Gallant hints at Iran attack, IDF destroys over 500 Hezbollah targets

Six people were wounded in a terror stabbing attack in Hadera, police reported Wednesday morning.

Paramedics treated two men, ages approximately 30 and 50, in serious condition. Additionally, the third person, approximately 70 years old,  was moderately wounded. All three were evacuated to Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera.

In a later report, MDA said that another two were moderately wounded in Hadera and are receiving medical treatment.

Professor Amatzia Baram, professor emeritus for Middle East history and director of the Center for Iraq Studies at the University of Haifa, said that the Lebanese people believing Israel will conquer Lebanon if a ceasefire deal is not reached is crucial to achieving a resolution.

Baram’s comments came during a recent interview with Maariv discussing reports in Lebanon that residents fear Israel will not leave the country.

"I don't know if we spread this idea, and if we did—good for us. Or maybe the Lebanese simply have vivid imaginations, thinking that if it happened once, it will happen again,” Baram said. “I want the Lebanese to think, believe, and understand that if there's no solution to the problem in southern Lebanon, we will conquer all of Lebanon. Or at least Beirut.

"Everyone said we were imagining it," said Sara and Zion Arbiv, longtime residents of Moshav Zar’it, located near Israel’s northern border, after the IDF uncovered a Hezbollah-built tunnel that ran dangerously close to their community on Tuesday. "We’ve stopped being the country’s human shield," they added.

Gabi Naaman, head of the Shlomi Local Council, is now demanding a full investigation into what he described as a severe security failure, questioning, "Who will be held accountable for this negligence?"

Three soldiers have been wounded in combat in southern Lebanon since Tuesday, the IDF reported on Wednesday morning.
 

Alarms blared in Caesarea and its surrounding areas between Netanya and Haifa on Wednesday morning after two rockets were identified crossing from Lebanon, the IDF reported.

Both rockets were successfully intercepted.

Tehran warned Gulf states it would be "unacceptable" if they allowed their airspace to be used against Iran, and any such move would draw a response, a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday, amid concerns about possible Israeli retaliation for last week's Iranian missile attack.

The official was speaking as Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi headed to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states for talks.

The comments also followed discussions between Iran and Gulf Arab capitals last week on the sidelines of an Asia conference in Qatar, when Gulf states sought to reassure Iran of their neutrality in any conflict between Tehran and Israel.

A drone that entered Israel from the east was intercepted by the IAF, the IDF announced on Wednesday overnight.

As per policy, no alerts were activated.

The IDF said on Tuesday that as the military continues its progress in destroying Hezbollah military assets near the Israel-Lebanon border, a detailed discussion needs to move forward with 60,000 evacuated Israeli northern residents about the practicalities of their returning to their homes.

IDF sources said that weakening Hezbollah was one component of the residents' return, but receiving assessments of what they needed in terms of repairs, new infrastructure, and reorganizing the northern border corridor were separate civilian activities that needed to start moving along.

On Monday, Yisrael Hayom reported that Maj.-Gen. Uri Gordon had told northern resident regional council leaders that they should start working on a return to their towns around the end of the Sukkot holiday.