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IDF rescues Israeli-Bedouin hostage, Israeli airstrike hits military equipment in northeast Lebanon

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 Rescued hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi reunites his family at Soroka Medical Center after over 300 days of captivity. (photo credit: SCREENSHOT VIA X, SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT)
Rescued hostage Qaid Farhan Alkadi reunites his family at Soroka Medical Center after over 300 days of captivity.
(photo credit: SCREENSHOT VIA X, SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT)

False alarms sound in Gaza border community of Nahal Oz

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Breaking: Rocket Sirens (photo credit: Courtesy)
Breaking: Rocket Sirens
(photo credit: Courtesy)

Rocket sirens sounded in the Gaza border community of Nahal Oz on Tuesday morning.

The IDF later stated that the sirens were a false alarm.

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IDF eliminates more than 10 terrorists in airstrikes in central, southern Gaza

By AMIR BOHBOT
  (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

The IDF eliminated over 10 terrorists in the central and southern Gaza Strip, the military announced on Tuesday morning.

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Former hostage reveals Hamas terrorists tried to force her conversion to Islam, extort her family

Former hostage Moran Stella revealed that during her captivity, her kidnappers demanded a ransom from her father and psychologically tortured her family.

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Former hostage Moran Stela Yanai speaks  in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 30, 2023 (photo credit: REUTERS/CLODAGH KILCOYNE)
Former hostage Moran Stela Yanai speaks in Tel Aviv, Israel, December 30, 2023
(photo credit: REUTERS/CLODAGH KILCOYNE)

Former hostage Moran Stella detailed in an interview how her Hamas captors demanded a ransom from her father and pressured her to convert to Islam.

She described the emotional and psychological abuse inflicted on her family, emphasizing the trauma they endured. Stella revealed her captors’ tactics, including threatening her father and attempting to force her conversion, further adding to the harrowing experience for both her and her loved ones.

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Hamas operative to be indicted for murdering prison guard in West Bank - report

The Institute of Forensic Medicine stated that Avni was stabbed 66 times in all parts of his body.

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 The cage bars of a prison cell (Illustrative). (photo credit: RAWPIXEL)
The cage bars of a prison cell (Illustrative).
(photo credit: RAWPIXEL)

Hamas operative Ibrahim Mansor is set to be indicted for the murder of prison guard Yohai Avni, who was stabbed 66 times.

Mansor's claim that the killing was unplanned and a result of a burglary was contradicted by evidence, including a polygraph test. The victim's family demands the murder be classified as a terrorist act, but current charges do not include terrorism. The family plans to appeal this classification to the High Court of Justice.

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Top US general says risk of broader war eases a bit after Israel-Hezbollah exchange

Air Force General C.Q. Brown cautioned that there was the risk posed by Iran's terrorist allies in places such as Iraq, Syria and Jordan who have attacked US troops as well as Yemen's Houthis.

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 A POLICE vehicle drives on a road near Meron in the North as a forest fire rages after rockets were fired from Lebanon last Friday. Despite its claims, Hezbollah is clearly trying to provoke Israel into a broader conflict, the writer asserts. (photo credit: David Cohen/Flash90)
A POLICE vehicle drives on a road near Meron in the North as a forest fire rages after rockets were fired from Lebanon last Friday. Despite its claims, Hezbollah is clearly trying to provoke Israel into a broader conflict, the writer asserts.
(photo credit: David Cohen/Flash90)

The near-term risk of a broader war in the Middle East has eased somewhat after Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah exchanged fire without further escalation but Iran still poses a significant danger as it weighs a strike on Israel, America's top general said on Monday.

Air Force General C.Q. Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke to Reuters after emerging from a three-day trip to the Middle East that saw him fly into Israel just hours after Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel, and Israel's military struck Lebanon to thwart a larger attack. It was one of the biggest clashes in more than 10 months of border warfare, but it also ended with limited damage in Israel and without immediate threats of more retaliation from either side.

Brown noted Hezbollah's strike was just one of two major threatened attacks against Israel that emerged in recent weeks. Iran is also threatening an attack over the killing of a Hamas leader in Tehran last month.

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Artillery fire in southern Lebanon - report

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 breaking news (photo credit: JPOST STAFF)
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Artillery fire was reported in the villages of Umm al-Tut, Sheikhin, and Beit Lif, Ynet reported on Monday night citing Lebanese media.

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Israel-Hamas war: What you need to know



  • Hamas launched a massive attack on October 7, with thousands of terrorists infiltrating from the Gaza border and taking some 240 hostages into Gaza
  • Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 at the Re'im music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across Gaza border communities
  • 109 hostages remain in Gaza
  • 48 hostages in total have been killed in captivity, IDF says