Earlier this month, Iran launched several missile barrages at Israel in defense of Hezbollah, shattering a fragile ceasefire that had been in place since April 8.
More than 3,000 terrorists from Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups crossed into Israel on Oct. 7, carrying out murders, rapes, kidnappings, and looting across hundreds of locations.
The relationship between Jerusalem and Washington is too close, too strategic, and too deeply integrated for either side to imagine that Hezbollah’s aggression should go unanswered.
Two years ago, the IDF launched a daring rescue operation in the heart of Gaza, freeing four captives taken from the Nova Festival during the October 7 massacre while losing Chief Inspector Arnon Zmora during the mission.
The American goal in Middle Eastern conflicts usually is for its allies—including Israel—to successfully defend themselves and then to reestablish peace in the region as quickly as possible.
Ohel, who was held hostage for 738 days and was released as part of the U.S.-brokered Gaza deal on Oct. 13, 2025, thanked the IDF for eliminating his kidnapper in an Instagram story.
Going all the way back to the 1982 invasion of Lebanon, the IDF and various terror organizations have battled over the strategic high point of Beaufort Castle—hopefully this time being the last.
As drone alerts and rocket fire battered northern Israeli communities over the weekend, the IDF struck targets across southern Lebanon while Washington brokered direct military talks, attempting to prevent wider escalation.
'The real discussion at the Security Council should be about the ongoing failure to implement Resolution 1701 and Lebanon's transformation into an Iranian terror outpost,' Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon said.
A side that rejects partition, launches a war to destroy a country, and then loses that war cannot honestly remove its own decisions from the chain of events that followed.
The IDF destroyed a manned Hezbollah rocket launcher in south Lebanon, with secondary explosions observed at the site confirming the presence of explosives.
Combined with locally sourced observations of troop movements, evacuation routes, or civilian concentrations, these systems deliver precision that standoff firepower alone cannot achieve.
The IDF carried out strikes on more than 100 Hezbollah targets across Lebanon's Beqaa Valley and southern regions, hitting weapons depots, command centers, and observation posts.
In just a few weeks, the Israeli Air Force reduced the head of the terror axis to rubble—eliminating Iranian leaders, destroying their weapons systems, and crushing their nuclear ambitions.
The message, along with other documents seized by the IDF over the past two years, exposes extensive strategic coordination between Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran.
Maj. (res.) Itamar Sapir, 27, from Eli, was killed in southern Lebanon after a terrorist fired on Israeli forces from near a church in the Khouza area, leaving behind a wife and infant son.