Israel at war: What happened on day 25?

IDF forces under the command of the Givati ​​Brigade took control over a Hamas military stronghold in western Jabaliya in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, a military spokesperson said.

Approximately 50 terrorists were killed by Israeli forces. Furthermore, Israeli fighter jets, under Shin Bet intelligence, eliminated Ebrahim Biari, the commander of Hamas's Jabalia battalion, and was one of the leaders of the October 7 massacre. 

The General Authority for Crossings and Borders in Gaza said Egyptian authorities told it that 81 Gazans who were severely wounded will be allowed to enter Egypt on Wednesday to complete treatment.

Was the region transformed on Tuesday with the interception of a missile fired by Yemen’s Houthis by Israel’s Arrow missile?

On Tuesday, it was announced that the Arrow missile defense system shot down a ballistic missile for the first time, in this instance fired at Israel by Iran’s proxies in Yemen.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas he would continue to support diplomatic actions to protect Palestinian civilians and prevent wider escalation in the Middle East, Sunak's office said on Tuesday.

The account for Hezbollah on Elon Musk's social media platform X, formerly Twitter, was suspended, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

The account, @Hezbollah_FA, was spotted by Michael Freund, a journalist and columnist for The Jerusalem Post Magazine and former deputy communications director for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. 

"Hezbollah has been designated as a foreign terrorist organization by the US government since 1997, yet they have an active X account," Freund tweeted earlier in October. "@elonmusk Why is their account permitted?"

After reporting the account, Freund learned that X suspended it, citing violations to its policies on violent threats.

Two French children have died in the north of the Gaza strip, France's foreign ministry said on Tuesday, reiterating its call for a humanitarian pause in the fighting between Israel and Hamas.

The foreign ministry said the children's mother was thought to be suffering from injuries, along with her third child.

It said that the French consulate in Jerusalem had so far not managed to establish contact with the mother.

The foreign ministry reiterated its demands for French nationals and foreign citizens to be allowed to leave Gaza.

The United States is sending an additional 300 troops to the Middle East with a focus on providing support in areas like explosive ordnance disposal and communications, the Pentagon said on Tuesday.

Pentagon spokesman Brigadier General Patrick Ryder said the troops would be going from the United States, but would not be in Israel.

"They are intended to support regional deterrence efforts and further bolster us force protection capabilities," Ryder said.

He added that this month there have been 27 attacks against US troops in Iraq and Syria.

Hamas told mediators it will release a number of foreign captives in the coming days, Abu Ubaida, the spokesman of the group's armed wing said in a video on its Telegram account on Tuesday.

A "public health catastrophe" is imminent in Gaza, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, as the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned that the amount of humanitarian aid entering the enclave is inadequate.

The US is pushing to increase assistance to Gaza to up 100 trucks a day, Secretary of State Antony Blinken told the US Senate Committee on Appropriations, but he added that there is a limit to the capacity of Palestinians on the ground to distribute that aid.

The Iranian-backed Houthis in Yemen are increasing their threats to Israel and the Middle East. On October 18 they launched drones and missiles targeting Israel, which were intercepted by a US warship in the Red Sea. The incident continued for several hours.

On Friday, October 27, another incident took place in which drones and projectiles landed in Egypt. That same day, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said “Israel condemns the harm caused to Egypt's security forces by the missiles and drones launched by the Houthi terrorist organization with the intention of harming Israel. The Houthis a proxy of the Ayatollah’s terrorist regime in Teheran, which also controls the Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorist organizations.”