinians were killed after one tried to stab soldiers and the other shot at the soldiers at the Bet Einun Junction near Hebron.

■ Sabah Haniyeh, the sister of Ismail Haniyeh, the chairman of Hamas' political bureau, was charged of inciting and sympathizing with a terror group.

■ Israel's military police are investigating the death of a Red Crescent ambulance driver, who was shot on Saturday during a confrontation between settlers and Palestinians while evacuating people from the conflict area in the village of Al-Sawiya, south of Nablus.

■ A house in Kibbutz Merav in northern Israel was hit by gunfire after several rounds were fired from the direction of the Palestinian village of Jalbun. No one was hurt in the incident. As Israeli forces searched for suspects in Jalbun, a bomb was thrown at the soldiers, but there were no casualties.

■ The IDF reported that two launches fell in Shlomi, in northern Israel, and that there were no casualties.

■ An Israeli was lightly wounded by an explosive device that was set off as he kicked down a Palestinian flag near the Malachei HaShalom outpost in the West Bank.

■ The head of Hamas' political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, said Israel refuses to accept Turkey and Russia as guarantors of an agreement between the Israelis and Hamas – something Hamas insists on.

■ The Iran International website, affiliated with the exiled Iranian opposition, published satellite images showing the damage caused to Iran's air defense radar in the Israel-attributed strike on Friday on Isfahan.

The IDF says it has wrapped up a 50-hour-long operation in the West Bank's Nur Shams refugee camp, adjacent to Tulkarem.

Amid the raid, troops killed 14 gunmen in clashes, detained 15 wanted Palestinians, discovered and destroyed dozens of explosives, and captured weapons, according to the military.

Nine soldiers and one Border Police officer were hurt during the clashes. They were listed in good and moderate conditions.

Palestinian media initially reported that the commander of a local Palestinian Islamic Jihad wing in Tulkarem was killed amid the raid, although reports now say that Muhammad Jaber, known as Abu Shuja'a, did not actually die. He is purportedly seen in footage at the funerals of other gunmen.

Hamas's Lebanon branch claims responsibility for a rocket barrage earlier today on the Upper Galilee.

In a statement, the terror group says it launched 20 Grad rockets from Lebanon at an Israeli army base near the town of Shomera.

There were no reports of injuries in the attack.

Originally Posted By AlmightyTallest:
Tombstone radar verification of destruction next to the Iranian nuclear facility.  They aren't supposed to have scorch marks and fires for reference.

Before:
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A reservist officer critically wounded in the Hezbollah drone and missile attack on the northern border community of Arab al-Aramshe last week has succumbed to his wounds, the military says.

He is named as Maj. (res.) Dor Zimel, 27, a deputy company commander in the Etzioni Brigade, from Even Yehuda.

Another 13 soldiers and four civilians were wounded in the attack on April 17, during which Hezbollah launched two anti-tank missiles and an explosive-laden drone from Lebanon, targeting a community center in Arab al-Aramshe where soldiers were gathered.

The IDF says it has wrapped up a 50-hour-long operation in the West Bank's Nur Shams refugee camp, adjacent to Tulkarem.

Amid the raid, troops killed 14 gunmen in clashes, detained 15 wanted Palestinians, discovered and destroyed dozens of explosives, and captured weapons, according to the military.

Nine soldiers and one Border Police officer were hurt during the clashes. They were listed in good and moderate conditions.

Palestinian media initially reported that the commander of a local Palestinian Islamic Jihad wing in Tulkarem was killed amid the raid, although reports now say that Muhammad Jaber, known as Abu Shuja'a, did not actually die. He is purportedly seen in footage at the funerals of other gunmen.

At least five rockets were launched from Iraq’s town of Zummar toward a US military base in northeastern Syria on Sunday, two Iraqi security sources told Reuters.  The attack against US forces is the first since early February when Iranian-backed groups in Iraq stopped their attacks against US troops.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would “land additional and painful blows” on Hamas over Passover to increase pressure on the terror group to free the hostages it has held in the Gaza Strip for over six months.

In a pre-Passover video message shared online, Netanyahu framed the Israel-Hamas war in biblical terms, citing the rabbinic dictum that “in every generation, they rise up to destroy us” and stating that the absence of the hostages over the upcoming holiday “only strengthens our determination to bring them back.”

