IDF retrieves bodies from Gaza, 'Hamas obstacle to hostage deal,' sources charge

After IDF soldiers identified terrorists entering a Hezbollah structure in the area of Markaba in southern Lebanon on Saturday afternoon, Israel Air Force aircraft struck the structure, the military stated.

Additionally, throughout the day, artillery was fired upon a number of targets in southern Lebanon as well, the IDF added.

Later, following drone sirens that sounded at 2:30 p.m. in northern Israel, the military identified a projectile crossing the border.

The IDF noted that the projectile fell in the area of Beit Hillel but caused no damage or injuries. The military did not note why an interceptor was not launched in response to the projectile's crossing into the North.

Six people were arrested in Hebron Saturday afternoon in connection to the overnight terror attacks in Gush Etzion and Karmei Tzur, Israeli media reported. 

IDF troops surrounded Hebron following the attack, which killed two terrorists associated.

The Hostage Family Forum has published a video implying female hostages were raped and impregnated in captivity, N12 reported Saturday afternoon.

The video depicts a person with a pregnant belly sitting in rubble in a tunnel, with the sound of a baby crying in the background. 

Only parts of the video were approved for public viewing by the Second Authority for Television and Radio. 

The video depicts a tunnel, which cuts to a video of a pregnant woman and the sound of a crying baby.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Friday its forces conducted a partnered raid with the Iraqi Security Forces in western Iraq in the early hours of Aug. 29, resulting in the deaths of 15 Islamic State (ISIS) operatives.

"The ISIS element was armed with numerous weapons, grenades, and explosive "suicide" belts," CENTCOM said. It also added that there were no indication of civilian casualties in the raid.

Seven American troops were wounded in the joint raid, the Associated Press reported later citing the US military.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert signed an agreement with Nasser al-Qudwa, nephew of former Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, on July 17, 2024, where they agreed to "work together to promote the achievement of peace in the Middle East" through a successful application of the two-state solution with 1967 borders as a basis, according to documents published by N12 on Friday.

The current agreement is based on Olmert's famously mysterious solution presented to Mahmoud Abbas in 2008.

Three Israelis were injured in two nearby incidences in the Gush Etzion Regional Council in the West Bank on Friday night.

Two people were first injured after a car exploded near a gas station the Gush Etzion Junction. The IDF assessed that the explosion was an attempted terrorist attack that failed, during which, after the terrorist noticed his car was starting to burn, he got out and tried to attack workers at the station, but was killed by security guards, Ynet reported. Documentation of the incident shows the terrorist trying to escape the scene.

(JTA) — Jewish campus groups and parents are criticizing a reported decision by the University of Maryland allowing a pro-Palestinian group to hold a rally on campus on October 7, the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attacks in Israel.

The permit was given to Students for Justice in Palestine, according to the campus Hillel and Jewish Student Union, who decried SJP on Instagram without criticizing the university directly.

Jewish students at Columbia University have been driven out of their dorm rooms, chased off campus, compelled to hide their Jewish identity, ostracized by their peers and denigrated by faculty, according to a report released Friday by the university’s Task Force on Antisemitism.

The report, the second one released by the investigatory body made up of faculty, illustrated the breadth of anti-Jewish discrimination at the Ivy League campus. It also said that pervasive antisemitism on campus has “affected the entire university community.

Temple University in Philadelphia is investigating pro-Palestinian demonstrators who marched on the campus Hillel and used megaphones to “chant directly at the occupants within the building,” Richard Englert, Temple University president, said in a statement Thursday.

Students among the marchers could face disciplinary action.