UAVs from Lebanon injure soldier, US approves partial transfer of frozen bomb shipments to Israel

After Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists embedded themselves in Gaza City's UNRWA headquarters, troops of the IDF's 99th Division engaged and eliminated terrorists operating on the premises in close-quarters combat and arrested others, the military said on Wednesday.

The IDF noted that the operation took place after it had opened an evacuation route for civilians.

Earlier this week, the military said it had begun operating in the UNRWA facility in a joint operation with the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), following intelligence information regarding the use of the area by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the existence of terror infrastructure in the area, among which were detention and investigation rooms. 

The US Department of Justice interviewed former hostages, survivors of the October 7 massacre, and relatives of victims to form a case against Hamas and its financial supporters, according to a Bloomberg report earlier this week, citing sources familiar with the matter.  

Israel Air Force jets struck overnight two Hezbollah terror infrastructures in the terror group's Aerial Defense Array in Janta in Lebanon and Baraachit in southern Lebanon, the military said on Wednesday. 

Jets also attacked a weapons storage facility in the Kfarkela area of southern Lebanon. 

Sergeant-Major (res.) Tal Lahat was killed in battle while fighting in the Gaza Strip, the IDF announced on Wednesday.

Sgt.-Maj. Lahat, 21, from Kfar Saba, served in the Maglan unit of the Commando Brigade.

Lahat fell in the central Gaza Strip.

Terrorists may have infiltrated, early on Wednesday morning, the West Bank settlement Almon, according to sirens alerting local residents.

The Home Front Command informed residents "Immediately enter a protected space inside the house and close the door tightly. Do not stand in front of the door and window, and avoid movement and noise."
 

Three displaced Palestinians, including a child, were killed and another ten people were injured during an attack attributed to Israel, which targeted a commercial store in Nusayrat, in the center of the Gaza Strip.

The Lebanese newspaper Al Mayadin reported early on Wednesday that the IDF is attacking in southern Lebanon, on the outskirts of the village of Markta.

The IDF spokesman gave an unusual update in the early hours of Wednesday morning, according to which a terrorist from the military wing of Hamas who was involved in the massacre on October 7, was eliminated in an airstrike in Khan Yunis.

According to the IDF, the terrorist was killed with "precision weaponry", but in the Gaza Strip, there are reports of damage to a nearby humanitarian tent where displaced Gazans were staying.

 Yemen's Houthis said on Tuesday they targeted the Maersk Sentosa ship in the Arabian sea with several ballistic and wing missiles.

"The American ship Maersk Sentosa was targeted in the Arabian Sea by naval forces and missile force in a joint operation," Yahya Sarea, the Yemeni group's military spokesperson, said in a televised speech.

Earlier on Tuesday, shipping giant Maersk said one of its vessels, the Maersk Sentosa, reported being targeted by a flying object in the north of the Gulf of Aden.