Israel launched its war on Hamas in Gaza after the terror group’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel, in which close to 1,200 people, mostly civilians, were slain, and 253 were kidnapped to Gaza, where more than half are believed to remain.

A truce deal in November saw the release of 105 hostages, and a handful of others were freed by the military or let go separately. However, recent talks between the two sides have stalled, with Israel blaming Hamas’s demands that Israel end the war and withdraw its troops from Gaza, we well as the identity and number of Palestinian prisoners that the terror group is demanding be released in exchange for the hostages.

“Unfortunately, until now, all proposals for the release of our hostages have been rejected outright by Hamas,” Netanyahu said, pushing back against growing domestic criticism that he has not done enough to secure their freedom.

Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah said on Sunday it downed an Israeli drone that was on a combat mission in southern Lebanon.

The drone that was brought down above the Al Aishiyeh area in southern Lebanon was "waging its attacks on our steadfast people," a statement said by the group said.    Link

Fear in Israel is growing that only approximately 40 of the 133 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7 are still alive – so says the UK-based Daily Mail in a report published Sunday morning.

The report merely cited a “source” that said intelligence “is much easier to access than before October 7 when we had limited access to Gaza and we didn't have a lot of possibilities of sources.”

The approximation was allegedly based on intelligence gathered by the Shin Bet, but the security agency merely denied these claims.  

“The publication in question is not true and is not in the opinion of the Shin Bet,” the agency said. “The numbers mentioned in the publication are in the writer's opinion only and are not based on information passed on by the Shin Bet.”

This report came shortly after, less than two weeks prior, US officials told the Wall Street Journal that they estimate most of the hostages taken from Israel and held by terror groups in the Gaza Strip are no longer alive.

CNN, at the same time, reported that Hamas told the mediators in the framework of hostage negotiations that it was unable to identify and locate 40 live hostages to carry out the first phase of the deal, according to an Israeli source, as well as another source privy to the details.

Key Takeaways:

Gaza Strip
The IDF did not publish information about Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip on April 21. Palestinian militias claimed only one attack targeting Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad launched rockets targeting an Israeli military site in southern Israel.

West Bank
The IDF concluded a major, multi-day “counterterrorism operation” in the Nour Shams Refugee Camp, Tulkarm.  Israeli forces engaged Palestinian fighters in Nour Shams, killing 14.  The IDF Duvdevan unit arrested 15 wanted persons, destroyed two improvised explosive device manufacturing facilities and dozens of explosives, and seized ammunition during operations in the camp.

Palestinian fighters wounded ten Israeli soldiers.  Palestinian journalists reported that the IDF had killed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) commander in Tulkarm on April 19.  The same PIJ commander attended the funeral of other Palestinian fighters killed in fighting in Tulkarm, confirming that the commander survived the Israeli operation.

Several Palestinian militias called for the mobilization of armed Palestinians across the West Bank in response to the IDF’s Nour Shams operation. Hamas, the Lions’ Den, the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, and the al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades published statements calling for a mass uprising and armed retaliation against the IDF.

Those Palestinian militias and others claimed 15 attacks on Israeli forces, Israeli settlements in the West Bank, and Israeli border towns on April 21.  PIJ’s Jenin Battalion conducted nine of the 15 attacks.  Palestinians also conducted attacks targeting Israeli checkpoints near Hebron and in the Jordan Valley.The timing of these attacks suggests that they are in response to the calls for mobilization. An unspecified group planted an improvised explosive device near Ramallah.  The fighters had connected the IED‘s detonator to a Palestinian flag so that when an Israeli attempted to remove the flag, the IED detonated.

Palestinians participated in marches and a general strike on April 21 in response to the IDF’s Nour Shams operation.

Lebanon
Lebanese Hezbollah has conducted at least six attacks from southern Lebanon.

Hamas fighters in Lebanon targeted an Israeli military base in northern Israel with 20 122mm Grad rockets.

Iraq
The Islamic Resistance in Iraq—a coalition of Iranian-backed Iraqi militias—claimed one drone attack targeting an unspecified site in the Golan Heights on April 20.

Hamas made an unusual and notable claim today. The group says it is responsible for a shooting attack that injured two people in the West Bank on April 7. The vehicle used by the shooter was also rigged with a bomb, apparently to detonate against IDF troops. For an unknown reason, it didn't go off. The shooter had a camera setup inside the car bomb and it appears to have been live streamed during the attack.

