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Israel at War day 408: What's happening in Gaza, Lebanon?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
 United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs reporting to the scene of a rocket attack on November 18 in Ramat Gan. (photo credit: UNITED HATZALAH‏)
United Hatzalah volunteer EMTs reporting to the scene of a rocket attack on November 18 in Ramat Gan.
(photo credit: UNITED HATZALAH‏)

Ceasefire in north? Lebanon, Hezbollah agree to US proposal for ceasefire with Israel - official

Hezbollah, a heavily armed movement backed by Iran, endorsed its long-time ally Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri to negotiate over a ceasefire.

By REUTERS
 Smoke billows over Khiam, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, Lebanon November 9, 2024.  (photo credit: REUTERS/KARAMALLAH DAHER)
Smoke billows over Khiam, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, Lebanon November 9, 2024.
(photo credit: REUTERS/KARAMALLAH DAHER)

Lebanon and Hezbollah have agreed to a US proposal for a ceasefire with Israel with some comments on the content, a top Lebanese official told Reuters on Monday, describing the effort as the most serious yet to end to the fighting.

Ali Hassan Khalil, an aide to Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, said Lebanon had delivered its written response to the US ambassador in Lebanon on Monday, and White House envoy Amos Hochstein was traveling to Beirut to continue talks.

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Woman killed, several wounded following rocket strike in Shfaram, northern Israel

In addition, ten individuals sustained light wounds from broken glass and were transferred for further medical care.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
 Magen David Adom paramedics at the scene of the rocket strike in Shfaram, northern Israel. November 18, 2024. (photo credit: MAGEN DAVID ADOM SPOKESPERSON)
Magen David Adom paramedics at the scene of the rocket strike in Shfaram, northern Israel. November 18, 2024.
(photo credit: MAGEN DAVID ADOM SPOKESPERSON)

Hezbollah fired over 75 rockets on Monday, with one rocket in the evening striking the primarily Israeli-Arab town of Shfaram in northern Israel and killing a woman in her 50s as well as wounding ten others.

Safa Kat Awad, a resident of Shfaram in her 50s, was named as the individual killed in the Hezbollah rocket strike in Israel's North, Israeli media reported. 

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Multiple rocket sirens sound across central Israel

Sirens blared in Tel Aviv in the Gush Dan and the Sharon and Shfela areas. 

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
 Magen David Adom paramedics at the scene where a hit was reported in central Israel. November 18, 2024. (photo credit: Magen David Adom)
Magen David Adom paramedics at the scene where a hit was reported in central Israel. November 18, 2024.
(photo credit: Magen David Adom)

One projectile crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon, with a hit identified, likely from interception debris, the IDF said on Monday, following the multiple rocket sirens sounded across central Israel, including Tel Aviv, starting at 8:45 p.m. local time. 

Three people were wounded from shrapnel in the Ramat Gan area, Israeli media reported. 

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Israeli attacks on Lebanon killed at least 3,516, Lebanon's health ministry says

By REUTERS

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed at least 3,516 people and wounded 14,929 since October 2023, the Lebanese health ministry said on Monday.

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WATCH: IDF troops find subterranean Hezbollah compound in southern Lebanon

In the space, troops found numerous weapons, rooms for a prolonged stay, a kitchen, and food.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
 IDF troops operate in southern Lebanon. November 18, 2024. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
IDF troops operate in southern Lebanon. November 18, 2024.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

Troops of the reserve 226th Brigade unearthed a large subterranean infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah during operations in southern Lebanon, the military said on Monday. 

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WATCH: IDF troops unearth an underground terror infrastructure in southern Lebanon

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF troops unearth an underground terror infrastructure in southern Lebanon. November 18, 2024. (Credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT).
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IDF: Hezbollah launches 30 rockets into Upper, Western Galilee

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

IDF: Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in the Upper and Western Galilee areas, approximately 30 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israeli territory.

Some of the projectiles were intercepted, and the rest fell into open areas.

No injuries have been reported at this time.

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Historic first: Female Israeli combat soldiers conduct Lebanon operations

Since the onset of the war, the combat intelligence team, consisting of female soldiers, had been stationed near the Syrian border and in the Mount Dov region.

By AMIR BOHBOT
 Female combat soldiers from combat intelligence operate in southern Lebanon, November 18, 2024. (photo credit: IDF spokesperson's Unit/Via Walla)
Female combat soldiers from combat intelligence operate in southern Lebanon, November 18, 2024.
(photo credit: IDF spokesperson's Unit/Via Walla)

For the first time in Israel’s military history, female combat soldiers entered Lebanon as part of an operational mission. Northern Command chief Maj.-Gen. Ori Gordin approved the deployment of a team from the combat intelligence battalion into southern Lebanon several weeks ago.

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Israel at war: What happened on day 407?

Katz meets with top hostage recovery officials • One wounded by rocket shrapnel • Drone almost hits Rehovot

By YONAH JEREMY BOB, SAM HALPERN, DARCIE GRUNBLATT, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF artillery operates in southern Lebanon. November 17, 2024. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
IDF artillery operates in southern Lebanon. November 17, 2024.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

Capt. Yogev Pazy and St.-Sgt. Noam Eitan were killed while fighting in northern Gaza, the IDF reported Sunday.

Pazy, 22, from Givot Bar, and Eitan, 21, from Hadera, served in the Nahshon Battalion of the Kfir Brigade. They were posthumously awarded their rank.

Another soldier from the same battalion was severely wounded in the same incident.

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Turkey can’t be a mediator for any hostage deal – Israeli sources

Israel rules out Turkey as a mediator for hostages as Hamas demands a complete end to the Israel-Hamas war.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
 Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Istanbul, Turkey October 28, 2023. (photo credit: REUTERS/DILARA SENKAYA)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a rally in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Istanbul, Turkey October 28, 2023.
(photo credit: REUTERS/DILARA SENKAYA)

Turkey can’t become a mediator for a Gaza hostage deal, Israeli sources told The Jerusalem Post after KAN News reported that a number of Hamas leaders had left Qatar for Turkey.

“I don’t know of any Turkish involvement, and I don’t think there could be,” one source told the Post.

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Israel at 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
  • 101 hostages remain in Gaza
  • 48 hostages in total have been killed in captivity, IDF says