The IDF says it struck an anti-tank missile squad in southern Lebanon preparing to carry out an attack near the northern community of Shtula.
Tanks also shelled a site belonging to the Hezbollah terror group in the area, it adds.
Several rockets were fired from Lebanon at the Yiftah and Margaliot areas on the border, which according to the IDF all landed in open areas, causing no injuries.
It says troops are responding with artillery shelling at the launch sites.
The IDF says it struck an anti-tank missile squad in southern Lebanon preparing to carry out an attack near the northern community of Shtula. Tanks also shelled a site belonging to Hezbollah, it adds. Several rockets were also fired from Lebanon at the Yiftah and Margaliot areas
Missile fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen misses a container ship in Bab el-Mandeb Strait
A missile fired from territory controlled by Houthi rebels in Yemen has missed a container ship traveling through the crucial Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a US defense official says, the latest attack threatening shipping in the crucial maritime chokepoint.
The attack saw the missile splash harmlessly in the water near the Maersk Gibraltar, a Hong Kong-flagged container ship that had been traveling from Salalah, Oman, to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the official says.
The official speaks on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters. The official’s comments come after the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which monitors Mideast shipping lanes, put out an alert warning of an incident in the strait, which separates East Africa from the Arabian Peninsula.
Report: Israel to present to US timeline for gradual completion of war against Hamas
A report claims Israel is set to present to the US a schedule for the gradual ending of the war against Hamas in Gaza, in the shadow of growing tensions between the countries over the continued intense fighting.
The intense phase of the war, according to the schedule, is set to wrap up by the end of January, Channel 12 reports, without citing a source.
After that, it will take several weeks for the IDF to withdraw its forces from the heart of Gaza and deploy them on defense lines — located in and out of the Strip.
The third and most prolonged stage is reportedly expected to last for most of 2024, consisting of localized raids and operations with the goal of toppling the Hamas terror group’s rule over the enclave.
Putin claims ‘catastrophe’ in Gaza incomparable to war on Ukraine
Continuing his strident anti-Israel stance, Russian President Vladimir Putin claims the situation in the Gaza Strip is a “catastrophe” unfolding on a scale that cannot be compared to the carnage Moscow has unleashed on Ukraine since it invaded last year.
Putin, whose government has maintained ties with both Israel and the Hamas terror group but who has been vocal in his criticism of Jerusalem, makes the comments during a news conference in Moscow, as his full-scale military campaign against Kyiv approaches the two-year mark.
IDF airs clip of gunmen surrendering in northern Gaza hospital, says 70 handed themselves in
The IDF reveals footage showing Palestinian gunmen surrendering to IDF troops at the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza.
It says that in recent days, troops of the 460th Armored Brigade, working with the Shin Bet security agency, located a building used by Hamas operatives in the area of the hospital.
The soldiers battled and killed gunmen in the Kamal Adwan Hospital area, in several separate encounters, the IDF says.
According to the IDF, some 70 Hamas operatives surrendered to Israeli troops in the area, handing over firearms and equipment. They have been taken to be questioned by the Shin Bet and Military Intelligence Directorate’s Unit 504.
Turkish MP who collapsed after saying Israel will ‘suffer Allah’s wrath’ dies
Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca announces the death of lawmaker Hasan Bitmez, local media reports, two days after he collapsed in parliament, suffering a heart attack at the end of a livestreamed parliamentary speech in which he slammed Israel and said it wouldn’t be able to “escape the wrath of Allah.”
Hasan Bitmez, 53, of the conservative Felicity Party, delivered an address at the General Assembly of the Turkish parliament, ending it by saying that “we can perhaps hide from our conscience but not from history,” and by addressing the Jewish state: “You will not escape the wrath of Allah.”
He then said, “I salute you all,” immediately before collapsing to the ground at the podium, with his head hitting the floor.
IDF says it struck Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon; terror group says member killed
The IDF confirms striking a number of Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon this morning.
It adds that a projectile was also fired from Lebanon at an area near the northern community of Shomera.
There are no immediate reports of injuries in the attack on Israel.
Hezbollah says one of its members was killed in the IDF strikes, taking the terror group’s toll since the skirmishes began amid the war in Gaza to 104.
Danish police arrest several people suspected of planning terror attacks
Danish police make several arrests, saying they carried out the operation “on suspicion of preparation for a terrorist attack.”
The arrests were made in “a coordinated action” in several locations in Denmark early this morning.
No other details are given. The Copenhagen police and Denmark’s domestic intelligence service are to give a press conference later.
The terror threat level in Denmark current is at level four, the second highest.
Earlier this month, the European Union’s home affairs commissioner, Ylva Johansson, warned that Europe faces a “huge risk of terrorist attacks” over the Christmas holiday period due to the fallout from the war between Israel and the Palestinian terror group Hamas.
Israeli strikes reported in southern Lebanon following Hezbollah attacks
Lebanese media reports Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon.
The strikes come amid repeated attacks by the Hezbollah terror group on northern Israel.
There is no immediate comment from the IDF on the strikes.
Footage posted to social media shows large plumes of smoke rising over the Lebanese villages of Aitaroun and adjacent Maroun al-Ras.
Iran: US to face ‘extraordinary problems’ if it forms multinational Red Sea force
Iran warns of the consequences of a multinational force being set up in the Red Sea to protect against attacks on ships by the Tehran-backed Houthi rebels off the coast of Yemen.
The White House said last week that the US may establish a naval task force to escort commercial ships in the Red Sea, following repeated and escalating attacks by the Houthis on ships with alleged ties to Israel or sailing to it, allegedly in response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Iran’s Defense Minister Mohammad Reza Ashtiani tells the Islamic Republic’s official ISNA news agency that “if they make such an irrational move, they will be faced with extraordinary problems,” according to Reuters.
“Nobody can make a move in a region where we have predominance,” he claims, while not detailing what Tehran may do if such a step is taken.
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