The police reported that three pedestrians were slightly wounded Monday morning in a ramming attack in Jerusalem.

Police say two terrorists exited the vehicle after the attack on Techelet Mordechai Street, carrying an improvised submachine gun with the intention to shoot. When they failed, they fled the scene and left behind the weapon.

The police arrested two terrorists suspected of carrying out the car ramming attack in Jerusalem on Monday morning. The two were caught hiding in a shop near the scene of the attack, in the neighborhood of Romema.

Sources in Hebron said the two terrorists who carried out Monday morning's car ramming attack in Jerusalem come from two families connected to Hamas. One, Hatem Kawasme, is a member of a family associated with Hamas.

One of the family's relatives was a top member of Hamas' military wing in the West Bank, Abdullah Kawasme, who was assassinated in 2003 for his involvement in suicide attacks during the second intifada.

According to Palestinian sources, the second terrorist is Muataz Abu Alma, whose uncle, Jihad Abel Alma, was active in the founding years of Hamas' military wing in the West Bank in the Hebron area.

Israeli security officials started to investigate Sunday night's incident, in which six Palestinians from the West Bank town Burka were wounded.

According to the initial findings, clashes between Palestinians and settlers from Oz Zion outpost broke out in Burka when the parties through rocks at each other, after the Palestinians set a settler's car on fire. The settlers then set an agricultural building in the village on fire, which had about 200 sheep inside.

Border Control and IDF forces arrived and shot at the Palestinians, wounding at least two of them. The security officials do not know if the settlers used weapons during the clashes.

According to the head of the village council, four Palestinians were wounded from the shooting and two were hit by rocks thrown at them

According to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry on Monday, at least 34,151 Palestinians have been killed and 77,084 wounded in Gaza since Oct. 7

In a letter announcing his retirement, the IDF's military intelligence chief Major General Aharon Haliva said, "the Intelligence Division did not live up to the task we were entrusted with. Throughout my duties, I knew that alongside authority comes heavy responsibility."

He called for the establishment of a state investigative committee, "that can investigate and find out in a thorough, in-depth, comprehensive and precise manner all the factors and circumstances that led to the difficult events."

The IDF's military intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Aharon Haliva, announced his resignation on Monday morning, half a year after the October 7 Hamas attack.

Haliva is the first general of the army's general staff to leave his position due to the failures that led to the attack and the war in Gaza. The week after the attack, Haliva took public responsibility, writing, "We did not live up to our mission, I bear full responsibility for the failure."

Israel abandoned plans for a much more extensive counterstrike on Iran after concerted diplomatic pressure from the United States and other foreign allies and because the brunt of an Iranian assault on Israel soil had been thwarted.

Israeli leaders originally discussed bombarding several military targets across Iran last week, including near Tehran, the Iranian capital, in retaliation for the Iranian strike on April 13.  In the end — after President Biden, along with the British and German foreign ministers, urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to prevent a wider war — Israel opted for a more limited strike on Friday.

Instead of sending fighter jets into Iranian airspace, Israel fired a small number of missiles from aircraft positioned several hundred miles west of it on Friday, according to the Israeli officials and two senior Western officials briefed on the attack. Israel also sent small attack drones, known as quadcopters, to confuse Iranian air defenses.

Israel’s military and political leaders began discussing a counterstrike that could begin as soon as Iran began firing the drones — even before it was known how much damage, if any, they caused....the plan was presented to Israel’s war cabinet...on Friday, April 12.

Israel’s intentions changed after Iran attacked, the officials said. The attack was even bigger than expected: With more than 100 ballistic missiles, 170 drones and some 30 cruise missiles, it was one of the largest barrages of this kind in military history.

Israel Planned Bigger Attack on Iran, but Scaled It Back to Avoid War
The strike on Iran on Friday was originally intended to be much broader in scope, but after intense pressure from allies, Israeli leaders agreed to ratchet it down.

Israel abandoned plans for a much more extensive counterstrike on Iran after concerted diplomatic pressure from the United States and other foreign allies and because the brunt of an Iranian assault on Israel soil had been thwarted, according to three senior Israeli officials.

Israeli leaders originally discussed bombarding several military targets across Iran last week, including near Tehran, the Iranian capital, in retaliation for the Iranian strike on April 13, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the sensitive discussions.

