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Rockets in Israel's North, female combat soldiers enter Lebanon

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF artillery operates in southern Lebanon. November 17, 2024. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
IDF artillery operates in southern Lebanon. November 17, 2024.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

IDF: Hezbollah launches 30 rockets into Upper, Western Galilee

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

IDF: Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in the Upper and Western Galilee areas, approximately 30 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory.

Some of the projectiles were intercepted, and the rest fell into open areas.

No injuries have been reported at this time.

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Historic first: Female Israeli combat soldiers conduct Lebanon operations

Since the onset of the war, the combat intelligence team, consisting of female soldiers, had been stationed near the Syrian border and in the Mount Dov region.

By AMIR BOHBOT
 Female combat soldiers from combat intelligence operate in southern Lebanon, November 18, 2024. (photo credit: IDF spokesperson's Unit/Via Walla)
Female combat soldiers from combat intelligence operate in southern Lebanon, November 18, 2024.
(photo credit: IDF spokesperson's Unit/Via Walla)

For the first time in Israel’s military history, female combat soldiers entered Lebanon as part of an operational mission. Northern Command chief Maj.-Gen. Ori Gordin approved the deployment of a team from the combat intelligence battalion into southern Lebanon several weeks ago.

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Israel at war: What happened on day 407?

Katz meets with top hostage recovery officials • One wounded by rocket shrapnel • Drone almost hits Rehovot

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, SAM HALPERN, DARCIE GRUNBLATT, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF artillery operates in southern Lebanon. November 17, 2024. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
IDF artillery operates in southern Lebanon. November 17, 2024.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

Capt. Yogev Pazy and St.-Sgt. Noam Eitan were killed while fighting in northern Gaza, the IDF reported Sunday.

Pazy, 22, from Givot Bar, and Eitan, 21, from Hadera, served in the Nahshon Battalion of the Kfir Brigade. They were posthumously awarded their rank.

Another soldier from the same battalion was severely wounded in the same incident.

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Turkey can’t be a mediator for any hostage deal – Israeli sources

Israel rules out Turkey as a mediator for hostages as Hamas demands a complete end to the Israel-Hamas war.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Istanbul, Turkey October 28, 2023. (photo credit: REUTERS/DILARA SENKAYA)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Istanbul, Turkey October 28, 2023.
(photo credit: REUTERS/DILARA SENKAYA)

Turkey can’t become a mediator for a Gaza hostage deal, Israeli sources told The Jerusalem Post after KAN News reported that a number of Hamas leaders had left Qatar for Turkey.

“I don’t know of any Turkish involvement, and I don’t think there could be,” one source told the Post.

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Interceptor falls in Eilat area following drone interception coming from east

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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The IDF intercepted a drone heading toward Israeli territories from the east, the military reported on Monday overnight.

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Eleven people dead, 48 wounded in IDF airstrike in Tyre - Lebanese health ministry report

By MAARIV ONLINE
 breaking news (photo credit: JPOST STAFF)
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Eleven people were killed, and another 48 were wounded during IDF airstrikes in the area of Tyre in southern Lebanon, Sky News in Arabic reported on Monday overnight, citing the Lebanese Health Ministry.

 

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