Thursday, November 2, 2023

Updates From Israel (Times Of Israel)

Army engineers move to destroy Gaza tunnel network after night of heavy battles
The Times of Israel is liveblogging Thursday’s events



Amazon is allowing the sale on its platform of T-shirts with the words “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

The slogan, often heard at pro-Palestinian rallies, is seen as a call for the elimination of Israel, which sits between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

The map on the shirts shows Israel’s entire territory – including the West Bank – and the Gaza Strip in the colors of the Palestinian flag. It does not include the Golan Heights.

Incoming rocket sirens are sounding in several communities close to the Lebanon border.

Sirens sound in Arab al-Aramshe and Adamit in the Western Galilee, and in Avivim, Margaliot, and Misgav Am in the Upper Galilee.

The alerts comes amid repeated rocket and missile attacks by Hezbollah and allied Palestinian terror factions from southern Lebanon on northern Israel.


IDF: Iran-backed militia moves from Syria to south Lebanon to support Hezbollah

An Iran-sponsored militia originally deployed in Syria has been transferred to south Lebanon to support Hezbollah, says the IDF Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee.

“After a series of failures suffered by Hezbollah against Israel in recent weeks, the Iranian Imam Hussein Brigade, led by a commander known as Zulfiqar, has arrived in southern Lebanon,” Adraee announced in his account on X, formerly Twitter.

Rocket barrage fired at Beersheba, Hatzerim

Terrorists in Gaza fire a rocket barrage at the city of Beersheba and at the nearby town of  Hatzerim in the Negev.


IDF releases footage of interceptions of Houthi missiles

The Israel Defense Forces releases a video showing an F-35I fighter jet intercepting a cruise missile or drone launched by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen at Israel on Tuesday.

The IDF has intercepted several other targets — apparently drones launched from Yemen — over the Red Sea in recent days. It has also bolstered the area with Navy missile ships.


IDF strikes anti-tank missile posts in Lebanon after cross-border Hezbollah fire


The Israel Defense Forces says it struck an anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) squad in southern Lebanon preparing an attack against northern Israel.

The military says it also hit another two ATGM positions in the area.

Separately, a missile was fired by Hezbollah terrorists at an IDF position near Manara, causing no injuries, the military says.

Army engineers are beginning a wide-scale operation to destroy Hamas tunnels in areas of the Gaza Strip that have come under Israeli control since the start of the ground offensive, the Walla news site reports.

The combat engineers are using various types of robots and explosive devices to destroy the tunnels, detonate any booby traps installed by Hamas, and kill terrorists, the report says.

“Maybe at first they were able to harass us, sting us by firing from tunnel exits, but after we established control of the areas, the engineering operation started,” a senior officer in the Southern Command tells Walla.

“We are going to collapse the entrances and the tunnels on them. It will become a death zone. They made a mistake, they chose to be in a place they cannot escape from. They will die in the tunnels,” he said.
The report says the troops have already destroyed some 100 tunnels not counting the ones hit in airstrikes.


Ex-IDF deputy chief: Soldiers won’t enter the tunnels, will turn them into Hamas death traps without going in

Former deputy IDF chief of staff Yair Golan says that “under no circumstances” should or will IDF soldiers enter Hamas’s terror tunnels, as the army broadens its ground operation to destroy Hamas’s military capabilities.

In an interview with Army Radio, the reserves general says, “You don’t need to go into the tunnels” and “it would be a grave mistake to enter the tunnels” where Hamas is hiding out and waiting.

When it is put to him that Hamas is capable of remaining inside its vast underground tunnel network “forever,” Golan says: “Take my word for it. The IDF has the capabilities today to deal effectively with the tunnels. It has all the knowledge and the means. If Hamas stays in the tunnels, they will become a death trap.”



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