Such a broad and damaging attack would have been far harder for Iran to overlook, increasing the chances of a forceful Iranian counterattack that could have brought the Middle East to the brink of a major regional conflict.

In the end — after President Biden, along with the British and German foreign ministers, urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to prevent a wider war — Israel opted for a more limited strike on Friday that avoided significant damage, diminishing the likelihood of an escalation, at least for now.

Still, in the view of Israeli officials, the attack showed Iran the breadth and sophistication of Israel’s military arsenal.

Instead of sending fighter jets into Iranian airspace, Israel fired a small number of missiles from aircraft positioned several hundred miles west of it on Friday, according to the Israeli officials and two senior Western officials briefed on the attack. Israel also sent small attack drones, known as quadcopters, to confuse Iranian air defenses, according to the Israeli officials.

Military facilities in Iran have been attacked by such drones several times in recent years, and on several occasions Iran has said it did not know who the drones belonged to — a claim interpreted as Iranian reluctance to respond.

One missile on Friday hit an antiaircraft battery in a strategically important part of central Iran, while another exploded in midair, the officials said. One Israeli official said that the Israeli Air Force intentionally destroyed the second missile once it became clear that the first had reached its target, to avoid causing too much damage. One Western official said it was possible the missile had simply malfunctioned.

The officials said Israel’s intention was to allow Iran to move on without responding in kind, while signaling that Israel had developed the ability to strike Iran without entering its airspace or even setting off its air defense batteries. Israel also hoped to show that it could hit those batteries in a part of central Iran that houses several major nuclear facilities, including an uranium enrichment site at Natanz, hinting that it could have also reached those facilities if it had tried.

The Israeli military declined to comment.

The path to this attack began on April 1, when Israel struck an Iranian embassy complex in Damascus, Syria, killing seven Iranian officials, including three senior military leaders. Iran had not retaliated after several similar strikes in the past, leading Israeli officials, they say, to believe that they could continue to mount such attacks without drawing a significant Iranian response.

This time proved different: Within a week, Iran began privately signaling to neighbors and foreign diplomats that its patience had reached a limit, and that it would respond with a major strike on Israel — its first ever direct attack on Israeli soil.

During the week of April 8, Israel began preparing two major military responses, according to the Israeli officials.

The first was a defensive operation to block the expected Iranian attack, coordinated with the U.S. Central Command — its top commander, Gen. Michael E. Kurilla, visited Israel that week — as well as with the British, French and Jordanian militaries.

The second was a huge offensive operation to be carried out if the Iranian strike materialized. Initially, Israeli intelligence believed that Iran planned to attack with a “swarm” of large drones and up to 10 ballistic missiles, the Israeli officials said. As the week progressed, that estimate grew to 60 missiles, heightening Israeli desire for a strong counterattack.

Israel’s military and political leaders began discussing a counterstrike that could begin as soon as Iran began firing the drones — even before it was known how much damage, if any, they caused. According to one official, the plan was presented to Israel’s war cabinet by the military chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, and his Air Force chief, Tomer Bar, early on Friday, April 12 — two days before Iran’s attack.

Israel’s intentions changed after Iran attacked, the officials said. The attack was even bigger than expected: With more than 100 ballistic missiles, 170 drones and some 30 cruise missiles, it was one of the largest barrages of this kind in military history.

But Israel’s defense, which were coordinated with pilots from the United States, Britain, France and Jordan, took down most of the missiles and drones, and there was only limited damage on the ground, reducing the need for a swift response. And there were questions about whether Israel should risk taking its focus off defense while the assault was still underway, two officials said.

The turning point, however, was an early-morning phone call between Prime Minister Netanyahu and Mr. Biden, during which the American president encouraged the Israeli leader to treat the successful defense as a victory that required no further response, according to three Israeli and Western officials, who described those discussions on the condition of anonymity. Mr. Netanyahu emerged from the call opposed to an immediate retaliation, the Israelis said.

The following day, the Israeli government began signaling to foreign allies that it still planned to respond, but only in a contained way that fell far short of what it had previously planned, according to one of the senior Western officials.

Instead of a broad counterattack that might leave Iran’s leaders believing they had no option but to respond in kind, Israeli officials said, they settled on a plan that they hoped would make a point to Iranian officials without publicly humiliating them.

They initially planned the attack for Monday night, the Israeli officials said, pulling out at the last minute amid fears that Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia that has been engaged in a low-level conflict with Israel since October, might significantly increase the intensity of its strikes on northern Israel.

