'Post' visits Rafah tunnels, special forces destroy terror facility in Syria

The IAF eliminated the Hezbollah terrorist Ahmad Al-Jabr in a strike in Syria, the IDF announced on Thursday.

Al-Jabr was reportedly part of Hezbollah's Golan Terrorist Network, which was situated in Syria in the area of Quneitra. Additionally, in the area of Al Rafeed in the southern part of Syria, the IDF eliminated an additional terrorist linked to Iranian activities, the military added.

On Thursday, multiple drones crossed from Lebanese territory, the IDF noted. All of which were either intercepted or fell in open areas in the Upper Galilee area.

No injuries were reported.

A day after UNRWA said that its staffers were killed in a strike on the Al Jaouni School in the area of Nuseirat in central Gaza, the IDF revealed on Thursday that nine terrorists had been eliminated in the strike.

After UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the deaths of six UNRWA workers on Wednesday, the IDF said that it requested the details of the staff so that it could investigate - a request the military claimed remains unfulfilled. 

What is "unacceptable,” @antonioguterres, is the fact you refuse to recognize reality and continue to distort it.

Terrorists operating out of civilian buildings previously used by @UNRWA are not "innocent." It is unconscionable that the UN continues to condemn Israel in its… https://t.co/ThWltXRqFY

— Danny Danon 🇮🇱 דני דנון (@dannydanon) September 12, 2024

Hamas's media office said the Israeli strike killed at least 18 people, including the UNRWA staff members.

Moshe Davidovich, the head of the Mateh Asher Regional Council and Frontline Forum Chairman, criticized the government in response to Thursday's rocket attacks in northern Israel.

"Residents of the North live under relentless fire. We’ve moved from adapting to fire in evacuated areas to daily attacks on civilian populations in non-evacuated areas," Davidovich stated. "This isn't normalization - it's Russian roulette! Lives are saved by sheer luck. How much longer will this continue? Where is the government and the security cabinet?"
 
 

Over 1,000 female medical volunteers gathered in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night to commemorate their contributions on and since October 7 and to officially dedicate the Adele and Joel Sandberg Women’s Unit, United Hatzalah stated on Thursday.

The new unit, Israel’s first all-female medical response team, is supported by former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg.

Female medics shared their personal accounts of October 7. The event also featured Israeli singer Hanan Ben-Ari, who delivered a performance in honor of the women’s efforts. 

Brigadier General Yossi Sariel, the commander of Unit 8200, an IDF Intelligence Corps, informed IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi of his resignation, Israeli media reported Thursday.

Since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas War, much criticism was directed at Military Intelligence Chief Aharon Haliva, as well as other senior intelligence IDF commanders. One such commander is Brigadier General Sariel, Commander of Unit 8200, who was sworn in in February 2021.

The key criticism against these commanders is for failing to provide a warning for Hamas’s invasion on October 7, in which the terror organization took 251 people hostage and approximately 1,200 other people were killed. Among the senior IDF intelligence commanders, Haliva was among the first to take responsibility for the intelligence failure, and in April, he resigned.

The International Court of Justice in The Hague has refused South Africa's request to postpone the deadline to submit evidence showing the alleged genocide, Israeli media reported on Thursday.

Israeli naval forces performed a rescue maneuver to retrieve an Israeli civilian boat that was drifting towards Lebanese waters on Thursday, the IDF stated.

According to the military, the vessel had malfunctioned with two Israeli civilians on board. After making contact with those on the boat, the Israeli navy and air force acted to return them to Israeli waters safely.

The IDF announced on Thursday that Israeli fighter jets attacked a military structure belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the Marun al-Ras area of southern Lebanon.

Additionally, a Hezbollah rocket launcher, which posed a threat to Israeli civilians, was targeted in the Majdal Zun area.

Following recent alerts in the Western Galilee, approximately 15 rocket launches from Lebanese territory were identified, with some being intercepted.

The World Health Organisation said on Thursday it had carried out a rare evacuation of97 people,around half of them children, from Gaza to the United Arab Emirates for medical treatment, and urged the resumption of regular such transfers.

The Israel-Hamas War has decimated Gaza's health system and only 17 out of 36 hospitals are currently partially functioning, the WHO estimates. The main Rafah crossing for medical transfers out of Gaza to Egypt has been shut since May when Israel ramped up its military campaign in southern Gaza.

"This was the largest evacuation yet from Gaza since October 2023," Richard Peeperkorn, WHO Representative for the occupied Palestinian territory told reporters of the operation, which took place on Wednesday.