Foreign officials continued, without success, to encourage Israel not to respond at all, then signaled their willingness to accept an Israeli attack that left Iran with the option of moving on without losing face, according to an Israeli and a Western official.

After Israel finally carried out its attack early on Friday morning, Iranian officials did exactly that — focusing on the small drones rather than the missiles and dismissing their impact.

Officials in Tehran also largely avoided blaming Israel for the assault. That, coupled with Israel’s own decision not to claim responsibility for it, helped to reduce the risk of an escalation.

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Translation--Press coverage The moment the occupation bombed the Al-Sahaba building in Gaza City, which led to the death of a Palestinian and 3 injuries

The Israeli military says it remains on high alert on all fronts amid the Passover holiday.

"Even during Passover, the IDF continues operational activity and full readiness in all arenas," it says in a statement.

In the Gaza Strip, the military says the Nahal Infantry Brigade continues to operate in the Netzarim corridor, calling in airstrikes against Hamas operatives in the area over the past day.

In northern Israel, the IDF says it is deployed along the Lebanon and Syrian borders, with "strong defense and with readiness for attack." The military says troops are carrying out ambushes, as well as locating and directing strikes on Hezbollah operatives and sites.

In the West Bank, IDF troops are deployed to protect settlements and highways. Overnight, troops detained 13 wanted Palestinians, the military says.

The IDF is currently operating in Hebron, at the homes of the two teenager terrorists who carried the car-ramming and attempted shooting attack in Jerusalem this morning.

Originally Posted By michigan66:
Yes, I know this guy is an asshole, but the video is good.

\uD83D\uDC94\uD83C\uDDF5\uD83C\uDDF8 BREAKING: ISRAEL is BOMBING RAFAH! pic.twitter.com/MWxu4uNTBu

— Jackson Hinkle \uD83C\uDDFA\uD83C\uDDF8 (@jacksonhinklle) April 21, 2024

Originally Posted By fike:It’s pretty telling that you are sharing this account.

Originally Posted By fike:I don’t know much, but I do know that account by name due to the amount of times it has been called out for posting fake vids, etc.

It’s a propaganda outlet sharing content (in this case) from another propaganda outlet.

Key Takeaways:

Gaza Strip
Palestinian militias conducted several attacks targeting the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.  Hamas fighters fired sniper rifles, rocket-propelled grenades, and mortars.  The al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, which is the self-proclaimed military wing of Fatah and aligned with Hamas in the current war, mortared Israeli forces east of Beit Hanoun.  These attacks and the IDF’s raids indicate that Palestinian militia cells remain in Beit Hanoun.

Israeli forces continued to conduct clearing operations in the central Gaza Strip.  The IDF Nahal Brigade (162nd Division) directed an airstrike targeting Palestinian fighters.  The al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades mortared Israeli forces east of Bureij in the central Strip.

West Bank
Israeli forces engaged Palestinian fighters in six locations across the West Bank.

The al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades fired small arms and detonated improvised explosive devices (IED) targeting Israeli forces in the Balata refugee camp and Silat al Dhahr refugee camp in the northern West Bank.  

Unspecified Palestinian fighters clashed with Israeli forces during a raid near Tubas, Hebron, and Jerusalem.  Palestinian media reported that unspecified Palestinian fighters detonated an IED near an Israeli settlement east of Qalqilya.

Israeli media reported that violence broke out between Palestinians and Israeli settlers in Burka.  Israeli media said that Palestinian and Israeli civilians threw rocks at each other and set a car and building on fire.  Palestinian Authority-affiliated media cited local officials who said that Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian village setting fire to a sheep barn and attempting to ignite a house.

Two Palestinians rammed Israeli civilians with a car in Jerusalem. The suspects attempted to fire a rudimentary submachine gun at the civilians before fleeing the scene.  The Israeli police detained the two Palestinians, who were originally from Hebron.  They have relatives who are known members of Hamas’ military wing in the West Bank.

Israeli officials criticized US plans to block military aid to an IDF unit due to alleged human rights abuses in the West Bank. Three US sources with knowledge of the issue told Axios that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to announce that the United States will ban US military assistance or training providing for the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, which is an ultra-orthodox IDF unit that operate mostly in the West Bank.

Southern Lebanon and Golan Heights
Lebanese Hezbollah conducted at least seven attacks from southern Lebanon into northern Israel.  Hezbollah fired a salvo of approximately 35 rockets at Ein Zeitim.  The IDF shot down a ”suspicious aerial vehicle” near Kiryat Shmona.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant discussed Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah’s attempts to establish a presence in Syria with local IDF commanders during a visit in the Golan Heights.  Gallant stated that the IDF is “actively preventing” Hezbollah and Iranian-backed militias from establishing positions along the border.

Iraq and Syria
Iranian-backed Iraqi militias may have resumed their attack campaign targeting US forces in Iraq and Syria. Unspecified Iranian-backed Iraqi militia fighters launched at least five rockets from Zummar, Ninewa Province, Iraq, targeting US forces at the Rumaylan Landing Zone in Hasakah Province, Syria,.

A US official separately told Reuters on April 22 that unspecified Iranian-backed Iraqi militants launched at least two drones targeting US forces at Ain al Asad airbase in Anbar Province, Iraq.  Iranian-backed Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah typically conducts attacks targeting US forces south of the Euphrates River, such as at Ain al Asad airbase in western Iraq and al Tanf Garrison in southeastern Syria.

Other militias, including Harakat Hezbollah al Nujaba and Kataib Sayyid al Shuhada, typically conduct attacks targeting US forces north of the Euphrates River.  Syrian media reported that the US-led international coalition separately conducted an airstrike targeting a missile launch site in Zummar.

Kataib Hezbollah-affiliated social media channels reportedly announced on April 21 that Kataib Hezbollah had resumed attacks targeting US forces in the region.  Kataib Hezbollah chose to resume attacks due to Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al Sudani’s lack of progress in negotiations to remove US forces from Iraq during Sudani’s recent visit to the United States.

Iran
Iranian media claimed on April 21 that the IRGC attacked a “secret American base” in Israel’s Negev Desert during Iran’s April 13 missile and drone attack on Israel.  IRGC-affiliated media claimed that the US base, named ”Position 512,” maintains radar facilities that monitor missile attacks on Israel.

Hardline Iranian parliamentarian and member of Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Javad Karimi Ghodousi implied that if granted the permission, Iran could test its first nuclear weapon within one week.

The IDF confirms the killing of two senior Hezbollah members in Lebanon.

Hussein Ali Azkul, a senior member of Hezbollah's air defense array, was killed overnight into Tuesday when his car was struck.

Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force senior member Mohammad Khalil Atiyeh was killed in the Western Lebanon region of Arzoun, the IDF's statement added.

UN rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday that he was "horrified" by the destruction of the Nasser and Al Shifa medical facilities in Gaza and reports of mass graves discovered there.

Turk, addressing a UN briefing via a spokesperson, also decried Israeli strikes on Gaza in recent days, which he said have killed mostly women and children.

He also repeated a warning against a full-scale incursion on Rafah, saying this could lead to "further atrocity crimes."

The Sderot municipality says that five rockets were launched toward the city from the Gaza Strip.

Four of the rockets were intercepted, and the fifth fell in a construction site in the city.

A warehouse in the city was hit by a rocket shrapnel and caught fire. Firefighters and emergency teams are at the scene. No casualties reported.

The Israeli Air Force struck two fully loaded Hamas rocket launchers in the Gaza Strip overnight into Tuesday, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit said in a statement.

According to the IDF, army snipers in the central Gaza Strip also managed to killed Hamas members who were sheltering among civilians and that further air force strikes killed terrorists near the al-Boreij refugee camp in the central Strip.

The IDF’s Nahal Brigade launched a new pinpoint operation against Hamas in the central Gaza Strip corridor earlier this week, which the military says is continuing amid the Passover holiday.

The IDF says the “surprise operation” that began Sunday night is aimed at “deepening the achievements” in the Netzarim corridor.

The corridor, built around a road south of Gaza City, enables the IDF to carry out raids in northern and central Gaza while allowing Israel to control access to the north for Palestinians seeking to return after fleeing south.

“The forces are carrying out targeted raids and are thwarting terror in the area,” the IDF says in a statement.

Nahal troops spotted several gunmen amid the raid, and called in airstrikes by fighter jets against them and the buildings they were spotted operating at, according to the IDF. It adds that secondary explosions seen after the strikes indicate that the buildings were used to store munitions.